Gender Equality in the Humanitarian Response - Gender Monitoring Indicators
In the 5 months of the humanitarian response, there have been both achievements and gaps in terms of its gender-responsiveness as monitored through the cross-cutting response monitoring gender equality indicators.
While initially there was a gradual increase in the number of clusters who were represented in the Inter-Cluster Gender Working Group reaching full representation of all 9 clusters and 2 sub-clusters1, there was a decline in representation in the last two months of the flash appeal period. Thus efforts have been made by the GWG Co-Chairs and the Humanitarian Coordinator to reemphasise the importance of clusters’ investment in dedicated Cluster Gender Focal Points. There has been a gradual increase in clusters that have gender equality feature in their regular meetings peaking at 8 out of 11 clusters and sub clusters.
While there has been a gradual increase in Sex and Age Disaggregated Data (SADD) reporting by clusters, the need to significantly strengthen SADD collection and analysis continues to be a key priority with only 3 out of 9 clusters having reported SADD against their response monitoring framework indicators at the end of the Flash Appeal period.
Early Recovery (as per 30th September)
• 92,741 households, including 16,190 female headed households benefitted from rubble debris removal.
• Rehabilitated community infrastructures has benefited 81,054 households, of which 20,943 are female headed households. The number of women beneficiaries is 214,816 compared to 190,525 men.
• 3,921 men and 2,724 women have been employed on a temporary basis to support debris management. 41 % of these Cash for Work have been women.
Camp Coordination and Camp Management (as per 5th September)
• 20,832 women, 10,260 girls; 9,107 boys and 18,490 men of displaced population living in 120 displacement sites hosting 20 households or more were captured by the Displacement Tracking Matrix Protection (as per 15th September)
• 17,881 women, 3,544 girls, 83 boys and 119 men accessed female-friendly spaces
• 21,977 women and 15,755 girls received dignity kits
Based on findings from the Community Feedback Project Survey Round 22 (August 2015) and Round 33 (September 2015), in comparison with the Survey Round 1 (July 2015) findings, majority of women and men of all ages continue to report not receiving information about relief and services, unequal access to relief services and that their problems were not being addressed. In terms of access to information and services, in August more women (77%) than men (69%) of all ages replied negatively– older women above age 55 gave the highest ratio of negative responses (87%), which is closely followed by older men above 55 of age (82%). However, in September the overall information access gap and the gender gap have diminished with a lower 62% of women and 59% of men reporting not having access to information.
The same trend applies to access to relief/services, with 65% of women reporting unequal access versus 58% of men in August, whereas in September 58% of women and 57% of men overall reported not having access. This is a significant improvement to survey round 1 responses with 13 % increase in access to relief for men and 11% increase for women. There was a decline of around 5% between July and August in the number of women of age groups 15-55 years and men of all age groups who reported that their main problems were being addressed. Yet in September, there was a slight increase in positive responses to this question for both women and men across all age groups – amounting to a total of 83% of both women and 81% of men who report their problems as unaddressed – including 88% of both older women and 85% of older men of above 55 years of age.