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Smruti Patel A4EP, looking forward to the discussions.

Hello every one, greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hello from the USA - Connecticut

Hello from Kuwait!

Hello, greetings from Senegal (UN Women regional office)

Calling in from Boise, Idaho!

Hello from Lebanon :)

Hello from New York - Humanitarian Office

Joining from Bologna, Italy!

Hello from Ohio!

Hello from Tunisia !

Hello from @EduCannotWait in NYC!!

Hello from Indonesia!

Hello from Denmark

Greetings from Khartoum! GBV Sub Sector Sudan

Hello from Washington, DC and the IRC!

Hello from Haiti :)

Nairobi!

Hello from WHO African Regional Office, Brazzaville Congo

Hello, greetings from UNHCR Zimbabwe

Hello from Mozambique

Hello from Niger

from Switzerland

Saludos from Panama!

Hello, from UNHCR South Sudan

Thailand but remotely work for Mozambique

Hello from @EduCannotWait Geneva!

Hello from Thailand!

Hello from Oxfam in Ottawa, Canada

hello from Myanmar

Hello from UNHCR Malawi

Hello from London!

Solange Mbonigaba, Coordinating a movement of survivors of SGBV, Tearfund UK

Hello from IOM New York!

Hi every one, from Ethiopia- Peace and Development Center (PDC)

Hola desde Lima-Perú/Hello from Perú

Hello from Halifax, Canada

Hello Farida Algeria

Greetings from IOM Geneva!

Hello everyone, Hussein from Ethiopia

UNFPA Sudan! Good evening!

Hello from IPPF!

Hello from Harare, Zimbabwe, ActionAid

Hello from Washington, what a wonderful group.

Good evening, from DRC Ethiopia!

Arwa Alfaqih from Democracy School Org from Yemen.

Hello from Amman, UNICEF MENA Regional Office

Tesfaselassie Mezgebe

Aisha from UNHCR Dadaab

Greetings, this is Åsa Forsgren, UNFPA New York

Hello from Canada!

Hello everyone! I am Brianna - Policy Advisor for Women's Protection and Empowerment for the IRC. Delighted to be here!

Hi everyone. This is Nimo Hassan, Somalia NGO Consortium. Greetings from Somalia!

Good morning, from the Mission of Portugal, NYC!

Greetings from Zimbabwe pleased to be here as Chair of Action Aid International and also Founding Chair of the Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe Humanitarian Cluster.

Good evening, Chao from UNHCR Myanmar

Solomon Bizuneh, from Ethiopia Save the Children

Greetings from Dakar (DRC/WARO)

Hello everyone. I am Martha Kow-Donkor, UNHCR Dadaab, Kenya

Greetings from OCHA Panama!

Hello from Save the Children, Denmark

Karen Kotut UNHCR Kenya 🇰🇪Nairobi

Hello everyone from the GBVAoR Geneva. Great to see so many WLOs on the panel.

Greetings from Caritas Danmark!

Christine APIO, GBV AoR, East and Southern Africa Region

Bonsoir from DR Congo!

Greetings again, Tesfaselassie Mezgebe, Senior Program Manager at Peace and Development Center (PDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Welcome everyone. Dr Romina Istratii, PI of Project dldl/ድልድል in Ethiopia, Eritrea and the UK. Very curious to hear today's sessions.

Good afternoon from AAP OCHA Panama (we must unite forces - Protection, PSEA, GvB and AAP/CE!

Hello from UNFPA, Yola, Nigeria.

Good evening, This is Kiberinka Aurore from UNHCR, Rwanda!

Hello from this is Ana Araújo from UNFPA WCARO

Hello from the GBV AoR Coordination team in Geneva

Hello, Zeinab NADJI associe à la protection/SGBV UNHCR Mali

From UNFPA welcoming all of you to this event and all women led organizations

Hello from UNFPA Humanitarian Office

This is Stef Pruski with Danish Refugee Council in D R Congo! Bonsoir :)

Greetings from UNFPA Arab States Regional Office

Greetings from the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation!

April Pham, Senior Gender Advisor, UN OCHA, sending you warm greetings to you all from New York City. Looking forward to moving from talk to action :)

Good evening, this is Veronica Igale, UNwomen South Sudan

Good morning from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico.

Hello, Zeinab NADJI associe à la protection/SGBV UNHCR Mali

Good morning from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico

Hello, this is SEGUETIO, GBV Expert NORCAP/WP Niger

Good evening from Zimbabwe- Alexina Rusere

WFP

Bravo Fatima

Hello, I am Tatiana Papanastasiou, GBV focal point for UNHCR Greece

MAMADI from UNAIDS HQ

Greetings from UNICEF LAC Regional office, Debla Lopez

Hello from Netherlands, Masumi Yamashina

What would be a better response than Case Management? Livelihoods maybe?

