Gender-Based Violence Prevention Across Contexts

The studies included in this pooled analysis were conducted under the UK-Aid funded What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls? Global Programme (What Works). The primary goal of What Works was to advance the evidence base on the prevalence and drivers of VAWG, and the effectiveness and costs of interventions to prevent VAWG. The current study uses the baseline data from 8104 men and 6545 women from six VAWG prevention studies in four countries (South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, and Afghanistan) to assess the association between food insecurity and IPV and NPSV perpetration among men and experience among women (Table 1). These studies were the evaluations of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention (SSCF) (South Africa) [21 (link)], the Sonke Change intervention (South Africa) [22 (link)], Rural Response System (RRS) community intervention (Ghana) [23 (link)], Indashyikirwa couples intervention (Rwanda) [24 (link)] with accompanying evaluation for Indashyikirwa community-level impact (Rwanda) [25 (link)] and the Women For Women International (WFWI) Intervention (Afghanistan) [26 (link)]. The two South African studies were located in areas with very limited infrastructure, considerable informal housing and high levels of material deprivation. The studies in Rwanda, Ghana and Afghanistan were conducted in rural communities and small towns (Ghana). Women in the Afghan study were known to be more resource-poor when invited to participate.