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Cooperating Agency Activities Related to Domestic/Intimate-Partner Violence and Reproductive Health (funding for the listed activities is from USAID as well as other sources) Organization CARE Materials Project brief Type Gender and HIV/AIDS Activity Bangladesh: The connections between HIV/AIDS and violence are being explored from a human rights perspective in order to reduce vulnerabilities. Research, partnering with sex workers and IDUs, forming indigenous collectives, community mobilization, capacity building represent the key strategies undertaken. Bangladesh: To reduce maternal deaths in Dinajpur, a VAW prevention initiative was undertaken as a part of a larger safe motherhood project. The objective is to ensure services for all girls/women subjected to violence who seek health services at the sub-district level. This is accomplished through community mobilization by developing community alliances, building civil society, empowering women and influencing local governance systems. Eritrea: Partnership with local NGO uses integrated community development approach to raise awareness and sensitize health care providers in repatriated refugee communities. Kenya: Strengthen community awareness and coordinate mechanisms to address rape and other violent assault in refugee setting. Program includes training of service providers, income generation for vulnerable women, using refugee outreach workers to work with local committees and communities on violence issues, referring and accompanying cases for medical and legal aid. Kosovo: understand prevalence of D&IPV and develop strategy to raise awareness; partner with local organizations; mass media campaign. Contact Veronica Magar Phone: 66 2 5761552-4 Email: magar@care.org Veronica Magar Phone: 66 2 5761552-4 Email: magar@care.org CARE 1. Study on masculinities 2. Project Brief D&IPV; MH CARE Project brief Refugees Doris Bartel Phone: 202-595-2804 Email: dbartel@dc.care.org Doris Bartel Phone: 202-595-2804 Email: dbartel@dc.care.org CARE Refugees CARE Project brief D&IPV Doris Bartel Phone: 202-595-2804 Email: dbartel@dc.care.org D&IPV—domestic and intimate partner violence; DV– domestic violence; GBV—gender-based violence; FP—family planning; IDU—injection drug use; IEC—information, education, Communication; NGO—non-governmental organization; MOH—ministry of health; MH—maternal health; PAC-post-abortion care; RH—reproductive health; SV— sexual violence; VAW—violence against women. Organization CARE Materials Project brief Type D&IPV; FP and RH Activity Tajikistan: Use FP and RH as an entry point to address violence. Work in partnership with local NGOs to build their technical capacity address gender inequities and violence through raising awareness, empowering communities, working with the special groups such as the militia, credit groups and development of an IEC strategy. Zambia: Strengthen community awareness and coordinated response mechanisms to DV & rape in refugee setting. Program includes training for health workers, police, protection units, and coordinated meetings among stakeholders. Zambia: Work with community governance structures in Lusaka’s peri-urban slums to enhance gender awareness. Training of community leaders and development of a gender leadership group facilitated gender support groups that act as informal dispute resolution mechanisms and intervene in gender violence cases. Data Collection – Incorporation of country-specific questions related to GBV where surveys are administered to reproductive-age women (Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique Paraguay, Romania, Zimbabwe) Developing prevalence data tool for conflict-affected populations that will be used in the SGBV tool kit and guidelines. Field tests begin June 2002 (in Kosovo and East Timor) with tool distribution in late fall. Thailand: RH survey among Burmese refugee women Contact Veronica Magar Phone: 66 2 5761552-4 Email: magar@care.org CARE Project brief Refugees Doris Bartel Phone: 202-595-2804 Email: dbartel@dc.care.org Elisa Martinez Email: emartinez@care.org CARE Project brief D&IPV Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Reports General Tim Johnson jtj2@cdc.gov CDC Refugees Mary Kay Larson mil2@cdc.gov D&IPV—domestic and intimate partner violence; DV– domestic violence; GBV—gender-based violence; FP—family planning; IDU—injection drug use; IEC—information, education, Communication; NGO—non-governmental organization; MOH—ministry of health; MH—maternal health; PAC-post-abortion care; RH—reproductive health; SV— sexual violence; VAW—violence against women. Organization Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS)/MACRO Materials Analytical report on DV+ linkages to RH, available by late summer Type General Activity Data Collection, Training, and Dissemination. Data Collection – prevalence of DV as reported by women available