Addressing Gender-Based Violence

This article highlights the progress in building a knowledge base on effective ways to increase access to justice for women who have experienced gender-based violence, offer quality services to survivors, and reduce levels of gender-based violence. While recognizing the limited number of high-qualit...

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Main Authors:	Morrison, Andrew, Ellsberg, Mary, Bott, Sarah
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	anxiety crime decision making depression diabetes health effects injuries laws mental mental health mortality rape risk factors sexual violence sexually transmitted infections social services socialization suicide victims violence
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4403

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spelling	okr-10986-44032021-04-23T14:02:17Z Addressing Gender-Based Violence Morrison, Andrew Ellsberg, Mary Bott, Sarah anxiety crime decision making depression diabetes health effects injuries laws mental mental health mortality rape risk factors sexual violence sexually transmitted infections social services socialization suicide victims violence This article highlights the progress in building a knowledge base on effective ways to increase access to justice for women who have experienced gender-based violence, offer quality services to survivors, and reduce levels of gender-based violence. While recognizing the limited number of high-quality studies on program effectiveness, this review of the literature highlights emerging good practices. Much progress has recently been made in measuring gender-based violence, most notably through a World Health Organization multicountry study and Demographic and Health Surveys. Even so, country coverage is still limited, and much of the information from other data sources cannot be meaningfully compared because of differences in how intimate partner violence is measured and reported. The dearth of high-quality evaluations means that policy recommendations in the short run must be based on emerging evidence in developing economies (process evaluations, qualitative evaluations, and imperfectly designed impact evaluations) and on more rigorous impact evaluations from developed countries. 2012-03-30T07:12:32Z 2012-03-30T07:12:32Z 2007-03-01 Journal Article World Bank Research Observer 1564-6971 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4403 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean
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description	This article highlights the progress in building a knowledge base on effective ways to increase access to justice for women who have experienced gender-based violence, offer quality services to survivors, and reduce levels of gender-based violence. While recognizing the limited number of high-quality studies on program effectiveness, this review of the literature highlights emerging good practices. Much progress has recently been made in measuring gender-based violence, most notably through a World Health Organization multicountry study and Demographic and Health Surveys. Even so, country coverage is still limited, and much of the information from other data sources cannot be meaningfully compared because of differences in how intimate partner violence is measured and reported. The dearth of high-quality evaluations means that policy recommendations in the short run must be based on emerging evidence in developing economies (process evaluations, qualitative evaluations, and imperfectly designed impact evaluations) and on more rigorous impact evaluations from developed countries.
format	Journal Article
author	Morrison, Andrew Ellsberg, Mary Bott, Sarah
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title	Addressing Gender-Based Violence
title_short	Addressing Gender-Based Violence
title_full	Addressing Gender-Based Violence
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publisher	World Bank
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Addressing Gender-Based Violence

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