This year, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) and World Bank Group are granting competitive funds to 11 research institutions to design, implement, and capture results of new violence against women solutions around the globe. The winners are as follows:
Family and community violence prevention and response study in Papua New Guinea
Lead Agency: Oxfam Ireland
PI: Niamh Carty
Project outputs:
Evaluating police intervention in intimate partner violence cases: An experimental impact assessment of the Home Visits Program in Peru
Lead Agency: Grupo De Análisis Para El Desarrollo
PI: Wilson Hernandez
Project outputs:
Examining the potential of comprehensive sexuality education for intimate partner violence prevention among young people in Mexico City
Lead Agency: International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
Partners: LSHTM, Mexfam
PIs: Shelly Makleff and Susana Medina Salas
Project outputs:
- Journal Articles:
- Makleff, S., Billowitz, M., Garduño, J., Cruz, M., Silva Márquez, V.I., Marston, C. (2020). Applying a complex adaptive systems approach to the evaluation of a school-based intervention for intimate partner violence prevention in Mexico. Health Policy and Planning, 35(8): 993–1002.
- Makleff S, Garduño J, Zavala RI, Valades J, Barindelli F, Cruz M, Marston C. (2021). Evaluating complex interventions using qualitative longitudinal research: A case study of understanding pathways to violence prevention. Qualitative Health Research.
- Briefs:
- Policy Brief #1 Comprehensive sexuality education as a strategy for preventing intimate partner violence among adolescents
- Policy Brief #1: Educación integral de la sexualidad como estrategia para prevenir la violencia en la pareja entre adolescentes
- Policy Brief #2: Assessing the potential of comprehensive sexuality education for intimate partner violence prevention among adolescents in Mexico City
- Policy Brief #2: Evaluación del potencial de la educación integral de la sexualidad para la prevención de la violencia de pareja entre adolescentes en la ciudad de México
- Policy Brief #3: Scaling-up Comprehensive Sexuality Education an intimate partner violence prevention strategy on a large scale
- Policy Brief #3: Ampliación de la educación sexual integral una estrategia a gran escala de prevención de la violencia en la pareja
- Posters:
- Conference Presentations:
- Podcasts:
- Blog posts:
- The scope of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the identification, reflection, and care of survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
- El alcance de la Educación Integral en Sexualidad (EIS) en la identificación, reflexión y atención a víctimas de Violencia Íntima en la Pareja (VIP)
- Comprehensive Sexuality Education to prevent intimate partner violence among adolescents and youth
- La Educación Integral en Sexualidad (EIS) como una herramienta transformadora de las normas de género
- Website:
Comprehensive sexuality education for partner violence prevention: a school-based evaluation in Mexico City | LSHTM
A media experiment to reduce intimate partner violence in Bangladesh
Lead Agency: BRAC University
PI: Paula Lopez, Atonu Rabbani and Nina Buchmann
Project outputs
Upscaling evidence based health systems response to violence against women and children in 11 public hospitals in Mumbai: Review of its implementation
Lead Agency: Anusandhan Trust
PI: Sangeeta Rege
Project outputs:
- Posters: What facilitates the scale up of a public health sector VAW response programme?
- Blog posts:
Addressing women’s safety needs during lockdown in India
Coping with the ‘Shadow Pandemic’: Responding to Violence against Women during COVID-19
MUKTA: A journey from dark to dawn – A doctor’s experience of responding to violence against women in India
Scaling up Dilaasa - How health care systems are helping women facing violence in India - Films: Strengthening health systems response to violence against women in Indian hospitals
- Report: Upscaling evidence based health systems response to violence against women and children in eleven public hospitals in Mumbai: Review of its implementation
- Presentation: Health sector responses to VAW in India: CEHAT & ICRW
- Journal article: Redressing violence against women in COVID 19: Experiences of hospital-based centres in Mumbai, India
- Newspaper article: “Violence against women is a public health issue.”
Promoting female empowerment and preventing violence (IPV) through a multi-sectoral intervention targeting couples in Ibadan, Nigeria
Lead Agency: College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
PIs: Ayodeji Adebayo and Neetu John
Project outputs:
Examining the effectiveness of MediCapt: Mobile collection of forensic evidence of sexual violence in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lead Agency: Physicians for Human Rights
PI: Katy Johnson
Project outputs:
- Posters: Examining the effectiveness of MediCapt: Mobile collection of forensic evidence of sexual violence in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dialogues Virtuels / The Digital Dialogue Series - Blog: Centering survivors in technology for addressing sexual violence: The case of MediCapt
- SVRI Forum 2022 Five Minute Presentation: Improving forensic documentation of sexual violence: an evaluation of MediCapt
Developing culturally appropriate responses to gender-based violence (GBV) from help-seeking to safety planning and intervention: Adapting myPlan for Kyrgyzstan
Lead Agency: Arizona State University School of Social Work, Office of Gender-based Violence
PI: Jill Messing
Project outputs:
- Posters: Developing culturally appropriate responses to gender-based violence (GBV) from helpseeking to safety planning and intervention: Adapting myPlan for Kyrgyz Republic
- SVRI Forum 2022 presentation: Adapting myPlan for Kyrgyzstan: understanding women’s priorities when they are in unsafe intimate relationships
Harnessing the power of social networks to create positive change in norms and attitudes towards SGBV among youth in Jordan
Lead Agency: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
PIs: Langer Ana
Project outputs:
Engendering policing: Evaluating reforms to increase women’s access to security and justice
Lead Agency: Institute for Financial Management and Research
PIs: Sandip Sukhtankar, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Akshay Mangla
Project outputs:
- Posters: Engendering policing: Evaluating reforms to increase women’s access to security and justice
- Journal article: Policing in patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India
How to make actions taken by companies to prevent violence against women sustainable: An evaluation model to measure the economic impacts of prevention actions in companies
Lead Agency: University of San Martín de Porres, Instituto de Investigación
PIs: Alberto Díaz Rosillo, Zaida Beatríz Asencios González, Inés Fanny Santi Huaranca Christin Schulze
Project outputs:
The first five projects are supported by funding funneled through the SVRI.
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