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This framework, grounded in the principles of human rights and gender equality, highlights step-by-step how to design, implement, monitor and evaluate interventions and programmes on preventing violence against women.
Strategies
Relationship skills strengthenedEmpowerment of womenServices ensuredPoverty reducedEnvironments made safeChild and adolescent abuse preventedTransformed attitudes, beliefs, and norms
Click under each letter to see the strategies.
Programmes
Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) (Kenya)
Learn moreAVAHAN sex worker collectivisation (India)
Learn moreBandeberho (Rwanda)
Learn moreBALIKA (Bangladesh)
Learn moreBecoming One (Uganda)
Learn moreCash transfers and intimate partner violence (LIMCs)
Learn moreCOMBAT (Ghana)
Learn moreDo Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) (India)
Learn moreEconomic transfers in Ecuador and Bangladesh
Learn moreGender Roles, Equality and Transformation (GREAT) programme (Uganda)
Learn moreGood Schools Toolkit (Uganda)
Learn moreIndashyikirwa Couples (Rwanda)
Learn moreMAISHA intervention (Tanzania)
Learn morePort Moresby: A Safe City for Women and Girls Programme (Papua New Guinea)
Learn moreReal Fathers (Uganda)
Learn moreRight to Play (Pakistan)
Learn moreThe Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) intervention (Uganda)
Learn moreUnite for a Better Life (Ethiopia)
Learn moreZindagii Shoista (Tajikistan)
Learn moreImplementation tools
related publications
Foundational elements for gender-based violence programming in development
Section 3.1. program elements: prevention. USAID's collective action to reduce gender-based violence (CARE-GBV). 2022.
Making progress in prevention is possible
A monitoring framework for prevention of violence against women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region. Equality Institute. 2021.
Gender-based violence prevention and response in World Bank operations
This report reviews progress on GBV prevention and response in World Bank lending operations over the past decade. The GBV strategies are mapped to the RESPECT strategies and to the different sectors that the World Bank prioritizes.