population / Women and girls
Evidence Syntheses
Guidance for DFID Country Offices on Preventing and Responding to VAW and VAC
This is a brief guidance note prepared by DFID of the UK Government to inform their country offices on the intersections between violence against women...
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Evidence Syntheses
Bridging the Gaps: A Global Review of Intersections of Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children
This article presents a review of evidence on intersections between violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC)—including sexual violence by non-partners. It especially...
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Journal Articles
Towards a Feminist Understanding of Intersecting Violence Against Women and Children in the Family
This study explores a gap in literature on the intersections of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and violence against children (VAC) by answering how...
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Study Summaries
Potential Pathways to Prevention: Understanding the Intersections of Violence Against Women and Children in the Family
This is a summary of findings from a study on the intersections of violence against women and violence against children, which was conducted in 2014...
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Evidence Syntheses
Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children – The Points of Intersection
This brief by the Pan American Health Organisation and the World Health Organisation provides key summary points regarding the intersection of violence against women and...
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Programme Summaries
Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a gender-transformative, group and community-based initiative designed to respond to multiple sexual and reproductive health challenges. It aims to reduce both HIV...
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Training Curricula
Stepping Stones Training Manual Adapted for South Africa
Stepping Stones is a workshop series designed as a tool to help promote sexual health, improve psychological well-being and prevent HIV. The workshops address questions...
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Study Summaries
Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV, HSV-2 and IPV in rural South Africa
This study evaluated the impact of Stepping Stones, a participatory group and community-based prevention programme, on sexual behaviours and sexual health outcomes- including HIV, Herpes...
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Study Summaries
Impact of the RHANI Wives intervention on marital conflict, IPV and sexual coercion in Mumbai
The Reducing HIV among Non-Infected (RHANI) Wives intervention is a multi-session intervention for married women focused on building skills to deal with, and respond to,...
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Prevention Stories
Lessons from Oxfam’s Bano Nayi Soch: Buno Hinsa Mukt Rishtey Campaign to Prevent Violence in India
Against the backdrop of India’s high rates of violence against women (VAW) and insufficient efforts to prevent it, in November 2016, Oxfam India launched the...
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Research Basics
Quantitative Measurement of Gendered Social Norms
This guide by ALIGN gives an overview of quantitative approaches to measuring gendered social norms. It draws from existing practices in the field, such as...
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Study Summaries
Impact of Indashyikirwa in Reducing IPV in Rwanda
This is a summary of the impact made by the Indashyikirwa intervention in reducing the experiences and perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural...
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Study Summaries
The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore Violence Prevention Programme: Women’s Intervention in Bihar, India
This intervention targeted married women in existing village-level self-help groups (SHGs) in Nawada, Bihar. It provided gender transformative learning sessions on violence against women(VAW) together...
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Working Papers and Reports
An Evaluation of an Intervention with Male Partners of Women Survivors of Conflict-Related Rape and IPV in DRC
This report presents findings of a qualitative, time-series evaluation that assessed the Living Peace intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention programme, which targeted the husbands of...
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Journal Articles
Tathmini Gender Based Violence Study in Tanzania
Tathmini cluster randomised trial assessed the impact of a gender-based violence (GBV) prevention programme in Tanzania which was delivered through a HIV/AIDS programme platform. The programme...
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Programme Summaries
The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) Programme to Prevent VAW in Bihar, India
The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) Programme was implemented to better understand what works to prevent violence against women (VAW) in...
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Working Papers and Reports
Lessons from SASA! Implementation in Haiti: A Community-Based Approach to Prevent VAWG
In Haiti, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is highly prevalent with 29 percent of ever-married women have experienced violence perpetrated by their most recent...
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Prevention Stories
Co-Creating Systems for Primary Prevention of Gender-Based Violence with Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
Developed by the community, for the community, the GAP project is a unique initiative to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) in remote, low-resource settings. The project is...
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Multimedia
Wilton Park Deliberations: How to Radically Reduce VAWG by 2030? (Part 2)
In March 2019, Wilton Park in partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) gathered 50 diverse actors in...
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Multimedia
Wilton Park Deliberations: How to Radically Reduce VAWG by 2030? (Part 1)
In March 2019, Wilton Park in partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) gathered 50 diverse actors in...
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Working Papers and Reports
Building a Shared Agenda on the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
In March 2019, Wilton Park in partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) gathered 50 diverse actors in...
