USAID’s Training Activities Involving Prevention and Treatment of Gender Based Violence

Countries	Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
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If it were between countries, we'd call it a war. If it were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic. If it were an oil spill, we'd call it a disaster.  But it is happening to women, and it's just an everyday affair.                                                                                                                   www.michaelkaufmann.com

Gender-based violence (GBV) in East Africa takes many forms--domestic abuse, rape, child marriage, denial of opportunities, and so on.  Individuals and institutions both perpetrate such violence. Several USG agencies are addressing aspects of GBV such as male norms around HIV and legislation that protects women.  The USAID/East Africa Regional Program supports these efforts with regional literature reviews, donor coordination on GBV, development of outcome measures for GBV programs, and training in GBV programming.  USAID/EA programs to address GBV work closely with government bodies, non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, organizations of religious leaders, European donors, and others. Activities include:

I.  Regional Skill Building Activities

• Traumatic Gynecologic Fistula as a Consequence of Sexual Violence in Conflict Settings. Ethiopia,  Septembers 6-8, 2005
• East, Central and Southern Africa Regional Gender-based Violence Strategy Consultation. Zambia,  March 7-9,  2006
• Integration of Gender and Gender-Based Violence into Pre-service Curricula for Nurses and Midwives. Kenya,  September 11-15, 2006
• Strengthening Regional Work on Gender-based Violence with Private and Public Organizations. Uganda, November 8– 10,, 2006  
• Engaging Young Boys and Men in Reproductive Health. Tanzania, December 4 – 6, 2006
• Gender-based Violence: Communicating Information and Good Practice Interventions to Policymakers. Spring 2007

II. Programming and USG sponsor

• Literature review of GBV in East Africa.  USAID East Africa Regional Office
• Strategy for Addressing GBV in EA Region.  USAID East Africa and UNICEF
• Men as Partners Program for cross-border truck drivers.  USAID East Africa Regional Office.
• Improving Family Planning and GBV Programs among Refugees. Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda. USAID East Africa Regional Office.
• Technical Assistance on GBV Programming for African Institutions. Regional. USAID East Africa Regional Office.
• Development of regional indicators for measuring the success of GBV programming. USAID East Africa Regional Office

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More information on our initiatives and documents related to gender based violence:

• Mandera-Gedo Cross-Border Conflict Mitigation Initiative
• Strategic Framework for the Prevention of and Response to Gender-based Violence in Eastern, Southern and Central Africa
• Linking Gender-Based Violence Research to Practice in East, Central and Southern Africa: 1/2/2006

Last updated 8/30/2007

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