Gender-based violence against adolescent girls in humanitarian settings: a review of the evidence

Intimate partner violence among adolescents is a result of gender and sexual inequitable norms. South African studies note the high prevalence of intimate partner violence in adolescent relationships with adolescent girls and women bearing the high costs. This article examines adolescent girls’ attempts to challenge dating violence and exit violent relationships. It reports the results of a gender empowerment programme linked to girls’ soccer in a South African township. The results indicate the complexities experienced by girls moving towards more gender equitable relationships, some strategies they adopt, and some challenges they still face. The programme facilitated by Grassroots Soccer (Soweto) is located in a Black, urban, low socio-economic context with high rates of gender-based violence. While it appears promising, further curriculum development is needed in the programme, particularly in relation to changing gendered and sexualized social norms that prescribe conventional and patriarchal femininities.

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Gender-Based Violence Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Neglected Consequence of the West African Ebola Outbreak

Global Maternal and Child Health - Pregnant in the Time of Ebola ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-97637-2_8 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 121-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Monica Adhiambo Onyango ◽

Kirsten Resnick ◽

Alexandra Davis ◽

Rupal Ramesh Shah

Keyword(s):

Adolescent Girls ◽

Young Women ◽

West African ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

The West ◽

Gender Based

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COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: documenting and sharing context-specific programmatic experiences

Conflict and Health ◽

10.1186/s13031-020-00321-w ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Neha S. Singh ◽

Orit Abrahim ◽

Chiara Altare ◽

Karl Blanchet ◽

Caroline Favas ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Field Experiences ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Humanitarian Settings ◽

Humanitarian Organizations ◽

Country Level ◽

Guidance Documents ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

Context Specific

AbstractHumanitarian organizations have developed innovative and context specific interventions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as guidance has been normative in nature and most are not humanitarian specific. In April 2020, three universities developed a COVID-19 humanitarian-specific website (www.covid19humanitarian.com) to allow humanitarians from the field to upload their experiences or be interviewed by academics to share their creative responses adapted to their specific country challenges in a standardised manner. These field experiences are reviewed by the three universities together with various guidance documents and uploaded to the website using an operational framework. The website currently hosts 135 guidance documents developed by 65 different organizations, and 65 field experiences shared by 29 organizations from 27 countries covering 38 thematic areas. Examples of challenges and innovative solutions from humanitarian settings are provided for triage and sexual and gender-based violence. Offering open access resources on a neutral platform by academics can provide a space for constructive dialogue among humanitarians at the country, regional and global levels, allowing humanitarian actors at the country level to have a strong and central voice. We believe that this neutral and openly accessible platform can serve as an example for future large-scale emergencies and epidemics.

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