Gender-based violence (GBV) is a serious human rights violation and a pervasive public health issue around the world. It is estimated that nearly one in three women and girls (35%) have experienced either intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence or both, at least once in their life. Humanitarian crisis, conflict and displacement exacerbate the risk of GBV, sometimes at a rate that doubles the global average. GBV specialized workforce in charge of preventing, mitigating the risk and responding to GBV should possess strong technical knowledge and a specific set of skills to ensure GBV life-saving programming is alligned to the GBV guiding principles and is effective to help rebuild the lives of survivors of GBV. This 4-day residential course aims at providing advanced core, professional and behavioral competences to implement GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response in humanitarian settings.

Who is this course for?
This training is addressed to all professionals who hold a dedicated GBV function or have GBV in their job description. GBV specialists can be project managers, technical experts, advisors or coordinators, and they generally cover a range of responsibilities, including:
• Conducting specialized GBV assessment, planning, budgeting and resource mobilization;
• Implementing specialized GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response programming;
• Providing support to other sectors to mainstream GBV and lead GBV coordination; and
• Contributing to GBV data and information management.

Learning outcomes
This course aims at enhancing programming and response capacities in GBV in Humanitarian Assistance.
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Plan, design and implement context appropriate GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response interventions in humanitarian crisis;
• Support quality multi-sectoral response services to GBV that are accessible to all survivors based on needs;
• Discuss good practices, standards and approaches for transformative GBV programming, effective prevention and risk mitigation and to sucessfully integrate GBV and child protection;
• Identify and apply tools for GBV assessment, GBV information management, monitoring and evaluation of GBV programming.

Methodology
The course will be delivered in presence during four days. It will use interactive methodologies that prioritize interaction, discussion and peer to peer feedback. It will offer solid foundational knowledge and opportunities to concretely practice them, through group work, case studies analysis and role plays. Participants will be provided with pre-lecture readings and a learning package at the end of the course.
At the end of the training participants that have successfully completed the course will be ensured a digital badge through the international platform HPASS (www.hpass.org).