Gender-Based Violence: Other USAID Activities
Below is a list of activities on gender-based violence funded by USAID offices other than the Office of Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment (GEWE). To see a list of GEWE-funded activities, click here.
Interagency Gender Working Group
Gender-based violence (GBV) jeopardizes a women's health and well-being and detracts from her reproductive health. Yet reproductive health professionals—many times among the first outsiders to whom women will reveal violent circumstances at home—often do not recognize, do not ask about, or do not know how to address instances of violence. The reproductive health field is attempting to respond to this need with efforts that include sensitizing and training health workers, developing referral networks, and helping both women and men develop negotiating skills.
Key GBV themes of interest to the Interagency Gender Working Group:
- Responses by reproductive health services to GBV
- GBV and socialization of boys and girls
- Vulnerable populations and GBV: refugees, displaced persons, trafficked girls, and women
- Female genital cutting
Read more...
Family Violence and Sexual Abuse Trauma Center
Many South African communities have come to accept violence as a part of their
reality. More than 95 percent of rural abuse and rape cases
aren't even reported. When they are, forensic evidence must
be collected using rape kits that police often neglect to provide
to doctors. And if evidence is collected, it may be sent to
the country's only forensic laboratory which may take a year
to return results. Read
more...
Abuse Support Centers Counsel Victims of Violence
As head of the Rape Survivors Unit of Umlazi Public Hospital,
Dr. Mohomed works in coordination with Childline South Africa,
an organization supported by USAID. Childline provides Dr.
Mohomed with social workers to interview victims, counsel
them and help them obtain short- and long-term care. Read
more....
Ending Early Marriage
Bogalech Alemu has mobilized organizations and established
groups to stop early marriages, contributing significantly
to halting more than 16,000 marriages over a two-year period.
Read
more....
Raising Awareness about Female Genital Cutting
Maryam Sheikh Abdi built upon her personal experiences to
help end the practice of female genital cutting/mutilation in Kenya. Read
more....
Help for Rape Victims
USAID offers healthcare and counseling to thousands of rape victims in DRC. Read more....
Women's Justice and Economic Empowerment (WJEI)
President Bush announced approximately $55 million to support
women's justice and empowerment in Africa. This initiative
will work to assist the existing efforts in Benin, Kenya,
South Africa, and Zambia to combat sexual violence and abuse
against women, and empower them in society. As the programs
in these four nations develop, their successes will produce
a ripple effect through other countries in their regions. Read More...
White House Press Release
USAID Remarks at the Community Court Handover-Mankweng, Limpopo Province, May 22, 2007
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