Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Resources

This guidance supports NCA country offices and partners in integrating Women’s Rights and Gender Equality across all projects and programs, in line with NCA’s policies and commitments.

Gender analysis examines the roles, responsibilities, and power dynamics between women and men, considering factors like age, race, and disability. It informs project planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, ensuring interventions address diverse needs and do not perpetuate inequality or harm.

Many donors now require gender analysis in programme proposals. While it can be integrated at any stage, it is most effective during project design. At NCA, conducting gender analysis is mandatory once per project cycle, and existing analyses from other organisations can also be used to inform programming.

The Integrating Therapeutic Interventions into GBV Case Management (ITI) resource outlines 13 therapeutic techniques and 11 MHPSS symptoms most commonly seen among GBV survivors and aims to therapeutically deepen the GBV case management process by integrating these MHPSS tools into all levels of case management.

To strengthen the ITI resource, we have developed 3 additional ITI tools which include the: ITI Training Manual, ITI MHPSS Flyers, ITI Supervision Toolkit. 

*All ITI documents that have been translated on the page are provisional. 

Integrating Therapeutic Interventions in GBV Case Management (ITI)

ITI Training Manual

This is the training manual to accompany the ITI Resource. 

ITI MHPSS Flyers

Here are 11 flyers of the most commonly seen MHPSS symptoms that GBV survivors experience.

ITI Peer Supervision Toolkit

The ITI Peer Supervision Toolkit: Learning to Take Care of Survivors and Ourselves, is a toolkit that provides caseworkers with:

• A peer supervision model to help manage difficult cases and increase capacity to offer psychological support.
• Case studies, activities and provocative questions that facilitate individual and group supervision sessions related to the specific psychological symptoms of GBV survivors.
• Video recordings which provide “live” explanations, clinical examples and demonstrations of techniques to manage symptoms taught in the ITI manual.

The ITI Peer Supervision Toolkit should be used together with ITI manual.

We Matter: A  GBV Staff Care Resource

This resource outlines 25 staff care activities help GBV teams manage burnout and vicarious traumatization. This staff care resource is written for all GBV staff, not just for team leaders and supervisors.

It is recommended that this resource be used together with the I Matter: Self-Care Journal for GBV Staff

 I Matter: Self-Care Journal/Cards for GBV Staff

The I Matter: Self-Care Journal for GBV Staff is a journal that GBV staff can use on their own, to manage stress and to avoid burnout

This journal explores: 1) The ways my work changed me, 2) The ways my work causes me stress & other strong emotions, 3) Finding balance and 4) Joy and meaning.

This journal can be used by either printing it out or saving it on your phone or computer. The journal was transformed into self-care cards for ease of use and is recommended to be implemented creatively alongside supervision and regular meetings. It is recommended that this self-care resource be used together with the We Matter: A GBV Staff Care Resource that provides staff care strategies for the workplace.

ENGAGE is a resource designed to prevent and respond to child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) within existing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) programs, with a focus on humanitarian settings. It is built on a Theory of Change informed by a literature review of evidence-based interventions and consultations with key stakeholders, including adolescent girls.

The ENGAGE program includes three key components:

1. Service Delivery: Targeting adolescent girls who are at risk of or have experienced CEFM.
   
2. Community Outreach: Engaging caregivers, teachers, religious leaders, women, men, girls, and boys in social norms change activities to prevent CEFM.
   
3. Capacity Building: Providing tools and training for staff and partners to deliver high-quality interventions and monitor program impact.
   

Implementation Guide This guide provides step-by-step instructions for assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the ENGAGE program.

Curricula: The ENGAGE curricula includes prevention and response activities tailored to specific community members to change harmful social norms and support at-risk girls of CEFM.

Learning Briefs: Each learning brief provides insights from implementing the respective curricula tools.

Training Package:  The training package consists of four modules, each including a facilitator guide, workbook, and PowerPoint presentation to support initial training and ongoing capacity building.

• Module 1: Core training Module.

• Module 2: Facilitation Skills and Considerations*

• Module 3: Implementation of Service Delivery Components

• Module 4: Implementation of Community Outreach Components.

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A Toolkit for faith actors to engage congregations and communities to end all forms of gender based violence (GBV)

The NCA FAME toolkit includes the following parts:

Part A. Theory of Change: This outlines the need that we are trying to address through this program of work, the outcomes we expect and the range of activities that will be conducted to achieve this change.

Part B. Outreach work: This section unpacks the different themes and related activities which when undertaken will lead to the expected change outlines in the theory of change. This includes:

• awareness raising on all forms of GBV
• theoretical framework of social norms

Part C. Community conversation modules: The different themes are structured into conversation modules to be discussed progressively. Beginning with definitions of the key terminologies, the conversations utilise the contextual study of religious text methodology to unpack otherwise difficult topics. The conversations culminate with the development of individual and joint action plans and a reflection on the measurement of impact within the respective communities.

Part D. Community conversation facilitators’ guide: An interactive process will be adopted to bring together members of the community and encourage them to think, discuss and explore harmful norms that encourage inequalities and the different types of GBV affecting women and girls. These include religious, social, moral and legal norms, unequal power relations and harmful masculinities. This guide will be used to support these community conversations.

Community Conversation (CC) methodology is a 5-staged community driven behavioral change tool that recognizes and leverages the capacity of communities to influence change in their communities. Currently NCA uses this methodology in our norms transformation work related to FGM & CEFM. The model uses facilitation techniques and tools provided to them in the community conversation manual to encourage the community to discuss and brainstorm solutions for Female Genital Mutilation and CEFM in their communities.  

The tool can be used by all stakeholders wanting to create change. The methodology has been extensively used and evaluated  by NCA in both Ethiopia and Somalia. Although NCA has so far only used it in nexus and long-term development settings, parts of it can be used in work with transient communities to discuss issues facing their daily lives.

This facilitator manual provides training materials to support facilitators to deliver a 5-day training on how to provide first line support and clinical care to survivors of sexual violence and intimate partner violence – including women, girls, men and boys. The manual also includes training on how to prepare the health facility to provide care.

The main objectives of the training are for participants to:

• Demonstrate general knowledge of sexual violence and intimate partner violence as a public health problem
• Demonstrate behaviours and understand values contributing to safe, supportive services for survivors.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate to one’s profession and specialty to respond to sexual violence and intimate partner violence against women, sexual violence against men and boys, and child sexual abuse; including providing first line support, conducting a history and examination, providing clinical care and treatment, and safe referral to support services

The NCA CSE Toolkit offers culturally sensitive, rights-based Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) for adolescents, addressing misinformation, stigma, and restrictive laws that impact their sexual and reproductive health. Gender inequality and societal norms heighten their vulnerability to GBV, unintended pregnancies, and maternal mortality, especially among girls and young women. Designed to empower adolescents, the toolkit equips them with knowledge, skills, and support to improve health outcomes and promote gender-equitable relationships. It provides trainers with structured, age-appropriate lessons across eight key themes and is adaptable for both long-term and humanitarian settings, in and out of school.

Aligned with UNESCO’s technical guidelines for CSE, the toolkit consists of three comprehensive manuals:

1. The Trainers Instructional Guide: Provides an overview of CSE and serves as an introduction to its core principles.

2. The Trainers Manual: Goes into detail of the eight themes and provides detailed lessons plans for the age groups 9-12, 12-15 and 15-18+.

3. The Context Matrix: Offers deeper insights into each theme, allowing trainers and educators to access additional information as needed.

*The toolkit is also available digitally trough the learning platform FABO. Here, users can engage with interactive content, take quizzes, and assess their knowledge after each module.