The Global Women's Institute

03/17/2025

Join us in Washington, DC, for an afternoon of discussions and learning. The event will begin with a docent-led tour of Intrinsic Beauty, followed by a reception, a panel discussion, and a screening of A Poem for Bilkis Dadi.
Time: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
Location: 701 21st St NW, Washington, DC
🔗RSVP for the in-person event at GW Textile Museum: http://bit.ly/3FoI6UX


The Equality Institute

03/17/2025

March 18 | Virtual Panel and Film Screening
This virtual event will feature a panel discussion with feminist researchers and activists from Australia, India, South Africa, and Nicaragua, followed by a documentary screening.

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET

🔗RSVP for the virtual panel: https://bit.ly/3XMlm7B

The Equality Institute

12/23/2024

🌐 Meet Alina Potts, one of our 2025 Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity!

Alina is a Research Scientist with The Global Women's Institute at George Washington University where she uses participatory, feminist methods to address gender-based violence in humanitarian settings.

She leads the “Empowered Aid” initiative to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse in aid settings and works with women-led organizations to advance mental health and psychosocial support for GBV survivors.

🔗 Learn more about Alina and her work https://healthequity.atlanticfellows.org/fellows/alina-potts/

07/22/2024

Upcoming Webinar: Monitoring SEA Risks in Organizational Processes to Create a Safer
Workplace
Join the Global Women's Institute’s Empowered Aid team for a webinar series exploring policies
and practices that support mitigating the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse ( ) as a way
to make delivery safer and more accountable. In the final installment, we invite you to a
moderated panel discussion on monitoring SEA risks in organizational processes to create a
safer workplace. We will hear from safeguarding, protection, and experts on how they
have incorporated SEA risk reduction strategies into recruitment, training, and other
institutional processes.
Over the past five years, the Empowered Aid initiative has demonstrated how
methods can be used to understand and address risks of sexual exploitation and abuse in aid
distributions. Visit empoweredaid.gwu.edu to access findings and resources including case
studies, a helpdesk, and a free online course in 5 languages.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 8 am EDT/ 1 pm BST/ 2 pm CEST
with panelists:
◽ Rima Karim, Head of Safeguarding and Organizational Culture, BRAC International
◽ Emily Galloway, Senior Advisor, Global Protection, Global Communities
◽ Gry Tina Tinde, PSEA Advisor and Inter-Agency PSEA Coordinator, International Federation of
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC
This webinar will be moderated by Hope Harriet, Empowered Aid Consultant at The Global
Women's Institute (GWI). Register for the webinar at: https://bit.ly/3WhMnQe

06/26/2024

Join the Virtual Launch of the Common Approach to Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (CAPSEAH)

The CAPSEAH is designed to help all people and organizations working in humanitarian, development and peace (HDP) settings tackle SEAH. CAPSEAH provides a collective vision for action; common principles to guide all work and set clear expectations on conduct and minimum actions to protect against SEAH. The creation of CAPSEAH was driven by a diverse Steering Committee of experts, including contributions from the Global Women's Institute.

Speakers include:
Peter Taylor, Chair of the CAPSEAH Steering Committee
Christian Saunders, UN Special Coordinator on improving the United Nations’ response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Najla Nassif Palma, UN Victims’ Rights Advocate
Alina Potts, Research Scientist, Global Women’s Institute, George Washington University
Gaya Gamhewage, Director, Prevention of and Response to Sexual Misconduct, WHO
Alon Plato, Senior Policy Officer, PSEAH and Diversity, ICVA
Andrea Cullinan, Global Lead, Gender and Gender-Based Violence Program, IFC
Abida Peters, Safeguarding Manager, NIRAS
Coline Rapneau, PSEAH Manager, CHS Alliance
Ferdous Nahid, RSH National Representative for Bangladesh
Join the virtual launching tomorrow, June 27, 12:30 PM-2:00 PM GMT hosted by the Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/3XHLsK5

06/03/2024

📢 Webinar Series, Episode 3 | June 6 | 8 AM EDT/2 PM CEST/3 PM UTC+3

Join us in a live panel discussion moderated by
Empowered Aid consultant, Hope Harriet, to learn how to adapt monitoring and evaluation tools to better monitor risks in programming.