GREETINGs from Protection Cluster Coordination in NWSW, Cameroon.

Hello; TETE JESINTA- UNHCR/DRC Mission/ GBV/PSEA-AAP officer

Greetings All, Grace Ireri from ActionAid based in Nairobi.

Agree with Fatima. Women led organisations are still left out on institutional funding/support due to tougher and complicated financial expectations from most of the institutions. A need of flexibility on this matter to include all community based Organisations who are emerging, need more support than others

Coordination UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict, OSRSG-SVC, NY

Fully agree with Solange

Thank you Mr Griffiths for drawing attention to Tigrayan women and girls and the sexual violence they have experienced in the recent conflict. We work with parterns in Tigray and have done our best to contribute to the humanitarian response. As you said, local communities and social actors were the first to respond, but especially the clergy of the dominant Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which has not been acknowledged as widely. We have advised, on the basis of long-term anthropological research in Tigray, the necessity to integrate all local social actors, including the clergy and women's groups, in psychosocial responses. Moreover, such responses need to consider complex trauma and respond to the conflict-related violence, as well provide more long-term, individual clinical support to address individual histories of trauma.

From Tesfaselassie, I fully agree with Fatima, and Mr. Martin for explaining about the voiceless girls and women in Tigray suffering from untold atrocities committed against them.

Education actors and protection actors, health actors, legal actors should work altogether and provide education materials at school to prevent SGBV. Another priority of prevention is the Activities in the schools where many girls are still abused. Helpdesk, hotline, should be available in the school to support girls and boys and protect them from SGBV risks. UNHCR Protection Cluster Coordinator, Cameroon.

i full support that this the time to take action against gender violence the conqueror our right

Mrs. Samake is one of the strongest victims' advocate in Mali and in Africa

Indeed the social pressure to keep GBV issues under silence is a huge issue in many countries in West Africa

Félicitations Mme Samaké et merci pour ces points très pertinents

Il reste toujours un fort plaidoyer à tous les niveaux

Thank you Fatima for bringing these realities of women led organisations to this forum. More needs to be done to implement the commitments at country level to support women led organisations.

Irish Aid Humanitarian Unit represented here by Fiona Quinn

Yes Fatima did bring the harsh reality of what is happening for the WLOs. Thank you for sharing. I love the recommendations made and the commitment by all that will go a long step in moving us in the right direction.

Great that she is raising the importance of data for targeted advocacy and adequate GBV prevention and response

Rohi Wodu Pastoralist Women's Development Organization has been operating in the Afar region of Ethiopia for the past 17 years. He has worked on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Health, Women's Empowerment, Education and HIV / AIDS. We are still interested in working with international organizations. Email Address rohiwedu@gmail.com

Agree, women’s work is not counted and captured.

Very powerful points on the invisibility of the works by women led and women’s rights organisations and comparing it to unpaid care work! It needs to be valued, financed, amplified and supported

Very true

Well said

Very well said indeed

Yes, Women must be heard, they go through several tragedies, for example as Ms. Bintou said, they are displaced, raped and rejected by their communities

I am crying from where I am sitting because Ms Gumbonzvanda you brought truth that I kept under carpet

Thank you for your powerful and clear message, Ms Gumbonzvanda

Child marriage is indeed ongoing and is so tragic. We need to do more.

Very well said!

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Thank you so much Nyaradzayi, phenomenal

Excellent!

Well done, sister

Thank you, we are all hurting.

Thank you for our powerful message Ms Gumbonzvanda!

your

Incredible message. Lets stop sanitizing.

Thank you Ms Gumbonzvanda for your clarity and powerful message!

Thank you so much Nyaradzayi, well said and from the heart.

Wonderful Presentation. This is well noted!

Stop sanitizing rape to girls and calling it child marriage - this should be twitted over and over

Yes @Leya

Thank you Mme Samake and Ms. Gumbonzvanda for the powerful message

Can you hear ?

Powerful presentation Ms. Gumbonzvanda

Ok! Problem solve

Localisation!!! well said Filippo

Covid as an accelerator of localization@Indeed HC - we have to leverage on it to strengthen women led organizations

@mandatory share for women led, refugee led community organizations

Great! Dear Fillipo

Well said, if there was mandatory sharing of pooled funds it would go a long way. Well said.

But even during Covid funds were channeled to traditional recipients I,e UN and INGOs

This is very practical, and well said

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We need to work with WLO as partners rather than as implementing partners...decision makers and recognizing the leadership. We are advocating for this and trying to get rid of obstacles

Thank you sir for being very informative.

Agree totally Jennifere Chase

Well put our High Commissioner. WLO funding ought to be substantial, rapid and flexible with less admin processes.

