 Institutionalising Gender‐Based Violence Prevention and Response Sample Indicators and Annual Reporting Format The members of the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence are committed to institutionalising prevention of, and response to, GBV by focussing on internal structures and processes at individual organisational level as per the recommendations of the 2006 Consortium publication ‘Gender Based Violence, Ireland Responding – A Guidance Note on Institutionalising Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Within Organisations’. The indicators below represent a range of means of measurement by which Consortium members have agreed to assess individual organisational progress towards this commitment. Importantly, they are not designed to be a complete checklist that all members should be positioned to report against but instead are designed to provide guidance and capture the diversity of initiatives underway or foreseen. However members should be able to demonstrate progress on at least one indicator per objective. Such agreement by Consortium members is also an important demonstration of accountability by Consortium members to one another and the overall objectives of the Consortium. Members will be asked to report against progress in the forthcoming reporting year and outline priorities for the subsequent year. Experience and feedback from the first year of reporting will be taken into consideration and indicators revised as needed. 1. Establish a policy or incorporate within an existing policy framework Sample Indicators: • Gender policy and other relevant policies (e.g. Livelihoods, Humanitarian, and Protection) incorporate GBV and /or specific GBV policies developed. • Higher level organisational policy and strategy document includes commitments to working to combat GBV. Draft Gender programme policy has been completed and is expected to be approved by the Board at its next meeting. The approved ChildFund Dignity at Work policy includes issues of gender and sexual harassment. The Strategic Plan 2009-2013 “gives priority to development programmes which address child protection and gender, focussing in particular on combatting gender based violence and or HIV & AIDS”. 2. Set standards of behaviour for all staff and partners and enforce them Sample indicators: • • Ensure workplace policy/code of conduct exists with dissemination, training and enforcement mechanisms in place1 Support provided to partners to develop work place polices/codes of conduct Policies and procedures in relation to GBV exist for our main implementing partners who are national offices of ChildFund International US as follows: Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy; and Anti-Harassment and Non-Discrimination Policy. 3. Allocate high‐level responsibility as well as responsibility at team and individual level Sample Indicators: • Evidence of leadership from CEO and senior management group on priority accorded to addressing GBV. For example: allocation of human and financial resources to GBV, clear management and reporting structure for GBV in place, references to GBV in speeches given. • Adequate human resources in place. For example: technical advisors in place, access to technical advice on addressing GBV internally or externally, cross‐organisational team operational to provide support and lesson learning. • Record of active engagement of member agency in Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence. GBV continues to be a cross-cutting issue in the current work programme and in plans for the new programme starting in 2012. Our active engagement continues in membership of L&P WG and steering committee. 4. Integrate GBV considerations into systems and procedures for appraisals, regional/country programming design, implementation and monitoring Sample Indicators: • Organisations have adequate contextual analysis processes in place to highlight gender inequalities including GBV vulnerabilities and risks which guide appropriate programme development. • GBV/Gender analysis systematically considered in baselines, monitoring and evaluation processes including the development of relevant indicators. A strategic decision was taken this year to gather extensive baseline data for all programme areas where ChildFund works – this will be rolled out incrementally. Baseline data will be disaggregated for gender. Gender specific indicators are included in M&E frameworks at project and programme level. 1 e.g. Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Codes of Conduct, Dignity at Work, Child Protection Policies, signing up to external codes such as HAP or UN Codes of Conduct or incorporating GBV related provisions within internal HR codes/policies. 5. Build staff capacity through documenting programme experience, research and training Sample Indicators: • Evidence of documentation of learning on GBV. For example, case studies, annual reporting, monitoring reports, uploading of documents onto GBV website etc. • Staff training or other capacity development (e.g. guidelines developed) in place on Gender Equality, including GBV. • Engagement in GBV related research. (This could include links with academic institutions, field based research etc). Field based staff from two of our five implementing partners (Uganda and Ethiopia) are enrolled in the first KODE GBV training programme currently underway. We also trained 60 community leaders in Uganda on GBV issues: leaders reported gaining knowledge and skills in a number of areas including promoting community awareness of GBV; overcoming dangers of violence and establishing the causes and forms of child abuse including dealing with victims of GBV and child abuse. 6. Link with Civil Society organisations including national NGOs and human rights organisations to develop effective ways of working together Sample Indicators: • Number of formal and informal partnerships (funding and non‐funding) established with local GBV related organisations • Engagement in networks /consortia/fora on GBV internally, nationally and regionally • Number of campaigns or joint initiatives undertaken with other stakeholders at international, regional, national and local levels. Partnership meetings were held with a local NGO in Masindi, Uganda, with expertise in GBV in order to engage them to carry out GBV community consultations. Also in Uganda, links were forged with an NGO, Hope After Rape in Wakiso district, with Naguru Teenage Centre, UGANET and with the Federation of Uganda Women Lawyers. In Uganda, key project stakeholders came together during the 16 days of GBV activism that ran from 1st to 16th December 2010. In Kiboga sensitisations were facilitated by police officers under the Child and Family Protection Unit. During the 16 days the project supported many activities around radio programmes, community educations by key partners like the community elders during which they denounced GBV and called on their communities to rally behind ending GBV, child abuse and neglect. In Ethiopia, links have been developed with the Africa Child Policy Forum and the African Network for the Prevention and Protection of Child Abuse and Neglect. Our partner in Guinea participated in a national forum with government and UN agencies to address FGM and continues to be involved. 7. Give voice to GBV prevention and response, e.g. at management and staff meeting, at local regional and HQ level2 Sample Indicators: 2 The issue of senior management engagement in GBV has been covered under Objective 3, Indicator 1. • • • External communications (fundraising, development education, CEO speeches, media, annual reports, advocacy and campaigns refer to GBV Prevention and Response within the work of the organization). Visibility of gender inequality and GBV issues in all offices e.g. through posters, information sessions to mark key international days, guest speakers. The logo and link to the GBV consortium site is clearly accessible on the websites of Consortium members. The logo is included and the consortium is referenced on our website in various places - http://www.childfund.ie/our‐work/our‐priorities/ http://www.childfund.ie/our‐work/professional‐accreditation/ http://www.childfund.ie/news‐media/useful‐links/ 8. Draw Lessons from HIV and gender mainstreaming Sample Indicator: • Lessons3 are identified from HIV and AIDS and gender mainstreaming approaches and are informing key programme reviews/strategy development/staff capacity development etc. Specific training on GBV and gender balance in staffing is being promoted for our programme partners. Our new programme strategy has been clearly informed by gender and GBV issues, eg actions to improve community based early childhood care development and protection will combine home-based and centre-based activities targeting parent/child interaction in the 0-3 year old population, training of parents/care givers, volunteers and professional staff on child protection, gender and gender based violence (GBV), promotion of community owned child protection and inclusion mechanisms such as child well-being committees. 9. Financial Resourcing Sample Indicator: • Financial resources directly and indirectly attributable to GBV programming, including capacity building of partners. €4,000 in fees was paid for 10 staff from 2 partner organisations to take KODE GBV training courses. Significant other programme costs related to GBV interventions were incurred in Ethiopia, Uganda and Guinea. 3 See lessons identified in Gender Based Violence Ireland Responding – A Guidance Note on Institutionalising Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response within Organisations, page 23. 