for 11 countries. Data on attitudes towards acceptance on spousal violence available for 20 countries (women) and 8 countries (men). Data on sexual violence by husbands available for 5 countries. Training is done through a 3 week gender course, and dissemination is done through country DHS seminars. South Africa: Men As Partners SA: work with men to prevent GBV, challenge harmful norms & raise awareness. Contact Sunita Kishor kishor@macroint. com EngenderHealth and PPASA IPPF/WHR Men As Partners: A guide for PPASA educators Newsletter on GBV & RH Basta!, available online Male Involvement Andrew Levack, alevack@engender health.org General/LAC The website includes the newsletter, ¡Basta!, a screening tool for identifying victims of gender-based violence, a management checklist, legal framework, baseline and follow-up study, and a client-exit questionnaire. http://www.ippfwhr.org/whatwedo/gbv.html http://www.ippfwhr.org/whatwedo/basta.html Alessandra Guedes IPPF/WHR 120 Wall Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10023 T: 212-248-6400 F: 212-248-4221 Mary Otieno maryo@theirc.org Sonia Navani sonian@theirc.org International Rescue Committee (IRC) Web-based bibliography of current GBV literature posted on RHR website; field test survey tool April 2002 Refugees Congo, East Timor, Guinea, Liberia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania: A variety of activities aimed at reducing gender-based violence and prostitution in refugee & conflict settings. Provide medical, psychosocial and legal monitoring of victims as well as preventative measures such as awareness raising, synchronizing national legislative efforts; supporting local responses & capacity to provide IEC on genderbased violence; advocacy for rigorous data collection. D&IPV—domestic and intimate partner violence; DV– domestic violence; GBV—gender-based violence; FP—family planning; IDU—injection drug use; IEC—information, education, Communication; NGO—non-governmental organization; MOH—ministry of health; MH—maternal health; PAC-post-abortion care; RH—reproductive health; SV— sexual violence; VAW—violence against women. Organization JHPIEGO Materials The MNH Project’s Basic Maternal & Newborn Care manual (not yet published) WHO & MNH Project Managing Complications manual RH guidelines worldwide developed with technical assistance from the Training & Reproductive Health (TRH) Program Short DV drama videos and instructional guide Video and facilitator’s guide Type MH Activity Training Materials: Through the Maternal and Neonatal Health project; created guidelines & info for providers on how to identify and address GBV. Contact Wendy Voet, MPH JHPIEGO410-6141139 (phone) 410-614-2833 (fax) wvoet@jhpiego.org JHPIEGO RH Ecuador, Malawi, Peru, Zimbabwe (Country-specific): Through the TRH Program, integrated GBV info into national RH & FP service delivery guidelines. Revised medical & nursing school curricula to include DV info in Bolivia and Zambia through both the Maternal &Neonatal Health and TRH Programs. In Kenya, 3 orientation packages focused on FP, HIV and adolescent health, developed with assistance from the TRH Program, address GBV. Nicaragua: prevent DV (date rape) through set of videos w/counseling guides and activities for peer educational program with youth promoters. Wendy Voet, MPH JHPIEGO410-6141139 (phone) 410-614-2833 (fax) wvoet@jhpiego.org Johns Hopkins University Population Communication Services (JHU PCS) JHU PCS Youth Robert Ainslie Rainslie@jhuccp.org Gender and HIV/AIDS South Africa: video and facilitator’s guide, conducted training workshops for orgs that focus on youth to address gender issues & HIV/AIDS among young men. Also, phone hot line to counsel men & women on HIV. Patrick Coleman pcoleman@jhuccp. org D&IPV—domestic and intimate partner violence; DV– domestic violence; GBV—gender-based violence; FP—family planning; IDU—injection drug use; IEC—information, education, Communication; NGO—non-governmental organization; MOH—ministry of health; MH—maternal health; PAC-post-abortion care; RH—reproductive health; SV— sexual violence; VAW—violence against women. Organization Johns Hopkins University Population Information Program (JHU PIP) Materials Population Reports (1999): Ending Violence Against Women online at http://www.jhu ccp.org/pr/l11e dsum.stm Catalog: Picturing a Life Free of Violence: Media & Communication Strategies to End Violence Against Women (M/MC, in collaboration with UNDP/ UNIFEM) POPLINE articles Type General Activity End Violence Against Women: Information and Resources Website www.endvaw.org Contact Pop Reports Steve Goldstein at sgoldste@jhuccp.org JHU PIP General Media/Materials Clearinghouse M/MC www.jhuccp.org/mmc Approximately 2,000 samples of communication materials produced on the subject of VAW Catalog also online at http://www.unifem.undp.org/public/freeofviolence/index. htm Website, M/MC & Catalog: Susan Leibtag