The global efforts to advance the levels of human security need to place a special focus on empowering women and girls and achieving gender equality. Addressing gender inequality, as an underlining factor of human insecurity, is indispensable for making a significant and lasting impact.
DEVASEC addresses gender inequality by empowering women and girls, engaging men and boys and addressing gender-based violence.
Key actions
- Assist organizations in establishing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating strategies on gender mainstreaming
- Provide services such as gender audit for private and public organizations
- Support laws and policies on gender equality and gender-based violence
- Support victims of discrimination and/or gender-based violence to speak up and find justice, by providing support services, including legal support and psychological care
- Contribute to the training of first responders (police, medical doctors, social workers etc.) by promoting a survivor-centered approach
- Raise the awareness of women and girls, in particular those from marginalized communities, on the different forms of discrimination and gender-based violence and their rights
- Engage men and boys, in particular those from marginalized communities, and work with them towards breaking stereotypes, preventing violence and re-integrating perpetrators