Transforming gender norms, roles, and power dynamics to reduce gender based violence: A systematic review of gender integrated health programs in low and middle income countries

Papa, Sara

Friday, March 20, 2015: 10:15 AM-11:35 AM

Congressional Hall B (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Sara Papa, MA, Futures Group

Authors:
Arundati Muralidharan, DrPH, MSW, Public Health Foundation of India
Radhika Dayal, MA, Public Health Foundation of India
Madhumita Das, PhD, International Center for Research on Women
Jessica Fehringer, PhD, MHS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mahua Mandal, PhD, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elisabeth Rottach, MA, Futures Group
Ravi Verma, PhD, International Center for Research on Women

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Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Become familiar with gender integrated programs that have improved gender based violence (GBV) outcomes in low and middle income countries.
Know effective strategies used by these programs to mitigate GBV.
Understand the mechanisms through which male involvement and community engagement lead to improvements in GBV.

Description:
This systematic review examined gender transformative and accommodating programs to assess their impact on mitigating gender-based violence (GBV). Gender transformative programs identify and challenge inequitable gender norms, roles and relationships. In contrast, accommodating programs recognize that gender influences health and status, but adjust for these inequalities when delivering information and services to beneficiary groups. The review found that while both gender transformative and accommodating interventions improved GBV related outcomes, transformative programs more often achieved positive GBV-related attitudinal and behavioral outcomes.