THE KEY OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSESSMENT WAS TO MEASURE THE EXISTING GBV CAPACITY AND/OR NEEDS WITHIN THE FSL CLUSTER MEMBERS IN SOUTH SUDAN

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1 FSL CLUSTER - GBV CAPACITY ASSESSMENT REPORT THE KEY OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSESSMENT WAS TO MEASURE THE EXISTING GBV CAPACITY AND/OR NEEDS WITHIN THE FSL CLUSTER MEMBERS IN SOUTH SUDAN MAY 2018 FAO/CARE FFS, Torit, November

2 Total respondents 49 Partners Q1. Does your agency have any technical staff recruited to work on Gender, GBV, Child Protection and/or Protection? Yes, but not fully trained. Yes, we have Protection officers however capacity building, especially on gender-based violence, is required. Not at the movement. We only have two staff based in Kuajok, Gogrial State. In the near future HAGI is working toward recruiting a qualified Gender, GBV, and Child protection staff to deal with the issue of GBV within the community, 2

3 Q2. Does your agency have an Action Plan or Strategy for prevention / mainstreaming of GBV in programmes/activities? Is this a national country office or corporate document? Yes, however the strategy is yet to be finalized. Yes. its cooperate document but at Country level we have gender and protection mainstreaming plan Yes, ASCO have an Action Plan or Strategy for prevention / mainstreaming of GBV in programmes/activities. It s a national country office document Yes, but there is room for improvement Yes. World Vision South Sudan follows and contributes to the global Call to Action on Protection from GBV in Emergencies as its primary framework for mainstreaming GBV in programming & activities. Yes, it is a National Country office Yes - documents, pamphlets, videos (national and international ones) Yes, UNKEA developed an action plan/strategy for prevention/ mainstreaming of GBV in all programmes/activities it's implementing. The document was developed at national level. No. We are looking for fund to have action and strategic plan Q3. Does your agency have any GBV (or Protection) risk or monitoring tools that inform programmes/activities? Yes, but not all the tools. Yes. DACO have the monitoring tools available or protection risk monitoring mechanism but we are not implementing any activity at the moment. Yes. There is one for Child Protection Yes, but not comprehensively since we have few staff, but HAGI is in plans to set strategic monitoring systems Yes, ASCO have GBV (or Protection) risk or monitoring tools that inform programmes/activities. Project Appraisal Tool is used by ASCO Yes. We have performance indicators. Not yet in place but planned No. We are currently using the UNFA Tools for reference. We are yet to develop our own GBV risk or monitoring tools 3

4 Q4. Have staff in your agency participated in GBV training? Who participated and who facilitated the training? Yes, we have two staffs who participated in GBV training. One by IRC and another by UNICEF Yes, CARE staff have participated as well as facilitated several GBV trainings such as Gender / GBV mainstreaming, Protection mainstreaming, GBV risk mitigation using IASC Guidelines for integrating GBV in Humanitarian action and other CARE's resources, Gender and GBV basic concepts, GBV Guiding principles, GBV referral pathways, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Case management and management of child survivors, Psychological First Aid (PFA), Psychosocial support (PSS), GBV Emergency Preparedness and Response (GBV ERP), GBV Information Management System (GBV IMS). These training were facilitated by CARE's Gender (GBV) & Protection Coordinator, 5 Gender (GBV) & Protection Managers, 16 Gender (GBV) & Protection Officers across different field locations. Yes. Programme staff trained on GBV facilitated by Child Protection Manager Yes. NRC organized for 22 of our Nutrition, FSL and Protection Field and Head Office Staff, a Three day Training and Capacity Building of Gender Based Violence, Protection and Inclusion of the Elderly and People with Disabilities in Programming. Yes. Goal trained all filed staffs both national and international staffs on GVB and the training was facilitated by Goal experts Yes. Field staff in Maban. The training was organized by UNHCR No. We have 8 juba based staffs and 15 field based staffs but none of us had attended GBV training. No. Our Staff have never attended the training for GBV since we are new in FSL cluster No, we need training and capacity building. Only some volunteers have some training. Q5. Does your agency have a PSEA Action Plan / Strategy? Is this a national country office or corporate document? Yes, CARE has a PSEA Action Plan. It is a national office document. Will check if CARE Global has a corporate document too. Yes. We have code of conducts and policies document and we implement training on GBV for our staff and other stakeholders, but we haven't a specific action plan. There is corporate external monitoring agency for serious violation of code of conduct. Yes. GBV & PSEA are included in WHH's Global Accountability Framework which is currently being rolled out in all countries. No specific national action plan has been developed, this is planned for this year. Yes, ASCO have a PSEA Action Plan / Strategy. It s a national country office. Yes. World Vision has a PSEA Policy as well as a system of Incident Reporting & Disciplinary Actors that cover PSEA topics. This is being reviewed for 2018 and updated. Yes, UNKEA has it as an adopted core humanitarian standard and as a code of conduct. It s a corporate document. Yes. This has been incorporated in our protection policy but, not stand-alone document, however, it has been strongly stipulated in our policy. Not available the moment. No. We do not have master standard action plan but we are developing on how we shall be dealing with GBV programmes/activities No. but working to have one No. Need for capacity building 4

