Gender Norms and Economic Empowerment Intervention to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Rural Côte D'ivoire : A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Gupta, Jhumka ; Falb, Kathryn L. ; Lehmann, Heidi ; Kpebo, Denise ; Xuan, Ziming ; Hossain, Mazeda ; Zimmerman, Cathy ; Watts, Charlotte ; Annan, Jeannie

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: Gender-based violence;    Randomized controlled trial;    Economic empowerment;    Evaluation;   

RP-ID  :  92659

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Gender-based violence against women,including intimate partner violence (IPV), is a pervasivehealth and human rights concern. However, relatively littleintervention research has been conducted on how to reduceIPV in settings impacted by conflict. The current studyreports on the evaluation of the incremental impact ofaddinggender dialogue groupsto an economic empowermentgroup savings program on levels of IPV. This study tookplace in north and northwestern rural Côte d Ivoire.