Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Action

This is the updated 2024-28 Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Policy on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls (GEEWG) in Humanitarian Action. 

The purpose of this Policy reflects the IASC’s commitment and obligation to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in humanitarian action, through collective action and shared accountability. It promotes a people-centred, feminist and intersectional vision of equality and inclusion in humanitarian action as essential to understanding and addressing different people’s experiences of humanitarian crises. 

This Policy harnesses progressive thinking across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus, to be transformative, inclusive and uncompromising towards achieving the goals of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of coordinated humanitarian response. Implementation of this Policy will lead to humanitarian action which is more just, coherent, safe, accessible, effective and accountable, thus saving more lives and laying the foundation for peace and sustainable development.