Background
Gashbun Organization for over 10 years has been working through its mandate to promote women’s equal participation and leadership in ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, eradicating poverty and violence against women and children , protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, catalyzing gender equality, protecting child rights, providing services to children with special needs, improving access to health and education, driving peaceful coexistence, reconciliation and equal and fair pathways to justice, building trust, tolerance, and inclusion, engaging youth, and strengthening sustainability of civil society, and shaping norms for localization development.
GASHBUN strives to achieve its mission by providing beneficiaries with the information, resources, and support necessary to enjoy their rights and achieve their potential. Through this effort, we aim to improve the quality of life for women and individuals with disabilities and promote a more inclusive society.
In partnership with local, regional, and global civil society, international organizations, and governmental bodies, GASHBUN has been able to successfully contribute towards meeting individual and community needs through multi-sectorial holistic programming that fosters gender and protection mainstreaming. During its experience GASHBUN has successfully delivered many humanitarian and development initiatives focused on local, regional, and global advocacy, providing protection services to children with special needs, women protection and empowerment, stabilization and reconciliation, peace building, general protection, child protection, SGBV prevention and response, psychological MHPSS and physical health and well-being, non-formal education, individual and community capacity building, cash assistance, , and civil society and governmental capacity building and engagement initiatives.
As a national and regional expert in holistic individual, family and community economic, education, protection, social, and equal participation empowerment, GASHBUNs efforts have shed light locally through advocacy on many important issues such as protection from sexual exploitation and abuse PSEA, mainstreaming gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response across all sectors, sexual violence in conflict (SVC), and other issued related to marginalized groups rights in Iraq through initiatives that directly impact hundreds of families though provision of lifesaving support and developmental dignified solutions and services that drive individual and collective healing, integration, inclusion, self-resiliency, self-efficacy, self-determination, and peaceful coexistence with dignity and care.
Project description
Gashbun NGO in partnership with International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) developed by UHNCR supported by Interagency PSEA Community Outreach and Communication Fund” Gashbun organization through granting a fund for the project of protection from sexual exploitation and abuse PSEA. The project is implemented in Dohuk governorate including refugees, internally displaces people IDPs and host community providing outreach community member and awareness, capacity building for service providers, advocacy and supporting survivors through organizing meetings, taskforces and PSEA network.