This document presents the Final evaluation report on the implementation of the Somalia Gender Based Violence-Sub cluster strategy 2014-2016. This report contains the background of the strategy, main findings, analysis of achievement /key results and prospects for sustainability. The GBV Sub Cluster Strategy 2014-2016 was developed in order to address the specific needs of GBV survivors, ensures prevention/mitigation, and to contribute to and complement the existing humanitarian and development processes including the
Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), New Deal Compact and the United Nations Somali Assistance Strategy (UNSAS). The process of developing the strategy was consultative across the country. Consultations focused on current GBV activities and capacities, challenges and constraints, and gaps in each community that was reached. Accordingly, the stakeholders proposed concrete steps to be prioritized in the next three years in order to address the challenges and the gaps
This document presents a background paper on gender based violence and the law. This background paper was prepared for the World Development Report 2017 Governance and the Law. This paper investigates the potential and shortcomings of legislative action – and how international and national laws can interact with norms in ways that can be conducive to the reduction of the risk of violence. We argue that there has been major progress in establishing the right of women to live free of violence in both international and national law, especially over the past decade or so, with civil society movements at the local and global levels playing a pivotal role. At the same time, there is some way to go to address the underlying norms and behaviors associated with violence.
This document presents a handbook for legislation on violence against women, prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Division for the Advancement of Women (DESA/DAW), is intended to assist States and other stakeholders to enhance existing, or develop new laws to protect women. I highly recommend the contents of this Handbook, and I am thankful to the members of the Expert Group Meeting for their valuable work in producing the report upon which this Handbook is based. The recommendations it provides in the model framework for legislation on violence against women serve as a useful tool in supporting efforts to provide justice, support, protection and remedies to victims and to hold perpetrators accountable. The commentaries which accompany the recommendations highlight promising examples from laws worldwide.