5 Q6. Do you have good practice or lessons learnt to share with the FSL Cluster on GBV programming or mainstreaming done by your agency? Yes, CARE has some good practice / lessons to share with FSL Cluster Yes. DACO have some good lessons learned on GBV but we don't have the document available now to share with Cluster. Yes. Such can be arranged with LWF, since our mainstream protection interventions are for Refugee Operations. Yes. I SSCSA have videos, pamphlets to share with the FSL colleagues when necessary No. Nothing particularly relevant No. Our Protection department colleagues are working on it Q7. Do you think that your agency would benefit from GBV capacity support? What would this support look like e.g. training, workshop, resourcing etc.? All respondents indicated that they can benefit from GBV capacity building support in terms of mentorship, on the job training, workshops, assessment tools, Creative Gender mainstreaming in non-women focused in protection Q8. Do you have in-house GBV capacity that you could share with the FSL Cluster? What would this support look like e.g. on-the job mentoring, trainings, FSLC presentations etc.? Yes. Presentation to FSL partners, on the job Mentoring/Training Yes. CARE has in-house GBV capacity to facilitate or co-facilitate GBV mainstreaming / Risk mitigation trainings to FSL Cluster. Yes. WVI can support the FSL Cluster with trainings, review of tools, presentations etc (in line with the RTAP) but we would want to avoid duplicating the work / responsibility of the GBV Partner that was assigned to the FSL Cluster for mainstreaming and ensure complementarity. No. DACO don't have any of this at the moment No. PAH is working on building its protection sector at the moment. In the future it will share more information No. The resources on AVSI we have are a bit stretched and not much focused on FSL programming (more health and education) 5

6 Q9. Has your agency taken steps to mainstream prevention of GBV into programming / activities? Please detail. Yes, our agency (CHIDDO) currently mainstreaming GBV to protection programming, we have GBV mainstreaming to CP, Education, WASH. Yes, GBV and protection issues are incorporated in WASH and FSL programming in our working areas which was stated in the project document. Through Community Protection Committees these issues are being sorted out. Yes, CARE has taken steps to mainstream GBV in CARE's FSL as well as others sector's programme / activities. CARE ensures that GBV is mitigated within all of our FSL and other sectoral programming as below. FSL Sector Specific Issues of Concern that CARE s protection program has been addressing to ensure positive protection outcomes; Yes. Through zero tolerance policy on GBV and do not harm approach Yes, by creating awareness and advocacy Formation of community structures capacity building Coordination and partnership resource mobilization Yes. All the project activities in PAH takes into consideration protection and gender mainstreaming. This starts from assessments by engaging with both sexes, selection of beneficiaries, recruitment of local staff etc. Yes. Most of our Proposals that we have shared with the Donors for various Projects have the element of Gender Mainstreaming, Protection and Inclusion of the Elderly and People with Disabilities Yes, PCO has incorporated GBV and PSEA components in all our programming activities Yes, by ensuring all project activities are implemented during day light and in an open secure place Yes. Gender data is always disaggregated, most of our surveys have GBV/Protection questions (no matter the subject of the survey), GBV awareness raising is mainstreamed in most of our programmes (FSL are lacking behind compared to other sectors), all staff is periodically trained in GBV and other protection issues, women and protection risks are considered for all activities we implement Yes, by coming up with the Child protection policy Yes, in all our programming, we include GBV protection mainstreaming for example Gender (women, men, Boys and Girls) yes, DCA had conducted training for all DCA partners on gender and protection mainstreaming in all our programmes Yes. As part of the roll-out of our Accountability Framework, we are working on setting up CRM mechanisms. WHH's Code of Conducts on PSEA are part of all employment contracts, both for expatriate, national and local staff, and HR officers explain and regularly refresh the knowledge on these Code of Conducts. Yes. Integrating gender based violence with humanitarian sectors such as FSL, WASH, Nutrition and Education sectors Yes. Organizational policies (i.e. HR, PSEA); organization capacity building (i.e. general staff, field focused staff); introduction of GBV assessment tools or questions to be added to sector tools; Gender analysis to inform implementation strategies (multi-sector) Yes, by ensuring that 50% of all our programmes and activities are gender balanced. This includes personnel and participation No, but we shall come up with plans related to activities which we are going to do 6