Gender in Displacement: The State of Play

Source: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Published: 12/2019. This 43-page paper interweaves two streams of thought: how gender roles change in the course of crises, particularly displacement, and how gender has been integrated (or not) into humanitarian programming. It explores existing knowledge on the impact of displacement on gender roles, norms, and power dynamics, and details the international humanitarian system ’s efforts to incorporate gender into its policy and practice, before investigating the deliberate and inadvertent effects of humanitarian action on gender roles among populations in crisis. (PDF)
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