2023 IASC Gender Accountability Framework report

This report marks the sixth and final monitoring cycle of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) 2017 “Policy on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in humanitarian action”. It provides a snapshot of the IASC’s output in the calendar year 2023 and allows for cross comparison with the baseline established with the 2018 Gender Accountability Framework (GAF) report and the subsequent 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 reports.

The annual GAF report is the only dedicated global monitoring mechanism in place to track implementation of gender commitments in humanitarian settings. The 2023 GAF report benefited from inputs provided by UN Women and OCHA offices operating in 26 crisis contexts on behalf of the respective humanitarian coordination bodies in place across these contexts. The steady improvement in quality of responses over the six years of this monitoring exercise suggests that there is growing awareness of and familiarity with the IASC gender policy.

This GAF report is the final report reviewing the IASC’s progress against the 2017 IASC gender policy and serves as an important opportunity to reflect on the progress as well as persistent challenges in implementing the commitments to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in humanitarian settings, as endorsed by the IASC in 2017.