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The Practitioners’ Lab gives you access to all of the Global Women’s Institute’s toolkits, guidance notes and resource briefs.

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Interested in Conducting Research on Violence Against Women and Girls? Curious How Your Research Can Shape Your Programming? 

Then these Global Women’s Institute toolkits and manuals might be best for you! 

Research to Action Toolkit

This toolkit might be for you if: 

  • You are a violence against women and girls practitioner.
  • You want to understand how research can be used to improve and strengthen programming and advocacy work related to violence against women and girls.
  • You are a facilitator who wants to train a group of practitioners about how to conduct research on violence against women and girls and analyze the results. 

The Research to Action Toolkit will help you understand how research and action are connected. You will learn about different types of data (quantitative and qualitative), how to analyze these data and how to build a program or advocacy action plan based on the evidence you have collected. 

For facilitators: The Research to Action Toolkit contains a step-by-step guide for three days of training. A sample workshop agenda, sample activities and other planning materials can be found in the document annexes. 

Building Gender-Based Violence Evidence 

This toolkit might be for you if: 

  • You are a violence against women and girls practitioner working with refugee and/or conflict-affected populations.
  • You want to deepen your technical understanding of research, including what types of data collection methods (quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods) best suit your context.
  • You want to learn about the specific types of research approaches used in the field of violence against women and girls to measure programmatic effectiveness (e.g., impact evaluations).
  • You are interested in taking a complementary online course.

The Gender-Based Violence Research, Monitoring and Evaluation With Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations manual is part of a comprehensive training package to support researchers and members of the humanitarian community to conduct ethical and technically sound research in conflict settings. The manual will build your knowledge on participatory action research, as well as how to build a research plan and/or monitoring and evaluation plan that will answer your specific questions and teach you strategies for maximizing your results to achieve your programmatic goals. 

 

Looking to Build Your Knowledge on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Settings? 

Our Empowered Aid training materials will help you learn more about sexual exploitation and abuse and how you can prevent it in your work. 

Empowered Aid Toolkit for Planning and Monitoring Safer Aid Distributions 

This toolkit might be for you if: 

  • You are a humanitarian practitioner who is currently implementing Empowered Aid.
  • You want to strengthen your post-humanitarian aid distribution monitoring system and tools, to collect data on whether humanitarian aid delivery is safe (or not) for women and girls in your community.
  • You are a humanitarian practitioner who wants to implement Empowered Aid in your work, and you are curious about how to measure your program’s effectiveness.

The Empowered Aid Toolkit for Planning and Monitoring Safer Aid Distributions guides users through the various humanitarian aid distribution monitoring tools that Empowered Aid uses both during and after distributions to assess the quality and acceptability of the aid that is being distributed. The toolkit also provides key activities to help staff prepare themselves to use the tools and to facilitate better data collection. 

Empowered Aid Toolkit Training for Humanitarian Practitioners: Facilitation Guide

This toolkit might be for you if: 

  • You are a humanitarian practitioner who wants to learn more about how the tools developed by the Empowered Aid program can be used to make aid delivery safer for women and girls.
  • You are a facilitator who wants to conduct a training for humanitarian aid workers about Empowered Aid and how to implement it in a specific context. 

We created the Empowered Aid Toolkit Training for Humanitarian Practitioners: Facilitation Guide to support a two-day overview training on the Empowered Aid Toolkit for Planning and Monitoring Safer Aid Distributions: Applying Findings from Participatory Research on How to Reduce Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Aid Distribution. The guide teaches trainees how to use the Empowered Aid toolkit to design and monitor safer aid distributions, reducing the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse associated with distributions. 

Empowered Aid Contextualization Toolkit: Facilitation Guide 

This toolkit might be for you if: 

  • You are a humanitarian practitioner who knows about Empowered Aid and/or has taken a training course about Empowered Aid.
  • You are a humanitarian practitioner who wants to implement Empowered Aid in your work, and you are curious about the contextualization process.
  • You are a facilitator who wants to conduct a training for humanitarian aid workers about how to contextualize and implement Empowered Aid in your context. 

The Empowered Aid Contextualization Toolkit; Facilitation Guide provides a guide for contextualizing and applying the Empowered Aid approach. It trains the user on the two participatory research models that Empowered Aid uses to collect the data needed to contextualize the program: contextualization workshops with women and girls and participatory group discussions with men, boys and other community members or groups with specific needs. The toolkit contains all of the necessary training materials for facilitation, all of which are available in Arabic, French and Spanish as well as in English. 

