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Published: - Evidence/literature review
This research focuses on the risks of navigating access to social assistance in crises for marginalised people such as women and girls, children and youth, older people, people with disabilities, ethnic and religious minorities, and sexual and…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource explains how gender inequality affects the extent and patterns of different dimensions of poverty in forcibly displaced populations. It also explores how conflict and displacement affect gender norms and the prevalence of intimate…
Published: - Fact sheet 
This guide helps tax professionals consider key questions on gender while designing tax programmes. The purpose of this guide is to share learnings with donors. It refers to two categories of support that development actors may provide to…
Published: - Guidance document, Policy paper
This document provides an overview of challenges faced by people with disabilities during pandemic responses. It also provides recommendations to policymakers about how to improve disability inclusion in these responses.
Published: - Evidence/literature review
Gender-based violence (GBV) shelters provide secure accommodation for women and children who are at risk of or have experienced GBV. This document provides a summary of the evidence and lessons learned on the management of GBV shelters, focusing on…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource summarises evidence on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and intersectionality. It shares evidence on which groups of women are at increased risk of violence due to multiple discriminations or disadvantages. It also explains how…
Published: - Report
This resource summarises learnings in preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG). It outlines the challenges in delivering and scaling up evidence-based VAWG prevention activities. It also presents external challenges, key conclusions and…
Published: - Policy paper
This policy brief presents findings from a World Bank’s research programme focused on gendered dimensions of forced displacement and poverty. It looks at how poverty intersects with gender and forced displacement and outlines implications for policy…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource examines multidimensional poverty among displaced populations. It brings together three key issues: multidimensional poverty, forced displacement and gender. The analysis builds on the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from Ethiopia…
Published: - Guidance document
This resource focuses on safeguarding people with disabilities and mental health conditions in humanitarian and development programmes. It was written in collaboration with people with disabilities. The resource contains three parts:definitions…
Published: - Policy paper, Report
This resource examines the current evidence and practice around the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG). It makes recommendations for how prevention programming can be implemented at scale in a way that aligns with feminist…
Published: - Policy paper, Report
This resource summarises the pivotal role played by refugee women-led organisations (WLOs) in preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV). It also examines the systemic barriers WLOs face, in relation to registration, legal recognition…
Published: - Evidence/literature review, Lessons from a programme, Policy paper
This resource summarises existing evidence on violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex people (LGBTQI+) people, and shares emerging insights into what works to prevent this kind of violence. It is based on a global…
Published: - Evidence/literature review
This resource looks at available evidence on the effectiveness of social norms-focused approaches to tackling different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS). It recognises how social norms play a…
Published: - Case study, Evidence/literature review, Lessons from a programme
This resource examines the intersections of disability, gender and violence. It summarises early evidence on intimate partner violence (IPV) from the global What Works Violence against Women and Girls Programme (the ‘What Works’ programme), which…
Published: - Policy paper
This resource looks at effective funding strategies to support women’s rights organisations (WROs) working on the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG). It makes recommendations based on consultations with 58 WROs working on VAWG in…
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This resource focuses on research uptake approaches used by the global What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls Programme (the ‘What Works’ programme), funded by the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).…
Published: - Report
This resource summarises the evidence on societal-level impact of online violence against women and girls (VAWG). It looks at four main areas: the economic costs of online VAWGhow social norms around violence against women are changing as a…
Published: - Guidance document, Tools and templates
This resource is a how-to-note which provides guidance to help civil society organisations (CSOs) measure how effective their safeguarding policy and practice is against sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH). It is accompanied by…
Published: - Fact sheet , Guidance document
This resource is guidance developed for country offices in the UK Government’s former Department for International Development (DFID) to support them with efforts to prevent and address violence against women (VAW) and violence, abuse and…
This resource is a climate diagnostic and marker tool which is intended to be used during an investment due diligence process to: identify and mitigate, if possible, risks posed by climate to the investmentidentify and mitigate, if possible,…