Traditions and Opportunities: Engaging Community Leaders to Prevent and Respond to GBV

GBV programs have long recognized the importance of engaging community leaders as gatekeepers, service providers, and agents of change. Yet, GBV programs have often lacked tailored guidance and support to explore potential areas of community leader engagement and navigate challenges related to this work, including risks of inadvertently reinforcing leadership structures that do not center women and girls. IMC developed this toolkit, with support from the United States Office Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs, to provide GBV practitioners with new ideas, guidance, tools, and resources to meet these challenges, and to safely and effectively engage community leaders to advance GBV prevention and response in humanitarian settings.
In this webinar, we explore the Guidance, Tools and Resources including Building a Foundation for Engagement that outlines steps for GBV programs to take to help teams plan for effective community leader engagement around the topic of GBV and the four key areas for engagement including: GBV Response, GBV Risk Mitigation, Transformative Change, and
Supporting Women Leaders.
We also learn about the Training Manual for Staff and Community Leaders which includes plans for GBV program teams to build internal knowledge and skills for community leader engagement, as well as plans for delivering trainings to groups of community leaders on GBV prevention and response.