Protection From Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Training for Transport Drivers Working in Aid Distribution

This toolkit might be for you if: 

  • You are a humanitarian aid worker, and you want to raise awareness about sexual exploitation and abuse in transport.
  • You are a humanitarian aid worker working with transportation companies to deliver humanitarian aid. 

The Empowered Aid PSEA Training for Transport Drivers Working in Aid Distribution is a training curriculum that targets those working in transport related to aid distribution (e.g., truck drivers, bus drivers, taxi drivers) to raise awareness about sexual exploitation and abuse in the context of aid distribution, as well as to introduce risk mitigation methods. The curriculum includes a facilitator’s guide and other tools, including a suggested schedule for the two-day training, activities and training materials.

Empowered Aid Sector Tip Sheets

Are you looking for quick information about what you can do to mitigate the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse around aid distribution in your sector? These Empowered Aid Tip Sheets are for you. 

Empowered Aid’s Sector Tip Sheets provide an overview of the potential sexual exploitation and abuse risks in different humanitarian aid sectors and what you can do to make aid delivery safer: 

Want more information about Empowered Aid, including other tools and resources? Check out the Empowered Aid website. 

 

Looking for Guidance on Implementing Survivor-Centered Programming? 

Check out our various guidance notes.

Guidance Package for Putting Survivors at the Center

This guide might be for you if: 

  • You are a humanitarian worker who is not a gender-based violence (GBV) specialist and/or you work at an organization that does not provide specialized GBV services.
  • You are curious to learn more about the Putting Survivors at the Center approach.
  • You want to understand better how you can support your local GBV cluster/working group in your role as a non-specialist.

The guidance package Putting Survivors at the Center: Programming for Non-GBV Specialist Organizations to Support GBV Survivors provides practitioners with an overview of the Putting Survivors at the Center approach to programming. It presents the key activities that the Putting Survivors at the Center team piloted across three countries (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq/Kurdistan and South Sudan) and explains how each of the activities responds to one of the three key thematic areas discovered during the project’s research phase. Users will also find the corresponding materials developed for each of the activities. 

Monitoring & Evaluation Framework for the Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Programming

This guide might be for you if: 

  • You are a GBV actor who has experience working on GBV programming or who has received GBV-specific training.
  • You work with or for a GBV agency.
  • You are familiar with the GBV Minimum Standards and want to learn more about how practitioners monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving them.

The Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Programming: Monitoring and Evaluation Framework gives practitioners guidance for measuring their progress, or their organization’s progress, toward meeting the 16 Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for GBV in Emergencies Programming, which defines what agencies working on specialized GBV programming need to achieve to prevent and respond to GBV and deliver multisectoral services. 

For each standard, the document lays out a set of core indicators as well as a set of recommended indicators that practitioners can choose to measure, and identifies whether a set of indicators will measure change at the individual or agency/organization level. 

Supporting Guidance for Indicators for GBV Risk Mitigation in Cash Assistance

This guide might be for you if: 

  • You are a humanitarian worker whose agency implements cash interventions with women.
  • You are interested in learning more about the indicators your team can use to assess GBV risks to women in cash interventions. 

The Indicators for GBV Risk Mitigation in Cash Assistance guide gives users a set of indicators for assessing GBV risks to women in cash interventions that can be adapted to fit different contexts. Alongside each indicator, users will find additional guidance for how to contextualize, measure and interpret the data they collect, including sample surveys and questionnaires. 

I Am Malala: A Resource Guide for Educators

This guide might be for you if: 

  • You are an educator who is interested in teaching the book I Am Malala in their course(s).
  • You are a student who is interested in supplementing your experience while reading I Am Malala. 

I Am Malala: A Resource Guide for Educators is meant for high school and college students who are reading or who will read I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. The resource guide is organized around eight key themes that challenge students to think critically about the content of the book. It includes individual exercises, group activities and additional resources that both students and instructors can use. 

 

New to the Topic of Violence Against Women and Girls? 

Our resource guides will give you basic information on violence against women and girls. 

Violence Against Women and Girls Resource Guide

This resource guide gives readers an overview of the characteristics and consequences of violence against women and girls globally. It also includes information for practitioners on including violence against women and girls prevention and response in their work, as well as sector-specific guidelines in these areas. 

Brief on Violence Against Sexual and Gender Minority Women

This resource guide gives readers an overview of the characteristics and consequences of violence against sexual and gender minority women globally, as well as includes information for practitioners on including targeted prevention and response in their work.