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Empowered Aid Lebanon-Animated Video Sharing Phase 2 Findings & Recommendations

This animated video presents the key Phase 2 findings and operational recommendations from the Empowered Aid project in Lebanon, specifically highlighting the success of the door-to-door distribution model and staggered family arrival times. Grounded in the participatory research of refugee women and girls, the visual brief demonstrates how these adapted delivery modalities and newly integrated monitoring tools actively mitigate risks of sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian networks.

Empowered Aid Webinar June 2020

This webinar broadcast features researchers, safeguarding experts, and humanitarian practitioners discussing the global rollout and field impacts of the Empowered Aid framework. By sharing firsthand insights and operational metrics from pilot programs, the panel highlights how centering the lived experiences of refugee women and girls leads to the design of safer, more accountable material distribution systems.

Women Engaged Against Violence Everywhere (WEAVE) Collective

The Women Engaged Against Violence Everywhere (WEAVE) Collective brings together researchers and activists from Australia, India, South Africa, and Nicaragua to document how feminist movements challenge and reform legal frameworks surrounding violence against women and girls. By utilizing intersectional and participatory methodologies, the collective highlights critical grassroots successes, such as a historic 70% reduction in intimate partner violence in Nicaragua, while addressing modern challenges like authoritarian backsliding and the exclusion of marginalized women from policy design.

Empowered Aid Psea Training for Transport Drivers Working in Aid Distribution Facilitation Guide

This facilitation guide provides a comprehensive framework for training transport drivers on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse within humanitarian aid networks. Through structured session modules covering power dynamics, institutional field data, and survivor-centered responses, the curriculum equips logistics and fleet management personnel with the specific tools needed to identify and eliminate protection risks during resource transit.

Transport Driver Psea Training

This training manual outlines the Day 2 curriculum for transport drivers, focusing on the empirical field findings and risk mitigation data generated across Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Empowered Aid project in Lebanon and Uganda. By reviewing specific operational hazards—such as sex-for-transit coercion by drivers and contractors—and presenting data-backed safety recommendations like door-to-door distribution and sex-segregated lines, the module equips logistics personnel to actively eliminate protection risks during aid delivery.

Transport Driver Psea Training Day 1

This training manual provides transport drivers and logisticians with a structural framework for Day 1 of the Empowered Aid PSEA workshop, clarifying the foundational concepts of power dynamics, sex versus gender, and informed consent. By detailing clear operational definitions of sexual exploitation and abuse alongside survivor-centered guiding principles, the curriculum prepares transport teams to safely navigate local reporting and referral pathways during resource distributions.

Empowered Aid Toolkit Training for Humanitarian Practitioners Facilitation Guide

This operational training guide provides facilitators with comprehensive two-day in-person and four-day online agendas designed to build humanitarian capacity around the Empowered Aid Toolkit. The curriculum prioritizes practical simulation exercises, World Health Organization ethical guardrails, and trauma-informed de-escalation protocols to ensure field teams can safely capture risk data without compromising beneficiary protection.

Empowered Aid Toolkit Workshop: Day 1: Safety Audit and Point of Distribution Questionnaire

This operational document outlines the module curriculum for the two-day Empowered Aid Toolkit workshop, providing field teams with a practical roadmap to implement safety audits, PODQs, household surveys, and participatory focus groups. It establishes strict procedural frameworks for World Health Organization ethical standards, data collector protection pathways, and trauma-informed crisis intervention strategies for managing acute beneficiary distress during field data collection.

Phase 2 Pilot Reports in Uganda

This operational document evaluates the Empowered Aid Phase 2 pilot at the Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in Uganda, analyzing how deploying a 100% female staff and majority-female volunteer framework modifies protection indicators. The quantitative and qualitative findings confirm that increasing female presence significantly reduced situational anxiety and generated higher satisfaction levels among beneficiaries, despite a baseline backdrop of heightened structural risks driven by pandemic lockdowns and containment measures.

Phase 2 Pilot Reports in Lebanon

This operational brief synthesizes post-distribution data from the Empowered Aid Phase 2 fuel voucher pilot in Lebanon, contrasting a traditional mass distribution point with a remote, door-to-door delivery mechanism designed to manage compounding pandemic and economic crises. While structural phone-survey adaptations were limited by household privacy constraints, empirical findings confirm the door-to-door model significantly enhanced overall safety by eliminating localized transit exploitation, reducing external verbal harassment, and increasing female beneficiary satisfaction from 56% to 90%.