Minimum commitments for Gender Equality Programming in each Cluster
The ADAPT&ACT C*framework in DRC, Ethiopia and Somalia
DRC
Education
Ethiopia
Education
Somalia
Education
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Encourage equal access to education for all by sensitizing local
communities and by taking into account the specific obstacles
that might impede girls and boys to attend school (ACCESS).
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Ensure adequate collection and analysis of sex and age
disaggregated data on enrolments, retention, and drop-out
rates, teachers (COLLECT).
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Collect all data related to education (formal &
informal, including workforce, attendance, etc.)
by sex and age (ANALYZE).
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Ensure boys and girls' dignity and protection by building
separated latrines. Each door is equipped with a pictogram and
lockable from the inside. Boys and girls are in charge of the
hygiene maintenance of their own facilities, of the classroom and
of the recreational area. (DESIGN& ADDRESS GBV).
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Design learning spaces/facilities that are safe and secure
for both boys and girls- particularly ensure participatory
decision making with men/women, boys/girls, authorities
on the location; provide separate wash and toilet facilities
(DESIGN).
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Encourage an equal representation of women & men amongst
teachers being recruited and during the selection process of the
members of parents committees (PARTICIPATION).
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Raise awareness on Gender Based Violence (GBV) to all
stakeholders; implementers, community (men and
women), school management, teachers, Parent’s Teacher’s
Associations (PTA’s) and boys and girls (ADDRESS GBV).
The analysis of the data on learners, teachers ad
other education personnel and on education
committee members will be done at the Clusterlevel to understand what are the different barriers
preventing male and female teachers and other
education personnel from teaching, etc.
(ANALYZE)
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Integrate gender-specific life-saving information,
more specifically on sexual violence, reproductive
health, recruitment and hygiene, in all emergency
education curricula (DESIGN).
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Set up adequate complaints mechanisms in each school to
receive and investigate allegations of sexual abuse and other
forms of violence experienced by boys or girls at school or in
their community (ADDRESS GBV).
Raise father and mother's awareness on the importance of
education, especially for the retention of adolescent girls after
primary school and about the issues of early marriage and
teenage pregnancy (TARGET ACTIONS).
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Ensure gender sensitivity of school kits to include special
sanitary needs for girls and instruction materials (DESIGN).
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Encourage adequate representation and involvement of
men, women, boys and girls in decision making structures
e.g. in PTA’s, community education committees, school
management; in trainings and awareness sessions
(PARTICIPATION).
CCCM
CCCM
CCCM
Coordination
Coordination
Coordination
ADAPT & ACT C Framework presented at the end of this document.
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Food Security
Ethiopia
Food Security
Somalia
Food Security
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Specify how the choice of in kind assistance and technical
support to be provided are based on a sound understanding of
5the gender division of labour and of the socioeconomic
vulnerabilities of women and men (ANALYZE).
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The Agriculture & Livelihood Cluster’s response
strategy and all associated projects include
meaningful sex- and age-disaggregated data
(COLLECT).
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Provide information, disaggregated by age and sexton the
beneficiaries receiving capacity building support and in-kind
agricultural aid in order to monitor and evaluate the level of
access of women and men to the help provided. If the targeted
unit is the household, specify how many wives are registered as
aid right holders (COLLECT& ACCESS).
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The cluster’s response strategy and all associated
projects include a gender analysis, i.e. the strategy
and projects identify women’s and men’s different
needs and capacities (ANALYZE).
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There is a balance of women and men in the
staffing at all levels of implementing partners and,
where this is not possible, measures are taken to
activate a community forum that ensures that
everyone in the affected community – women,
girls, boys and men – have a voice in the
development and implementation of the project
and have access to opportunities that the project
gives (PARTICIPATE & ACCESS).
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All data related to food aid activities must be
collected by sex and age (COLLECT).
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All Food Aid projects will identify and, through
their activities, will address women, girls, boys and
men’s different needs, roles, responsibilities and
risks in relation to food aid, including FFW, FFA,
FFT, THR, supplementary feeding programmes,
food distribution, etc. (DESIGN)
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Promote female leaders among farmers groups (PARTICIPATE).
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Ensure that food management and distribution committees are
gender balanced (PARTICIPATE).
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Consult women and girls in priority at all stages of the
project, particularly about the time and the place of distribution
(ACCESS& ADDRESS GBV).
