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What Works to Prevent Partner Violence? An Evidence Overview (2.9Mb)
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. The purpose of the report is to help inform the future direction of DFID programming on violence against women with an eye towards maximizing its impact and ensuring the best use of scarce resources.
- Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Against Women (1002.4Kb)
WHO, 2010
Intimate partner and sexual violence affect a large proportion of the population – with the majority of those directly experiencing such violence being women and the majority perpetrating it being men. The harm they cause can last a lifetime and span generations, with serious adverse affects on health, education and employment. The primary prevention of these types of violence will therefore save lives and money – investments
made now to stop intimate partner and sexual violence before they occur will protect the physical, mental and economic well-being and development of individuals, families, communities and whole societies.
This document aims to provide sufficient information for policy-makers and planners to develop data-driven and evidence-based programmes for preventing intimate partnerand sexual violence against women - Preventing Gender-based Violence, Building Livelihoods - Guidance and Tools for Improved Programming (297.4Kb)
Conflict and displacement destroy livelihoods and force people to adopt new strategies to support themselves. New livelihood strategies can increase the risk of gender-based violence (GBV). Women often have no safety net; they usually flee with few resources and little preparation and may become separated from or lose family members. A lack of access to economic opportunities while displaced often forces women and girls to resort to harmful measures to survive.
Women often face a trade-off between their protection and their livelihood. Most women in crisis situations actively seek to earn money, despite knowing the risks that having or earning money may bring. They need to make informed livelihood choices and to shape their livelihood options. Programs need to involve women throughout the project lifecycle—assessment and design; implementation; and monitoring and evaluation.
The Women’s Refugee Commission found that the evidence of impact on protection from livelihood approaches in crisis settings is scarce, and that the literature on impact from noncrisis settings is fragmented and focuses predominantly on domestic violence. This guidance is therefore based on promising practices on how to design safe economic programs and livelihood activities. - WHO Ethical and safety recommendations for researching, documenting and monitoring sexual violence in emergencies (301.4Kb)
The highly sensitive nature of sexual violence poses a unique set of challenges for any data gathering activity that touches on this issue. A range of ethical and safety issues must be considered and addressed prior to the commencement of any such inquiry. Failure to do so can result in harm to the physical, psychological and social well-being of those who participate and can even put lives at risk. It is essential therefore to ensure that the case for collecting data is legitimate. Furthermore, when collecting and using information about sexual violence, it must be done in such a way so as to avoid further harm to those who are part of the process. This includes not just the victims and survivors and their families and supporters, but also communities, organizations working with survivors, and those involved in gathering the information itself.
There are a number of established codes of practice that offer guidance in matters relating to the ethics and safety of research and documentation that involves human subjects (see annex p. 31). Ethical and safety guidelines (or recommendations) specific to the particular issues that arise during collection of information about sexual violence in emergencies, however, are lacking. The recommendations in this document have thus been developed in order to address this gap. They are not meant to replace but rather to complement existing internationally-agreed ethical guidelines for research and to inform ethics review processes. - RHRC GBV Manual Cover Pages (1.4Mb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org - RHRC GBV Manual Pt7 Program M&E Tools (291.5Kb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org - RHRC GBV Manual Pt6 Program Design (235.7Kb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org - RHRC GBV Manual Pt5 Assessment Section 4 (403.9Kb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org - RHRC GBV Manual Pt4 Assessment Section 3 (403.9Kb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org - RHRC GBV Manual Pt3 Assessment Section 2 (162.2Kb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org - RHRC GBV Manual Pt2 Assessment Section 1 (216.4Kb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design, Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org - RHRC GBV Manual Pt 1 Overview (387.7Kb)
Gender-based Violence Tools Manual For Assessment & Program Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings
© November 2003 by RHRC Consortium. info@rhrc.org; www.rhrc.org
"This manual is one of several outcomes of a three-year global Gender-based Violence Initiative spearheaded by the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium and aimed at improving international and local capacity to address gender-based violence (GBV) in refugee, internally displaced, and post-conflict settings. The tools have been formulated according to a multi-sectoral model of GBV programming (described more thoroughly on page 35) that promotes action within and coordination between the constituent community, health and social services, and the legal and security sectors. The manual is meant to be used by humanitarian professionals who have experience with and are committed to GBV prevention and response.
