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IDH Publication, 2026
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is not just a social issue, it’s a systemic challenge that undermines agricultural value chains.
In rural and isolated areas, GBV threatens women’s safety, limits their economic participation, and weakens food security. When women cannot work safely, entire communities lose resilience, and businesses lose productivity. Climate resilience strategies that overlook gendered risks leave communities exposed and women vulnerable.
Ending GBV is essential for building equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient agri-food systems; and it’s not only a human rights imperative, but also central to climate adaptation and economic stability.
The good news? Solutions work. Programs like the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) demonstrate that addressing GBV can enhance productivity and strengthen workforce morale and brand reputation. Safe, inclusive workplaces aren’t just good ethics, they’re smart business.
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Evaluation of sexual harassment/women's mobility intervention
Hello all,
Getting back to you with a quick question. Is anyone aware of any interventions that have been evaluated on women's mobility/preventing sexual harassment and assault in public spaces. Public spaces can be anything from streets, public transport, public toilets, conflict affected areas, refugee camps, parks, public recreation areas etc. Could be from any 'sector' such as water and sanitation, transport, urban planning, creative arts and culture, design etc.
If there aren't any evaluated projects-can you at least point me to donor reports, project completion reports etc.
I am looking for evals from both developed and developing countries but a google search is not yielding many results.
Many thanks for your help.
From a very chilly fall afternoon in Washington DC
Best,
Tanya
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on
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Hi Tanya, how do you plan to use the information you are looking for? That will help members to help you. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Tanya Dlima on -
Hi Rituu,
Certainly! I am researching "What Works" to prevent sexual harassment for a UN agency report. This will inform best practices and evaluation efforts in some of their projects and in the field in general-specifically looking at Asia but wanted to start to see what was out there globally in developed and developing countries.
Thanks for your help Rituu
Best,
Tanya
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Permalink Reply by Susanne Lucie BAUER on
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Hi Tanya,
I can only say that this was part of the reasons for an early departure as CTA in a subcontract arrangement with a German bilateral agency. The agency agreed on my dismissal for 'personal reasons', due to a sexual harassment caused by an external private sector provider in the country (Lomé, Togo). I trust this was a good decision for me, although it might have caused complications for the project that had to search for my successor. "All is well that ends well", sitting at my home desk in preparation for my next assignment :-), Susanne
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Permalink Reply by Andrea Azevedo Pinho on
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Hi Tanya,
Have you tried checking the UN Women gender equality evaluation portal? (http://genderevaluation.unwomen.org/en)
I can be a bit tricky because there is no "keyword" for sexual harassment or public spaces but I believe you could find interesting results if you look for campaigns, for example. My guess is that civil society would be a better source of information in this topic than the UN or other big donors.
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Permalink Reply by Maya Pilgrim on
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Hi Tanya! So great to see you here. You might check with the Huairou commission to see if any of their programs have been evaluated. http://huairou.org/safety
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There was an initiative of UN Women Brazil in partnership with DfID in Rio de Janeiro about street harassment. I am not sure if it was evaluated but you could contact UN Women Brazil to get to know more about it.
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Permalink Reply by Shravanti on
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Hi Tanya,
I would encourage you to take a look at the evaluations from UN Women available on our GATE system ( http://gate.unwomen.org/) several of which are likely relevant for your research, including evaluations of Safe Cities programmes. We also maintain a Gender Equality Evaluation Portal (http://genderevaluation.unwomen.org/en) that is searchable that should have some relevant reports as well. Hope this helps.
Best,
Shravanti
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Permalink Reply by Isha Wedasinghe Miranda on
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Dear Tania
being in this work for nearly decade , non has made any effort or opportunity on this subjects. Have some reasons not to as well do want to
1. Clear methodology is the biggest obstacle.
2. Quality of the Data also issue.
3. Selection of Categories and criteria too is questionable.
Then how it will can proceed. Why this is important us to do at least to conduct a size estimations. We are lauding day basis of VAW and but forgetting we are far behind the facts and numbers.
Other thing? we react to the issues when alarm rings on either by a death of the victim or popular known cases heard by the court of justice. This must stoped. Today the country I live reacted again after the death of 5 year old girl (abused and killed), 10 year old Boy Hacked to death and 3 year old were abused and abandoned in the jungle. But daily even at this moment it is happening most dangerously with a knowledge of the parents and loved once .
I appealed to you concentrate on psychological factors of rapist behaviours in order to eliminate sexual abuses and so we can assured that our love once will be free .
Regards
isha wedasinghe miranda
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Permalink Reply by Andrea Baertl Helguero on
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Hi:
I am not sure how helpful this will be, but in the ELLA Programme we have looked into finding best practices en Latin America on preventing and addressing gender violence. A little bit more broader thatn what you mention but maybe there is something in here that can help youIn here you can find papers
http://ella.practicalaction.org/ella-knowledge/?thema=gender-and-vi...
And in here list of organisations working in Latin America y gender and vioence, femicide and violence, and access to justice ( and also other papers, not authored by the ELLA programme relating to those themes)
http://ella.practicalaction.org/ella-knowledge/?thema=gender-and-vi...
Hope this helps!
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Soumaya Ibrahim Huber on
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Dear Tanya you might try the Egyptian Harassment Fighters website and contact them they are very active and I am sure they have done studies http://www.isawharassment.org/ar/
https://www.facebook.com/Shoft.Ta7rosh.
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/09/25/anti-sexual-harassment-gro...
http://www1.adnkronos.com/AKI/Arabic/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.2.160172...
Best of luck
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Permalink Reply by Tanya Dlima on
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Thank you so very much to all of you! I will be sure to check out these resources and get back if I have any more specific questions. Many thanks again. What great community support!
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