Gender-Based Violence Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation with Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations
Publisher: Global Women’s Institute (GWI) at the George Washington University
Date Published: 2021
Languages: English
The toolkit provides a comprehensive package to support researchers and humanitarian practitioners in conducting ethical and technically sound research, monitoring, and evaluation on GBV within refugee and conflict-affected populations. It includes data collection tools, templates, and other resources to enhance data collection and analysis efforts in the field.
Main Contribution
The manual and the associated practitioner toolkit aim to support researchers and members of the humanitarian community in conducting ethical and technically sound research, monitoring, and evaluation (M&E) on gender-based violence (GBV) within refugee and conflict-affected populations. The materials have been developed through a multi-phased process to identify and consolidate best practices and lessons learned in the field.
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The manual and toolkit are intended for a variety of audiences, including the international humanitarian community and the academic community. For the humanitarian community, it serves as a primer on how to conduct safe and ethical research and M&E on GBV in refugee and conflict-affected settings. For the academic community, it provides an introduction to the key principles that make GBV research and M&E different, particularly among refugee and conflict-affected populations.
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The manual's step-by-step approach enables readers to make appropriate ethical and methodological decisions when collecting data. It helps in understanding the unique needs of refugee populations and focuses on key concepts and considerations for GBV research and M&E.
GBV Prevention
The materials address the increasing emphasis on research and M&E for GBV programs among refugee and conflict-affected populations. They highlight the mixed quality of these efforts and the ethical questions raised by weak methodologies, emphasizing the importance of an evidence-based approach to prevent and respond to GBV.
Creating Normative Change
The materials emphasize the importance of understanding and addressing gender-based violence through an ecological model, visualizing the risk of experiencing violence as an interplay of factors from societal to individual levels. The root cause of GBV, both in conflict and non-conflict settings, is attributed to patriarchal gender norms and inequitable power dynamics.
How it could be adapted to the communities
The manual and toolkit are designed to be practical and accessible to both researchers and GBV program staff. They provide an overall introduction to key concepts and considerations for GBV research and M&E and focus on what makes this work different when undertaken with refugee and conflict-affected populations.
Keywords
Gender-based violence, GBV, Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Refugee populations, Conflict-affected populations, Feminist evaluation, Gender norms, Ecological model.
