Diversity and Leadership in the COVID-19 Response”.

[madhumita sarkar]

I seek your views on the following: 

1. Importance of diverse leadership teams in achieving improved outcomes

2.Opportunities for promoting intersectional women’s leadership and women’s decision-making power in humanitarian action

3.Suggest recommendations to advance sector-wide action to improve inclusion within humanitarian institutions.

[Sara Niner]

My colleagues at Monash University have written this which might be of help: https://lens.monash.edu/@celebrating-influential-women/2021/03/08/1...

[madhumita sarkar]

Thank you Sara, a very useful brief. 

[madhumita sarkar]

Thank you Shamsha, I will go through the brief you have provided, could we fix a time to speak on this tomorrow? does 3 pm India time work for you? we can speak on skype. madhumita28.

cheers

[Yulia Immajati]

Hi Madhumita Sarkar.... just a small add on what have been raised by others in here re the increased women   vulnerability to domestic violence due to the pandemic. As for the economic impacts, there have been some works already conducted by the World Bank, UN Women, ILO and other relevant international organizations. One of the key issue that you may touch upon is on women leadership and participation in Small and Micro Enterprises where women form the majority of both business owners and workers. This can be of particular concern due to the true fact that women are the backbones of family coping strategies through their SMEs. This can be part of no (2)  re opportunities for promoting intersectional women's leadership and women's decision making power in humanitarian action. The Economic empowerment is key for women leadership in humanitarian action, especially in linking relief and rehabilitation actions. This is also bearing in mind that the pandemic hits not only health but also economy. Good luck for your program. Kind regards. Yulia

[madhumita sarkar]

Thank you Yulia,

you have raised an extremely important issue, i shall use this in my presentation. 

Madhumita

[Rituu B Nanda]

Thanks a lot Sara, Shamsa and Yulia for your quick response to Madhumita.

[Sanjukta Moorthy]

Hello Madhumita, 

Thanks for your post - I've done some internal trainings on the first and tangentially, second questions. Would be happy to share some ideas and insights. Let me know if you still need any help! 

Sanjukta 

[madhumita sarkar]

Yes please do share your thoughts. Sanjukta, what are your thoughts on

importance of financing and accountability for promoting women and leadership and more equitable decision-making structures.

 I do see in humanitarian situations many women led organisations cannot participate because fo poor funding and also those working for organisations cannot continue because of poor policies. 

any thoughts on this??

thanks

Madhumita

[Rituu B Nanda]

Hi Madhumita,

Preparing the local community is very imp so that they can respond immediately and not wait for outsiders. i recall in our work in a fishing community which was flood, women kept grains as a reservoir 

Let team in the community emerge organically at the same time ensure it is representative. I have used Constellation's SALT approach to build cohesive teams in communities.

Here is a story of what communities in Himachal did during COVID for better health as we were working with them on diabetes and hypertension. https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/everyone-is-a-leader....

All the best for your presentation.

[madhumita sarkar]

Thanks a Lot Rituu , extremely grateful to this forum...

Madhumita

[Rachel Wareham]

Dear Madhumita

These is a collection of documents related to COVID-19 and humanitarian response which also cover inclusion and leadership. Please check on GBVAOR below.

Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (gbvaor.net)

[madhumita sarkar]

Thank you Rachel.