Register:

Join the Global Women's Institute’s Empowered Aid team for a webinar series exploring policies and practices that support mitigating the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) as a way to make aid delivery safer and more accountable. In the third installment, we invite you to a moderated pane...

06/03/2024

This Wednesday, learn about contribution analysis and its role in understanding the impact of the project! Register for this webinar:

Better evidence, better policies, better lives: GEl supports developing countries in strengthening their monitoring and evaluation systems to help governments gather and use evidence that improves the lives of their citizens.

05/29/2024

📢 Upcoming webinar: Adapting Monitoring and Evaluation Tools to Monitor SEA Risks in Programs

Join the Global Women's Institute’s Empowered Aid team for the third installment in our webinar series that aims to explore and that support mitigating the risk of and ( ) as a way to make delivery safer and more accountable. We invite you to a moderated panel discussion on adapting and tools to better monitor risks in programming. We will hear about specific examples from GWI’s partner World Vision on activities in and . The webinar will take place on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at 8am EDT/2:00 PM CEST/3 PM UTC+3 with panelists:

▫ Mercy Atim, Independent Protection & Gender Consultant

▫ Chourouk kouteich (She/Her), Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Coordinator, World Vision in Lebanon

▫ Nigusu Zelelke, Design, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, World Vision USA

This webinar will be moderated by Empowered Aid Consultant, Hope Harriet. Register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/3wNW5zW.

is a , participatory action research that recognizes women and girls as contextual safeguarding experts and engages them as co-producers of knowledge. Visit empoweredaid.gwu.edu to access findings and resources including case studies, a helpdesk, and a free online course in 5 languages.

05/29/2024

Upcoming webinar: Impact Stories: Contribution Analysis of Participatory Action Research Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Aid

Join the team in a live webinar taking place during gLocal's Evaluation Week ( )! This webinar will focus on Contribution Analysis and its role in understanding the impact of the Empowered Aid project. In partnership with Matter of Focus, this webinar will explore how this method has helped dissect the outcomes of our multi-year, multi-component initiative spanning multiple countries aimed at preventing sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian aid. Through practical insights and the examination of our case study, you'll learn how to use contribution analysis to track the effects of your work on policy, practice, and discourse in your field. Register for the webinar at: https://bit.ly/3ypFDGh

Empowered Aid is funded by

Visit empoweredaid.gwu.edu to access findings and resources including case studies, a helpdesk, and a free online course in 5 languages.

05/03/2024

As a part of the 2024 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks ( ), Aid consultant Hope Harriet will engage in a hybrid panel discussion organized by the focusing on cultivating positive and lasting change towards championing protection from sexual exploitation and abuse ( ) and harassment. Hope will share the contributions of Empowered Aid in informing efforts led by and .

This event will take place on Tuesday May 7th, 2024, at 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CET/10:00 AM -11:30 AM EST in Geneva. Register for online or in-person attendance at: https://vosocc.unocha.org/Report.aspx?page=o0t9pExuBwObtDGIoS###plusmLRaL8k###plusD1Nio###slash###slashs8oIsthlK4qxRXGN###slashSIg###equal###equal

04/29/2024

📣 Upcoming Webinar: Conducting SEA Risk Assessments to Inform Priority SEA Risk Mitigation Measures

Join the Global Women's Institute’s team for a webinar series exploring and that support mitigating the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse ( ) as a way to make delivery safer and more accountable. In the second installment, we invite you to a moderated panel discussion on conducting risk assessments to identify risks for SEA in aid programming and inform measures to address these risks. We will hear about specific examples from GWI’s partner, Vision, on Empowered Aid activities in Jordan, and from the - UN Migration. Over the past five years, the Empowered Aid initiative has demonstrated how participatory methods can be used to understand and address risks of sexual exploitation and abuse in aid distributions. Visit empoweredaid.gwu.edu to access findings and resources including case studies, a helpdesk, and a free online course in 5 languages. The webinar will take place on Wednesday May 9, 2024 at 8am EDT/2:00 PM CEST/3 PM UTC+3 with panelists:

