Report on resolution 3:
– Date: 04.12.2019
– Country: Ireland
– Type of entity: National Society
– Does your National Society carry out or support activities that help to implement the 2015 Resolution on sexual and gender-based violence?
Yes
– Briefly describe the specific activities that your National Society has so far undertaken to implement Resolution 3
In partnership with Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and through implementation of our violence prevention (VP) programme IRC supported the development of a network of community violence prevention volunteers (80 females & 29 males) now trained as facilitators on provision of VP activities. Through the same programme, community awareness of VP increased with over 10,000 community members (1614 males & 8546 females) reached through community campaigns and events. – Training was provided to 60 staff and volunteers from 19 different National Societies in preventing and responding to SGBV. – Over 2000 field guides on Protection were produced and distributed in training and workshops for RCRC staff and volunteers working in Italy, Greece and other countries along the migratory trail. – Active member of the Irish Consortium on GBV which provides us with a platform to document experience, share resources and draw on achievements of each member. Includes the coordination of 2 Kenya RC and 3 Malawi RC staff participate on IASC Guidelines on GBV in Emergencies. – Active member of the Global RCRC Gender & Diversity Network, for which IRC chaired during 2017-2018. Includes active participation within the RC SGBV Co-Ordination working group. – New organisational strategy includes Protection, Gender and Community Engagement as cross-cutting themes that includes elements of prevention and response to SGBV.
– Briefly describe any challenges that your National Society may have faced when implementing Resolution 3, or which prevented you from implementing it
Collaboration is required to align domestic and international initiatives. The internal focus remains very much within our work overseas on this issue when there are key elements that need to be considered as part of activities we undertake nationally, within Migration, by way of example. Need to introduce / enforce an IRC policy on sexual exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries by its staff and volunteers.
– Country: Ireland
– Type of entity: National Society
– Does your National Society carry out or support activities that help to implement the 2015 Resolution on sexual and gender-based violence?
Yes
– Briefly describe the specific activities that your National Society has so far undertaken to implement Resolution 3
In partnership with Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and through implementation of our violence prevention (VP) programme IRC supported the development of a network of community violence prevention volunteers (80 females & 29 males) now trained as facilitators on provision of VP activities. Through the same programme, community awareness of VP increased with over 10,000 community members (1614 males & 8546 females) reached through community campaigns and events. – Training was provided to 60 staff and volunteers from 19 different National Societies in preventing and responding to SGBV. – Over 2000 field guides on Protection were produced and distributed in training and workshops for RCRC staff and volunteers working in Italy, Greece and other countries along the migratory trail. – Active member of the Irish Consortium on GBV which provides us with a platform to document experience, share resources and draw on achievements of each member. Includes the coordination of 2 Kenya RC and 3 Malawi RC staff participate on IASC Guidelines on GBV in Emergencies. – Active member of the Global RCRC Gender & Diversity Network, for which IRC chaired during 2017-2018. Includes active participation within the RC SGBV Co-Ordination working group. – New organisational strategy includes Protection, Gender and Community Engagement as cross-cutting themes that includes elements of prevention and response to SGBV.
– Briefly describe any challenges that your National Society may have faced when implementing Resolution 3, or which prevented you from implementing it
Collaboration is required to align domestic and international initiatives. The internal focus remains very much within our work overseas on this issue when there are key elements that need to be considered as part of activities we undertake nationally, within Migration, by way of example. Need to introduce / enforce an IRC policy on sexual exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries by its staff and volunteers.
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