Introduction to Gender Equality in Humanitarian Action and Fragile Contexts
November 2025
The impact of crises on people's lives, experiences and material conditions varies according to gender. Humanitarian aid activities can reinforce or reduce existing inequalities.
In order to ensure needs-based, effective and live-saving humanitarian assistance (and development projects in fragile context), consideration of gender aspects is inevitable. In recent years, institutional donor agencies have required gender-mainstreaming and gender-markers when developing humanitarian (as well as development/nexus) projects, but gender mainstreaming, gender-targeted and feminist approaches have also increasingly been criticized as ideology. It remains important to understand how gender aspects play a role in crises or fragile context, and to put this knowledge into practice in design and implementation of a project.
The aim of the training is to provide key approaches and practical tools that can lead to meeting the immediate needs of women, men, girls and boys affected by natural disasters and humanitarian conflict in a way that also addresses the underlying causes of people's vulnerability, particularly as a result and cause of gender inequality.
(Members of ADH Organizations can apply for fee reimbursement. Please check within your organizations regarding the internally announced procedure.)
You will learn
understanding of the influence of gender inequality on people's vulnerability, how it shapes the impact of disasters and conflicts
key approaches and practical tools to address gender-based needs in disasters and conflicts, e.g. Rapid Gender Analysis, Gender Mainstreaming, and Women’s Participation
introduction to gender-markers and its application
practical examples of integrating gender-empowering measures into humanitarian projects
insight into current political debates about gender in humanitarian and transitional aid in Germany
Target group
Staff of humanitarian (and development) organisations, with or without gender focus, as well as graduates of relevant disciplines
Schedule
Day 1
Introduction, why gender equality matters
Rapid Gender Analysis
Gender Markers
How to enable gender in humanitarian action
Isadora Quay, CEO of the Gender in Emergencies Group
Lecturer
Isadora Quay is from Scotland and Australia. She is the CEO of the Gender in Emergencies Group. She created Rapid Gender Analysis, founded Women Lead in Emergencies, led the development of the first organisation-specific Gender Marker, and led the work the RGA qualitative data app called Fatima Light. She is an associate professor on Gender in Humanitarian Action at Sciences Po in Paris.
Carla Dietzel
Lecturer
Carla Dietzel has been Gender Advocacy Manager at CARE Deutschland e.V. since January 2021. Her focus is on sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as gender-based violence in fragile contexts and crises and feminist development policy. Carla Dietzel is the co-speaker of the working group on gender of VENRO, the umbrella organisation of German development and humanitarian NGOs.
Previously, she worked as a Gender Mainstreaming expert for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Cameroon and for the NGO Save the Children. She has also worked in health and gender programmes in Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa.
Carla Dietzel studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and Economics in Berlin and Paris.
200,00€
11.11.2025 - 12.11.2025
14 hours of training
Catering included
Maximum of 16 attendees
Location
This training is organized by Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V.