What can we learn from civil society organizations on resiliency to crises ?

Hello everyone! I will be your moderator for this discussion in the first week. I am looking forward to hearing from you all on the 4 questions above. My name is Gemma and I am Knowledge Manager for the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women. Tell us what country you live or the context you are working, answer all 4 or just one of the questions. Share resources, chat and get to know one another. The UN Trust Fund also just published a paper on the impact of COVID-19 on prevention of violence, check it out and add your own resources.

Hi all, I'm Adina, Resource Mobilization and Reporting Specialist with the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. Looking forward to learning from your responses to the above! Even before question 4 above was proposed, we have been hearing from organizations about how donors can better support civil society and women's rights organizations - we've heard about the need of core and flexible funding (such as in this interview from SOAR in Nigeria: https://untrustfundevaw.medium.com/orangetheworld-engaging-communities-to-prevent-and-end-sexual-violence-against-girls-in-nigeria-d69b0795a637) and in this interview also learned about how funding has built resilience to address sexual violence against girls affected by crisis. Interested in hearing from other participants on their experiences.

Hello fellow SHINE members! My name is Danya, and I support the Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management team at the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. In reading the fascinating brief on the impact of COVID-19 on prevention of violence, I noticed that many civil society and women's rights organizations found it challenging to reach the women and girls involved in and impacted by their programmes and projects due to lockdown containment measures, as well as health risks. Some organizations decided to move their programming online, some did smaller group interventions to meet COVID-19 compliance measures, and others used community agents and activists to reach those women and girls that could not be reached by the organizations (due to issues with travel and access to communities). 

I would like to hear from other practitioners on their experience with adapting their programming and practice around COVID-19 lockdown measures, and what benefits or disadvantages these adaptions created. Thanks!

Salve a tutte e tutti, prima di lasciare il mio primo commento a questa discussione, volevo augurar una buona festa internazionale della donna a tutte quante! Mi chiamo Elimane e coordino le attivita di formazione mírate a organizzazioni non governative finanziate dal Fondo Fiduciario dele Nazioni Unite per mettere fine alla violenza sulle donne. Da anni ormai lavoro a stretto contatto con varie ONG che hanno a cuore questo tema. Vorrei rispondere alla domanda numero uno parlando della situazione attuale in Etiopia. Ultimamemente mi sono molto interessato alla crisi in Tigray e altre zone dell’Etiopia e dell’impatto della guerra su donne e ragazze che vivono nelle zone di guerra. Migliaia di donne, ragazze e bambine sarebbero vittime di stupri di guerra nella regione del Tigray. A denunciare il ricorso agli stupri come arma di guerra sono diverse associazioni sul territorio, ma anche ufficiali delle Nazioni Unite che parlano di stupri come mezzo per umiliare, terrorizzare e traumatizzare un’intera popolazione oggi e una generazione successiva domani. Purtroppo, il conflitto ha reso il COVID 19 una pandemia trascurata in Etiopia. Molte associazioni della societa civile hanno dovuto sospendere la loro assistenza umanitaria nelle zone di guerra per via dell’alta pericolosita o perche non hanno ricevuto l’ok da parte del governo ad accedere in zone dove sono necssari servizi essenziali per vittime di stupri di guerra. Nel caso ci fossero in questa piattaforma, sarei curioso di sapere come altre organizzazioni non governative siano riuscite in contesti di guerra al di la dell’Etiopia a fornire servizi essenziali a vittime di violenza sessuale. Sarei anche curioso di sapere come siano riuscite ad assicurare che il proprio personale potesse lavorare in sicurezza nonostante il conflitto in corso. Grazie mille, Elimane.

Hi, everyone! It's such a pleasure to engage with you here. I will be your moderator for the discussion in its second week. I very much look forward to hearing your insights on the 4 questions above. Please feel free to share any other thoughts you may have on this topic as well! My name is Mallorie, and I'm part of the Spotlight Initiative Secretariat. I focus on Knowledge Management, Capacity Development and provide technical support for the Spotlight Initiative. 

