The Womanitarian project - Solomon Islands

"The Womanitarian Project is a comprehensive response to Outcome 3 of the Global Acceleration Instrument (GAI) – ensuring that women and girls affected by crisis lead, participate in and benefit from relief and response efforts. With the support of GAI funds, Oxfam will develop an innovative and sustainable model of engaging women’s civil society organisations, and mainstreaming gender into humanitarian response in Solomon Islands, which can be expanded to other locations in the future. A ‘womanitarian’ is a woman who is capable and willing to respond in times of disaster. Womanitarians are ordinary women, of all ages and walks of life, who have a deep understanding of their community needs and an innate sense of concern for the protection of vulnerable people, including women, children and people with disabilities. Oxfam believes that resourcing and mobilising a critical mass of womanitarians is the key to gender sensitive and protection focused humanitarian response in Solomon Islands."