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Study Summaries
Impact Assessment of the COMBAT Intervention to Prevent VAWG in Rural Ghana
This is a summary of an evaluation of the COMBAT violence prevention intervention conducted in rural Ghana. This intervention aimed to prevent violence against women...
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Tools and Guidance
Resources for Measuring Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Programme Implementers
This is a resource for programme planners and implementors who are engaged in norms-shifting interventions to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG). It provides guidance...
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Study Summaries
Impact of a Microenterprise Assistance Programme (WINGS) on IPV Reduction in Northern Uganda
This was a multiphase study of different variants of the Women’s INcome Generating Support (WINGS) programme, a microfinance intervention designed to help ultra-poor women in...
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Multimedia
‘Tea Consent’ – Sexual Consent Explained
In this short advocacy video, sexual consent is explained using ‘tea’ as a metaphor.
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Webinars
Design Thinking for IPV Prevention
This webinar shares lessons from ‘Becoming One’, an innovative counselling programme for couples delivered through faith leaders to prevent IPV in Uganda. The discussion covered...
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Study Summaries
Evaluation of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures IPV Prevention Interventions in South Africa
This summary provides findings of an evaluation of the combined Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention, which was a 21 session, peer-facilitated violence prevention intervention,...
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Working Papers and Reports
Intersections of VAW and VAC: Expert Perspectives On Service Coordination in Kampala, Uganda
This report provides findings of a qualitative study that focused on the perspectives of service providers in Kampala, Uganda on the linkages between intimate partner...
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Journal Articles
On the CUSP: The Politics and Prospects of Scaling Social Norms Change Programming
This paper highlights learnings from the Community for Understanding Scale Up (CUSP), which is a working group of nine organisations who are developing and scaling social...
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Evidence Syntheses
What Works to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Women and Girls in Conflict and Humanitarian Settings?
This briefing paper by the Global Women’s Institute and International Rescue Committee provides an overview of the existing evidence 1) on the prevalence of violence...
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Multimedia
Ending Violence Against Women and Girls – Meron’s Story
This is an advocacy video by Womankind, that tells a story of a woman called Meron and her children who experience violence. One day she meets...
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Programme Summaries
The Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) Programme in Rakai Uganda
The Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) intervention was a multi-component intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV prevention programme integrated into the Rakai Health...
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Study Summaries
The Impact of SAFE on Intimate Partner Violence in Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
This study evaluated the Growing up Safe and Healthy (SAFE) programme, a multi-component intervention implemented in 2012-2013, which aimed to improve sexual and reproductive health...
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Study Summaries
A Common Elements Treatment Approach to Reduce IPV in Zambia
This brief summarises a randomised controlled trial of a Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) in Zambia to prevent and reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against...
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Training Curricula
Indashyikirwa Community Activist Training Module
This training module was developed to equip Indashyikirwa community activists with the skills to conduct community-based activism to prevent violence against women. This training module...
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Multimedia
The SASA! Approach for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV
This short film describes the SASA! approach for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV, by showing how it is used in communities in Kampala, Uganda.
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Multimedia
Raising Voices: A Training Video for Organisations in East and Southern Africa
Designed for organisations that are working to prevent intimate partner violence by using a community-based approach, this training video by Raising Voices complements their resource...
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Multimedia
Indashyikirwa Intervention to Prevent IPV in Rwanda
This video provides an overview of Indashyikirwa, a community IPV prevention programme that was implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Women’s Network, and Rwanda Men’s Resource...
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Multimedia
On the Nature of Intimate Partner Violence
Sudha Shetty at the Hague Domestic Violence project unpacks the nature of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States, and as well as globally, with entrenched...
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Multimedia
How a Lack of Accountability Undermines Work to Address Violence Against Women and Girls
This video by COFEM brings forth the issue of a lack of accountability in the violence prevention field that undermines work towards addressing violence against...
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Multimedia
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence through Women’s Access to Land
Bina Agarwal shows how giving women access to land in agrarian societies may impact a range of social indicators from poverty reduction to better child...
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Working Papers and Reports
Preventing Childhood Violence in the Home: A Prevention Collaborative Position Paper
A core objective of the Prevention Collaborative is to address violence in families, affecting both women and children. This paper outlines the Prevention Collaborative’s analysis...
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Study Summaries
Integrating IPV and HIV prevention: Impacts of the SHARE Intervention in Uganda
This study evaluated the Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) intervention, a multi-component IPV and HIV prevention program integrated into the Rakai Health Sciences...
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Practice Briefs
Social Norms Change at Scale: Insights from SASA!