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Prioritize in-kind and training support in the areas of gardening,
small animals breeding and ploughing tools. In order to reinforce
women’s control over humanitarian aid and so as not to exclude
second spouses from polygamous households, ¾ of the
beneficiaries of these types of assistance will be women. The
reasons for this will be explained to the community thanks to
sensitization messages. (ACCESS)
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Ensure that support provided on improved agricultural
techniques and food transformation prioritizes women so as to
reduce their work load (TARGET).
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Health
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Ethiopia
Health
Somalia
Health
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Consult a balanced number of women and men about their
medical needs, during needs analysis and at all project stages
(ANALYZE).
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Systematically consult with women in order to identify with
them the opening hours and days most convenient for them.
(ACCESS).
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The analysis of the data on patients and medical
personnel will be done at the Cluster-level, with
the aim of understanding what the different
barriers are preventing females and males of all
ages from accessing health services (ANALYZE).
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All Health Cluster projects will seek to identify
and, through their activities, will address the
different barriers preventing women, girls, boys
and men from accessing health services, as well as
women’s, girls’, boys’ and men’s different healthseeking practices (ACCESS)"
Disaggregate by sex the number of people treated and the number of
medical personnel, of different levels, that receive training (COLLECT
&TRAIN).
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Ensure that health community workers teams are gender
balanced (PARTICIPATE &DESIGN)
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Strengthen the systematic engagement of men in reproductive
health programs and services (TARGET).
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Apply the medical protocol to attend to the needs of the victims
of sexual violence, reinforcing the capacities of the actors when
needed (ADDRESS GBV).
Nutrition
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Analyze the particular nutritional vulnerabilities of boys and, on
that basis, take the adequate corrective measures (ANALYZE &
DESIGN).
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Ensure that fathers and mothers are equally targeted by food
education activities. The engagement of fathers in taking care of
malnutrition cases needs to be encouraged (TRAIN).
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Systematically consult women in order to identify with them the
opening hours and days that are most convenient for them
(ACCESS).
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Ensure that care teams and community mediators consist of an
equal number of women and men (ACCESS).
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Disaggregate by sex the number of aid beneficiaries, recruited
community mediators and care personnel targeted for training
(COLLECT).
Nutrition
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Collection and analysis of sex & age disaggregated data specifically on admissions, specific critical incidences of
malnutrition, relapses- to identify whether there are any
disparities between boys and girls and underlying reasons
that could be mitigated within the project life (if possible
as baseline data and always during the progress and final
reports) (COLLECT)
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Adequate and meaningful involvement/participation of
women and men in project planning, implementation and
monitoring. E.g. needs identification, location of
sites/centres, health and hygiene trainings, refresher
trainings for health personnel, etc. (PARTICIPATION)
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Strong linkage with health and reproductive health
components in the target area to support other relevant
needs particularly for the targeted pregnant and lactating
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Collect data related for all patients by sex and age
(<5 years, >5 years only);
Collect all data related to medical personnel by
sex (COLLECT)
Nutrition
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The Nutrition Cluster notes that, in the three
regions of Somalia, there are no marked
differences in feeding practices for girl- and boychildren. In addition, the Cluster’s focus is on
pregnant and lactating women and so all of the
related projects target pregnant and lactating
women themselves, as well as elderly women,
including mothers-in-law who influence decisions
around feeding practices. While it is agreed that,
in this context, it is not necessary to collect sexand age-disaggregated data, the Cluster
recognises that some Agencies require this
information to be collected and that they will
continue to do so. The Cluster will attempt to
extrapolate this data to inform any necessary
changes to their gender analysis (COLLECT &
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women (DESIGN).
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Awareness and trainings on gender and GBV to enhance
identification, targeting and consideration of the needs of
men, women, boys and girls to implementing personnel,
Health Extension Worker’s, health personnel and the
targeted communities (ADDRESS GBV).
ANALYZE).
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All Nutrition Cluster projects will seek to identify
and, through the associated activities, will address
the cultural barriers and practices by both women
(including elderly women and mothers-in-law)
and men that could affect nutritional practices
(DESIGN).
Logistics
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The General UN rules and regulations applicable to the supply of
goods and services are observed (ADDRESS GBV).
