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Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap)

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The Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap) is an Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) initiative that was established in 2007. Its mission is to strengthen inter-agency capacity and leadership to deliver on commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment in humanitarian action. 

Through the provision of expertise, guidance and tools, GenCap meets a widely recognized need for senior gender staff to support Resident Coordinators and Humanitarian Coordinators (RC/HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) in their efforts to prioritize gender at the country level.  

The main modalities used by GenCap in its work are:

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     Deployment of Senior Protection Advisers (SPAs)

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    Capacity-building

  • Sharing of Influence and good practices icon
      Sharing of influence and good practices

 

Key GenCap Documents
  • ProCap and GenCap Appeal 2021-2022
  • ProCap and GenCap Appeal 2020-2021
  • GenCap Annual Report 2020
  • GenCap Annual Report 2019
  • ProCap and GenCap Evaluative Review
  • ProCap and GenCap Strategic Framework 2018-2021
  • IASC Policy on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Action (2017) 
  • IASC Gender Policy Accountability Framework
  • IASC Gender Handbook
GenCap
  • About
  • Roles and Approaches
  • Deployment
  • Capacity Development
  • Sharing Influence and Good Practices
  • Sustainable Capacity Investment
  • Request GenCap Support
  • Become a GenCap Senior Gender Adviser
  • Training and Tools
Contact

E-mail: procapgencap@un.org

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