Guidance for evaluations of interventions to prevent violence against women in conflict-affected settings: Lessons from a trial in Cote d'Ivoire

受冲突影响地区预防暴力侵害妇女行为的干预措施评估指南：科特迪瓦试验的经验教训

• 批准号: ES/J021032/1
• 负责人: Charlotte Watts
• 金额: $ 12.77万
• 依托单位: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ021032%2F1
• 关键词: Guidance; evaluations; interventions; prevent; violence

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) includes intimate partner violence (IPV), child sexual abuse, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and rape. Although 'rape in war' has become a priority in the nascent area of programming to prevent VAWG, emerging evidence from conflict settings suggests that IPV occurs more frequently than 'wartime rapes'. The past decade has seen an unprecedented recognition of the scale of VAWG in conflict, with the UN Security Council alone issuing nine resolutions focused on sexual violence in conflict and fragile state settings since 2000. While innovative interventions are being implemented, to date there has been no published evaluation research on the impact of VAWG prevention activities in conflict-affected settings, and only two published trials in sub-Saharan Africa have demonstrated how different prevention programming may influence levels of intimate partner violence. Without evidence on the impact and process of prevention activities, many agencies are struggling to determine how to target their resources most effectively. Programmers and donors recognise the need for rigorous evaluations of VAWG prevention strategies to determine how to measure the impact of programming and learn from ongoing and new large scale investments.This project aims to advance the field of VAWG intervention evaluation by developing a first generation of Evaluation Guidance for VAWG prevention interventions in conflict-affected settings. Our project will build on our evaluation work in Cote d'Ivoire, a West African conflict-affected setting, as well as our other IPV prevention evaluations, and the field experience of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) (our project partner) and the needs of donors, such as the UK Department for International Development (DfID) to: 1) raise the profile of different forms of violence beyond 'rape in war' in conflict-affected settings; and 2) develop evaluation guidance to measure the impact of VAWG interventions. Questions we will consider include: What are effective ways to measure the influence of VAWG prevention activities? How can we evaluate VAWG prevention interventions with different levels of resources and technical capacity? What are realistic outcome and pathway indicators for different settings and time periods? How might the interaction between programme and research staff affect the evaluation? In developing the Evaluation Guidance, we will prioritise the needs of practitioners and donors by incorporating options for adaptation and flexibility so that this guidance can be modified for different settings and available financial and technical resources.To develop the proposed guidance, LSHTM and IRC will convene a Strategic Planning meeting with practitioners, donors and researchers to assess the state of VAWG prevention research, determine strategic measurement priorities and develop a framework to guide a desk-based analysis of prevention evaluation models. We will analyse data from our Cote d'Ivoire study to explore causal pathways for IPV and review methodological features for adaptation in future evaluation research. This information will be summarised for a Final Round Table Discussion with programme organisations, donors and researchers to refine the conclusions and the guidance. We will develop and implement a strategic dissemination plan that takes advantage of our group's leadership and participation in global and local fora on the subjects of violence against women and conflict-affected settings. Most importantly, this project will encourage programmes to address a wider range of VAWG in conflict settings and improve our understanding of what prevents and reduced violence.

针对妇女和女童的暴力行为 (VAWG) 包括亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV)、儿童性虐待、强迫婚姻、性骚扰和强奸。尽管“战时强奸”已成为预防暴力侵害妇女行为的新兴规划领域的优先事项，但来自冲突环境的新证据表明，IPV 比“战时强奸”发生得更频繁。过去十年，人们对冲突中暴力侵害妇女行为的规模有了前所未有的认识，自 2000 年以来，仅联合国安理会就发布了九项决议，重点关注冲突和脆弱国家环境中的性暴力。虽然正在实施创新干预措施，但迄今为止，尚未发表关于受冲突影响环境中暴力侵害妇女行为预防活动的影响的评估研究，并且只有两项已发表的撒哈拉以南非洲试验表明，不同的暴力侵害妇女行为有多么不同。 预防规划可能会影响亲密伴侣暴力的程度。由于没有关于预防活动的影响和过程的证据，许多机构正在努力确定如何最有效地分配其资源。规划者和捐助者认识到需要对暴力侵害妇女行为预防战略进行严格评估，以确定如何衡量规划的影响，并从正在进行的和新的大规模投资中学习。该项目旨在通过制定第一代受冲突影响环境中暴力侵害妇女行为预防干预措施评价指南，推进暴力侵害妇女行为干预评估领域。我们的项目将以我们在西非受冲突影响地区科特迪瓦的评估工作以及我们其他 IPV 预防评估、国际救援委员会 (IRC)（我们的项目合作伙伴）的现场经验以及英国国际发展部 (DfID) 等捐助者的需求为基础，以： 1) 提高受冲突影响地区除“战争中强奸”之外的不同形式暴力的形象； 2) 制定评估指南以衡量针对暴力侵害妇女行为的干预措施的影响。我们将考虑的问题包括：衡量暴力侵害妇女行为预防活动影响的有效方法是什么？我们如何评估不同水平的资源和技术能力下的暴力侵害妇女行为预防干预措施？不同环境和时间段的实际结果和路径指标是什么？项目和研究人员之间的互动如何影响评估？在制定评估指南时，我们将通过纳入适应性和灵活性选项来优先考虑从业者和捐助者的需求，以便可以根据不同的环境和可用的财务和技术资源修改该指南。为了制定拟议的指南，LSHTM和IRC将与从业者、捐助者和研究人员召开战略规划会议，以评估暴力侵害妇女行为预防研究的状况，确定战略衡量优先事项并制定一个框架来指导基于案头的分析 预防评估模型。我们将分析科特迪瓦研究的数据，探索 IPV 的因果路径，并审查方法学特征，以适应未来的评估研究。这些信息将在与项目组织、捐助者和研究人员的最终圆桌讨论中进行总结，以完善结论和指导。我们将制定并实施一项战略传播计划，利用我们小组的领导作用以及参与有关暴力侵害妇女行为和受冲突影响环境问题的全球和地方论坛的优势。最重要的是，该项目将鼓励开展项目，解决冲突环境中更广泛的暴力侵害妇女行为，并提高我们对如何预防和减少暴力的理解。

项目成果

War and sexual violence--mental health care for survivors.

战争和性暴力——幸存者的心理保健。

• DOI: 10.1056/nejmp1304712
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: The New England journal of medicine
• 作者: Watts C

Recent abuse from in-laws and associations with adverse experiences during the crisis among rural Ivorian women: extended families as part of the ecological model.

• DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2013.810766
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Global public health
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Falb KL;Annan J;Hossain M;Topolska M;Kpebo D;Gupta J
• 通讯作者: Gupta J

Sex trafficking and sexual exploitation in settings affected by armed conflicts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: systematic review.

• DOI: 10.1186/s12914-016-0107-x
• 发表时间: 2016-12-28
• 期刊: BMC international health and human rights
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: McAlpine A;Hossain M;Zimmerman C
• 通讯作者: Zimmerman C