Whose voices matter? Using participatory, feminist and anthropological approaches to centre power and positionality in research on gender-based violence in emergencies

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Figure 1. Participants from the participatory action research workshop conducted in Lebanon used words and pictures to communicate their vision for the impact of the Empowered aid programme and to magnify their desired role in creating this impact. All photos taken and used with informed consent. Photo by: Alina Potts.

Figure 2. A South Sudanese adolescent girl living as a refugee in Uganda involved in the research presents her group's discussion on power, during the Research Reflection Workshops in Uganda. All photos taken and used with informed consent. Photo by: Alina Potts.

Figure 3. Example of body mapping exercise with South Sudanese adolescent girls living as refugees in Uganda, and a body map drawn by a Syrian adolescent girl in Lebanon who preferred to represent herself as an anime-like character. All photos taken and used with informed consent. Photo by: Alina Potts (above) and Loujine Fattal (below).

Figure 4. Empowered Aid Research Officer Farah Hallak reflects back thematic analyses of findings and recommendations for making aid distributions safer with the Syrian refugee women who generated them, during the Action Analysis Workshop with Refugee Women Researchers in Tripoli, Lebanon. All photos taken and used with informed consent. Photo by: Alina Potts.