If you'd like to learn more about how the Spotlight Initiative has worked to strengthen the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in its efforts to end violence against women and girls, check out our knowledge brief here. 

I very much look forward to hearing from you this week!

Hello SHINE community! My name is Vesna Jaric and I cover the position of acting Chief of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. For 25 years the fund has been supporting civil society, especially women's right organizations to deliver life-saving, demand-driven initiatives to put an end and prevent violence against women and girls (EVAW/G). Navigating through various contextual challenges, including active and passive resistance to advancement of women's rights, backlash and shrinking spaces for civic activism, the CSOs/WROs' work on EVAW/G has never been a straightforward pathway to success in transformational change. COVID-19 has further exacerbated already existing challenges and difficult circumstances. On the one hand, the lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus correlated to the rise of violence against women and girls while in the same time the escape routes for survivors were dramatically reduced. CSOs/WROs supported by the UN Trust Fund registered an unprecedented increase in demand for support and services (in some cases more than 500% increase in calls to SOS helplines for survivors of violence). We've seen them clearly stepping in as first responders to survivors in a general context where the state systems (e.g. healthcare, social protection, law enforcement) were fully employed in COVID-19 public health crisis response. In that context, the UN Trust Fund recognized the life-saving role of CSOs/WROs and provided as much flexibility for programmatic adaptations as possible, along with the investment in their organizational resilience in the recognition of their essential role in preparedness for crises. A lesson learned that we can share with the donor community is that the investment in core and flexible funding allows for prompt adaptations to rapidly changing circumstances and supports the organizational stability which are key for effective delivery to survivors of violence. 

Hello fellow SHINERS - My name is Fiona and I am the Small Grants portfolio manager at the UN Trust Fund. Echoing what my colleague Vesna was saying, and in the interest of sharing more information on what the UN Trust Fund has been doing, I just wanted to highlight that we have been allocating funds for collective/self-care and core funding to small organizations since cycle 20 (2018) and recently introduced a 'contingency costs' budget line. Feel free to ask more about that if of interest. 

One of the findings from these initiatives, which also came across more clearly in recent months/years (exacerbated by pandemic) is that collective/self-care and ultimately resilience will look different depending on the context but has to be prioritized for any organization/entity to survive and thrive. Therefore, it is important for donors to keep an open mind about what these funds should go to.

The other thing that I would like to point out is that for many organizations, the question of resilience and survival isn't just something that comes up during "crises" and we must also acknowledge that what looks like an unprecedented crisis somewhere may well be another crisis somewhere else, aggravating preexisting structural/contextual challenges (recurring natural disasters, political instability, organized crime, racial discrimination, land access inequality, corruption, etc).  

While the pandemic had the 'merit' to put this topic on the table, it is important that it remains a priority for all, practitioners and donors alike. 

Hello there...my name is Daniele and I work with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Management team at the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. This week, I will be moderating the discussion, but also want to hear about you! So when responding/reflecting on the four questions above, please also share about yourself! Looking forward to the conversation :)

¡Hola comunidad SHINE! Mi nombre es Mildred Garcia R.  Soy la Gerente de Desarrollo de Capacidades y Operaciones del Fondo Fiduciario.  El tema de la adaptación programática y operativa es sumamente importante, sobre todo en el contexto de COVID y el cambio climático.  Durante la convención con nuestros socios desarrollada en el 2020, Katharine Flately, de la Iniciativa de los Derechos de la Mujer, una organización joven que trabaja en Guatemala, compartió su perspectiva sobre la importancia de invertir no solo en actividades programáticas, sino también en adaptaciones operativas para ser más eficaces. Ella dijo: "teníamos que asegurarnos de que después de que el proyecto estuviera terminado, pudiéramos mantener nuestro trabajo directamente con nuestros beneficiarios". Katharine también habló sobre cómo invertir en las operaciones de su organización, "nos permitió movilizar recursos y duplicar nuestro trabajo".