Localization 5.0: WLO co-leading clusters.

50 percent of GBV Coordination to be women led organisation , I can not agree with you more. You have hit the nail on the head. What we need now is action

Totally agree@Jennifer Chase, partnership with WLOs need to be redefined.

Donors can do a lot to look at their own processes. Here is what donors can do https://www.gmentor.org/new-blog/2021/4/19/how-donors-can-promote-equitable-partnerships

Karen Kotut great point and we need to support the WLO and build their capacity to mitigate the administrative obstacles

https://www.gmentor.org/new-blog/2021/4/19/how-donors-can-promote-equitable-partnerships

Here is what donors can do.

Very very true as said by UNHCR High commissioner. Frontline responders, community women led organization, refugee organization should be funded to help more and more results on the ground. results oriented planning in funding should be prioritized.

this time we need to move to demonstrate act to prevent further abuses toward womens

during prevention GBv protection should consider safety shelter,sanitation,food and other related women d girl issue therefore during conflict,war and natural disaster should consider safety from gbv violence they are one always vulnerable I encourage women led organization should be frontline

The Women Peace and Humanitarian Fund is a great pooled fund for WLOs and WROs which should be expanded further

Rethink criteria for selecting implementing partners

women led organization there is barrier fund approtunity and access

https://voiceamplified.org/report-summary/

Thank you for sharing

And Again we work on violence against women and our organisation is very effective because it is led by women Rohiwedu pastoral women development org

gbv is effected the lives of women and girls for example Fgmone of our challenges although we take action against gbv but inclusion of women and girls is crucial survivor should be addressed their needsestablishment gbv friendly centers ,should endorse strategy towards protection on women and girls

I agree with madam zeynab well said

True

👏alla interventions are so interesting

Thank you Yasmine, we need to walk the talk. Deeds not Words should be our Motto

Thank you Alexina.

We are still working on humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia email address: rohiwedu@gmail.com

our organization mother and child development organization working gbv remote area established different committees like government, community leader women,girls clubs, boys clubs in order to overcomer the problem gbv and encourage women to stand their right to establish and provide women IGA to enable to send their children school

More information on The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund is available on: https://wphfund.org

Great

Rohi weddu is local woman led organisations Rohiwedu means saving life in Afar language

I SALUTE UP TO ALL WOMEN WHO ARE WORKS TO WOMEN RIGHTS BC WE STAND TOGETHER

Thank you USA for supporting this co-leadership

still we MCDO working humanitarian issues like nutrition,protection,sanitation ,gbv and water. MCDO is local organization led by women working in Ethiopia pastI fully support who always working gbv and other issue related women and girlsmotherandchild97@gmail.com

MCDO working now and we are active

The Haiti earthquake has impacted a country who has affected by other multiple crisis. The GBV situation is widespread and women's and girls organisations have been severely affected. Need attention for all the humanitarian community!

Thank you all for this rich conversation! Also just wanted to flag that VOICE and UNICEF are getting ready to release a partnership assessment tool written by representatives of local women’s organisations from around the world. It contains practical advice for donors, UN agencies, etc. on how they do better in upholding the responsibility to mutually-supportive partnerships. More soon!

It's been extremely humbling to hear the frank and powerful voices of our women leaders from Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Zimbawe, Mali and Nigeria calling for UN and member states to FUND more RESPECT and VALUE more and PARTNER with more. I call on everyone to hold all the member states and entities here to account for the commitments made. Let's talk less, and Do MORE.

I missed the first part of this event due to a conflicting meeting- can you please let me know when the recording will be available to view? Thank you!

I recommend international actors to find out ways to share the power that they hold with as many local actors as possible. Find out ways so that international actors support is not concentrated to those handful local organisations who have the capacity and privilege to be the partner of international actors.Consider that many local actors working on the ground might not have the registration, all the documents that international actors ask for for being a formal partner with them. I want to emphasise that many local actors do not get the legal identity even after applying for such identity. Particularly those who work in conflict area. Also those who are working on types of GBV that are sensitive in their local context. For instance : Abortion, Right to choose partner, sexual rights .

As a person from Bangladesh and from a minority background , I will conclude saying that measuring the success of the local actors based on western standard and expectation is not something can be called localising.Decolonising the thought, decolonising the design of project, decolonising the way of access is a must . For instance : Many local actors especially women and girl led organisations working at the grass root level, conflict and crisis situations might not have the capacity to understand, write , speak English . It is important that international actors are aware of these systematic colonalised practices while they work on localising GBV or any issues. make sure money and other supports goes to those local actors who are shifting the mountain on the ground but do not fit the so called eligibility criteria to be a partner of international actors.

Thank you so much.

Echoing April, very inspirational

Thank you

THANK YOU

Many thanks to Dorcas and all the speakers.