Ensure that for road rehabilitation projects using high intensity
labour; women represent at least 25% of the labourers. Provide an
equal salary to women and men and equal opportunities to hold
posts with responsibilities..Monitoring indicators will specify how
many women and men are hired as daily workers or involved in the
committees (ACCESS, COLLECT).
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Information about pay for work programs is equally accessible to
women and to men (ACCESS).
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Humanitarian air companies provide on board a set of
documentation on gender equality in humanitarian action
(COORDINATION).
Protection
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Systematically consult girls, boys, men and women through
separated focus group discussions at all stages of the project
(PARTICIPATE).
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All data related to protection activities (PMN,
PMT, IDP profiling, etc.) is collected by sex and
age (COLLECT).
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Ensure a balanced representation of women and men in
protection teams as well as in community committees to be
created (PARTICIPATION).
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Engage boys and men as allies in the prevention of sexual
violence (ADDRESS GBV).
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Set up prevention and response mechanisms to tackle sexual
exploitation and abuses (ADDRESS GBV).
All Protection Cluster projects will seek to identify
and, through their activities, will – to the extent
possible bearing in mind the challenging
environment for collecting and responding to
information on sensitive protection issues address women’s, girls’, boys’ and men’s different
protection risks, concerns, needs (DESIGN).
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Disaggregate by sex data on human rights violations, as well as
targeted beneficiaries of protection programs (COLLECT).
Shelter and NFI
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Somalia
Consult women and girls as a priority at all steps in project
design, implementation and monitoring, and separately from
men and boys particularly on the times and place of distributions
or fairs in order to ensure equal access to assistance and to
reduce the risks of violence; seek to have all monitoring teams
and their interpreters include women. (PARTICIPATE&ADDRESS
GBV).
Register the adult woman in all households (except single-male
headed households) as the primary recipient of NFI assistance in
order to 1. reinforce ownership and control of women as the
primary target of NFI assistance, and 2. Avoid excluding 2nd
wives and their children in polygamous families. Also include a
communication component targeting both women and men
about this approach to ensure that communities understand
why women are registered as the primary recipients of aid;
encourage these women to attend the distributions or fairs
accompanied by others who can share the work of transporting
the items. (ACCESS &ANALYZE).
Encourage equal representation of women and men on
committees involved in the different components of project
activities - targeting criteria identification, beneficiary selection,
activity planning, etc. Seek to have equal representation of men
and women among distribution and fair teams, including daily
workers (ACCESS).
Shelter and NFI
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Involve men and women team members in conducting
assessments, planning and distribution exercises and
beneficiaries as disaggregated by age and sex.Encourage
dialogue with men and women in the process of
registration incase of complexities such as polygamous
families (PARTICIPATION).
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Ensure all community members are aware of the items to
be distributed or household entitlements. Have
appropriate information dissemination methods to ensure
women and other marginalized groups are aware. E.g.
announcements in public places, notices, meetings etc.
(ANALYZE, ACCESS)
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Ensure distribution points are accessible to all, particularly
that women and girls are safe. Involve men and women in
deciding location, monitoring and spot checks, convenient
distribution times etc. (ACCESS)
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Community distribution committees have equal number of
men and women; take into consideration age and
vulnerability diversities. E.g. youth representatives, elderly
men and women etc. (PARTICIPATION)
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Special needs of women and adolescent girls are addressed
in the distribution of NFIs, including sanitary/hygiene kits
(DESIGN).
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Set up separate waiting and entry lines at registrations,
distributions, and fairs in order for vulnerable individuals such as
pregnant women, people with infants, elderly, sick and disabled
beneficiaries to be assisted first (TARGET).
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The needs of the elderly, persons living with chronic
illnesses, persons living with disparities, pregnant and
lactating mothers are targeted. Example: fast track queues,
home deliveries, reserved spots, etc. (DESIGN)
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Address the specific menstrual hygiene needs of women and
girls of reproductive age by providing access to appropriate
menstrual hygiene supplies; in direct distributions, include
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A complaints mechanism is set up and women and men
are represented to enhance access. Encourage reporting of
any harassment and address them appropriately (DESIGN).
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Shelter and NFI
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All data related to NFIs and shelter activities must
be collected by sex and age;
A gender dimension – i.e. an understanding of
women’s, girls’, boys’ and men’s different needs,
roles, responsibilities and risks - of all NFIs and
shelter activities, projects and programmes.
