• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • Join the IGWG
  • News & Updates

IGWG HomepageIGWG

  • Priority Areas
    • Gender-Based Violence
    • Gender-Based Violence Task Force
    • Male Engagement
    • Male Engagement Task Force
    • Youth and Gender
  • Resources
    • Trainings
    • K4Health Gender and Health Toolkit
  • Events
    • Past Events
  • About the IGWG
    • Our Priority Areas
    • The Gender Integration Continuum
    • Get the Benefits of an IGWG membership
  • News & Updates
  • Join the IGWG
  • Contact

GBV and Health Care series

GBV Screening: Bringing Health Care Providers on Board

Posted on May 29, 2017

During the last 16 Days of Activism, on Dec. 4, 2014, the IGWG GBV Task Force launched the first of an ongoing  series to explore the current state of research and practice on screening and responding to GBV in health care settings.  The Dec. 4 panel focused on “Setting the Stage: Asking Women about Violence and Responding Within Health Care Settings.”

The second panel, held on March 31, featured three speakers who shared their lessons and research/evaluation data from training health care providers to screen for GBV.

Panelists included:

  • Fabio Verani, Senior Technical Advisor, Gender/Men As Partners, EngenderHealth, on a pilot to train health care providers in Guinea (PDF: 944 KB);
  • Ashley Jackson Technical Advisor, Reproductive Health from Population Services International (PSI), discussing training in India (presentation available upon request, ajackson@psi.org);
  • Helena Acosta, Counseling Specialist at IPPF/WHR, sharing lessons from training health care providers in Mexico (PDF: 1,340 KB).

Additional resources:

  • Speaker bios (PDF: 211 KB

MATERIALS NEEDED:https://www.igwg.org/Events/GBVHealthCareProvidermarch2015.aspx

Screening and Response: Making Referrals Work

Posted on May 29, 2017

On June 23rd, IGWG held the third panel of the Screening and Responding to GBV in Health Care Settings series, “Screening and Response: Making Referrals Work.” The panel featured three presentations that examined service delivery programs’ experience with referrals of clients. The presenters shared best practices, as well as lessons learned, for both US and international contexts.

Panelists included:

  • Jacquelyn Campbell of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing on best practices in referrals from the U.S. context.
    (Presentation: Assessment and Referral for GBV in the US An additional resource on Jacquelyn Campbell’s work on GBV screening can be found here.)
  • Amna Akhsheed and Anjum Rizvi on IPPF’s Pakistan GBV referral program (Presentation: GBV Program in Pakistan: Referral Experiences)
  • Sarah Eckhoff on Pathfinder’s lessons from Kenya and Mozambique referrals
    (Presentation: Did They Get There? Lessons Learned from Implementation of Referral Mechanisms in Kenya and Mozambique)

Additional resources:

  • Speaker Bios
  • Event Notes
  • Video Recording of Event
  • See photos of the event on our Facebook page

Addressing GBV in Health Care Settings: Involving the Public Sector

Posted on May 29, 2017

The October 27th event examined the role of the public sector responses to gender-based violence. Panelists from Jhpiego and from Population Council shared lessons from projects in Mozambique and Zambia.

Population Council is working with the police in Zambia to better respond to GBV survivors. Their presentation, “Police as Part of the Public Health Response to SGBV: An Exploration of Task-Sharing in Zambia” included commentary by Dr. Jonathan Kaunda Mwansa, Pediatrician and Epidemiologist at Arthur Davidson Children’s Hospital, in Ndola, Zambia, Dr. George Msipu Phiri, Director of Medical Services, Zambia Police Service and Chi-Chi Undie, Associate in the Reproductive Health Program of the Population Council.

Meanwhile, Jhpiego’s work grew out of their experiences with One-Stop Centers and with maternity centers in Mozambique. Their presentation “Establishing Gender-Based Violence Clinical and Multi-Sectoral Services in Mozambique” was led by Myra Betron, Director for Gender at Jhpiego in Washington D.C. and Dr. Ana Baptista, coordinator of GBV activities for Jhpiego in Mozambique.

Additional Resources:

  • Presentation: Police as Part of the Public Health Response to SGBV: An Exploration of Task-Sharing in Zambia(Population Council)
  • Presentation: Establishing GBV Clinical and Multi-Sectoral Services in Mozambique (Jhpiego)
  • Speaker Bios
  • Event Notes
  • Video Recording of Event

Footer

Learn More

  • Male Engagement Task Force
  • Gender-based Violence Task Force
  • About the IGWG
  • Contact Us
  • Photo Credits

Follow us:

Join the IGWG

We send out two to three newsletters per week to over 2,600 members interested in the IGWG and other gender-related news.

Subscribe

* indicates required

Gender Continuum

Feedback Form
  • If you are comfortable doing so, please share your email address so we can follow up on your feedback.