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Engaging Men and Boys to Reduce Violence against Women
ICRW is working with partners worldwide to promote positive gender attitudes among men to reduce violence and empower women, building the evidence base on how to engage men and boys in achieving gender equality.
Engaging Men to End Gender-based Violence
ICRW, Instituto Promundo and local partners are implementing and evaluating a two-part intervention to address the social contexts of violence in Brazil, Chile, India and Rwanda. These interventions will encourage men to question rigid norms of masculinity and launch public education campaigns portraying men in nonviolent ways.
Funded by the U.N. Trust Fund.
Partners for Prevention
ICRW is collaborating with U.N. agencies on its “Partners for Prevention” initiative in South Asia to devise strategies for engaging men in programs to prevent violence against women in Cambodia and Pakistan.
Funded by UNDP Colombo.
Gender-based Violence in the Balkans
ICRW is working with CARE in post-conflict countries in the Balkans to decrease violence among young men through the Young Men Initiative, implemented through school-based workshops that confront social norms around masculinity to reduce violence and increase gender-equitable attitudes.
Funded by CARE Balkans.
MenEngage
ICRW co-chairs MenEngage, a global alliance of nongovernmental organizations and U.N. agencies that seeks to engage boys and men to achieve gender equality. MenEngage came together in 2004 with the goal of working in partnership to promote the engagement of men and boys in achieving gender equality, promoting health and reducing violence at the global level, including questioning the structural barriers to achieving gender equality.
Property Rights and Domestic Violence
Women own a mere 15 percent of land worldwide, but evidence suggests that strengthening women's property rights can provide some protection from both violence and the impact of AIDS.
ICRW research in Kerala, India, found 49 percent of women with no property experience domestic violence compared with 7 percent of women who did own property.
Building on evidence from our work in South Asia, ICRW collaborated with Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa and Associates for Development in Uganda to explore the links between women's ownership of housing and land and their vulnerability to domestic violence and HIV and AIDS. This project was funded by the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
The Costs of Violence
Economic, health and social costs of violence against women are largely undocumented and unrecognized by policy-makers. ICRW and its partners – Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Hassan II University in Morocco and Economic Policy Research Centre in Uganda – with support from UNFPA, undertook a three-country study to estimate the costs of violence.
This groundbreaking work adds a new dimension to the growing body of evidence that calls for urgent action to end violence against women.
Intimate Partner Violence: High Costs to Households and Communities (Report). 
Intimate Partner Violence: High Costs to Households and Communities (Overview).
Data on the economic costs and broader welfare impacts of violence against women in developing countries is scarce. ICRW developed a methodology to estimate the costs of violence that can be adapted to the realities of developing countries.
ICRW and its partners field tested this methodology to estimate the costs and impacts of violence to households and communities. A resource guide, Estimating the Costs and Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence in Developing Countries, can be used to replicate similar studies. This guide:
- Reviews findings from the literature on the economic costs of intimate partner violence, with a focus on studies in developing countries
- Describes aspects of a methodology that can be used in developing country contexts to estimate the economic costs of intimate partner violence to households and their communities and establish its impact on individual and household welfare
- Discusses the experiences from Bangladesh, Morocco and Uganda where the methodology was field tested
- Includes data collection instruments used in the study
Activists, advocates and researchers can use this guide to establish findings with empirical rigor and engage with communities and governments to comprehensively address violence against women by committing the required financial, human and social resources.
Estimating the Costs and Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence in Developing Countries (Guide).
Stigma and Violence Reduction Toolkit for Health Care Providers
HIV and AIDS and violence against women are worldwide epidemics. Unfortunately, health care workers often exhibit stigmatizing attitudes and discriminatory behaviors against women who either are living with HIV or have experienced violence. In response, ICRW developed and tested a toolkit to reduce HIV-related stigma and increase tolerance of gender-based violence among health care providers in Ichapuram, Andhra Pradesh. The toolkit and accompanying training are also being rolled out in the rural district of Srikakulam to develop a cadre of health care providers equipped to address HIV-related stigma and gender-based violence.
Funded by Levi Strauss Foundation
Reducing HIV Stigma and Gender-Based Violence: Toolkit for Health Care Providers in India.
Intimate Partner Violence Prevention in Southeast Asia
The Intimate Partner Violence Prevention in Southeast Asia project evaluates a gender-based violence prevention campaign in India. Research from earlier ICRW studies informed public education campaigns that helped prompt 2005 legislation toward ending domestic violence in India. For this project, ICRW will monitor and evaluate a three-year, multi-pronged campaign by the Indian charitable organization, The Breakthrough Trust, to reduce women’s vulnerability to HIV and gender-based violence, particularly violence among intimate or domestic partners.
The evaluation will assess the campaign’s effectiveness at reducing violence against women and reaching key audiences by tracking behavioral changes among community members, peer educators and HIV-positive women.
Funded by the CDC Foundation.
Intimate Partner Violence Prevention in Southeast Asia (Press Release).