RESPECT Women: Preventing violence against women – Implementation package

This implementation package comprises a suite of practical resources and tools to support the implementation of the RESPECT Women: Preventing Violence against Women Framework, which was developed by WHO, with UN Women, in 2019 and is endorsed by 12 other UN agencies and bilateral partners. The package also builds on the evidence-based entry points compiled in the predecessor, “A framework to underpin action to prevent violence against women”.

The implementation package aims to support national- and sub-national-level policy and programming to prevent violence against women and girls. It distils programming knowledge and guidance based on existing global evidence, expert recommendations, and practitioner consensus. It is intended to support policymakers and practitioners to develop evidence-based, ethical, and effective VAW programming. It is divided into a series of standalone materials, which include guidance, promising practices, and links to resources and tools for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of VAW prevention programmes under each of the RESPECT strategies.

The package is presented in a user-friendly design to cater to the busy schedules of policymakers, enabling easy access and reference to relevant materials.

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• RESPECT Women: Preventing violence against women
• RESPECT framework implementation guide overview
• Strategy summaries:
  • Relationships skills strengthened
  • Empowerment of women
  • Services ensured
  • Poverty reduced
  • Environments made safe
  • Child and adolescent abuse prevented
  • Transformed attitudes, beliefs and norms
• Programme summaries:
  • Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) (Kenya)
  • AVAHAN sex worker collectivisation (India)
  • Bandeberho (Rwanda)
  • BALIKA (Bangladesh)
  • Becoming One (Uganda)
  • Cash transfers and intimate partner violence (LIMCs)
  • COMBAT (Ghana)
  • Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) (India)
  • Economic transfers in Ecuador and Bangladesh
  • Gender Roles, Equality and Transformation (GREAT) programme (Uganda)
  • Good Schools Toolkit (Uganda)
  • Indashyikirwa Couples (Rwanda)
  • MAISHA intervention (Tanzania)
  • Port Moresby: A Safe City for Women and Girls Programme (Papua New Guinea)
  • Real Fathers (Uganda)
  • Right to Play (Pakistan)
  • The Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) intervention (Uganda)
  • Unite for a Better Life (Ethiopia)
  • Zindagii Shoista (Tajikistan)
• Strengthening the enabling environment for VAW Prevention
• Global and regional frameworks to end VAW
• RESPECT framework monitoring and evaluation (M&E) guidance
• National prevention plan guide and workbook

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Subject area(s): Anti-violence interventions; Domestic violence/interpersonal violence; Ending violence against women and girls; Gender discrimination; Gender equality and women’s empowerment; Men and boys (masculinity); Primary prevention; Rape/sexual assault

Resource type: Manuals/guides; Resource kits

UN Women office involved in publication: UN Women Headquarters

Publication year: 2020

Publishing entities: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)