This presentation given by the Stanford Gender-Based Violence Prevention Collaborative presents a matched-set, cluster-randomised trial of upper-primary students in the unplanned settlements around Nairobi, Kenya. The intervention features parallel boys and girls curriculums delivered in a classroom environment. There are six sessions, two hours per session, featuring group-based, roleplaying and situational practice. The girls’ program is a four-pronged approach: empowerment, situational awareness, verbal skills, physical self-defense skills. Boys’ program focuses on positive masculinity and, for older adolescents, includes bystander-intervention training.

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Dr. Tirhani Manganyi

South African Medical Research Council
Dr. Tirhani Manganyi is a South African national with over 15 years of experience in international development, research and grants acquisition and management (GAM).

Email

Stacey Scriver, Project Coordinator: Stacey.scriver@nuigalway.ie

Our Technical Advisory Group is comprised of global experts on gender equality, research methodologies, economics and costing studies, and research dissemination. They advise the research team and support us in research uptake.

• Chair: Prof Maria Floro, American University
• Dr. Aristides Alfredo Vara-Horno, San Martin de Porres University
• Dr. Quentin Wodon, World Bank
• Liz Ford, Guardian Global Development
• Dr. Anne Byrne, NUI Galway
• Dr. Kristen Dunkle, Emory University, Atlanta

In each of our three research countries, a National Advisory Board has been established, made up of key national, provincial and local stakeholders. Members of the NABs will ensure that the research is adequately implemented in the local context, and they will carry out research dissemination to ensure that the research is used to advocate for change.

Pakistan

• Mrs.‏ Mahtab Akbar Rashdi, Member of Provincial Assembly (PML-F)
• Ms. Khawar Mumtaz, Chairperson, National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW)
• Dr. Yasmin Zaidi Ph.D, Director, Centre for Gender & Policy Studies
• Ms. Farhat Shaikh, Gender Advisor, CIDA-PSU
• Ms. Fauzia Viqar, Chairperson, Provincial Commission on the Status of Women, Punjab
• Mr. Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui, Inspector General of Sindh Police (Rt.)
• Ms. Kausar S. Khan, Associate Professor, Aga Khan University, Karachi
• Ms. Afiya S. Zia, Independent Gender Expert
• Dr. Aisha Ghaus-Pasha, Finance Minister, Province of Punjab
• Ms. Nazish Brohi, Social Sector Consultant
• Dr. Saba Gul Khattak, World Bank
• Katja Jobe (Senior Social Development Advisor /Team Leader Democracy & Accountability), DFID

Ghana

• Nana Oye Lithur, Honourable Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection
• Fauzia Issaka, DfID
• Lynne Henderson, DfID
• Elizabeth Asante, ISSER
• ACP Habiba Twumasi-Sarpong, DoVVSU/ Police
• Felix Asante (observer), ISSER
• Dr. Lilian Anyete-Nyampong, CHRAJ
• Dr. Philomena Nyarko, GSS
• Anthony Amuzu, GSS
• Daniel Degbotse, Ministry of Health
• Ruth Grant, NETRIGHT
• Victoria Natsu, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection
• William Mensah (observer), IPSOS Ghana
• Dr. Ama Pokuaa Fenny (observer), ISSER
• Hilary Gbedemah, The Law Institute
• Dr. Adolphina Addo-Lartey (observer), School of Public Health, UG
• Hon. John Alexander Ackon MoGCSP
• Patience Opoku, MoGCSP
• Abdul-Razak Unun, MoGCSP
• Efua Anyanful, MoGCSP
• Dorcas Coker-Appiah, Gender Studies and HRD Centre
• Annalise Caperella, UNICEF
• Vaonice Svati, UNICEF

South Sudan

• DFID South Sudan
• South Sudan Women’s Empowerment Network (SSWEN)
• EVE Organisation for Women Development
• Juba Teaching Hospital (JTH)
• UNICEF South Sudan
• UNFPA

The research in each country is facilitated and implemented by local institutions, experts in the national context as well as in research implementation.

National University of Ireland Galway

The Centre for Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway, part of the School of Sociology and Political Science, is committed to the development of gender-focused research across a range of issues and disciplines.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Nata Duvvury, Principal Investigator, Senior Lecturer/Director, Centre for Global Women’s Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway

NUI Galway Team Members

• Dr. Srinivas Raghavendra, Lecturer, School of Economics, NUI Galway
• Dr. Diarmuid O’Donovan, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, NUI Galway
• Dr. Stacey Scriver, Post-Doctoral Researcher and Project Coordinator, Global Women’s Studies, NUI Galway
• Ms. Sinead Ashe, Post-Doctoral Researcher and Project Coordinator, Global Women’s Studies, NUI Galway
• Ms. Carol Ballantine, PhD candidate, Global Women’s Studies, NUI Galway
• Mr. Muhammad Sabir, PhD candidate, Global Women’s Studies, NUI Galway

Ipsos Mori

Ipsos is amongst the best known and most highly respected research organisations in the world, with a global presence across 86 countries. Each year Ipsos conducts research in more than 120 countries, working across national offices and with tried and tested local partners in-country. Ipsos is known for the quality of its research solutions and ability to offer first-class, robust and insightful findings.

Team Members, London Office

• Sara Grant-Vest, Director of International Social Research
• John Kennedy, Associate Director,

International Center for Research On Women

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a private, non-profit organization with a mission to empower women, advance gender equality and fight poverty in the developing world. To accomplish this, ICRW works with partners worldwide to conduct empirical research, provide technical services, build capacity and advocate for evidence-based, practical ways to improve policies and programmes.