The tools are divided into three major categories: assessment, program design, and program monitoring and evaluation. The assessment tools are meant to improve awareness of the nature and scope of GBV in a given setting, to assist in gathering information about local attitudes and behaviors related to GBV, and to identify existing GBV services and gaps
in services within the community. The program design tools may be used for designing and implementing projects whose outcomes meet intended goals, and for improving hiring practices within GBV programs. The program monitoring and evaluation tools assist in evaluating program effectiveness, as well as in recognizing short- and long-term service utilization and service delivery trends that may be used to adjust programming.
This manual should be used in conjunction with other GBV programming resources, accessible on the RHRC Consortium website at www.rhrc.org/gbv. Of special note are United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response (May 2003) and the RHRC Consortium’s Gender-based Violence: Emerging Issues in Programs Serving Displaced Populations
(2002)." - IASC Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action (1.8Mb)
Women, Girls, Boys and Men: Different Needs – Equal Opportunities
IASC Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action (December 2006)
"In the rush to mobilize support, sort out logistics, coordinate with colleagues, respond to the demands and questions from HQ, we sometimes lose sight of who we are meant to be helping. We offer protection and distribute aid but can forget that women, girls, boys and men often have different needs, face different threats and have different skills and aspirations. Ignoring this can mean our assistance is not properly targeted. This can be both wasteful and harmful.
This handbook offers real and practical guidance on identifying and addressing the differing needs and situations of women, girls, boys and men; in other words, being sensitive to gender issues in humanitarian crises. It is not about adding new tasks or responsibilities to jobs that are already tough. It is simply about good, common sense programming.
Understanding gender differences, inequalities and capacities improves the effectiveness of our humanitarian response. We must work together to promote gender equality — this is a shared responsibility of all humanitarian actors." - Talking About Domestic Violence: A Handbook for Village Facilitators (2.2Mb)
Produced by UNDP Cambodia and VBNK in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior, Cambodia 2010.
"This handbook (Talking about Domestic Violence) has been developed as part of the Access to Justice Project, implemented jointly with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Interior with the support of UNDP, for Village Facilitators. Between 2008 and 2010, Village Facilitators in 89 villages conducted Community Conversations on domestic violence in their villages in the provinces of Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Siem Reap, Rattanakiri and Mondulkiri. Impact surveys show that the methodology is successful in the sense that the Community Conversations have increased awareness and understanding of the issue, have been conducive to creating an environment where the taboo of domestic violence is broken and discussed more openly, and the people in villages where the discussions took place even have the perception that the prevalence of domestic violence decreased. This handbook includes information on different aspects of domestic violence as well as guidelines of how to undertake each of the ten topics. We hope that the handbook will assist Village Facilitators to continue to talk about and work to address domestic violence in their villages." - IASC Gender and Humanitarian Action Resources - flyer (564.7Kb)
This is a list of IASC resources related to gender based violence - IASC Guidelines for GBV Interventions in Humanitarian Settings (1.8Mb)
IASC Guidelines for Gender-based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings: Focusing on Prevention of and Response to Sexual Violence in Emergencies (September 2005)
"The Inter-Agency Standing Committee has issued these Guidelines for Gender-based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Emergencies: Focusing on Prevention and Response to Sexual Violence to meet the need for a coherent and participatory approach to prevent and respond to gender-based violence. This is a tool to for field actors to establish a multisectoral coordinated approach to gender-based violence programming in emergency settings.
Sexual violence in armed conflict is a crime against humanity and is being used as a method of war to brutalise and instil fear in the civilian population, especially women and girls. The humanitarian community must come together and act together to put into place systems to prevent violence from occurring and when it does, to respond to the needs of survivors/victims. The Guidelines provide practical advice on how to ensure that humanitarian protection and assistance programmes for displaced populations are safe and do not directly or indirectly increase women’s and girls’ risk to sexual violence. The Guidelines also detail what response services should be in place to meet the need of survivors/ victims of sexual violence."
