IASC Gender Accountability Framework
Tracking progress on commitments to gender equality in humanitarian action
The Inter Agency Standing Committee Gender Accountability Framework report tracks progress on commitments to gender equality in humanitarian action across humanitarian coordination and response systems.
Along with global monitoring updates, country snapshots show results in each participating crisis context, from gender analysis and planning to women's leadership, localization and financing. The report’s findings are clustered into four dimensions to show the areas where progress is being made, where gaps persist, and how gender accountability is reflected across planning, inclusion, coordination, leadership, capacity and financing.
What are the four dimensions of gender accountability in humanitarian action?
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1. Gender-responsive planning and implementation
Are humanitarian plans and programmes informed by gender analysis, disaggregated data and risk mitigation?
This dimension looks at whether humanitarian actors collect and use sex- and age-disaggregated data, apply gender analysis in response planning, design gender-responsive needs assessments, maintain cluster-level gender expertise, and integrate GBV risk mitigation measures into programme implementation.
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2. Meaningful inclusion, localization and financing
Are crisis-affected women and women-led organizations meaningfully included in decision-making, coordination and financing?
Meaningful inclusion means ensuring that crisis-affected women and girls, local women-led organizations and women’s rights organizations can influence humanitarian priorities, participate in coordination structures, and access the resources needed to sustain their work.
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3. Gender in humanitarian action working groups and coordination
Are Gender in Humanitarian Action working groups connected to the coordination and planning processes where decisions are made?
This area measures whether GiHA working groups are functional, inclusive of women-led organizations, connected to clusters and sectors, and engaged in key planning processes.
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4. Leadership, capacity, and accountability
Do humanitarian leaders and institutions have the capacity and accountability systems needed to follow through on gender commitments?
This dimension examines whether humanitarian settings have sustained senior advisory capacity, whether HCT gender strategies include concrete action on WLO engagement, and whether system-wide mechanisms such as EDG/P2P missions and follow-up to GAF recommendations reinforce implementation of the IASC Gender Policy.
Key insights from the 2025 report
Strong foundation for GiHA coordination
86% of reporting humanitarian settings had a functional Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group in 2024. These groups provided an important platform for keeping gender priorities visible in coordination spaces and supporting engagement with women-led organizations.
Women-led organizations are increasingly represented
73% of HCTs had at least one women-led organization or network holding a seat. The report also notes that all countries with GiHA Working Groups in place reported WLO/WRO membership in those groups.
Progress in gender-responsive planning
84% of HNRPs used sex- and age-disaggregated data in at least 75% of sectors or clusters, and 79% of joint or multi-cluster needs assessments were designed and conducted in a gender-responsive manner.
Gender expertise makes a difference
64% of reporting humanitarian settings had gender in humanitarian technical advisory capacity in place for at least nine months. The report notes that countries with sustained gender advisory capacity achieved stronger average results across the framework than countries without it.
Financing gaps remain significant
Only 11% of CBPF allocations went to women-led organizations, and only 13% of direct CBPF recipients were local women-led organizations. This points to continued barriers in ensuring that humanitarian financing reaches local women’s organizations.
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How was the data collected?
The report is produced by the IASC Gender Reference Group (GRG). Data collection is carried out through a localized, country-led process steered by Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Groups, or equivalent coordination structures. In the latest reporting cycle, 485 individuals from 201 organizations contributed inputs and analysis across 22 crisis contexts.
At the global level, UN Women leads the process on behalf of the GRG, with support from a dedicated working group of GRG member agencies [enter names].
The Gender Accountability Framework dashboard is based on annual monitoring of selected indicators linked to the IASC Gender Policy. The 2024 results draw on reporting from humanitarian settings, country-level consultations and global data sources included in the 2024 IASC Gender Accountability Framework Report.
The framework is intended to support collective reflection, identify gaps and strengthen accountability for gender equality in humanitarian action. Results should be interpreted alongside the qualitative analysis and country-specific findings contained in the full report.