sleibtag@jhuccp.org JHU PIP General POPLINE http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/index.stm Approximately 1,000 articles and documents on the subject of VAW POPLINE Anne Compton Acompton@jhuccp .org D&IPV—domestic and intimate partner violence; DV– domestic violence; GBV—gender-based violence; FP—family planning; IDU—injection drug use; IEC—information, education, Communication; NGO—non-governmental organization; MOH—ministry of health; MH—maternal health; PAC-post-abortion care; RH—reproductive health; SV— sexual violence; VAW—violence against women. Organization John Snow Institute (JSI)/ PROMUNDO Materials Training manual for working with young men to prevent IPV. Type D&IPV Activity Brazil: research on the links between IPV and SRH with men ages 15-59. Work with PAHO to train other Central American researchers. White Ribbon Campaign Launch: With PAHO and colleague NGOs, the international campaign of men working to end violence against women was launched in Brazil. Support a number of fellows who are working in area of GBV, one who wrote the following paper. Hynes M and Lopes-Cardozo B. Sexual Violence Against Women in Refugee Settings. Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine. Volume 9, Number 8; October 2000. Producing paper on sexual coercion and violence among youth. Includes rape and DV Contact Gary Barker g.barker@promundo. org.br Michigan Population Fellows Michelle Hynes paper on SV with refugees Jane L MacKie janemm@umich.edu National Research Council Committee on Population, Transitions to Adulthood POLICY II Project Youth Valerie Durrant, Study Director (202) 334-1830 vdurrant@nas.edu Status of the Woman Module D&IPV POLICY II Project Future policies published Gender & HIV/AIDS Guatemala: Addition of intra-family violence to surveys for men and women Developed Status of the Woman Module in collaboration with MOH and other agencies Provided TA to help eliminate husband’s permission to allow their wives access to contraceptive methods from APROFAM, MOH institutional requirements Kenya: Address GBV in policies/guidelines for Gender and HIV/AIDS and for Orphans & Vulnerable Children. Nigeria: Initial stages of looking at girls’ exposure to risk of girl trafficking and sexual violence & will develop intervention. Mary Kincaid mkincaid@tfgi.com Mary Kincaid mkincaid@tfgi.com POLICY II Project Youth Mary Kincaid mkincaid@tfgi.com D&IPV—domestic and intimate partner violence; DV– domestic violence; GBV—gender-based violence; FP—family planning; IDU—injection drug use; IEC—information, education, Communication; NGO—non-governmental organization; MOH—ministry of health; MH—maternal health; PAC-post-abortion care; RH—reproductive health; SV— sexual violence; VAW—violence against women. Organization POLICY II Project Materials Training manual and Pilot GBV teacher model Publication: Conveying Concerns: Women Write on Gender-Based Violence (2000) Type Gender & HIV/AIDS Activity South Africa: capacity building with government; as part of advocacy training on ―Women in Partnership Against HIV/AIDS Program‖, included content on GBV. Booklet presents a collection of newspaper and magazine articles and transcripts of broadcasts produced by women journalists in seven developing countries. The stories convey a range of themes on gender-based violence, including local efforts to increase recognition of violence against women as a societal problem. www.prb.org (under Gender reports) PRIME is assisting the Rwanda Ministry of Health draft an RH policy, one of whose components is the ―Prevention and Management of Sexual Violence;‖ and will assist the MOH to revise current service protocols to include the prevention of GBV PRIME has field-tested a ―Gender Sensitivity Assessment Tool for RH Curricula” in Bangladesh and has assisted an MOH curriculum development team to improve the gender sensitivity of RH curriculum modules. Tool includes sections on the identification and detection of GBV; and on the management of FGC complications. Contact Mary Kincaid mkincaid@tfgi.com Population Reference Bureau, Women’s Edition General Website PRIME RH Candy Newman cnewman@ intrah.org PRIME Display copy of final unpublished version of “Gender Sensitivity Assessment Tool for RH Curricula‖ RH Candy Newman cnewman@ intrah.org PRIME PAC Concept paper on Improving RH Provider Response to GBV in Central Asian Republics in progress (project would include development/dissemination of protocols to assist primary providers in the recognition and management of GBV cases) Candy Newman cnewman@ intrah.org D&IPV—domestic and intimate partner violence; DV– domestic violence; GBV—gender-based violence; FP—family planning; IDU—injection drug use; IEC—information, education, Communication; NGO—non-governmental organization; MOH—ministry of health; MH—maternal health; PAC-post-abortion care; RH—reproductive health; SV— sexual violence; VAW—violence against women.