Media, remember gender in your COVID-19 coverage

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Media always have a strong obligation to offer the public professionally produced content and reliable information. Following the current global crisis caused by the Corona virus, Emma Boberg Lygnerud, IMS Global Response Department Gender Adviser, encourages media to make it more of a priority to provide a diverse, balanced and gender sensitive coverage. This article addresses coverage dilemmas arising due to the pandemic and provides recommendations for journalists on how to strengthen gender sensitivity in…

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Operational Guidance for Appropriate Interaction with Armed Actors in the Context of the COVID-19 Response v1.0

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Armed actors are or will likely be involved in an affected government’s response to COVID-19 in a number of ways. This operational guidance by OCHA provides practical approaches to navigating humanitarian operating environments where domestic armed actors are responding to COVID-19 as part of the government’s efforts, where peacekeeping forces and/or foreign armed actors (military and/or police) may possess unique capacity to support humanitarian requirements, or where a combination of the above is observable. The…

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Protection and Human Rights Considerations – Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 for South Sudan

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The COVID-19 outbreak is a public health emergency, which in the context of South Sudan’s lack of any viable national social safety net, possess multiple protection challenges and threats to human rights. In large part as a result of the armed conflict, public health services are not able to provide prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases for all persons living in the country. Additionally, the prevention and response therefore cannot…

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OCHA’s Humanitarian Response Information on South Sudan

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This info page by OCHA includes cluster guidance and other useful resources and tools on Covid-19 in South Sudan. Read more

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COVID-19: A Gender Lens. Protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights, and promoting gender equality

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“Disease outbreaks affect women and men differently,” says the new UNFPA guidance document, which covers how gender is playing a role in the unfolding pandemic. “Pandemics make existing gender inequalities for women and girls worse, and can impact how they receive treatment and care.” Download

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Gender implications of COVID-19 outbreaks in development and humanitarian settings

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Informed by lessons learned from past public health emergencies, this analysis shows that COVID-19 outbreaks in development or humanitarian contexts could disproportionately affect women and girls in a number of ways, including adverse effects on their education, food security and nutrition, health, livelihoods, and protection. Even after the outbreak has been contained, women and girls may continue to suffer from ill-effects for years to come. Download

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