Women living with fistula often experience stigma and abuse and become victims of violence and cruelty because of their condition. This blog post highlights the MOMENTUM project’s plans to work in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, to help women living with or treated for fistula effectively reintegrate back into their communities and to connect gender-based violence screening with health services and fistula care. Read More
Gender-based Violence
How to Implement a Survivor-Centered Approach to GBV Programming
This how-to note and accompanying infographic focuses on helping USAID and implementing partners who have a role in GBV programming understand how programs can achieve a survivor-centered approach. This approach upholds four guiding principles: keeping survivors safe, protecting confidentiality, demonstrating respect for survivors’ dignity and self-determination, and practicing non-discrimination. Read More
Mental Health Wellness in GBV Prevention and Response: From the Individual to the Systems Level
When health providers are not well themselves, they are less likely to effectively help others. Addressing the mental health of health providers as they provide GBV services to survivors requires approaches that strengthen the mental health wellness and resiliency of both individuals and their communities. This blog provides an overview of the mental health effects of care work and GBV service provision on health providers, approaches to support self-care and improved health systems, and policy recommendations for the future.Read More
Measuring the Shadow Pandemic: Violence Against Women During COVID-19
UN Women conducted Rapid Gender Assessments in 13 countries focused on violence against women (VAW) and COVID-19, producing the first set of reliable, cross-country, and nationally representative data on topics related to VAW, women’s safety at home and in the public sphere during COVID-19, and access to resources and services. The resources from this study include the data, a report, and a technical note. Read More
Dual Crises: Gender-Based Violence and Inequality Facing Children and Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the main drivers of migration from Central America. KIND’s latest report details how the pandemic exacerbates already pervasive forms of violence against children and women in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who are forced to flee due to unequal access to support and resources. The report offers recommendations on addressing GBV to the governments of these nations and the United States. Read More
Help-Seeking Within the Context of Patriarchy for Domestic Violence in Urban Uganda
Conducted in urban Kampala, this study examines the complex contexts within which women make decisions about reporting domestic violence. Based on an intersecting theoretical lens of structural violence, power, and the body, findings suggested that women reported to formal structures primarily for severe physical or economic abuse; women did not report less severe abuse, and often abandoned reporting even severe abuse. Yet, while overwhelmingly women were discouraged from reporting domestic abuse, there were important signs of change. Read More
