Global crises such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and conflict are widening inequalities everywhere, especially for women and girls, refugees, and internally displaced people. This report represents 6,299 survey respondents (4,610 women) from nine countries and shares survey findings and insights from 26 rapid gender analyses and assessments conducted in 2022, providing insights into the gendered power dynamics and experiences of women and men, boys and girls in conflict, natural disasters, and other crises.

As part of MOMENTUM’s efforts to prevent and mitigate the consequences of violence against women and girls and possible drivers of child, early, and forced marriage, this mapping exercise aimed to identify, enumerate, and map existing survivor-centered gender-based violence (GBV) services, determine the readiness of facilities to provide quality services across sectors, and assess capacities of service providers.

This report shares findings from International Alert’s research in Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Nigeria, and the Philippines, which found that peacebuilding was compromised by restrictive patriarchal understandings of gender roles. Each of these countries has developed national action plans on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security, yet each has struggled to promote meaningful and sustainable gender equality due to lack of programming that transforms discriminatory gender norms.

This report contains an overview and concrete recommendations to take up the main findings of four UNDP pilots funded by the Republic of Korea to gather evidence about what works to integrate a "gender-based violence (GBV) lens" into broader development interventions with the aim to prevent and respond to GBV.

In 2021-2022, UNFPA in the Philippines introduced the Cash for Maternal Health Emergency Fund—designed to facilitate safe pregnancy and delivery—in the conflict-affected Maguindanao province. This report shares program evaluation findings and is intended to provide new evidence to inform planning of maternal health programs with cash components, both in the Philippines and beyond.

This report synthesizes findings and lessons learned from interviews conducted with leading experts working on self-care and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in humanitarian, fragile, and stable settings, including program implementers, researchers, donors, and more. The report describes the current landscape of SRH self-care in humanitarian and fragile settings and aims to inform an ambitious new agenda for the self-care movement for the world’s most vulnerable populations.