La creación de un cambio sostenible requiere sistemas operativos que garanticen capacidades sólidas para servir eficazmente a las mujeres y las niñas. ¿Qué adaptaciones operativas han realizado en su organización para responder a estos contextos cambiantes?

大家好！我是佳璐，现任职于联合国信托基金会，主要负责新的赠款管理系统的开发和运营。最近，我们结束了第 25 轮提案征集，收到了来自世界各地民间团体的资金申请。这也是我们第一次使用新的系统，这个过程非常令人兴奋，我也学到了很多东西。  

根据我的经验，COVID-19 的持续影响是巨大的，全球经济需要一段时间（甚至几年）才能完全恢复。由于大流行，许多人失去了工作，妇女和女童承担了更多的家务责任，也有更多女童失去了上学的机会。另一方面，一个人或一个家庭的财务对于谋生来说尤其重要，在这方面，我坚信民间社会组织可以做很多事情来支持有需要的妇女和女童。 

由于我主要从事技术方面的工作，因此在大流行期间，我更清楚地认识到技术和互联网的重要作用，它们也是任何组织持续运营，提供服务的关键。 

这场流行病也让我意识到，将知识和计算机技能传播给世界任何地方的任何人，是一件非常重要，非常有价值的事情。而且，我相信很多妇女和女童可以从技术和计算机技能中受益：女孩可以通过互联网获得学习机会，女性则可以获得工作机会。 

我也衷心希望可以在未来和大家一起努力，创造更平等的社会。 

1. La pandemia del COVID-19, no ha insidido en la violencia, lo que incidio en su crecimiento ha sido el aislamiento obligatorio, las mujeres y niñas padecian abuso fisico y sexual por parte de sus parejas y/o cuidadores y la cuarentena les impedia pedir ayuda o ser auxiliados.

2. Tenemos que adaptarnos al cambio, y las circunstancias, lamentablemente se ha tenido que esperar a que el gobierno levanate la cuarentana, el aislamaiento y restricciones para poder realizar una labor algo eficiente hacia las victimas y prevención y no perder el tiempo en lamentos y quejas

3. Se realizo una campaña de entrega de alimentos a personas vulnerables, que son las principales victimas de violencia; la campaña fue la estrategia para poder acceder a la vivienda y auxiliar a las victimas derivandolas a un centro de atención médica y en otros casos la adetención de agresor y abusador.

4. Nunca se ha recibido apoyo ni economico, ni material , nu muchos menos finaciamiento para realizar a labor en apoyo de las victimas lo realizamos con nuestros propios recursos porque queremos hacerlo, ayudar a salvar la vida de mujeres y niñas victimas de la violencia y abuso sexual. 

Well, everyone, time really does fly! Last week some new voices joined our discussion centring 'What we can learn from civil society organizations and their resiliency to crises for the prevention of violence against women and girls.' 

We heard from @Mildred Garcia-Rodriguez on the importance of programmatic and operational adaptations during times of crisis. We heard from @Jialu LI on the emerging technological needs of civil society organizations. And we heard from @Renato Jesús Nieto Ramos with reflections on adapting programs, scarcity of resourcing, access to services, and the realities isolation during lockdown measures. 

There is still time to ADD YOUR VOICE! What are you (your organisation) and your partners doing, adapting, facing as you navigate the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises in your context?

Hello fellow SHINE members - My name is Etsehiwot, a programme specialist at the UN Trust Fund. Looking forward to learning from all of you. I want to highlight one key challenge we are hearing from partners as they respond to COVID 19 and another crisis.

Mental health and staff wellness is a new frontier that partners are learning and navigating as they deal with COVID 19 and other crisis. Partners reported that in the past two years, their staff experienced increased anxiety and stress as well as increased workload pressure and demand amid rapid change and uncertainty, which required staff members to constantly interface with survivors of violence, beneficiaries, and partners whilst juggling their personal life experiences with the impact of the COVID 19.

