Photo: Women protest discriminatory rape laws in Pakistan   

International Day for the Elimination
of Violence Against Women
25 November 2009

How can development partners contribute to reducing violence?

Gender-based violence is a major public health and human rights problem throughout the world. Gender-based violence both reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women. It encompasses a wide range of human rights violations, including sexual abuse of children, rape, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, trafficking of women and girls and harmful traditional practices.

Findings from featured evaluations:

• Addressing gender violence is central to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and reducing poverty, but is too often not strategically addressed in practice   Read more...
• A study of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives found that the agency lacked understanding of Afghanistan’s gender issues, despite the fact that helping Afghan women was a key objective of the US intervention. As a result, there was no strategy to ensure women benefited from projects and the initiative didn't capitalize on Afghans’ desire for political change. Read more...
• Gender based violence occurs because of a perceived unequal power relationship and while it affects both males and females, women are disproportionately affected. Improving health care, police and legal responses to violence will help women, men and children fufill their rights to administrative action and justice. Read more on institutional responses in South Africa...  and integrated responses to family violence in Central America

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LATEST REPORTS AVAILABLE ON DEReC

Joint Evaluation of the Secondary Education support Programme

05-Oct-2009, Published by Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Danida, Denmark

The overall objective of the evaluation is to contribute to the design of effective secondary education reform measures and intervention strategies.

A Synthesis of Evaluations of Environmental Development Assistance by Multilateral Organisations

01-Sep-2009, Published by Norway

This synthesis study is based on a number of evaluations and specialised articles by a selection of multilateral organisations engaged in environmental assistance.

Synthesis of impact evaluations in sexual and reproductive health and rights

18-Aug-2009, Published by IOB, Netherlands

This synthesis provides an overview of recent impact studies in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).