SVRI and World Bank Innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Building Evidence for Effective Solutions 2016

In 2016, the SVRI and World Bank Group partnered to create the SVRI and World Bank Group Development Marketplace which provides grants of up to US$1.2 million for innovations to prevent gender based violence in low and middle income countries. Grants are awarded to selected applicants for projects including research, interventions, or other activities related to gender-based violence prevention. View SVRI and World Bank Group Development Marketplace grant guidelines here. 

SVRI and WBG Development Marketplace 2016 winners are:

The effects of transfers and behavior change communication on intimate partner violence: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Lead agency: International Food Policy Research Institute
Research Team: Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, Akhter Ahmed and John Hoddinott
 

Reports:

• Discussion Paper: Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence Postprogram Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
• Summary Brief: Economic empowerment interventions to reduce genderbased violence
   

Poster:

• The effects of transfers and behavior change communication on intimate partner violence: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
   

Webinar: 

• Cash transfer programs and intimate partner violence – Lessons from 3 case studies around the globe
• Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Post-program evidence from rural Bangladesh

Blog posts: 

• Cash or food transfers paired with behavior change communication can reduce intimate partner violence even after transfers end  
• Can transfers and training reduce intimate partner violence?

Preventing gender based partner violence among youth with a new school based course “Harmonious Couple Relationships”

Lead Agency: International Center for Women Rights Protection and Promotion “La Strada”
Research Team: Daniela Misail-Nichitin, Valentina Olaru and Diana Cheianu.

Reports:

• Research Report: Changes caused by the optional course “Harmonious family relationships”, at the level of perceptions, stereotypes and attitudes 
• Summary Report: Changes caused by the optional course “Harmonious family relationships”, at the level of perceptions, stereotypes and attitudes 
• Summary Brief: Reducing gender-based violence through investments in education

Manuals:

• Relatii armonioase in familie: Curriculum pentru clasele a X-a – a XII-a
• Relatii armonioase in familie: Ghidul profesorului
• Relatii armonioase in familie: Suport informaționa
• Relatii armoniase in familie: Caietul elevului

Poster: 

• Preventing gender-based partner violence among youth with a new school-based course: “Harmonious Couple Relationships”

Blog post: 

• Adolescents, gender roles and intimate partner relationships in Moldova
   

Mental health and problem management support for men to reduce incidences of sexual and gender based violence in urban Kenya

Lead agency: World Vision Kenya
Research Team: Phiona Koyiet, Kevina Power, Mary Mugo, Catherine Omenda, William Marwanga, Margaret Njenga and Alison Schafer
 

Journal Article:

• Exploring links between common mental health problems, alcohol/substance use and perpetration of intimate partner violence: A rapid ethnographic assessment with men in urban Kenya

Reports:

• Summary Brief: Reducing violence against women through psychological interventions targeting men
• Pilot Process Evaluation Report

Conference presentation:

• SVRI Forum 2017 Presentation

Poster:

• Mental health and problem management support for men to reduce incidences of sexualand gender-based violence in urban Kenya

Blog posts: 

• Mental health and intimate partner violence in Kenya 
• Supporting Men’s Mental Health to Reduce Gender-Based Violence in Kenya
   

Designing a gender-transformative intervention to involve men and boys in the prevention of IPV against women and girls in rural Uganda

Lead Agency: Rakai Health Sciences Program, Uganda
Research Team: Jennifer A. Wagman, Fred K. Nalugoda, Paul Fleming, Gertrude Nakigozi and Neema Nakyanjo

Journal Article:

• Process evaluation of the SHARE intervention for preventing intimate partner violence and HIV infection in Rakai, Uganda
   

Conference presentation:

• SVRI Forum 2017 Presentation

Poster: 

• Designing a gender-transformative intervention to involve men and boys in the prevention of intimate partner violence against women and girls in rural Uganda

Blog post: 

• A gender-transformative approach to involving men in violence prevention in Uganda ; Engaging men and boys in the prevention of violence against women in Uganda
   

Double vulnerabilities of violence and HIV among women in Brazil: A latent class analysis

Lead Agency: The Regents of the University of California, San Diego
Research Team: Jamila K. Stockman, Kiyomi Tsuyuki, Regina Maria Barbosa and Daniela Knauth

Journal Article:

• Typologies of violence against women in Brazil: A latent class analysis of how violence and HIV intersect

Poster:

• Double vulnerabilities of violence and HIV among women in Brazil: A latent class analysis 

Conference Presentations:

• Double vulnerabilities: violence against women and HIV in south and southeastern, Brazil
• Violence against women is associated with HIV among women in Brazil
• Social ecological determinants of violence among HIV+ women in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre, Brazil: a step beyond latent class analysis

Blogs:

• Examining violence against women and the intersecting HIV epidemic in Brazil
• Gender Based Violence and HIV Infection: Overlapping Epidemics in Brazil
   

Trauma-informed, community-engaged violence prevention for FSWs in Thailand

Lead Agency: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Research Team: Michele Decker, Dusita Phuengsamran and Surang Janyam
 

Poster: 

• Trauma-informed, community-engaged violence prevention for female sex workers in Thailand

Blog: 

• Ending the invisible violence against Thai female sex workers ; Gender-based violence, safety promotion and risk reduction for female sex workers in Thailand: Building the evidence for a marginalised population
   

Masculinidades Y Prevención De La Violencia Sexual

Lead Agency: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University) 
Research Team: Nancy Palomino and Miguel Angel Ramos Padilla
 

Poster: 

• Masculinities and Prevention of Sexual Violence

Book:

• Detrás de la máscara: Varones y violencia sexual en la vida cotidiana

Making sense of early marriage among Syrian refugee girls

Lead Agency: Queen's University at Kingston
Research Team: Susan Bartels, Colleen Davison, Nour Bakhache, Annie Bunting, and Saja Michael

Journal Articles:

• Making sense of child, early and forced marriage among Syrian refugee girls: a mixed methods study in Lebanon 
• Positive worry and negative hope: paradoxical perceptions of the experiences of Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon
• A pilot study of family planning perspectives and practices among Syrian child brides in Lebanon
• Implementation of a SenseMaker® research project among Syrian refugees in Lebanon
• A qualitative analysis of knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of family planning among Syrian refugees in Lebanon
• Continuum of sexual and gender-based violence risks among Syrian refugee women and girls in Lebanon
• Displacement and emotional Well-being among married and unmarried Syrian adolescent girls in Lebanon: An analysis of narratives

Report:

• Caught in contradiction: making sense of child marriage among Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Poster:

• Making sense of early marriage among Syrian refugee girls 

Podcast: 

• Why the World Marries

Blog post:

• Making Sense of Child Marriage in Lebanon
   

Formative research to inform the development of an intervention to prevent intimate partner violence among Syrian refugees in Izmir, Turkey

Lead Agency: Women and Health Alliance International
Research Team: Women and Health Alliance (WAHA) International, Relief Society for Syrian Refugees in Izmir, Harvard Medical School, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
 

Journal Articles: 

• Feasibility and acceptability of mobile phone platforms to deliver interventions to address gender-based violence among Syrian adolescent girls and young women in Izmir, Turkey
• Altered social trajectories and risks of violence among young Syrian women seeking refuge in Turkey: a qualitative study

Poster:

• Formative research to inform the development of an intervention to prevent intimate partner violence among Syrian refugees in Izmir, Turkey

Blog post:

• Let their voices be heard: Qualitative research approaches among Syrian refugees in Greece

The first five projects were supported by funding funnelled through the SVRI.
 

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