Here are some of the key documents for gender equality programming in humanitarian action:

	Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action The IASC Gender Handbook is a tool for clusters/sectors to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate its programmes with a gender lens. It is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Russian and Spanish.
	Guidelines for Gender-based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings The IASC GBV Guidelines is afield-friendly tool on how to set up a multi-sectoral GBV programme stressing the need for a coordinated approach. It is available in English, French and Spanish.

IASC Gender GBV and PSEA Guidelines - leaflet with brief overview of all IASC Gender, GBV and PSEA guidelines

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Gender equality programming is vital in all phases of emergency response. The resources below are brief documents on gender in emergencies.

Why Gender Matters in Crisis Situations?
Gender and Education in Emergencies

Resources can easily to modified into advocacy documents for specific situations:
Gender ABC in Pakistan Floods Response

Key messages on gender in the Haiti emergency response :
English - Español - Francais - Kreyol
Briefing Kit on Gender in Haiti

Preventing sexual exploitation and abuse during the Haiti emergency
English - Francais

Further information on prevention from and response to gender-based violence after the Haiti earthquake can be found here.
Resources on reproductive health for the Haiti response can be found here.

Amelia Peltz
Winrock International
Phone: +1 703 302 6551
apeltz@winrock.org

The IASC online course on gender and humanitarian action is now available. Different Needs - Equal Opportunites: Increasing Effectiveness of Humanitarian Action for Women, Girls, Boys and Men offers the participant to practice her/his skills through an online, simulated humanitarian crisis. Upon completion, a certificate is issued. Take the course here.

 Links to over 100 resources on gender and humanitarian action! Now updated with links to resources on gender and disaster risk reduction. See here.

A complete toolkit for training in gender equality and GBV programming has been published. Click here to see agenda and session documents.

The Gender Marker is a tool that measures whether or not a humanitarian project is designed well enough to ensure women/girls and men/boys will benefit equally or if it will advance gender equality. The Marker is a cooperative effort between the IASC SWG and the Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP). The Gender Marker is being rolled out in 11 Humanitarian Country Teams for 2011. For general information on the gender marker, please consult the two documents below.

Gender Marker update: June 2010
FAQ on the Gender Marker

To access tools and guidance for implementing the Gender Marker, please go to the Gender Marker page

The IASC Gender Standby Capacity (GenCap) project seeks to build capacity of humanitarian actors at country level to mainstream gender equality programming, including prevention and response to gender-based violence, in all sectors of humanitarian response. GenCap’s goal is to ensure that humanitarian action takes into consideration the different needs and capabilities of women, girls, boys and men equally. It is a critical part to building inter-agency capacity on the integration of cross-cutting issues into the cluster approach.

GenCap consists of a pool of 26 gender advisers at a P-4/ P-5 level to be deployed on short notice as an inter-agency resource to support the UN Humanitarian/Resident Coordinators (HC/RC), humanitarian country teams and cluster/sectors leads, in the initial stages of sudden-onset emergencies as well as in protracted or recurring humanitarian situations. For more information on GenCap, click here