Gender and Diversity IFRC South-East Asia Regional NetworkJune – December 2015

Introduction

ThefollowingdocumentprovidesanoverviewtotheongoingworkoftheInternationalFederationofRedCrossandRedCrescent Societies (IFRC) in gender and diversity fromJune-December2015.MomentumcontinuesintheregionofSoutheast Asia, specifically through the endorsement byNationalSocietyleadershipfortheSoutheastAsiaRegional

Gender andDiversityNetwork. Comprised of 11NationalSocietyrepresentatives,thenetworkhashelditsfirsttele-conferenceandnetworkingmeeting,whichresulted inanactionplanfor2016.TheMalaysianRedCrescentiscurrentlychairofthenetwork.

Technical assistance

AseriesoftrainingforNationalSocietiesaimedat increa-sing the integrationof genderanddiversity intoprogram-ming includes: CruzVermelha deTimor Leste (awarenessraising),PhilippineRedCross(MastersTrainingoftheIFRC‘7Moves’),Thai Red Cross (gender and diversity for disasterriskreductionandresilience),regionaltrainingoftrainersinBangkokincludingafieldvisittoaThaiRedCrosscommu-nity-baseddisasterriskreductionprogramme,andapresen-tationbyCanadianRedCrossonviolenceprevention.

InJune2015,genderanddiversitywasafocusintheSouth-eastAsiaYouthNetworkmeeting,andwaspresentedasananalyticalframeworkfordisasterlawduringtheRegionalDisaster Law Forum in Bangkok. This was followed byparticipationoftheIFRCintheGlobalGenderandDiversityNetworkmeeting.

The Lao Red Cross is working towards a Strategy for theAdvancementofWomen2016-2020,whileCruzVermelhadeTimor Leste is developing a tool for universal access tolatrines,andVietNamRedCrossisconductingself-assess-mentsinternallyongenderanddiversity.

• Australian Government Department of Foreign Aid and Trade (DFAT): contributions by IFRC to their SoutheastAsiaRegionalGenderActionPlan.

• UN Women: participation in the “16 days of activismagainst gender-based violence” including theGBVSum-mitorganisedbyFHI360,U.SEmbassyinThailand,USAIDAsiaRegionalMissioninThailandandUNDevelopmentProgramme.

• UN Inter-Agency Regional Emergency Gender Based Vio lence AdvisorpresentedatanIFRCtraining.

• S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and International Committee of the Red Cross Roundtable: presentationbyIFRConsexualandgender-basedviolenceindisastersinAsiaPacific.

• TechnicalengagementwiththeGlobal Alliance Against Traffic in WomeninThailandandCAREinLaoPDR

• Collaborationwith theUniversity of Birmingham, U.K.forthegenderanddiversityresourcelibrary.

CVTL colleagues creating a plan of action during a training on gender and diversity at CVTL headquarters (August 2015)

Strengthening partnerships and collaboration

Representation and support 2016

• IFRC,AmericanRedCrossandThaiRedCrossstafftrai-ningongenderanddiversity(January2016)

• AmericanRedCrossRegionalMeetinginBangkok(Febru-ary2016)

• IFRC/Norwegian Red Cross organizational assessmenttooldevelopmentworkshop(May2016)

• Asia-PacificRegionalConferenceonGenderandDisasterRiskReductionhostedbyGovernmentof JapanandUNWomeninHanoi,Vietnam(April2016)

• Southeast Asia Regional Gender and Diversity networkface-to-facemeetingand refreshers training (May2016)andteleconferences(February,August,November2016)

• ASEANCoordinatingCentreforHumanitarianAssistanceondisastermanagement(AHACentre)’sCenterExecutiveProgramme(May2016)

• RegionalCommunity,SafetyandResilienceForum(TBC)

Resources

• ‘UnseenUnheard’ IFRC study on gender-based violenceafterdisasterswithcontributionbyMyanmarRedCross

• Genderanddiversityforresilienceresourcelibrary

• InfographiconfemalemigrationinAsiaPacific

• Regionalmigrationsnapshotincludesafocusongenderanddiversity

• MinimumStandard Commitments to gender and diver-sityinemergencyprogramming(Pilotversion,2015)

• Resolution on ‘Sexual and gender-based violence: jointactiononpreventionandresponse’(availableuponrequest)

• Movement-wideStrategicFrameworkonDisabilityInclu-sion

• GuidancenoteforNationalSocietiesfortheInternationalConference

• IFRCStrategicFrameworkonGenderandDiversityIssues2013-2020

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Gender and Diversity IFRC South-East Asia Regional Network

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For further information on gender and diversity in Southeast Asia, please contact:

Ms. Christina Haneef, Southeast Asia Regional Gender and Diversity OfficerSoutheast Asia Country Cluster Support TeamE-mail: christina.haneef@ifrc.orgPhone: +66 2661 8201 (Ext: 104) Skype: chrissy_haneef

For further information on gender and diversity in Asia and the Pacific, please contact:

Ms. May MaloneyAsia Pacific Gender and Diversity AdvisorAsia Pacific Regional OfficeEmail: may.maloney@ifrc.org Phone: +60 3 9207 5819

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Activities ongoing and planned for 2016

MyanmarLaos

Thailand Vietnam

Cambodia

BruneiMalaysia

Philippines

Indonesia

Timor-Leste

Singapore

Thai Red Cross staff integrating gender and diver sity within Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments, during training in Hua Hin Province, Thailand (November 2015)

Gender and diversity policy or strategy review/ development

Organisational self-assessments

Tools development

Research/ Analysis

Awareness Raising in NS

Training

Activities ongoing and planned for 2016