This guidance is a practical tool for implementing high-quality gender-based violence (GBV) interventions. It covers CARE’s GBV approaches, key principles to ensure best practice, and ten practical steps for designing, implementing, and evaluating safe and ethical GBV programming. Read More
Gender-based Violence
How to Prevent, Mitigate, and Respond to Gender-Based Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This how-to note provides guidance on adapting gender-based violence (GBV) programming in light of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. First, it identifies key arguments for why organizations addressing GBV must continue to adjust to the shifting landscape. Second, it describes how organizations can adapt by providing a curated and synthesized list of 15 core resources for navigating, identifying, and applying those most relevant for their work. Read More
“With Money, I’m the Queen”: Integrated Cash and Gender-Based Violence Programming for IPV Survivors in Guayaquil, Ecuador
This evaluation report, and an accompanying evaluation summary, shares findings from a program which aimed to strengthen the capacity of gender-based violence service providers to leverage cash and voucher assistance within case management services in the prevention of and response to intimate partner violence for migrant, refugee, and local populations in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The evaluation report and summary are also available in Spanish. Read More
Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes
The Interagency Gender Working Group’s (IGWG) GBV Task Force hosted an event on Wednesday, August 31 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. EDT focused on exploring the connections between reproductive coercion in the context of intimate and household relationships, IPV, and domestic violence, as well as highlighting reproductive coercion’s impacts on sexual and reproductive health (SRH), particularly family planning and GBV outcomes.Read More
Youth, Social Norms, and Key Behaviors in Reproductive Health, Education, and Family Violence
This new web feature is comprised of five behavior studies related to social norms affecting adolescents and young adults across reproductive health, education, and family violence. These behavior studies—results of a scoping review of evidence—include example social norms, other factors affecting behavior, reference groups, and selected interventions addressing norms and behaviors. Read More
How to Use Site Visits to Strengthen Gender-Based Violence Interventions
Site visits are an opportunity to assess the extent to which gender-based violence (GBV) is being effectively considered in activity implementation. However, they can also create serious risks for survivors, their families and communities, service providers, and the site visit team. This how-to-note instructs USAID staff and implementing partners on how to plan, host, and conduct safe and ethical site visits to strengthen GBV interventions. Read More