We have also learned that some partners implemented capacity-building training on mental health and well-being wellness sessions for both beneficiaries and staff to help them recover and deal with mental health issues that arise from covid-19 and other individual stresses and unmet demands, which include increased health insurance coverage, in house counselling and peer to peer exchanges.

I would like to hear if other Practitioners are facing similar challenges and steps are taken so far.  

Bonjour SHINErs – ravie de vous e-rencontrer ! ? Je m'appelle Anna Nemirovsky et je travaille au Fonds d'affectation spéciale des Nations Unies pour l’élimination de la violence à l’égard les femmes. Cette discussion portant sur les crises et leur impact sur l’implémentation de programmes visant à éliminer la violence à l'égard des femmes, je souhaite reconnaître le travail incroyable que les organisations de la société civile et des droits des femmes accomplissent en ce moment même en Ukraine et dans toute autre région du monde affectée par le conflit. Parmi ces dernières, l'ONG "Club Eney", bénéficiaire d'une subvention du Fonds d'affectation spéciale des Nations unies, a adapté son travail pour continuer à aider les femmes et les filles les plus marginalisées en Ukraine : les femmes vivant avec le VIH, les femmes qui consomment des drogues, les femmes qui s'identifient comme des travailleuses du sexe et les femmes sans abri, dont beaucoup sont victimes de violence ou risquent de l'être. Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur l'impact disproportionné des crises sur la vie des femmes et des filles, et sur la réponse apportée par le projet, je vous recommande de regarder la déclaration de Vielta Parkhomenko, présidente de l'ONG "Club Eney". J'aimerais également connaître l'avis de celles et ceux d'entre vous qui travaillent, ont travaillé ou s'intéressent à la prévention et à l'élimination de la violence à l'égard des femmes et des filles dans les zones touchées par les conflits. N'hésitez pas à répondre directement dans les commentaires !

Hi everyone and thank you to all who shared their thoughts and experience on the topic of Resiliency to Crises! 

My name is Amélie, I work as a Research Assistant for the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, and I will welcome your contributions this week. 

Last February, the UN Trust Fund held a webinar on Adaptative Programming to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls where Dr. Erin Stern, external researcher, shared her findings on this thematic based on the experience shared by practitioners. Two civil society organisations participated as panelists: Beyond Borders (Haiti) who shared how community mobilization was key to adapt without leaving anyone behind and SIHA (South Sudan) explained their strategies in place to continue raising awareness while taking into consideration increasing challenges brought by the pandemic. 

And you, what has been the impact of COVID-19 and other crises on your context and your work? 

I also want to remind everyone that instant translation is available by clicking on the symbol  at the top right of your screen.  

Xin chào các đồng nghiệp và cộng sự! Tôi là Diệp, hiện công tác về truyền thông và vận động tại Quỹ ủy thác LHQ.

Tôi muốn chia sẻ một số kinh nghiệm nghe được từ các tổ chức xã hội dân sự ở Việt Nam trong bối cảnh COVID-19, đặc biệt là từ các hội nhóm hoạt động vì quyền của người LGBTIQ+ và về hoạt động phòng chống HIV/AIDS. Khi đỉnh điểm COVID, nhiều nhóm phụ nữ chuyển giới đã mất việc làm do lệnh cấm đi lại (công việc chủ yếu có thể là buôn bán nhỏ, các gánh sạp hàng nhỏ, làm shipper hoặc là mại dâm), vì thế mà nhiều người mất nhà cửa do không có thu nhập, hoặc bị khách hàng lợi dụng tấn công. Ở Việt Nam hiện chưa có luật hướng dẫn để người chuyển giới có thể thay đổi giới tính trên giấy tờ, nên họ gặp nhiều khó khăn hơn. Các mạng lưới chuyển giới nữ đã rất nhanh chóng kêu gọi từ thiện để hỗ trợ nhu yếu phẩm và hỗ trợ một chút tiền trong thời điểm khó khăn.

