Addressing Gender-Based Violence Through Cash Transfer Programming Part II: Supporting Adolescent Girls and Working in Humanitarian Settings

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More money, less violence? This event was the second part in the IGWG’s Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Task Force series on the use of cash transfer approaches to address GBV and other reproductive health outcomes.

Part II of this series delved more deeply into the specifics of cash transfers for addressing GBV. What are the strengths and shortcomings for this type of intervention to reduce GBV? How have cash transfers been incorporated into GBV programs in humanitarian settings? What are the considerations for applying cash transfer interventions to reduce GBV when working with adolescent girls?

Panelists and Presentations

• Berk Özler, “How Can Cash Programming Contribute to Efforts Aiming to Reduce GBV?” Slides pending publication; click here for his current publications related to cash transfers.
• Kathryn Falb, “Cash Transfers and GBV in Humanitarian Emergencies.” Slides pending publication; findings from the full study will be available on the What Works to Prevent Violence website in Spring 2019.
• Karen Austrian, Population Council, “Testing the Effects of Cash v. Cash Plus Empowerment Programs for Young Adolescent Girls in Kenya: Midline Evaluation Results from the Adolescent Girls Initiative―Kenya.”
• Plus, a special lightning talk from Tenzin Manell, Women’s Refugee Commission, presenting the Toolkit for Optimizing Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence.

This event built on Part I, held on September 17. That event introduced cash transfer approaches, highlighted some of the evidence around the effectiveness of cash transfers for addressing GBV, and sparked a discussion of the pathways through which cash transfer programming can affect violence-related outcomes. More information from that event is here.

Addressing Gender-Based Violence Through Cash Transfer Programming Part I

View presentations and the event recording here.

This series, hosted by the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Task Force of the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG), explored the use of cash transfer approaches (an economic empowerment strategy) to address GBV and other reproductive health outcomes. Moving from theory to practice, the event included presentations on results from recent evidence reviews, as well as promising programmatic examples of cash transfer interventions and their impacts.

Part I of the series, on September 17, provided an introduction to cash transfer approaches and feature the latest evidence on cash transfers as an effective economic empowerment strategy for preventing GBV, specifically intimate partner violence. Presenters also explored the causal pathways through which cash transfer programming can affect violence-related outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, including among adolescent girls.

Panelists and their presentations included:

• Kathy Lindert, World Bank, “Designing & Delivering Cash Transfers: An Overview”
• Lori Heise, Johns Hopkins University, “Reducing Violence at Scale: A Mixed Methods
  Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income
  Countries”
• Audrey Pettifor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, “Cash Transfers Can Reduce
  Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescent Girls”

Keep an eye out for Part II of this series, which will take place in late October. This event will focus on design and implementation features of cash transfer approaches that are effective at improving GBV outcomes, including specific work in humanitarian settings.