CARE Canada

Published purpose

November 2019 - Women and girls are disproportionally affected by humanitarian crises. While carrying a disproportionate share of the burden of response, they usually face a lower status in society and have less opportunity to make the decisions that shape or control their lives. However, emergencies present a significant opportunity to shift the power dynamics at the national, local and household levels, and to challenge the social norms conflicting with gender equality. With GAC’s support, CARE Canada, in collaboration with Oxfam Canada, aims to strengthen women’s leadership and women’s rights in humanitarian situations in Bangladesh, Somalia and South Sudan. Project activities include: (1) providing operational and technical support to women’s rights actors (WRAs) to work on humanitarian issues, respond to crises or to advocate for the including women’s interests and needs in humanitarian responses; (2) working with local and national WRAs to increase local capacity for gender in emergencies; and (3) investing in Women’s Local Humanitarian Leadership models to support women responders’ technical and leadership skills, including rolling-out existing models from Oxfam’s Gender Leadership in Humanitarian Action and CARE’s Women Lead in Emergencies.