Transcript UNCT Gender Strategy Retreat

GenCap Highlights - Indonesia
Presentation - Inter Agency Standing Committee
Linda Pennells
IASC GenCap Gender Advisor
Office of the UN Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator – OCHA
Assignment: 06.08.08 – 06.01.09
Presentation Date: 21.01.09
Indonesia – The Context
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Ring of Fire: earthquake centre 129 active volcanoes
Annual flashfloods, mudslides,
droughts
Highest # human deaths – bird flu
Pockets of insurgency
UN-GoI partnership in DRR &
emergency response
Strategy
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Support: Clusters / UNCT –contingency
plans, rapid needs assessment (RNA)
Engage: build credibility via evidencebased field findings
Aceh tsunami – insights on each sector
Yogyakarta/Central Java earthquake – shelter
Papua – community engagement dynamics
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Advocate/build capacity: use findings to
anchor training, facilitation, presentation
Keep door open: be there
Major Outcomes
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More gender-responsive cluster response:
CP, RNA, shelter ‘demonstrator’, OCHA
checklist
Gender Theme Group operating at a more
strategic level: Gender Strategy for InterAgency Collaboration, Aceh Gender Joint
Programme
Increased collaboration with donors on
gender agenda: donor request training &
UN GE ‘value added’
Need registers for SEA Network
Major Outcomes
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More gender-responsive cluster response:
CP, RNA, shelter ‘demonstrator’, OCHA
checklist
Gender Theme Group operating at a more
strategic level: Gender Strategy for InterAgency Collaboration, Aceh Gender Joint
Programme
Increased collaboration with donors on
gender agenda: donor request training &
UN GE ‘value added’
Need registers for SEA Network
Enabling Factors
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Champions – Head of OCHA, Head
of UNFPA, RC and teams
Working in collaboration – gender
focal points, partners (IFRC)
Packaging: cluster-specific findings
& briefings
Linking humanitarian action to
development
Plugging in donors & implementers
Cameo Moments
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Gender Theme Group bonds and
‘comes back for more’
RC/HC facilitates gender session
with Gender Theme Group
Head of OCHA creates GM
facilitation art
Challenges
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Lack of GE mechanisms for interagency work
Preparedness/CP dilemma: ‘nocrisis’ complacency
Gender Theme Group: no PAF – no
legitimacy
Fragmentation between emergencyrecovery-development frustrates GE
Other
‘One UN’
Initiatives
Joint
Programmes
SEA
STRATEGY
IASC Clusters
Recommendations / Insights
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Socialize the Cluster Approach
Strengthen IASC TOR - GE
Agree multi-cluster key
performance indicators & gender
analysis
Ensure gender competency is
strategically located
Recommendations / Insights
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Require HQ of each cluster lead
agency to commit to ensuring
senior gender TA is on site for the
3-month emergency period
Get R&R mechanisms right – GE
Do econometrics study of data sex
disaggregation