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This document presents a quick fact sheet on gender-based violence in Yemen and UNFPA’s response. UNFPA is one of the UN's lead agencies working to further gender equality and women’s empowerment, and to address the physical and emotional consequences of gender-based violence. UNFPA’s programmes offer psychosocial assistance, medical treatment and rape kits to survivors, and promote the right of all women and girls to live free of violence and abuse. Crisis settings – affecting many Arab countries today - generally increase women’s vulnerability and makes them more likely to become victims of gender-based violence.

This document presents the report of number of research initiatives, carried out by Mercy Corps, which have tested the underlying hypotheses which orient social cohesion and stability programming in Lebanon. These assessments assume increased tensions over access to social and municipal services lead to violence; however, they rarely try to understand in more detail how tensions correlate with disputes and violence, or try to understand whether access to different types of services or opportunities has any impact an individual’s propensity to use violence. In order to understand this dynamic in more detail, Mercy Corps carried out a survey of 2,437 households in eight municipalities in North of Lebanon. This survey sought to identify when physical violence occurs – understanding that not all tensions manifest as disputes,1 and not all disputes escalate into violence – in order to better test the assumption that increased tensions over social service provision will lead to violence. As a result of this survey, Mercy Corps recommends that social cohesion programmes should deploy a mixture of social services, livelihoods, and social interactions, rather than maintaining the status quo of overwhelming (in terms of allocation of programmatic resources) focus on social service provision. In particular, Mercy Corps recommends increasing investment in employment as the most effective way to promote stability in Lebanon, in communities with high numbers of refugees. The data shows that Lebanese households with no or limited livelihood options and those with poor economic outlooks for the future correlate with being more prone to use violence, while there was no such correlation between social service access and violence.

This document presents an article on ending female_genital_ mutilation_in_Egyp. According to this article, in order to combat and end FGM in Egypt within the next generation, the Egyptian government, including the Ministry of Health must enforce standing laws that outlaw FGM and increase severity of punishment for health care workers and traditional practitioners caught committing FGM, mobilize awareness campaigns through public service announcements, specifically through the “Results are the same” campaign, fund community programs for adults and reform education curriculum to include a health program in schools and community centers that educates individuals about their sexual and reproductive health and rights, explains the physical and psychological health risks of FGM, and dispels myths associated with the practice.; and Advocate for marriage pacts among communities that no longer wish to practice FGM, so as to safeguard girls’ and women’s marriageability

This document presents an assessment on Jordanian And Syrian Refugee Women's Labour Force Participation and Attitudes Towards Employment. Through this assessment, UN Women, in collaboration with REACH, seeks to ensure that the realities and needs of Syrian and Jordanian women are better understood and adequately taken into account in the growing livelihoods sector in Jordan. The ultimate aim is to contribute to a gender-sensitive evidence-base to guide large-scale livelihood initiatives which are currently under development and will be rolled out in the coming years.

This document presents in brief Women's Access to Basic Services in Irbid and Zarqa Governorates. The influx of Syrians in Jordan since the beginning of the Syrian crisis has resulted in increasingly scarce resources, overburdened infrastructure, and growing competition for livelihoods. Currently, development and humanitarian stakeholders have little access to data on how women and girls are impacted by these challenges.