“To ensure women and girls, boys and men have equal access to and benefit from humanitarian assistance – we must “follow the money”. We need to know how we spend money and who benefits. This is why we are instituting a system of tracking funding – called a gender marker. Only in this way can we be sure we target all the population equally and make sure they receive the resources needed to help them to build back better after emergencies.”
Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and
Emergency Relief Coordinator
WHAT IS THE IASC GENDER MARKER?
Evaluations of humanitarian effectiveness show gender equality results are weak, although there is a universal acceptance that humanitarian assistance must meet the distinct needs of women, girls, boys and men to generate positive and sustainable outcomes.
The IASC Gender Marker is a tool that codes, on a 0‐2 scale, whether or not a humanitarian project is designed well enough to ensure that women/girls and men/boys will benefit equally from it or that it will advance gender equality in another way. If the project has the potential to contribute to gender equality, the marker predicts whether the results are likely to be limited or significant.
Based on feedback from the rollout in 2010, a revised set of guidance materials have been created for the 2012 CAP season. Please find Frequenctly Asked Questions and the 12 revised sectoral Tip Sheets below.
Gender Marker 2012 - Frequently Asked Questions English French Arabic
Gender Marker short presentation video - entry to the OCHA Innovates competition.
NEW! NEW!
2012 Gender Marker Report
The 2012 Report on the Gender Marker is out! Find the full report here, and the executive summary here. A Member States briefing on the Report will be held in Geneva on the 16 February 2012. The invitation to this meeting can be found here. Find the overview of HQ review of the Gender Marker here. A Power Point Presentation on the Gender Marker 2012 Results & Lessons Learnt can be found here, and a Presentation on Gender Marker 2012: Progress & Ways Forward here.
Individual Gender Marker Country Reports
Here, you can find the 2012 Gender Marker Country Reports from Afghanistan, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Yemen and Zimbabwe.