IASC GenCap Project Peer to Peer Support

The IASC Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap), an interagency initiative created in 2007, seeks to facilitate and strengthen capacity and leadership of humanitarians to undertake and promote gender equality programming to ensure the distinct needs of women, girls, boys and men of all ages are taken into account in humanitarian action at global, regional and country levels. The Norwegian Refugee Council was seeking a Senior GenCap Advisor to act as peer support for deployed GenCap Advisors.

Universalia was contracted to provide the services of a Senior GenCap Advisor, Christine Ouellette, to provide peer support to newly deployed GenCap Advisors in their designated roles and support them to implement the different phases of the GenCap Project’s mandate in line with the Project’s Theory of Change and Strategic Framework. The IASC Senior GenCap Advisor assisted deployed experts in skills building and problem solving and coached them to carry out their activities. This included providing a clear work plan and timeline for the newly deployed GenCap Advisors’ work, developing a Power Map of the key stakeholders in the Advisors’ operations, regular check-ins with the Advisors, and preparing an end of mission report with learning and recommendations.