Reducing violence through greater economic security.
Can Safety Nets Reduce Gender-Based Violence? How?
A growing body of evidence finds that cash transfers reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in various contexts, even when the cash transfer was not designed to do so. The effects are comparable with standalone violence-prevention interventions and consistent with various…
Addressing violence against women through social protection: a review of the evidence
Based on a phased scoping review of peer-reviewed academic and grey literature,1 which captured 48 articles focused on both social protection and gender-based violence, this policy brief brings the two fields together, to identify pathways for harnessing social protection to…
