COVID-19 Gender and Social Protection Guidance Note: Violence against women and girls- and gender-sensitive social protection programming

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Key Information

This guidance note is intended for DFAT staff working on social protection in the context of COVID-19. It aims to support staff to make informed policy choices which adhere to DFAT’s strategies on social protection and integrating gender equality. It provides a snapshot of issues that should be considered across the program cycle of designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a social protection COVID-19 response program.

This is a living document and open to discussion and input – we are all learning through this process of response and recovery in the context of COVID-19. The document will be updated regularly to reflect feedback, new thinking and evidence, including case studies from the Indo-Pacific region.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/aid/covid-19-gender-and-social-protection-guidance-note-violence-against-women-and-girls-and-gender-sensitive-social-protection-programming

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female, Sisters, Spouses/partners, Teachers - female, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • N/A

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Educational Technology

  • Online training

Food/nutrition

  • Other nutritional supplementation
  • School feeding

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Maternal and child health services
  • Mobile clinics (testing, vaccines, etc.)
  • Referrals to health services
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved nutrition
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home