An evaluative framework for assessment of interventions for survivors of domestic violence in Mumbai, India

Daruwalla, Nayreen M.

Friday, March 20, 2015: 1:50 PM-3:10 PM

Room 15 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Nayreen M. Daruwalla, PhD, SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action)

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Understand the changing forms of domestic violence through a demographic and crisis profile of survivors of domestic violence accessing services from SNEHA counselling centres.
Understand the evaluation measures developed and used to assess counselling, police, legal and community interventions.

Description:
SNEHA’s Program on Prevention of Violence against Women and Children (PVWC) in Mumbai, India, takes a comprehensive approach to addressing and reducing domestic violence. For the last decade, we have worked on building evidence-based indicators to evaluate the interventions provided to survivors of domestic violence. The report will provide an understanding of the changing forms of violence in Mumbai and will describe the innovative evaluation measures we have developed and used.