Women and girls know what makes aid unsafe — and how to fix it. Yet too often, their perspectives are absent from the systems meant to serve them.
On June 6, World Vision, the Global Women’s Institute, and local partners will host Empowered Aid: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Tools to Reduce the Risk of Sexual Exploitation. This webinar, part of the Global Evaluation Initiative’s Global Evaluation Week, will spotlight how refugee women and girls in Lebanon, Jordan, and Uganda worked as co-researchers to identify risks of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and test the solutions they proposed.
From redesigning aid distribution at the household level to increasing the number of women aid workers, these community-driven approaches have not only improved perceptions of safety and recipient satisfaction but also created a roadmap for scaling participatory monitoring to other humanitarian contexts.
Speakers include World Vision’s DME Specialist Nigusu Zelelke, Syria Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer Maha Al-Saudi, and GWI Research Scientist Alina Potts, who will share the model, tools, and lessons learned. Together, they will demonstrate how integrating lived experience and implementation science can transform humanitarian aid into systems that prioritize safety, accountability, and dignity.