The NFIs and Emergency Shelter Cluster will liaise
closely with the SGBV sub-Cluster in relation to
the issue of SGBV issues associated with NFIs and
shelter and will integrate their advice into their
activities.
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WASH
WASH
sufficient quantities of bedding and blankets to allow for girls
and boys to sleep separately (TARGET AND DESIGN).
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In line with good practices of accountability toward beneficiary
communities, ensure that there are complaint mechanisms to
report any incidents of abuse and exploitation, (among other
complaints). Include communication materials at distribution
and fair sites focused on preventing situations of abuse and
exploitation. (ADDRESS GBV)Analyze task division between
women and men for the construction of shelters in the area.
Take specific measures in order to provide construction
assistance to female-headed households (ANALYZE).
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Indicate how land and housing access issues will be taken into
consideration, with a specific attention to the situation of
daughters and widows (DESIGN)
WASH
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Analyze and take into consideration the division of tasks and the
different needs of women, girls, boys and men when providing
water, as well as care and hygiene services(ANALYZE).
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Encourage an equal representation of women and men in
decision-making bodies and trainings so that both groups
have an equal mastery of existing facilities (ACCESS).
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Address the specific menstrual hygiene needs of women and
girls of reproductive age by providing access to appropriate
menstrual hygiene supplies and to washing facilities (DESIGN and
TARGETTED ACTION).
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Consult girls and women in priority particularly about the
physical placement and the design of water points, toilets and
showers in order to reduce time spent collecting water and to
mitigate incidences of violence. Ensure that evaluation and
translation teams include female staff (DESIGN).
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Separate shower and toilet blocks according to sex by means of a
pictogram, and keep a ratio of 6 doors for women compared to 4
for men. Provide doors that can be locked from the inside
(DESIGN).
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Collect and analyze sex and age disaggregated data and
information to guide the planning and response,
particularly identify female headed households, child
headed households, households headed by the elderly
(ANALYZE, ACCESS).
Ensure the presence of a community water committee formed also by female representatives, is in place to work
hand in hand with the water monitors (also consisting of
males and females) on the day-to-day distribution issues to
increase community, particularly women’s oversight and
decision-making (PARTICIPATION).
Design the distribution exercise in a way to enhance access
for vulnerable households and persons with limited
mobility. E.g., pregnant and lactating mothers, elderly,
persons living with disabilities, persons living with chronic
illnesses. This would include actions such as fast track
queues, specific distribution days, and specific timing for
the vulnerable populations in consultation with the
community/water committees (ACCESS).
Sensitization of the stakeholders (water monitors, water
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All data related to beneficiaries involved in water,
sanitation and hygiene activities must be collected
by sex and age (COLLECT).
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An understanding of women, girls, boys and
men’s different needs, roles, responsibilities and
risks in relation to all water, sanitation and
hygiene activities will be included in assessments
(ANALYZE).
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In this regard, the Cluster will set certain activities
on water, sanitation and hygiene that must be
included in projects. Specific examples might
include the role of women in communities’
decisions on sitting water and sanitation facilities;
the structure and roles on WES, etc. – these
‘standards’ will be set at Cluster-level.
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The Cluster technical guidelines integrate gender
(the revision of the Guidelines has yet to be
undertaken) – and, thereafter, implementing
partners will be required to meet the standards
relating to gender therein.
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committees, schools PTA’s, hospital administrations ,
project managers etc) on Gender Based Violence(GBV)
/Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA); and consider
including key messages on GBV and SEA to raise awareness
and impart them with information that can help
monitor/curb any incidences of exploitation and abuse of
women and girls (ADDRESS GBV).
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Ensure a complaints mechanism; could be in the form of
the water committee or a smaller group of men and
women identified by the community, depending on
practicalities, to receive and handle any complaints;
scheduled focus group discussions with men and women
to discuss the distribution; and/or participatory spotchecks with community members and particularly
encourage discussions with women on any issues arisingthis is more so to monitor any incidences of GBV or SEA
(DESIGN, ADDRESS GBV)
ADAPT& ACT COLLECTVELY
FRAMEWORK
Analyze gender differences
Design services to meet needs of all
Access ensured for all
Participate equally
Train women and men equally AND
Address GBV in sector programmes
Collect, analyze& report sex/age disaggregated data
Target actions based on a gender analysis
Coordinate actions with all partners
ADAPT and ACT Collectively to ensure Gender Equality Programming
In Humanitarian Action
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