Đối với hoạt động của các nhóm quần thể đích, việc tiếp cận hoặc đảm bảo điều trị theo phác đồ cũng gặp khó khăn khi họ không được di chuyển để đến chỗ cấp thuốc (chỉ được nhận thuốc mỗi 3 tháng, tùy nơi) do cấm đi lại mà mọi người biết đối với người đang sử dụng ARV vì việc dùng thuốc liên tục quan trọng thế nào rồi đấy! Trong những trường hợp này, các mạng lưới quần thể trong cộng đồng thường kết nối với nhau để "cho vay" thuốc hoặc hỗ trợ kịp thời các sản phẩm đảm bảo tình dục an toàn, hoặc các dịch vụ hỗ trợ khi gặp phải bạo lực.

Hiện nay khi COVID đã vãn hơn ở Việt Nam thì các nhóm hoạt động tại cộng đồng vẫn luôn luôn hiện diện và đóng vai trò quan trọng trong việc hỗ trợ kịp thời những trường hợp yếu thế đặc biệt là với các nhóm mà khó liên lạc và không sử dụng công nghệ thông tin tốt. Rất mong muốn được kết nối với mọi người!

I'm working as the Programme Manager for International Solidarity Foundation (ISF). ISF is based in Finland and operates currently in Kenya and Somaliland to prevent VAWG (particularly FGM) and to promote women's livelihood resilience. We mainly implement through local partners. Currently, one of our FGM projects in Somaliland is funded by the UN Trust Fund (2020-22). I hereby share a brief input reg. Q2/how we adapted to COVID-19, considering our core EVAWG work consists of face-to-face grassroots awareness raising:

During the lockdown, ISF partners and other local CSOs were trained and equipped to use Zoom and Teams to maintain communications with key stakeholders. We piloted and intensified utilization of digital channels (such as bulk SMS, interactive voice response, WhatsApp and Facebook live) to reach out to target communities. In the rural/remote villages of Somaliland where the reach of the aforementioned channels is poor, we introduced vehicle-based awareness raising, merging EVAWG messages with COVID-19 awareness messages. In our Kenyan target communities, traditional media was increasingly used to replace face-to-face meetings. ISF partners broadcasted interactive radio shows that reached 5 million people, an average of 450,000 people per show. 

Action was also taken to respond to the acute needs raised by the pandemic. Over 18,000 households received protective gear and soap, and 1,000 most vulnerable households received one-month food supplies. This action saved lives but also helped the project team to sustain connection with the target communities, and thereby keep the project operational. 

You know,  violation againt women and no respect of their rights is for a long time and concerned multidimensionnelle aspects: culture, tradition, education, religious, poverty, ignorance, men egocentrism, inequality, lack of international convention domestication and respect.

Covid-19 comes to amplify poverty which is the main discrimination factor of violence against women and girls.

Exceptionally re-opening the discussion to post one last message from Shpresa Banja   from Woman Forum Elbasan, Albania: 

"Because of the isolation caused by Covid 19, WFE staff quickly adapted all the services to be closer the beneficiaries. The telephone numbers of the psychologist, social worker and the layer became visible in the social media platforms. On WFE web site throughout the pandemic situation, has been distributed online information and messages against domestic violence and how help can be sought if you are abused. In addition of the official telephone number of WFE were also made available the telephone numbers of the employees presented above, to all the women and girls who needed help.

During this period, apart from the means of communication that were active such as the telephone number, Messenger and WhatsApp of WFE, everything was already done online; psychologic and legal counselling, but also the issues of their basic needs for survival (food, etc). The immediate loss of jobs increased poverty among women and girls by not being able to provide the living conditions and pay the rent od the apartment where they lived.

The challenge was the lack of information and contact that the abused women/girls didn’t have enough space (opportunity) to contact us because their abusers were always present in the family premises. Being 24/24 with the perpetrator as a result of the isolation, led to an increase in cases of violence against women and their children.