Team Members

• Dr. Gina Alvarado: Sociologist, Violence Rights and Inclusion
• Jennifer Mueller: Program Associate, Violence Rights and Inclusion

Pakistan

Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC)
Established in 1995, the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), a non-profit research think tank, has made a significant intellectual contribution in placing issues of pro-poor growth and social development on Pakistan's policy-making agenda. SPDC focuses on four key areas for research and analysis: macroeconomy and public finance; poverty; gender; and governance. The Centre provides technical guidance to the government to adopt gender responsive budgeting at all levels.

Project Lead: Prof. Khalida Ghaus

Ghana

The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)
ISSER currently serves as the research wing under the College of Humanities, University of Ghana and engages in a number of policy relevant research whose findings are intended to help policy makers on the best policy decisions to make for national development. The Institute produces the annual State of the Ghanaian Economy report, as well as a series of peer-reviewed technical publications.

Project Lead: Prof Felix Asante

South Sudan

Dr. Khalifa Elmusharaf is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at University of Limerick. He has more than fifteen years of experience as obstetrician, researcher, project manager, lecturer and health system specialist in academia, ministries of health, and International organizations. He is a consultant in public health, biostatistics, and research methods, with experience in community based initiatives, participatory ethnographic evaluation & research, innovative qualitative research, and community readiness assessment.

Project Lead: Dr. Khalifa Elmusharaf

This study will capture the economic and social impacts of violence against women and girls on individuals, households, communities and whole countries. It focuses on Pakistan, Ghana and South Sudan, but its findings will have relevance for all low and middle income countries, including those experiencing violent conflict. We are devising new tools to assess the impacts of violence on societies. Our research will provide strong evidence of the cost of inaction on VAWG, in order to inform policies and budgets of governments and businesses. At present, such evidence is lacking, particularly at the macro level, and in low and middle income countries.

Project description

The linkages between violence against women and girls and economic outcomes are relatively clear at the theoretical level; however, there is a lack of comprehensive estimates of the economic and social impacts of VAWG that can capture direct tangible, direct intangible and indirect tangible costs at the household, business, community and national level. Further, there is a need for more standardized guidance to measuring economic and social costs particularly in low and middle income countries. Through this project, we aim to fill these gaps.  The project led by NUI Galway, in collaboration with Ipsos MORI and ICRW takes a multi-disciplinary, mixed methods approach that integrates quantitative and qualitative research with innovative economic analysis to derive social and economic costs of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in three fragile, conflict affected and/or low-middle income states. By guiding public policy, empirical research and evidence on the economic and social costs of VAWG will strengthen the argument for resources to implement laws, provide health and social support services and to mobilize communities to shift the social norms that underpin VAWG.

Rationale for costing studies

The primary objectives of this work is to generate knowledge and evidence on the economic and social costs of violence against women and girls to be used to inform policies and to advance the frontier in quantitative and qualitative research methods.

           Strong evidence on the economic and social costs of violence against women is crucial to underscore the significant consequences of inaction. Evidence on the wide-ranging economic and social costs can influence governments, donors, NGOs and the private sector to increase investment, strengthen global and national policy and improve collaboration to address violence against women and girls.

There are an increasing number of studies that show that violence against women places significant burdens on individuals, governments and economies, including a 2003 report from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention that estimates that the costs of intimate partner violence in the United States alone exceeded USD 5.8 billion per year while a more recent study conducted in Australia in 2009 by the National Council to Reduce Violence, in collaboration with KPMG, estimated that violence against women and their children cost the Australian economy an estimated $13.6 billion in that year alone. A number of developing and middle-income countries have also conducted costing exercises of violence, including Fiji, Macedonia, Uganda, Nicaragua and Chile, and Vietnam using various methodologies.

There is growing interest to estimate the socio-economic impact of violence against women in many parts of the world. In Fiji, a costing exercise completed by the University of the South Pacific (USP) concluded that family violence cost the government $498 million FJD in 2011 and in Vietnam a costing study on domestic violence against women estimated the loss of productivity, out-of-pocket expenditures, and foregone income for households came to about 3.19% of GDP.

Strong evidence on the economic and social costs of violence against women is crucial to underscore the significant consequences of inaction. Evidence on the wide-ranging economic and social costs can influence governments, donors, NGOs and the private sector to increase investment, strengthen global and national policy and improve collaboration to address violence against women and girls.

Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) were established to support Component 2’s studies in Kenya and South Sudan.

The main purpose of the TAGs is to provide technical input on research questions, ethical and safety measures, and dissemination and uptake strategies. Members are drawn from UN agencies, humanitarian organisations, government ministries, research institutions, I/NGO’s, women’s and civil society organisations and other stakeholders working on VAWG with experience in research and developing policy.

The members of the TAG include amongst them the following areas of knowledge and experience: knowledge of VAWG and gender issues in conflict; ability to extend the impact of the research through promoting research outputs and their translation into policy and practice; understanding and experience in developing research; and experience in developing, implementing and evaluating interventions on VAWG.

Kenya

Current membership includes representatives from the following organisations:

• Department of African Women's Studies Centre (University of Nairobi)
• DFID Kenya
• Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA-K)
• Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC)
• Global Consult Ltd.
• Institute of Anthropology,  Gender and African Studies (IAGAS) (University of Nairobi)
• LVCT Health
• National Gender and Equality  Commission (NGEC)
• Population Council
• UNHCR Dadaab
• UNICEF Kenya

South Sudan

Current membership includes representatives from the following organisations:-         

• DFID South Sudan
• South Sudan Women’s Empowerment Network (SSWEN)
• EVE Organisation for Women Development
• Juba Teaching Hospital (JTH)
• UNICEF South Sudan
• UNFPA

Component 2 is led by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). For any queries please contact us via:

Email

whatworkscomp2@rescue.org

Mail

The What Works project
International Rescue Committee
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London
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United Kingdom