• About us
  • GSDRC Publications
  • Research Helpdesk
  • E-Bulletin
  • Privacy policy

GSDRC

Governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian knowledge services

  • Governance
    • Democracy & elections
    • Public sector management
    • Security & justice
    • Service delivery
    • State-society relations
  • Social Development
    • Gender
    • Inequalities & exclusion
    • Social protection
    • Poverty & wellbeing
  • Humanitarian Issues
    • Humanitarian financing
    • Humanitarian response
    • Recovery & reconstruction
    • Refugees/IDPs
    • Risk & resilience
  • Conflict
    • Conflict analysis
    • Conflict prevention
    • Conflict response
    • Conflict sensitivity
    • Impacts of conflict
    • Peacebuilding
  • Development Pressures
    • Climate change
    • Food security
    • Fragility
    • Migration & diaspora
    • Population growth
    • Urbanisation
  • Approaches
    • Complexity & systems thinking
    • Institutions & social norms
    • PEA / Thinking & working politically
    • Results-based approaches
    • Theories of change
  • Aid Instruments
    • Budget support & SWAps
    • Capacity building
    • Civil society partnerships
    • Multilateral aid
    • Private sector partnerships
    • Technical assistance
  • M&E
    • Indicators
    • Learning
    • M&E approaches
Home»GSDRC Publications»Evaluation of programmes related to violence against women and girls

Evaluation of programmes related to violence against women and girls

Helpdesk Report
  • Anna Orrnert
November 2012

Question

Which are the key organisations and who are the key individuals involved in conducting evaluations of programmes related to violence against women and girls? Please focus on specific evaluations rather than broader social science research. For organisations, please include, if possible, titles of evaluations conducted, links to the evaluation reports and key evaluation designs, approaches and methods used; for individuals, please include affiliation and key area of expertise.

Summary

Key findings: Despite the growing number of interventions related to violence against women and girls (VAWG) during recent years, to date, few rigorous evaluations have been carried out of related programmes. The quality of existing evaluations is also variable. Experts have observed that efforts to address violence against women in recent years have been relatively small scale, under-funded and often poorly evaluated. Overall, there seems to be growing consensus on the need for more rigorous evaluations of interventions related to VAWG.

Many of the evaluations that do exist tend to evaluate specific projects rather than wider programmes. This report aims to identify some of the key organisations and individuals that have been involved in carrying out these evaluations. It mainly focuses on identifying key organisations and individuals that have extensive experience in conducting evaluations or interventions related to VAWG rather than those that have conducted one-off evaluations. Nevertheless, a list of additional evaluations is provided.

Two of the key organisations identified in this report are the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at London Metropolitan University and the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol. Although many (but not all) of their evaluations have been carried out in the UK, the organisations also have experience working on interventions related to VAWG in the international, and developing, context. For example, CWASU was commissioned by UN Women to develop online guidance on the principles and process of coordinating responses to address violence against women and girls. This drew on practices from around the world and included case studies from Europe, Africa and the United States.

file type icon See Full Report [PDF]

Enquirer:

  • DFID Evaluation Department

Related Content

Documentation of survivors of gender-based violence (GBV)
Helpdesk Report
2021
Key Drivers of Modern Slavery
Helpdesk Report
2020
Interventions to Reduce Forced Marriage
Helpdesk Report
2019
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Programming on Men, Women, Boys and Girls
Helpdesk Report
2019
birminghamids hcri

gro.crdsg@seiriuqne Feedback Disclaimer

Outputs supported by FCDO are © Crown Copyright 2023; outputs supported by the Australian Government are © Australian Government 2023; and outputs supported by the European Commission are © European Union 2023
Connect with us: facebooktwitter

Outputs supported by DFID are © DFID Crown Copyright 2023; outputs supported by the Australian Government are © Australian Government 2023; and outputs supported by the European Commission are © European Union 2023