• Gender-Based Violence: Emerging Issues in Programs Serving Displaced Populations (by Beth Vann) — This book is a compendium of key lessons learned during the author's five years working with GBV programmes in 12 countries; it is designed to be read and used by staff and volunteers who work to protect displaced populations— from high level policymakers to field-based workers. It describes the evolution of GBV programmes serving populations affected by armed conflict, offers suggestions for how to integrate GBV prevention and response into the humanitarian work, analyzes the problems and challenges faced by GBV programmes in the field and offers case studies of seven GBV programmes currently in place. CLICK HERE
• Quick Review of Key Concepts for Understanding GBV — This powerpoint presentation briefly outlines definitions and facts about gender-based violence. CLICK HERE
• GBV Newsletter: Human Resources Part I, Issue 2004:3, 15 June 2004 (RHRC Consortium Gender-Based Violence Global Technical Support Project) — The GBV Newsletter provides a forum for discussion as well as information about resources, news, and other items of interest. This newsletter contains part one of a two-part series that explores human resource issues specific to humanitarian aid programs addressing gender-based violence in populations affected by armed conflict. It features a cross-cutting article by Lisa Ehrlich on Finding and Keeping GBV Program Managers. CLICK HERE
• GBV Newsletter: Human Resources Part II, Issue 2004:4, 11 November 2004 (RHRC Consortium Gender-Based Violence Global Technical Support Project) — The GBV Newsletter provides a forum for discussion as well as information about resources, news, and other items of interest. This newsletter includes the second article in a two-part series that explores human resource issues specific to humanitarian aid programs addressing gender-based violence in populations affected by armed conflict. CLICK HERE
• Some facts, statistics and attitudes about gender-based violence — Handout from conference. CLICK HERE
• Population Reports: Ending Violence Against Women, Volume XXVII, Number 4, December 1999 (Center for Health and Gender Equity) — Population Reports is designed to provide an accurate and authoritative overview of important developments in family planning and related health issues. This issue provides information about the problem of gender-based violence and how health care providers can help clients who are survivors of such violence. CLICK HERE
• Rwanda: Broken Bodies, Torn Spirits — Living with Genocide, Rape and HIV/AIDS (African Rights) — Researched in the course of a year across 11 of Rwanda’s 12 provinces, this study is intended as a contribution to the many ongoing efforts to improve responses to rape, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the Great Lakes region and more widely in Africa. It addresses an issue confronting all post-conflict and conflict-ridden societies, particularly on this turbulent continent—the rapid spread of infections in the context of sexual violence. In accounts of rape during the 1994 genocide and their experiences since, 185 Rwandese and 16 Burundian citizens, two of them male, reach out beyond their own dire circumstances as informants and advocates on a critical wider problem. They speak of extreme cruelty compounded by missed medical opportunities and humanitarian failures. CLICK HERE

• Behaviour Change Communication for HIV/AIDS: A Strategic Framework (Family Health International) — Behavior change communication (BCC) is an interactive process with communities (as integrated with an overall program) to develop tailored messages and approaches using a variety of communication channels to develop positive behaviors; promote and sustain individual, community and societal behavior change; and maintain appropriate behaviors. In the context of the AIDS epidemic, BCC is an essential part of a comprehensive program that includes both services (medical, social, psychological and spiritual) and commodities (e.g., condoms, needles and syringes). FHI’s pragmatic BCC approach, based on sound practice and experience, focuses on building local, regional and national capacity to develop integrated BCC that leads to positive action by stimulating society-wide discussions. BCC is both an essential component of each program area and the glue between the various areas. However, society-wide change is slow; changes achieved through BCC will not occur overnight. This document outlines FHI’s BCC strategy for HIV/AIDS. It has been developed for use by donors, partners, collaborators and potential collaborators. CLICK HERE
• Behaviour Change Communication for the Prevention and Treatment of STDs: Community and Clinic-based Communication Approaches for STD Programs (AIDSCAP) — This is one in a series of practical “how-to” handbooks developed by AIDSCAP’s Behavior Change Communication (BCC) Unit in collaboration with the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Unit. It is intended to help program and clinic managers design behavior change communication components for STD control and prevention projects. CLICK HERE
• Behaviour Change Communication for HIV/AIDS — Handout 2 CLICK HERE
• Behaviour Change Communication — Small Groups Assignment CLICK HERE

• Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse: What You Need to Know (Inter-Agency Standing Committee Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) — This leaflet is a model information sheet for local communities lists the kinds of sexual conduct that are prohibited and offers advice on how to lodge a complaint. It can be adapted for use in different field locations. CLICK HERE
• Scenarios covering prohibited acts of Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse for the various categories of United Nations personnel (Inter-Agency Standing Committee Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) — These scenarios demonstrate examples of prohibited acts under the current standards of conduct expected of all categories of UN personnel (civilian, civilian police, military observers and military members of national contingents) as set out in the UN Staff Rules and Regulations and/or the DPKO Disciplinary Directives (including the Ten Rules: Code of Personal Conduct for Blue Helmets). These acts also specifically violate standards listed in: ST/SGB/2003/13 on Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse; and ST/SGB/1999/13 on Observance by United Nations Forces of International Humanitarian Law. N.B. Allegations and reports of sexual harassment are covered by separate procedures described in ST/SGB/253 and ST/AI/379 (as may be amended).CLICK HERE
• Model Complaints Referral Form (Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) — CLICK HERE
• Implementation Guidelines for the Field on the Secretary-General’s Bulletin on Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (ST/SGB/2003/13) — Lists responsibilities of: Representatives of the Secretary-General, UN Resident Coordinators, headquarters officials dealing with SEA (applicable for UN agencies/ departments) general management responsibilities (applicable to all organizations in the field) and staff. CLICK HERE
• Terms of Reference for in-country Focal Points on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse — CLICK HERE
• Terms of Reference for in-country Network on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse — CLICK HERE

• Gender-Based Violence in Populations Affected by Armed Conflict: A Field Guide for Displaced Settings (RHRC Consortium) — This publication looks at factors that contribute to GBV during conflict, how rape is used as a "weapon of war", the links between displacement and domestic violence or sexual exploitation, and between HIV/AIDS, Conflict and GBV. It also lists steps that humanitarian aid programmes can take to reduce GBV in displaced settings and to ensure appropriate services to survivors. CLICK HERE
• Lives blown apart: Crimes against women in times of conflict (Amnesty International) — As conflict escalated in late 2003 and early 2004 in the Darfur region, western Sudan, Amnesty International began to receive hundreds of reports of rape and other sexual violence against women and girls. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of women affected by conflict around the world have suffered the same fate. Evidence gathered by Amnesty International in recent years supports the view that conflict reinforces and exacerbates existing patterns of discrimination and violence against women. This report attempts to explore some of the underlying reasons for this violence. It seeks to show the many ways in which women and girls are targeted for violence, or otherwise affected by war, in disproportionate ways from men. It highlights how the many roles which women play in conflict, and the variety of contexts they find themselves in, can have a devastating impact on their physical integrity and basic rights. CLICK HERE

• When HIV-Prevention Messages and Gender Norms Clash: The Impact of Domestic Violence onWomen’s HIV Risk in Slums of Chennai, India (AIDS and Behavior, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2003) — This paper examines how marital violence affects women’s ability to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. In-depth interviews and focus groups were conducted among men and women in two randomly selected slums of Chennai, India. The study showed that community gender norms tacitly sanction domestic violence that interferes with adopting HIV-preventive behaviors. Given the choice between the immediate threat of violence and the relatively hypothetical specter of HIV, women often resign themselves to sexual demands and indiscretions that may increase their risk of HIV acquisition. In conclusion, AIDS-prevention interventions must incorporate gender-related social contexts in settings where husbands strictly enforce their locus of control. HIV-prevention messages targeting men may effectively reduce women’s exposure to HIV/AIDS. CLICK HERE
• Gender-based violence, relationship power, and risk of HIV infection in women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa (The Lancet, Vol 363, 1 May 2004) — Gender-based violence and gender inequality are increasingly cited as important determinants of women’s HIV risk; yet empirical research on possible connections remains limited. This study is the first to assess gender-based violence as a risk factor for HIV after adjustment for women’s own high-risk behaviours, although these are known to be associated with experience of violence. Private face-to-face interviews were conducted with 1,366 women presenting for antenatal care at four health centres in Soweto, South Africa, who accepted routine antenatal HIV testing. The study included assessement of sociodemographic characteristics, experience of gender-based violence, the South African adaptation of the Sexual Relationship Power Scale (SRPS), and risk behaviours including multiple, concurrent, and casual male partners, and transactional sex. It found that intimate partner violence and high levels of male control in a woman’s current relationship as measured by the SRPS were associated with HIV seropositivity — in other words, that women with violent or controlling male partners are at increased risk of HIV infection. Based on these findings, the study authors postulate that abusive men are more likely to have HIV and impose risky sexual practices on partners. They conclude that research on connections between social constructions of masculinity, intimate partner violence, male dominance in relationships, and HIV risk behaviours in men, as well as effective interventions, are urgently needed. CLICK HERE
• HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence Factsheet — Adapted from Heise, L., Ellsberg, M., and Gottemoelle, M. Ending Violence Against Women. Population Reports, December 1999, Series L(11) CLICK HERE