From March 10 2020 to June 10 2020, the work of the court and other legal institutions was suspended, developing only emergency cases such as Immediate Protection Order (IPO) or Protection Order (PO). This situation led to delays in adjudicating cases that were open in court for the WFE beneficiaries, mainly marriage resolution. Women/girls with IPO or PO continued living in the same house with the abuser.

As a result of measures taken by the government for Covid 19, were released from the detention many abusers of the WFE beneficiaries who returned to live in the same house with the victim, making the living conditions of violence survivors very difficult.

There were not enough open shelters for women. Due to the pandemic situation, shelters didn’t meet the conditions of quarantine and social distance protection in accordance with the protocols issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, where the shelter managed by Women Forum Elbasan was also in the same conditions.

The closure of public and non-public institutions to come to the aid of the various needs of the survivors of the violence, was another negative factor. Furthermore, the need of protection measures for the staff and violence survivors, the need for disinfectants, gloves and masks was another factor that affected negatively or hampered the work of WFE staff. It is necessary to have an emergency fund in every project of NGO to cope with such situations where protection measures were a necessity in this period.

We ascertain in this post-Covid situation, an increase in cases of assisting women and their children not only with violent problems, but also with increased anxiety, panic and mental health problems (a double number of assisted cases compared to one year ago). Improper implementation of the legislation by public institutions is mainly causing the violence increase to alarming proportions.
Specifically, many women work in the black. In the situation we went through, women still didn’t benefit from the assistance provided by the Albanian government as they do not appear in the list of the people who are insured or pay monthly health and social insurance. What does the state inspectorate do when it has the duty to check every company for the number of people employed, for the payment of monthly health and social insurance, if they are paid with the minimum level of payment set by the government and don’t declare it. In fact, they are paid less than that.

During the Covid period the employees that were fired massively, were women and girls. Where is the legislation in force that shows that we are legally equal, women and men? According to the legislation, each municipality should have a coordinator or an employee who covers domestic violence. We ascertain that out from 61 municipalities in Albania, not even ½ of them don’t have such a position. Specifically in the Region of Elbasan out of seven municipalities, only two of them have an employee who performs only this function.

On the other hand, this structure must be engaged 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as violence occurs at any time of the day and night. We ascertain that after 4pm the official schedule of the Municipality, these employees do not answer the phone when the survivor presents herself to the police for IPO/PO and the police, according to the legislation, rightly informs her about the case. Legally the coordinator is the main person that every violence case should be related to, and is the duty of the coordinator to accompany the survivor wherever he/she needs, to the police, to different NGO, to the hospital, etc.

According to the legislation in force, each municipality has a mechanism for coordinating violence cases, consisting of:

1. Steering Committee
2. Local Coordinator
3. Interdisciplinary Technical Team

According to the legislation in force, the Steering Committee must meet not less than once every three months to analyze and make decisions on cases of violence. The last DCM is in force for about a year and there are still municipalities that have not yet held any meeting (DCM No. 327 dated 02.06.2021).

Something different is the situation with ETN that collects and analyzes every difficult case.

According to law no. 125/2020 for some additions and changes in law no. 9669, dated 18.12.2006 ¨for measures against domestic violence¨, as amended, states: The court, as a protection measure of domestic violence, immediately orders the abuser to leave the apartment for a certain period of time, when the victim and the abuser live in the same shelter. While the court is almost implementing it in every case, the responsible state structures (mainly the police and the municipality) do not implement it, saying where can we take the perpetrator, we can’t leave him on the street. On the other hand, there is nothing yet for the rehabilitation of the perpetrators or the rendering of services.

On the other hand, politics and the media are playing a very negative role in generating domestic violence. The way they communicate is a very bad model for the community that degenerates into domestic violence."

Contribution from Milagros (Paz y Esperanza): 

1. Cuál es el impacto continuo de la pandemia de COVID-19 y otras crisis en su contexto sobre: ​​(a) formas específicas de violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas (está empeorando, intensificándose)? (b) en su programa para prevenir la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas (¿se ha estancado la programación, se ha adaptado)? (c) sobre la capacidad de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil para mantener sus operaciones? 

