Rapid Gender Analysis and its use in crises: from zero to fifty in five years
Author(s)
Quay, IsadoraEditor(s)
Sweetman, CarolinePublication date
2019-07-11Keywords
Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA)Gender
Humanitarian crisis
Gender in emergencies
Division of labour
Gender-based violence
Mobility
Decision-making
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Gender & DevelopmentDocument type
Journal articleLanguage
EnglishDescription
<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p>This article explores how and why the international non-government organisation, CARE, developed its own system of gender analysis, Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA), during the humanitarian response in Syria. The article tracks and reviews a sample of the first 50 CARE RGA reports to share recurrent gender themes that emerge across them, including the lack of women’s meaningful participation in decisionmaking, limitations on women and girls’ mobility, increased risks of gender-based violence, and recurring issues facing humanitarian organisations in providing a gender-sensitive response. RGA has now been used in more than 50 crises around the world and is featured as a good practice in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Gender Handbook. It is giving humanitarians faster and more complete access to information about gender norms than ever before. But, this article asks, has the RGA made a difference and, if so, to whom?</p> </body> </html>Pages
15ISSN
1355-2074EISSN
1364-9221ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/13552074.2019.1615282