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Contingency plan A contingency plan put in its simplest terms is a snapshot of a humanitarian partner’s capacities and approaches to meet the immediate needs of affected communities during the early phases of an emergency. Contingency planning is a tool to anticipate and solve problems that typically arise during humanitarian response.1
Role of GBV coordination group2 in inter-agency contingency planning
● Defines how different agencies that are sub-cluster members will work together to achieve sector-specific objectives in a COVID-19 response.
● The coordination group’s contingency plan provides the overarching framework for GBV actors to deliver a response together. It may be part of an inter-agency plan of the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in cluster contexts3, a United Nations Country Team (UNCT)-led exercise or part of another inter-agency contingency planning framework in countries where the humanitarian response is led by government disaster coordination structures.
● A GBV coordination group’s contingency plan is distinct but complementary to individual organisation’s contingency plans, which describe how organisations will deliver their programmatic response.
● In many cases, OCHA, the UNCT or a national disaster risk reduction and management agency will provide the scenarios for the contingency planning exercise to ensure there is consistency in the planning across all the clusters of the response. In the case of COVID19, it is important to clarify the specific planning assumptions and phases/risk-level of the COVID-19 response that are relevant for your areas of coverage for the GBV response.
● The contingency plan provides detailed information about what combined resources and capacities are available from all the GBV coordination partners; and maps out a collective and specific plan for which organisation will do what during the anticipated crisis.
● The contingency plan should identify gaps in preparedness and identify ways to address the gaps.
● The coordination group should engage in resource mobilization to implement the preparedness actions in the plan.
● Apply a human rights-based approach in the planning of the GBV response throughout the cycle of the COVID-19 response.
● Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls should remain at the heart of the planning process and implementation of a response.
● The Protection Cluster may develop a more detailed contingency plan, which integrates or references the GBV coordination group’s planning.
● Other clusters will also develop contingency planning documents, which may require technical advice or support to integrate GBV risk mitigation
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