Service Continuity Guidelines for the Gender-Based Violence Sector скачать в хорошем качестве

Service Continuity Guidelines for the Gender-Based Violence Sector

In the wake of the pandemic, organizations providing services for gender-based violence (GBV) survivors had to quickly adapt their services to meet the demands of a new reality: surging demand for services in an over-stretched sector; staff affected by the multiple social, economic, and health impacts of the crisis; increasingly complex community needs; and the imperative of keeping staff and service users safe, often through physically distanced and online service delivery. While many GBV organizations have emergency plans to guide their actions in the immediate onset of an emergency (e.g., evacuation protocols for fires, floods, violence against staff, etc.), few have the time or resources required to create service continuity plans to enable the continued fulfillment of their missions during a sustained, community-wide crisis. In partnership with the Canadian Women’s Foundation, expert practitioners in the emergency management field have worked in consultation with GBV sector leaders to create adaptable, sector-specific service continuity guidelines with an intersectional gender lens.