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Ending gender-based violence

CARE International’s Program Strategy 2020 identifies strengthening gender equality and women’s voice as a cross-cutting approach and articulates the right to a life free from violence as an outcome that CARE pursues. Monitoring, mitigating and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) in all CARE programming is mandatory. This means being deliberate about both confronting GBV in sectoral (health, food security, livelihoods, etc.) programming in an integrated way, as well as developing stand-alone innovative interventions and programming to confront and prevent GBV.

CARE understands GBV as a systemic social problem that cross-cuts sectors and perpetuates systems and relationships of domination. It is shaped by patriarchal social norms, unequal relationships, discriminatory laws and unresponsive institutions. CARE seeks, by 2020, to support 12 million women and girls to exercise their right to a life free from violence.

Approach

This section offers CARE's strategic understanding and approaches to prevent, mitigate and respond to gender-based violence (GBV). This include's CARE's overarching GBV Strategy (2015). It also includes specific work and strategies against intimate partner violence (Life Free from Violence, 2017); GBV in emergencies (2017); child, early, and forced marriage (2018); and a regional approach from the Great Lakes (2018).

	CARE gender primer: GBV section
	CARE insights: engaging men and boys
	Preventing and mitigating GBV: CARE's theory of change (2018)
	السياقات التنموية والإنسانية: منع ومعالجة اثار العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي في نظرية التغيير لمؤسسة CARE
	Prévention et atténuation de la violence basée sur le genre dans les contextes humanitaires et de développement : la théorie de changement de CARE (2018)
	Prevención y mitigación de la violencia de género en contextos humanitarios y de desarrollo: teoría de cambio de CARE (2018)
	Overview: CARE GBV strategy (2015)
	CARE GBV strategy (2015)
	CARE's programmatic focus: life free from violence definition (2017)
	CARE's programmatic focus: life free from violence approach (2017)
	CARE GBV in emergencies approach (2017)
	CARE GBV in emergencies framework and theory of change (2019)
	Child, early and forced marriage: CARE's global experience (2018)
	CARE Great lakes approach to prevent GBV (2018)
	CARE Great lakes summary of the POWER model to prevent GBV (2018)
	CARE Myanmar multi-stakeholder approach to prevent GBV (2015)

Guidelines

Below are a wide range of guidelines for working with GBV interventions and with survivors of abuse/violence. This includes the GBV Guidelines, which include a range of resources including the Inter-Agency Standing Committee GBV Guidelines, pocket guides and the Constant Companion pocket-sized tool listed in the tools section, below.

	Applying theory to practice: CARE's journey piloting social norms measurement for gender programming (2017)
	Girls Not Brides policy brief: enlisting the whole government to benefit the whole girl - ending child, early and forced marriage (2015)
	CARE guide: monitoring and mitigating GBV within non-GBV sectoral programming (2014)
	CARE: Recommandations pour contrôler et limiter la violence basée sur le genre (VBG) dans le cadre de programmes sectoriels orientés sur d’autres thématiques (2014)
	CARE policy and guidelines on communicating on survivors of GBV (2014)
	UNHCR: Working with men and boys survivors of S/GBV in forced displacement (2012)
	CARE GBV advocacy guide for activists (Rwanda, 2010)
	UNHCR: S/GBV against refugees, returnees and IDPs (2003)
	gbvguidelines.org: Integrating GBV interventions in emergencies
	Interagency GBV case management guildelines
	WHO: Researching violence against women
	M&E of GBV prevention and mitigation programs
	CARE guidance note on gender transformative and conflict sensitive practice (Sri Lanka, 2011)

Tools

	CARE Indashyikirwa training modules: dialogues to end intimate partner violence
	CARE Program Y - youth innovative approaches in GBV prevention and healthy lifestyle promotion for young men and women (2018)
	CARE International in Vanuatu: life skills series-good relationships free from violence (2017)
	CARE report: learning on GBV dialogues (Vietnam, 2013)
	CARE toolkit: understanding the monetary cost of domestic violence (Bangladesh, 2012)
	IWDA do no harm toolkit- women's economic empowerment programs (2018)
	The costs of protection programs for refugees in Jordan (Dioptra costing tool case study)
	GBV information management system
	SASA! Raising Voices
	Constant Companion: what to do in case GBV incident is disclosed
	Violence, gender and WASH toolkit
	Making the peace (2000)
	Engaging men and boys in GBV prevention and reproductive health in conflict and emergency-response settings

Learning

	What works to prevent violence: impact of Indashyikirwa (2019)
	Stern, McGhee, Ferguson and Clark. A comparative case study of couples programming to support relationship quality in Nepal and Rwanda. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2019)
	CARE with the CEFM and Sexuality Programmes Working Group report: tackling the taboo- sexuality and gender-transformative programmes to end child, early and forced marriage and unions (2019)
	CARE Gender Primer: Promising practices to prevent GBV
	CARE: What are the numbers telling us? Undersatnding 2018 reach and impact data (2019)
	The learning behind the numbers: How CARE contributes to prevent GBV (2018)
	CARE brief: counting the cost of violence against women (2018)
	CARE International in Asia and the Pacific: preventing GBV learning brief (2019)
	CARE International in Asia and the Pacific: engaging men and boys in GBV prevention learning brief (2019)
	CARE model documentation from Rwanda (2018)
	CARE case study; Rwanda's approaches and lessons working with couples toward equality (2018)
	CARE summary: cost of violence against women (Zambia, 2017)
	CARE brief: civil society organizations mobilizing against violence (2016)
	CARE report: Learning on GBV and household relationships (2015)
	CARE report: To protect her honour - child marriage in emergencies (2015)
	CARE report: sex workers lives, risks and safety strategies (Myanmar, 2015)
	CARE brief: sex workers lives, risks and safety strategies (Myanmar, 2015)
	CARE impact report: gender-based violence (2015)
	CARE report on intergenerational transmission of GBV: focus on educational settings (2014)
	CARE poster on intergenerational transmission of GBV: focus on educational settings (2014)
	CARE report: Broadening gender - attitudes, practices and GBV in 4 districts of Sri Lanka (2013)
	CARE case study: support service strengthening for survivors of GBV (EMPOWER project, Benin, 2013)
	CARE case study: one stop centers for survivors of violence (ASAZA project, Zambia, 2013)
	Promundo, MRC and SVRI: Engaging boys and young men in the prevention of sexual violence: a systematic and global review of evaluated interventions (2011)

Resources

This section highlights CARE and peer websites for more references on GBV interventions and measurement. Internally, it links to the CARE Gender Primer which is a curated website of statistics, policy commitments, CARE strategy and promising practices.

This section also highlights CARE project websites, alongside evidence-based agencies and coalitions that have compiled knowledge and experience on GBV interventions.

	CARE Insights: social norms change section
	CARE Insights: gender equality and women's voice
	CARE Insights: engaging men and boys
	CARE Gender Primer: Promising practices against GBV
	CARE Tipping Point project
	CARE Indashyikirwa project page and resources
	CARE EMERGE/ReNEW project: ending violence at home
	CARE Young Men Initative website
	The Prevention Collaborative
	COFEM feminist pocketbook: approaches to address GBV for practitioners/researchers
	VAW compendium of indicators
	Interagency Gender Working Gender - GBV Taskforce
	DFID collection of guidance on preventing and responding to violence against women and girls
	Sexual violence research initiative
	What works to prevent violence website
	Engaging with men and masculinities in fragile and conflict-affected settings

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