Identify ways to address cross cutting issues
Cross-cutting issues are important topics to be taken into account in humanitarian response although they are usually not a direct focus of the response. Common cross-cutting issues include gender, environment, disability, age. Their respective priority varies depending on context. Markers have been developed by donors to fosters the inclusion of gender or environment into partners' proposal, and included in the tools of this page.
The sector coordination platform is responsible to "Identify and find solutions for (emerging) gaps, obstacles, duplication and cross-cutting issues" (2015 IASC Cluster Coordination Reference Module.pdf). Cluster partners also made the commitment to "Commitment to mainstream key programmatic cross-cutting issues (including age, gender, environment and HIV/AIDs)" ("2007 GHP Principles of partnership.pdf")