Webinar: Using a gender lens to address COVID-19 response in refugee settings

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Key Information

This webinar, organized by Women’s Empowerment in Development (WED) Lab at McGill in partnership with the Institute for the Study of International Development, explores current issues around COVID-19 in refugee settings. A diverse panel of experts from the world of global development research and practice discuss research priorities and possible policy solutions to address COVID-19 in refugee settings.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

https://wusc.ca/webinar-using-a-gender-lens-to-address-covid-19-response-in-refugee-settings/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2020

Partner(s)

Women's Empowerment in Development (WED) Lab Institute for the Study of International Development

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Remote Learning

Quality

  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

0 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • Maternal and child health services
  • Referrals to health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Educational Radio or Television Programs

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

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
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households

School-related gender-based violence

  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

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

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Teacher incentives
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Women's empowerment programs

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

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • More equal power in relationships
  • 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 violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Kelly Dale Graham
World University Service of Canada (WUSC)
GESI Advisor
kgraham@wusc.ca