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Gender-Based Violence

Our role on GBV prevention and response
 

An image of women's hands palm-faced down touching fingertips in a circular position. Our global Gender-Based Violence (GBV) team provides strategic technical support to actors across the GBV ecosystem from donors to community-level women-led organisations. We are a multi-disciplinary team delivering programme design and implementation support, advocacy, research reports, MEL and helpdesk services.

Our team aspires to apply our feminist principles in all our work and to support sustained and transformative change. We partner with diverse stakeholders and we take an intersectional approach to our work on GBV prevention and response across development and humanitarian contexts.

Our work includes primary prevention programming, community-level response to GBV and SEAH, school-related GBV, GBV in Emergencies, Technology-Facilitated GBV, Violence against LGBTQI+ communities, and GBV in Climate and Economic programming.

Read more about our current work or search our extensive GBV Resource Library below.


GBV Resource Library

 

Our library of resources on GBV prevention and response contains over 300 documents including guidance notes, programming tools, research and practice-based learning from previous and current programmes.
 

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If you would like to hear more about our work on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), please reach out to Tina Musuya, Head of the GBV Portfolio, tina.musuya@sddirect.org.uk.

Further Resources on GBV Prevention and Response

Tip Sheet: Ensuring Attention to GBV in Anticipatory Action

This tip sheet, which updates and provides a summary of a longer report on GBV and anticipatory action, is meant to serve as a primer on anticipatory action for GBV actors and those supporting GBV risk mitigation interventions. The research query on GBV and anticipatory action remains an important reference for more detailed information and includes case studies, see Jay, H. (2021).

مستند نصائح: ما معنى التركيز على الناجيات في تنفيذ برامج العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي في حالات الطوارئ؟

تقدم هذه الورقة الإرشادية لمحة عامة عن النهج الذي يركز على الناجيات ولماذا وكيف ينبغي استخدامه في جميع أنواع ومراحل برمجة العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي في حالات الطوارئ.

Fiche de conseil: Que signifie « axé sur les survivantes » dans la mise en œuvre du programme de lutte contre la violence basée sur le genre dans les situations d'urgence ?

Cette fiche de conseil donne un aperçu de l'approche centrée sur les survivant(e)s et explique pourquoi et comment elle doit être utilisée pour tous les types et toutes les phases de la programmation de la lutte contre la violence du genre dans les situations d'urgence.

Ficha de consejos: ¿Qué significa enfocado en la sobreviviente en la ejecución de la programación sobre la violencia basada en el género en contextos de emergencia?

Esta hoja de consejos ofrece una visión general del enfoque centrado en el superviviente y explica por qué y cómo debe utilizarse en todos los tipos y fases de la programación de la violencia de género en situaciones de emergencia.

Annotated Bibliography: Collective Care Processes and Practices

Collective care is a strategy that can be used by gender-based violence (GBV) programmers, researchers, activists, and other GBV specialists to sustain each other in work to prevent and respond to GBV in emergencies. This annotated bibliography provides an overview of relevant literature and material (including articles, blogs and podcasts) on this topic, to signpost those working on GBV in emergencies to relevant sources of information. The GBV AoR Helpdesk has also produced a tip sheet that provides additional information on collective care.

Evidence Review: A Summary of the Links between Intimate Partner Violence, Military Personnel and Veterans

This evidence review synthesizes the available literature and data relating to linkages between intimate partner violence (IPV) and military active-duty personnel and veterans in relation to their perpetration and experiences of intimate partner violence. As part of this review the GBV AoR Helpdesk also explored data on military and mental health issues (such as substance use disorders (SUD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other factors which may interplay with, or be exacerbating factors for, IPV.

Effective Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in GBViE Programming

This note reviews the basics of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and describes some of the ethical considerations crucial to effective monitoring and evaluation of GBV programs. It summarizes approaches for ensuring participation and leadership of women and girls in MEL processes. It then highlights the basics of developing a MEL framework. The guidance note concludes with a list of additional resources for those interested in accessing more information on this important topic.