• A Practical Approach to Gender-Based Violence: A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers and Managers (UNFPA) — This guide offers step-by-step guidance on how reproductive health facilities can begin their own GBV projects. Three project options are presented in this Programme Guide. These project models allow a facility to choose the one that will best fit their physical plant, financial and referral resources and capability. The Programme Guide also helps prepare the facility by guiding the clinic through the different practical steps needed to integrate their particular GBV project choice into their existing activities. The Projects are modular, and a facility may begin with Project A and later expand it into B or C. CLICK HERE
• Clinical Management of Survivors of Rape: A guide to the development of protocols for use in refugee and internally displaced person situations (World Health Organization and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2002 - An Outcome of the Inter-Agency Lessons Learned Conference: Prevention and Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Situations 27-29 March 2001, Geneva) — This guide is intended for use by qualified health care providers (health coordinators, medical doctors, clinical officers, midwives and nurses) in developing protocols for the management of rape survivors, based on available resources, materials, drugs, and national policies and procedures. It can also be used in planning care services and in training health care providers. The document includes detailed guidance on the clinical management of women, men and children who have been raped. It explains how to perform a thorough physical examination, record the findings and give medical care to someone who has been penetrated in the vagina, anus or mouth by a penis or other objects. It does not include advice on standard care of wounds or injuries or on psychological counselling, although these may be needed. Neither does the guide give guidance on referral procedures to community support, police and legal services. Other reference materials exist that describe this kind of care or give advice on creating referral networks; this guide is complementary to those materials. CLICK HERE
• Improving the Health Sector Response to Gender-Based Violence A Resource Manual for Health Care Professionals in Developing Countries (International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region) — To address gaps in the research and program literature on GBV, IPPF/WHR invested heavily in adapting tools for sexual and reproductive health programs in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Venezuela. IPPF/WHR also devoted substantial resources to monitoring, evaluating and documenting the results of the regional initiative and to exchanging lessons learned with other organizations in Latin America. These tools aim to make available material based on research and programme experiences in developing countries, and to offer information as well as detailed, practical recommendations and tools that health managers can use to design effective and feasible policies. CLICK HERE

•  Powerpoint presentation offering tips for interviewing survivors of GBV — CLICK HERE

• Checklist for Action: Prevention & Response to Gender-Based Violence in Displaced Settings — Adapted from a checklist developed by UNHCR, Geneva, 2003 CLICK HERE
• Training Manual: Facilitator’s Guide, Interagency & Multisectoral Prevention and Response to Gender-based Violence in Populations Affected by Armed Conflict (The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium) — The Training Manual for Multisectoral and Interagency Prevention and Response to Gender-based Violence is a draft training manual, the result of five years experience conducting, testing, and revising workshops and seminars for planning interventions to address gender-based violence (GBV) in displaced settings around the world. Since 1999, the Technical Advisor of the Global GBV Technical Support Project1 has conducted training and planning workshops in the field with staff and volunteers from NGOs, UN agencies, host governments, and displaced communities. Field sites included countries in East, West, Southern, and Horn of Africa; Eastern Europe; and Central, South, and Southeast Asia. The training and planning includes pre-workshop assignments, 1–5 day workshops, and post-training follow up to support development of well coordinated multisectoral and interagency action for prevention as well as response to survivors and perpetrators. CLICK HERE
• Prevention and Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Situations (UNHCR) — Acutely aware of the magnitude of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and the efforts underway to respond to the problem, UNHCR hosted an inter-agency lessons learned conference on sexual and gender-based violence in Geneva from 27-29 March 2001. The conference gathered 157 actors working in refugee situations to share wisdom and experiences, collectively review progress and impact to date, identify lessons learned, and plan the next steps for addressing sexual and genderbased violence in refugee and internally displaced settings. The conclusions and recommendations that emerged from this Conference, and contained in this report, provide a clear guide and implementation framework for the way forward. Key to improving protection from, and developing responses to, sexual and gender-based violence is inter-agency coordination and the full participation of the refugee community in all stages of programme development, from design to evaluation. CLICK HERE
• Powerpoint presentation on prevention and response to gender-based violence — CLICK HERE
• Powerpoint presentation on enhancing protection from gender-based violence in Populations Affected by Armed Conflict — CLICK HERE
• Powerpoint presentation on protection from GBV — CLICK HERE
• Powerpoint presentation on response services — CLICK HERE
• Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response (UNHCR, May 2003) — These Guidelines offer practical advice on how to design strategies and carry out activities aimed at preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence. They also contain information on basic health, legal, security and human rights issues relevant to those strategies and activities. They were developed in consultation with UNHCR’s partners in refugee protection: governments, inter-governmental agencies and non-governmental organisations. They are intended for use by UNHCR staff and members of operational partners involved in protection and assistance activities for refugees and the internally displaced. They have been tested in 32 countries around the world with the participation of more than 60 partners. CLICK HERE 

Traficking

• Standard Generic Training Module 1: Human Trafficking in a Peacekeeping Context (DPKO) — This Standard Generic Training Module (SGTM) addresses human trafficking in a peacekeeping context. It can be grouped together with a number of sub-modules that all deal with the conduct and behaviour expected of individual peacekeepers while serving in a UN peacekeeping operation. The other sub-modules are on Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, Cultural wareness, Gender and Peacekeeping, Code of Conduct and Child Protection. This module can also be included in any series of human rights modules. CLICK HERE