▫ Maha Al-Saudi, Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer, Vision Syria Response

▫ Ketevan (Kate) Kobaidze, Regional Strategy and Ministry Quality Director,

▫ Mariska De Keersmaecker, Project Manager, Protection from SEA and Sexual Harassment Unit, - UN Migration

The webinar will be moderated by Loujine Fattal () Empowered Aid MENA Research Consultant at The Global Women’s Institute. Register for the webinar at: https://bit.ly/3w5Idk0

04/24/2024

Tomorrow April 25: Join our colleagues
, , Young Black Professionals in International Affairs, and GW Leading Women of Tomorrow for this panel discussion. GWI is thrilled to co-sponsor!

RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8muZJse_b6GdBDZXA6ajyyX4nkIrfljQoP21_Ywg__pU3ZQ/viewform

04/09/2024

We are happy to invite you to join us for a webinar about our project "Putting Survivors at the Center" on April 11 at 0900 Eastern Time!

The Putting Survivors at the Center project is being implemented in partnership with in three countries (the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, and South Sudan).

The aim of the project is to develop new programming models that build the capacity of non-gender-based violence (GBV) organizations—which are defined as organizations that do not implement GBV response programs, and who are not specialized in GBV service provision—to receive disclosures from GBV survivors, meet survivors’ basic and immediate needs, and facilitate access between GBV survivors and response services in accordance with best practices and local realities.

We hope to see you on the 11th!

Register at https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NyXYdXSCT-CRig83To2ghg #/registration

04/09/2024

Today is the last day to RSVP for “Careers Advancing Gender Equity: Panel Discussion and Networking Reception!” Join us on April 17th, 4 to 6 pm.

RSVP form: https://forms.gle/5bcR8GkFcaa6x13w8

03/22/2024

An estimated 736 million women—1 in 3 women—have experienced violence in their lifetime, yet only a small fraction of the world’s governments directly fund gender-based violence prevention work in their national policies. We are urging national governments to allocate funding for proven, evidence-based, practice-informed GBV prevention initiatives.

Learn more:https://preventgbv.org/the-accelerator-for-gender-based-violence-prevention-open-letter-2024/

03/21/2024

📣Join the EmpoweredAid team at the Global Women's Institute and colleagues at KENYA in a joint dissemination webinar on March 27th from 3-4pm EAT / 8-9am EDT: Working to End Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and the Economic Exclusion of Women and Girls.

In this webinar, Fridah Wawira Nyaga, Acting Executive Director of COVAW, will share findings from their research on economic exclusion of women and girls in marginalised communities; and Hope Harriet, Empowered Aid lead consultant in East Africa, will share findings from our work adapting distributions based on refugee women and girls' recommendations in Dadaab, undertaken in partnership with World Vision Kenya.

Register for the webinar using the following link: https://bit.ly/3Pvg8Jm

03/20/2024

Drawing on her experience as a service provider and researcher at the Global Women's Institute, Alina Potts will discuss how the humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis addresses gender-based violence within Syria and among neighboring countries hosting Syrian refugees. She will share examples of participatory principles that can be used in programming and research to ensure that responses are designed in ways that center survivors and incorporate the knowledge and skills of Syrian women and girls.

This event is hosted by Dr. Nabila Hijazi, a Teaching Assistant Professor in the George Washington University Writing Program, for the UW 1020 course.

Zoom link to join: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/94144873143

03/08/2024

Happy International Women's Day 🌍💙 At GWI, we're dedicated to advancing gender equality and reducing violence and discrimination against women and girls. Today, we celebrate the resilience and strength of women and girls worldwide, reaffirming our commitment to turning research into action for a more equitable world. Join us in fostering a future where research has the power to transform lives. 🌟