This how-to note guides practitioners working across sectors in how to build, strengthen, and maintain referral networks. Building referral networks, or strengthening existing networks, is crucial to providing survivors of gender-based violence with access to timely, safe, and confidential services that can support their immediate and long-term health, healing, and empowerment. Read More
Technical Guidance
Gender-Based Violence Guidance for Development Programming
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
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
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
How to Embed Self- and Collective Care in Organizations Addressing Gender-Based Violence
This how-to note describes why self-care and collective care is essential for organizations addressing gender-based violence (GBV), both as an ethical imperative and a core component of quality programming. It includes definitions of self- and collective care, describes three pillars for systematically embedding self- and collective care at different organizational levels, reflects on the roles funders can play to create an enabling environment for incorporating self- and collective care in GBV work, and concludes with practical suggestions to put these ideas and strategies into action. Read More
Priority List of Indicators for Girls’ Menstrual Health and Hygiene: Technical Guidance for National Monitoring
Adequate and validated indicators are essential for tracking progress on addressing menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) as an important health, education, gender equality, and water, sanitation, and hygiene issue. These recommended indicators monitor MHH for adolescent girls across priority domains and are intended to enable comparability across countries and over time. Read More
