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How to Guide: [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] SGV Programme Monitoring and Evaluation
Health and Community Development Section, 2000Programmes that tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) in refugee settings need to take into account a number of issues and problems unique to this context. Some of the main problems arise from the need to bring together many diverse actors who will work on the same case, such as mental and physical health care workers, the police, government workers and legal advisers/officers.DocumentMillennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens
United Nations Development Programme, 2003A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.DocumentBeyond Victims and Villains: Addressing Sexual Violence in the Education Sector
Panos Institute, London, 2003Gender-based violence has physical, sexual, and psychological consequences, and is frequently the cause of ill health and even death among women aged 15 to 44. Younger women appear to be particularly at risk. Gender violence worldwide often remains unaddressed. It is rarely talked about within schools and universities, which are often perceived to be the safest places.DocumentGender and Armed Conflict: Supporting Resources Collection
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003This collection of resources on gender and armed conflict sheds light on how gender inequality intersects with armed conflict and its aftermath, resulting in gender-specific disadvantage that is often overlooked.DocumentGender and Armed Conflict: Overview Report
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003In this report, which forms part of the Cutting Edge Pack on gender and armed conflict, the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, and the distinct ways that both women and men are affected, is explored. It highlights the gender-specific disadvantages experienced by women and men that are denied by conventional interpretations of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction processes.DocumentSexuality - a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the era of HIV/AIDS
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002"Sex is Good - Sex is Joy - Sex is Fun - Sex is Love - Sex is Power - Protected Sex is Life!" This is the message of this booklet, which argues that sexuality is natural and needed for procreation, and sexual drive is important for intimacy and pleasure. Many young people have sex during their teens, whether their parents know this or not.DocumentThe Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping
Lawrence and Wishart, 2002How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.DocumentConflict, Post-conflict, and HIV/AIDS - the Gender Connections: Women, War and HIV/AIDS: West Africa and the Great Lakes
World Bank, 2001What are the connections between conflict, HIV/AIDS and gender? This project conducted in Rwanda and Sierra Leone shows how gender inequalities among refugees and internally displaced populations significantly increase vulnerability to HIV infection. The project used a community-based approach which incorportate an outreach programme by AIDS educators taken from the refugee population.DocumentGender and HIV/AIDS Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002Why, after 20 years of international responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic are infection rates still on the increase? Why are the numbers of women living with HIV increasing faster than the number of men? HIV/AIDS is not only driven by gender inequality - it makes gender inequality worse, putting women, men and children further at risk.