Adapting the IASC Gender Marker to your needs: Future evolution (IASC Event GVA +NY)
Geneva
IASC event hosted by the IASC Secretariat on Wednesday, 2 December, 15:30 -17:00, Room S4, Palais des Nations, Geneva and 9:30 -11:00, Meeting Room MM3 [33rd floor], Secretariat Building, New York on:
Adapting the IASC Gender Marker to your needs: future evolution
While there is a growing recognition that women, men, girls and boys are differently affected by crises and that humanitarian responses should be tailored to their diverse needs, how do Humanitarian Response Plans actually take gender issues into account? The IASC Gender Standby Capacity project (GenCap) will reflect with us on the state of incorporating gender equality into humanitarian action, offering insights on the degree to which the 2015 country strategies analyzed and addressed distinct protection and assistance needs. GenCap Global Advisors Delphine Brun (author of “Gender Equality in the 2015 Strategic Response Plans”) and Merrin Waterhouse will also present how the IASC Gender Marker is being adapted based on users’ feedback. Suggestions and expectations about the future IASC Gender & Age Marker will be sought from the participants.
Please join us to learn more about the IASC Gender Marker presented by Delphine Brun, Inter-Agency Gender Advisor for the GenCap project and Merrin Waterhouse, Monitoring & Roving Advisor.
Delphine Brun is currently working as Inter-Agency gender advisor for the GenCap project, with a focus on the Humanitarian Programme Cycle, the IASC Gender Marker and the Early Recovery Global Cluster. She has been part of the IASC GenCap project since 2009. She was involved in developing and testing the IASC Gender Marker during her deployment to the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2009 and 2011. One of her particular areas of interest is finding creative solutions in order to make the importance and application of gender sensitive programming as practical as possible. With post graduate diplomas in philosophy and in gender issues, Delphine has been working on gender for the past 15 years, including seven years in development and humanitarian settings.
The IASC GenCap Project is deploying Merrin Waterhouse as Monitoring & Roving Advisor to lead on revising the Gender Marker to include a Monitoring Phase. Prior to taking up the role, Merrin worked in Jordan on the Syrian Crisis Response to support all sectors to incorporate the clusters on Gender, Child Protection and SGBV since 2008, and prior to this has had extensive experience in providing and supporting services to communities through the Australian Government. Merrin has over 25 years’ experience in monitoring programs and postgraduate degrees in needs and priorities of women, girls, boys and men. With interested agencies and sectors, she developed several monitoring tools, including one which is the prototype of the IASC Gender & Age Marker (Monitoring Phase). Merrin has been coordinating responses across agencies and Psychology and Social Change and Development.
Logistics information:
Important security information GENEVA: If you wish to participate in this meeting in Geneva, but do not have a badge to enter the Palais des Nations, please inform the IASC Secretariat by sending us an e-mail including your name and organization by 12:00 (Geneva time), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 to iasccorrespondence@un.org. Please bring your passport to present to security on the day of the meeting.
Getting to Room S4: Room S4 is on the third Floor in the S Building. Enter the Palais des Nations through Door S2 and turn left. Follow the hall until you reach Escalier 3. Take this staircase to the 3rd Floor. Room S4 is on your right side. Please note that the meeting takes place in room S4 and not Room IV. Please see the map of the Palais attached.