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Using Technology to Combat GBV – New Innovations, New Opportunities

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Using Technology to Combat GBV – New Innovations, New Opportunities

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Panelists for this Gender-Based Violence Task Force event featured three panelists included, ElsaMarie D’Silva, founder of the SafeCity crowd-mapping foundation and recent recipient of the Global Leadership Award by Vital Voices; Dr. Ranit Mishori, a physician and head of the Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Global Health Initiatives; and Jennifer Curran, an M&E technical specialist at MEASURE Evaluation.

The panelists shared lessons and challenges they have experienced in implementing mobile-based technologies to combat and report instances of GBV. Data from SafeCity’s crowd-mapping of street harassment allow women more agency and mobility in their cities and led to municipal services addressing infrastructure issues that perpetuated an environment of harassment.  The second presentation highlighted the design and implementation of mobile-based GBV referral system piloted in Botswana, and the third described an app called “mJustice” to be used by frontline health workers to forensically and clinically document sexual violence and that is about to be launched in DRC.

This event, supported by USAID through the PACE and Advancing Partners & Communities projects, brought together nearly 50 participants from the Washington, DC area and 28 participants online.

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Innovative Technologies Help Combat GBV

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As part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, the Interagency Gender Working Group, U.S. Agency for International Development, Woodrow Wilson Center, CARE, and Population Reference Bureau hosted a panel discussion on December 9, 2013 exploring new technologies to combat GBV. How effective are they, and what are some of the more ethical, practical, and actionable ways forward? Panelists discussed how these technologies can be used in various aspects of gender-based violence, from sexual assault in conflict areas to intimate partner violence in India and in the United States.

Presentations:

  • Bukeni Waruzi, “Effective, Safe, and Ethical Documentation of GBV” (PDF: 594 KB)
  • Mohini Bhavsar, “CommCare for GBV and Health Workers” (PDF: 1624 KB)
  • Nancy Glass, “Testing the Effectiveness of Internet/Smartphone Based Interventions on Survivor Safety and Health” (PDF: 1688 KB)
  • Nancy Schwartzman, “Circle of 6” (PDF: 15415 KB)

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Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage

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On June 17, 2013 USAID and the IGWG’s Task Force on Gender-Based Violence, its co-chairs PRB and CARE, and the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted “Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage” at the Wilson Center.

Carla Koppell, Chief Strategic Officer at USAID, opened the discussion with an overview of USAID’s work on child marriage from Syria to India, and described strategies to address early marriage like girls’ education and community mobilization.

She was joined by experts, researchers, and people working with young women and married girls in the field in countries like Ethiopia and Egypt. Margaret Greene of Greeneworks concluded the event, remarking on the shifts in addressing child marriage; while once it was seen as just a problem for girls, it is now more often characterized as a development issue and is more likely to be addressed through programs in addition to legislation.

Presentations:

  • Jennifer Redner, “Ending Child Marriage – Key Next Policy Steps” (PDF: 182 KB)
  • Anju Malhotra, “Evidence of What Works to End Child Marriage” (PDF: 1298 KB )
  • Feven Tassew & Jeff Edmeades, “Towards Improved Economic and Sexual/Reproductive  Health Outcomes for Adolescent Girls” (PDF: 982 KB)
  • Patrick Crump, “Delaying Early Marriage in Egypt: The Case of Ishraq” (PDF: 595 KB)
  • Annabel Erulkar, “Alternative Approaches to Delaying Marriage and Supporting Married Girls”(PDF: 798 KB)

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Anita Raj on Gender-Based Violence in India

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On March 17, 2015, Dr. Anita Raj of the Center for Gender Equity and Health at the University of California, San Diego spoke to the IGWG about her ongoing research on gender-based violence in India. She described two recently published studies: “Parent and Adolescent Social Norms related to Girls’ Marital Choice, Spousal Violence, and Family Planning in Rural Maharashtra, India” and “Understanding Rape in India using Crime in India Reports.” Dr. Raj’s research continues to add to our understanding of the transmission of violence norms and of the dynamics of violence in India.

Event resources:

https://www.igwg.org/Events/GBVAnitaRavMarch2015.aspx

GBV Screening: Bringing Health Care Providers on Board

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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).

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

School-Based Interventions to Address Gender-Based Violence Among Youth

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This was the fourth and final event of the GBV and Youth series, on October 19, 2016 led by the GBV Taskforce. Presenters included Ravi Verma, Regional Director of Asia, ICRW provided an update on the Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) project regarding the implementation and evidence gathering around GEMS in Bangladesh, Vietnam and India. Following his presentation he was joined by his colleagues Nandita Bhatla and Pranita Achyut for the Q&A session.

Julie Hanson Swanson, Acting Division Chief of the USAID Education Divison, Bureau of Africa discussed a framework to measure school-related gender-based violence and provided an update on the work of the Global Working Group to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence.

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