14 May 2008

GPPi publishes report on "The Gender Standby Capacity Project"

GPPi published its new report “The Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap): One Year Ahead.”  The report summarizes the findings of a formative evaluation of the GenCap Project, conducted by GPPi on behalf of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). The GenCap Project is a pool of senior gender advisers who are deployed to humanitarian situations to support the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and cluster leads in mainstreaming gender equality programming across all sectors of humanitarian action.

The report reviews the GenCap Project’s impact on programming; the sustainability of established tools and mechanisms for gender equality programming (GEP); and the efficient management and use of the GenCap pool of advisers.

Based on data collected between May 2007 and February 2008, the report suggests that:

• The GenCap project has a positive impact on gender equality programming in humanitarian situations. It demonstrates progress in establishing tools and mechanisms to enhance gender equality programming. The GenCap Project has been particularly successful in increasing the quality of already existing tools and mechanisms.

• The GenCap project has made achievements with respect to the institutionalization of mechanisms for gender equality programming. However, room for improvement exists for creating sustainable change in the ability of Humanitarian Country Teams for mainstreaming gender into humanitarian programming.

• The GenCap Steering Committee and Secretariat has been able to rapidly launch the project with only limited human resources available. The Secretariat managed to coordinate a large group of diverse actors. The developed requesting and deployment processes proved efficient. In the ensuing move towards implementation, however, some aspects of management, e.g. the transparency of decisions and the content development of the training, suffered.

Based on these findings, the report also contains a number of specific recommendations designed to further enhance the effectiveness of the GenCap Project.

To download the report, click here.

For more information, please contact Andrea Binder.

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