Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence Quarterly Report Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2021

The goal of CARE-GBV is to strengthen the gender-based violence (GBV) portfolio across USAID through the development of foundational elements for addressing GBV within USAID, implementation plans, research, training, and professional networking support. CARE-GBV aims to achieve results through innovative approaches that build on the extensive pool of resources already developed by USAID and its implementing partners, as well as the knowledge and resources created by other funders and organizations. The task order centers on strengthening USAID's collective prevention and response in GBV development programming across the Agency and addresses five objectives. Objective 1 focuses on developing and disseminating foundational elements for integrated and standalone GBV programming in development contexts. Objective 2 aims to strengthen prevention and response programming on harmful GBV practices across different sectors through convening workshops, implementation plans, and learning agenda development. During this quarter, CARE-GBV accomplished several key milestones. Under Objective 1, the team submitted the full first draft of the Foundational Elements for Gender-Based Violence Programming in Development to USAID and the Foundational Elements Technical Advisory Group (FE TAG) on October 4. Additionally, drafts of five sector-specific briefs on integrating GBV into global health, technology, education, water and sanitation hygiene (WASH), and climate change were submitted on October 12, October 15, October 22, October 29, and November 12, respectively. The team also initiated partnerships with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Feed the Future Advancing Women's Empowerment program to collaborate on select environment-related sector-specific briefs and develop a sector-specific brief for addressing GBV in agriculture. Furthermore, a meeting was convened on October 19 to solicit final inputs on the Foundational Elements Theory of Change, and an infographic on survivor-centered programming was published on December 10 as part of CARE-GBV's social media campaign for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. Under Objective 2, a meeting was convened on October 14 to present findings from literature reviews on child, early, and forced marriage and early unions (CEFM) and female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and key informant interviews with various stakeholders. Theories of change (TOC) to guide USAID's CEFM and FGM/C programming were developed and submitted to USAID for clearance on November 12. Under Objective 3, a how-to guide on using USAID's Interactive Maps on the Prevalence of Child, Early, and Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting was finalized and posted on CARE-GBV's landing page on December 10 to orient users to maps.