Based on interviews with women-led organisations and gender and protection specialists worldwide, a literature review, and field research in Vanuatu and Malawi, the report identifies six core contributions of women responders: access, understanding, reach, raising women's voices and leadership, solidarity, and making interventions more gender transformative and sustainable. It explores the challenges faced by women responders and humanitarian actors; provides extensive examples of actions women take to mitigate and respond to protection risks faced by themselves and others, and the extent to which humanitarian actors currently collaborate with them; and includes a guidance note for practitioners and donors outlining detailed and practical recommendations for meaningful collaboration with women responders in protection programming.
- English version: Women responders
- French version: Les intervenantes