This case study documents the SASA! intervention that uses community mobilisation to change norms and behaviours that perpetuate gender inequality, violence and vulnerability of women...
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Practice Briefs
Social Norms Change at Scale: Insights from IMAGE
This is a case study of the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE), which is a combined effort to address economic and gender...
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Journal Articles
Converging Drivers of Interpersonal Violence: Findings from a Qualitative Study in Post-hurricane Haiti
This paper documents lessons from a qualitative assessment of the Transforming Households: Reducing Incidence of Violence in Emergencies (THRIVE) project in Côteaux, Haiti. It highlights multiple...
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News
Upcoming Webinar: Can Culturally Appropriate Male Engagement Approaches Reduce Violence Against Women and Children?
In Rwanda, a violence prevention intervention sought to change gender inequality by influencing everyday interactions between couples. The Rwanda Men’s Resource Center designed the Bandebereho...
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Prevention Stories
Engaging Influential Students to Tackle Peer Violence in Indonesia
Background In Indonesia, more than 1 in 5 students, aged 13 to 15 (18 million children), have experienced violence by their peers at schools, according...
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Webinars
Training to Lead Critical Reflection Groups for Preventing Violence Against Women
What works best to recruit, train and support community facilitators to lead discussions on gender and power? Research and experience tell us that such critical...
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Prevention Basics
Why does a feminist perspective matter in work to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls?
This Tip Sheet is part of the COFEM Feminist Pocketbook (www.cofemsocialchange.org) . The Feminist Pocketbook is a resource to support practitioners, researchers and others working...
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Viewpoint
Addressing violence against children and women in the family: A call for an integrated approach
Violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW) are global epidemics with prolonged impacts on the health, well-being, and safety of individuals and societies....
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Study Summaries
Does removing gender bias in inheritance law decrease violence against women? A case study from India
This study assessed the impact of equalizing inheritance rights for men and women on levels of violence against women in 16 states in India. The...
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Tools and Guidance
COFEM Feminist Pocketbook
The Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM) has developed this useful resource on feminist approaches to addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG). It...
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Evidence Syntheses
Literature Review: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
This review of literature documents the state of violence against women and girls (VAWG) globally and in Australia by referring to a wide range of...
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Journal Articles
Practice-based Insights in Developing and Implementing a Sport-based Programme for Girls
This article examines practice-based learning from developing and implementing the Parivartan Plus programme—a structured sports mentoring programme for girls in a Mumbai slum. This article...
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Tools and Guidance
Fidelity to the SASA ! Activist Kit
This programme brief elaborates the significance of the methodology of SASA!—a community mobilisation approach to prevent violence against women (VAW) and HIV, by Raising Voices...
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Evidence Syntheses
Piecing Together the Evidence on Social Norms and Violence Against Women
Developed by the Equality Institute, this booklet maps the current state of evidence on violence against women and girls (VAWG), with a specific focus on...
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Tools and Guidance
Global Guidance on Addressing School-Related Gender-Based Violence
This guidance set forth by the UNESCO and UN Women provides key information on approaches, methodologies, tools, and resources to address school-related gender-based violence. Targeting a...
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Tools and Guidance
Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Resource Guide
Primarily targeted at the IDB and WBG staff, and as well as other development actors with little or no experience addressing VAWG, this guide provides...
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Working Papers and Reports
Transfers, Behaviour Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence: Post-programme Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
While transfers, such as cash and food, are a popular intervention to address intimate partner violence (IPV), this paper asks, what happens to IPV after...
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Tools and Guidance
Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action
These guidelines set forth by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) equip humanitarian actors to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and...
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Tools and Guidance
Minimum Standards for Prevention and Response to Gender Based Violence in Emergencies
This document by the UNFPA provides guidance for humanitarian actors on effective and appropriate prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian settings. Developed...
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Tools and Guidance
Rethinking Domestic Violence: A Training Process for Community Activists
This training guide and toolkit by Raising Voices provides capacity to prevent domestic violence for diverse stakeholders, including NGO workers, activists, police officers, community leaders,...
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Tools and Guidance
Toolkit for Optimising Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence — Part 2
This toolkit by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) put forth a set of tools to support programmes that focus on cash-based interventions and gender-based violence...
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Tools and Guidance
Toolkit for Optimising Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence — Part 1
This toolkit by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) put forth a set of tools to support programmes that focus on cash-based interventions and gender-based violence...
