Gender-Based Violence

This evidence digest summarizes research on the nature and effectiveness of interventions with perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) aimed at reducing future perpetration.

This learning brief seeks to capture reflections from the field and summarise some of the common challenges related to researching GBV in humanitarian settings, particularly in terms of core ethics.

This short briefing note focuses on how to handle requests to share GBVIMS data with development and humanitarian actors who are not signatory to the Inter-Agency Information Sharing Protocol.

This note aims to provide practical support in Spanish to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) practitioners to adapt GBV case management service delivery models quickly and ethically during the COVID-19 pandemic. See below for versions in Arabic, Spanish, and English.

This report discusses risks for women frontline healthcare workers in the COVID-19 response and proposes actions for mitigating these risks. Data suggests that the majority of frontline healthcare workers in the COVID-19 response are women.

This document provides guidance to frontline child protection workers to help them effectively and safely support displaced girls who have experienced GBV and boys who have experienced sexual violence crossing international borders.

Despite the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) commitment to achieve universal legal identity, over 110 low and middle-income countries lack fully functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems.

The withdrawal of Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) services will directly affect the lives of women and girls. Failing to engage local women and girls in discussions about sustainability of services goes against WGSS goals and principles and can jeopardize women and girls'  safety.

This report is based on an online desk review of programming approaches and evidence relevant for preventing sexual harassment - specifically sexual harassment in public space, sometimes referred to as 'street harassment' - in humanitarian settings.

This report details the impact of COVID-19 on female migrant domestic workers in the Middle East, paying particular attention to their vulnerability to GBV and the challenges they face in accessing services. This version has been translated into Arabic.