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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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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
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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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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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
Global Prevalence of Past-year Violence Against Children: A Systematic Review and Minimum Estimates.
This paper provides important prevalence data on the scale of violence (emotional, physical, sexual and multiple exposures) against children around the world. The researchers carried...
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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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Practice Briefs
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
INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework
The INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework is a follow up of the INSPIRE Handbook that provides seven core strategies to improve programmes and services...
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Tools and Guidance
INSPIRE Handbook: Action for Implementing the Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children
The INSPIRE handbook is comprised of evidence based strategies to improve programmes and services addressing violence against children. It caters to various stakeholders across multiple...
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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
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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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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Multimedia
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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