La pandemia del COVID 19 ha impactado fuertemente en las mujeres y niñas con discapacidad en diferentes formas por ejemplo en su sustento diario ya que muchas de ellas tenían pequeños negocios y con el confinamiento tuvieron que cerrar.

Por otro lado, la salud mental de las beneficiarias empeoro ya que el confinamiento, la enfermedad y muertes cercanas las hizo entrar en cuadros depresivos y no les permitió concentrarse en capacitaciones.

Las beneficiarias mujeres y niñas con discapacidad no pudieron acceder con facilidad a los medios virtuales ya que no contaban con equipos con cobertura de internet ni planes de datos.

El confinamiento hizo que permanecieran más tiempo con sus agresores, expuestas, fueron pocos los servicios de protección abiertos para hacer denuncias.

Igualmente, las mujeres con discapacidad cuándo empezaron a salir se sentían desvalidas ya que las personas no las apoyaban por ejemplo en su desplazamiento por temor al contagio.

Nuestra institución tomo la decisión de implementar los programas en línea y para ese efecto se doto de tablets y celulares con el apoyo del Fondo para lideresas con discapacidad, así como de planes de datos para poder generar espacios virtuales, simultáneamente capacitamos una a una para que puede acceder a estos espacios.

El proyecto no se atrasó ya que se modificó las actividades y se redirecciono el financiamiento a bonos económicos para la compra de alimentos y materiales de protección, todo esto fue de gran ayuda.

Los equipos transitaron a la virtualidad como testimonio de ello adjuntamos una pequeña sistematización respecto a nuestra experiencia.

2. ¿Cómo se ha adaptado su equipo/sociedad civil a estas crisis, ya sea (a) programáticamente y/o (b) operativamente/organizacionalmente? 

Creo que hubo bastante capacidad de respuesta de parte de las instituciones y colectivos de sociedad civil, quienes transitaron rápidamente al uso de los medios virtuales, tuvimos mucho personal que enfermo dentro de las instituciones y dentro del proyecto lo que nos llevó a atenderlos con los recursos que tuvimos a nuestro alcance.

La virtualidad y el uso de las tecnologías digitales ha sido muy importante para la sociedad civil, creo que llego para quedarse y facilitarnos algunos espacios de reuniones y coordinaciones. 
 

3. ¿Puede compartir algún ejemplo específico, incluidos desafíos clave, lecciones y conclusiones útiles? Siéntase libre de incluir enlaces a recursos, sitios web, etc.

             En esos momentos era muy importante el apoyo del personal del equipo a las mujeres con discapacidad, así como  de las psicólogas a cargo, cada día recibíamos varias llamadas de las beneficiarias contándonos que                        enfermo su familia, que falleció, su papá, sus hermanos, su mamá, que el Ministerio de Salud quería llevarse el retirar el cuerpo de su familiar, todo fue lleno de mucha angustia y desconcierto, nosotros nos encargamos de dar el soporte a cada una de ellas para ayudarlas a transitar las situaciones que les tocaba vivir que eran simultaneas a las que nosotras pasábamos cada día en casa. En la virtualidad las acompañamos y nos acompañaron para poder pasar los momentos más difíciles de nuestras vidas.

4. ¿Qué recursos y/o apoyo (financiero y no financiero) se necesitan de donantes, donantes, formuladores de políticas y otros socios para sostener la programación y las operaciones de la sociedad civil para la resiliencia frente a futuras crisis?

Apoyo emocional para los equipos que deben prestar apoyo a los beneficiarios en momentos de crisis. Fondos para alimentación y aseo que fueron muy importantes en medio de la crisis Fondos para la compra de equipos con la finalidad de conectar a las mujeres con discapacidad de manera virtual Acompañamiento de los donantes en momentos de crisis.

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