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Tools and Guidance
DFID Guidance Note: Shifting Social Norms to Tackle Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
This guidance note seeks to advise how programmes targeted at VAWG prevention can identify and address harmful social norms and constructions that sustain violence. It...
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Working Papers and Reports
Community Based Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of Evidence and Essential Steps for Adaption
This review by the World Bank focuses on primary prevention programmes targeted at intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. It looks at programmes that aim...
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Training Curricula
Program M Manual
Program M is named after mulheres and mujeres, the words for women in Portuguese and Spanish. It was launched in 2006 as a companion to...
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Training Curricula
Program H|M|D: A Toolkit for Action
This toolkit presents the short version of the approach contained in Programs H and M. It seeks to make the model accessible so that an...
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Tools and Guidance
Pathways to Change to Reduce Spousal Violence Against Women and Girls
This brief demonstrates the pathways to change to reduce spousal violence and improve the response to spousal violence as a result of the SAFE intervention...
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Research Basics
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence
This brief provides guidance for the non-expert on how to collect valid quantitative data on partner violence in an ethically and methodologically sound manner. Specifically,...
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Tools and Guidance
Change the Story: Ten actions to prevent Violence Against Women [booklet]
This booklet is an edited extract from Change the story: A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in...
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Working Papers and Reports
Social Norms and Girls’ Wellbeing: Linking Theory and Practice
This report seeks to better explore the connections between social norms theory and practice as they relate to girls’ lives, and the implications for efforts...
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Tools and Guidance
Addressing Social Norms to Prevent Gender-Based Violence [infographic]
This infographic was developed by CARE to communicate about the work they are doing to change social norms around intimate partner violence in Sri Lanka....
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Evidence Syntheses
Gender Socialisation During Adolescence in Low-and-middle-income Countries: Conceptualisation, Influences, and Outcomes
Adolescence is a critical period in the development of gender attitudes and behaviours, which have potentially life-long effects. The rapid changes that take place during...
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Tools and Guidance
CARE’s Journey Piloting Social Norms Measures for Gender Programming
This “Theory to Practice” brief describes CARE’s journey to understand social norm theory from academia, and apply it in development practice. CARE’s interest stemmed from...
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Working Papers and Reports
On Norms and Agency: Conversations about Gender Equality with Men and Women in 20 Countries
This paper summarises the findings of a qualitative field study with 4000 men and women in focus groups across 20 countries from all regions. The...
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Study Summaries
Enabling Social Change: How Value Deliberations Led to Individual and Collective Empowerment in Rural Senegal
This summary paper is based on four years of field research to look at how Tostan’s Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) – which entailed a process...
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Tools and Guidance
VAWG Resource Guide: Social Protection Brief
The briefing note looks at the intersections between social protection (SP) and violence against women and girls (VAWG), and options for integrating intervention to prevent...
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Evidence Syntheses
A Mixed-method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low-and middle-income Countries
There is increasing evidence that cash transfer (CT) programs decrease intimate partner violence (IPV). However, little is known about how CTs achieve this impact. This...
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Tools and Guidance
Community-based Prevention of Violence Against Women and their Children
This accessible toolkit compiled by Our Watch in Australia comprises a suite of materials for practitioners wishing to work with communities to prevent violence against women....
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Evidence Syntheses
Response Mechanisms to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
This paper examines the evidence base on the effectiveness of response mechanisms for VAWG in preventing the occurrence or reoccurrence of violence. In this paper,...
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Evidence Syntheses
State of the Field of Research on Violence Against Women and Girls
This paper reviews the knowledge base on the scale, scope and nature of VAWG and the factors that drive it at individual, relationship, community and...
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Evidence Syntheses
Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls: A Summary of the Evidence
This short summary paper presents the evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG). It is based on a...
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Evidence Syntheses
Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
This rapid review paper examines the most common and promising interventions that specifically seek to reduce different types of VAWG as an outcome, and those...
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Evidence Syntheses
What Works to Prevent Partner Violence?
This document reviews the empirical evidence of what works in low-and middle-income countries to prevent violence against women by their husbands and other male partners....
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Evidence Syntheses
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in South Asia: Evidence for Interventions in the Health Sector, Women’s Collectives, and Local Governance Mechanisms
This evidence review looks at a range of programmes implemented in South Asia to prevent Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). It looks at interventions to prevent...
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Evidence Syntheses
Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: What Does the Evidence Say?
This paper reviews the evidence on interventions to reduce the prevalence and incidence of violence against women and girls (VAWG). It covers a wide range...
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