Through a competitive selection process the following projects were awarded grants through SVRI Grant 2014:
Project: Primary prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence for male and female adolescents who experience conflict and non-conflict related stressors, DRC
Lead agency: Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Project PI: Prof Nancy Glass
Project outputs:
- Blog: Pigs for Peace and Rabbits for Resilience: Congolese livestock/animal microfinance initiatives
- Journal Articles:
- Research Brief: Preventing risky behaviours among adolescents in conflict-affected communities
- Conference Presentations:
- Rabbits for Resilience – DRC microfinance/productive asset program with parent and young adolescent collaboration to strengthen economic security, health and relationships
- The impact of a youth-parent asset transfer program in DRC on mental health, food security and school attendance
Project: Development of an early parenting intervention to promote and support effective parenting practices in South Africa
Lead agency: Health Economics HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu Natal
Project PI: Dr Tamaryn Crankshaw
Project outputs:
- Blog: Sikhula ndawonye – developing an early parenting intervention for women with infants <12 months of age
- Video: Sikhula Ndawonye Video Series
- Summary Brief: Parenting interventions
Project: Identifying the causal effect of education on adult women’s experience of intimate partner violence and forced sex in Malawi & Uganda
Lead Agency: The Research Foundation of SUNY – SUNY at Stony Brook University
Project PIs: Julia Behrman, Amber Peterman, and Tia Palermo
Project outputs:
- Journal Article: Does keeping adolescent girls in school protect against sexual violence? quasi-experimental evidence from East and Southern Africa
- Policy Brief: Does keeping adolescent girls in school protect against sexual violence? quasi-experimental evidence from East and Southern Africa
- Summary Brief: Does education affect women’s likelihood of experiencing sexual and intimate partner violence?
- Conference Presentation: Effect of education on women’s experience of intimate partner violence: universal primary education as a natural experiment in Malawi and Uganda
Project: A mixed-methods study to test the effectiveness of TEVAW
Lead agency: World Education Inc. /Bantwana Initiative
Project PIs: Associate Prof Lisa Messersmith and Research Assistant Prof Nafisa Halim
Project outputs:
- Baseline Report: A mixed methods study to test the preliminary effect of World Education’s Together to End Violence Against Women (TEVAW), a program to address intimate partner violence in Northern Tanzania
- Facilitator’s Guides: Community dialogues on gender based violence ; Male peer groups
- Research Articles:
- Together to end violence against women in Tanzania: Results of a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate preliminary effectiveness of interpersonal and community level interventions to address intimate partner violence
- Prevention and mitigation of intimate-partner violence: the role of community leaders in Tanzania
- Variability and validity of intimate partner violence reporting by couples in Tanzania
- Childhood trauma, gender inequitable attitudes, alcohol use and multiple sexual partners: correlates of intimate partner violence in Northern Tanzania
- Research Brief: What can be done to prevent intimate partner violence?
- Summary Brief: Assessing the effectiveness of the Together to End Violence Against Women programme in reducing intimate partner violence
- Study Final Report: A mixed methods study to test the preliminary effect of World Education’s Together to End Violence Against Women (TEVAW), a program to address intimate partner violence in Northern Tanzania
- Technical Brief: Together to End Violence Against Women
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