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
Gender-based Violence
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
Hidden Heroes Podcast Episode: Secret Recipes
The "Hidden Heroes" podcast series introduces listeners to women and girls around the globe taking a stand against gender injustice—and saving lives along the way. This episode centers on an all-female hackathon team in Ecuador that devised a simple, brilliant way to reach endangered women while avoiding the watchful eye of abusers: a cookbook. Read More