Resources

Presentation from 24 July 2015 meeting of the Task Team to provide an update on the research into donor conditions

Report on the Task Team's 2015 mid-year retreat

 

Click here to see the July 2015 edition of the IASC Newsletter.

Despite a number of developments in policy and practice aimed at integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into humanitarian action, what remains missing is a strong evidence base that demonstrates just how gender equality programming is essential to ensuring an effective, inclusive, rights-based humanitarian response.

At the request of the IASC Working Group, a Second Action Plan to implement the IASC’s Strategy for Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) for the period 2015-7 was developed by the IASC Reference Group for MHCUA.  This Action Plan attempts to incorporate three game-changing practices for higher response impacts and to improve leadership, coordination and accountability to affected populations in urban emergencies which were endorsed by the IASC WG and Principals during late 2014.