The Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally (GBV Strategy)is released by the US government on August 10, 2012, which lays out a framework to strategically combat various forms of violence, including domestic violence, sex trafficking, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation. To support the strategy, USAID worked with Development and Training Services, Inc. and Chemonics to identify best practices and activities with the potential for scale-up into global and/or multi-country interventions.
The purpose of this Policy Brief is to highlight the results of a survey conducted by PCBS on the attitudes and practices of a sample of PLC members towards gender discrimination.
The Manual for estimating the economic cost of injuries due to interpersonal and self-directed violence was prepared by WHO and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It provides a standardized set of recommendations to estimate the direct and indirect economic costs of interpersonal and self-directed violence. The manual is intended primarily for economists, public health experts and researchers interested in conducting studies of this nature. It is hoped that the use of the manual in countries will support a growing number of scientific analyses of the economic impacts of violence, and ultimately result in lives saved through an increase in prevention programs justified at least in part by documenting the economic costs of violence.
