Toolkit for integrating GBV Prevention & Response into Economic Growth Projects
Publisher: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Date Published: 2014
Languages: English
The Toolkit for Integrating Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response into Economic Growth and Trade Projects provides practical guidance and strategies for addressing GBV throughout the program cycle of economic growth projects. It emphasizes the impact of GBV on workers and the workplace and offers principles for integration, including awareness, engagement with specialists, gender analysis, and collaboration with service providers.
Main Contribution
The Toolkit aims to provide background and practical guidance to USAID staff on addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in economic growth and trade projects throughout the program cycle. It covers four overarching themes:
The role of economic growth projects in addressing GBV.
How GBV can impact and undermine economic growth projects.
Different contexts to consider when integrating GBV prevention and response.
Practical ideas and strategies for integrating GBV prevention and response.
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The toolkit is intended for USAID Washington and Mission staff, as well as implementing partners. It suggests that they use the toolkit to support the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of projects across diverse economic growth sub sectors.
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The toolkit can be used by USAID staff and implementing partners to design, implement, and monitor economic growth projects while addressing GBV risks. It provides actionable strategies and guidance for integrating GBV prevention and response into diverse economic growth sub sectors.
GBV Prevention
The toolkit emphasizes the importance of integrating GBV prevention and response into economic growth projects. It highlights the impact of GBV on workers and the workplace, including domestic violence, workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. The toolkit provides strategies for addressing GBV risks in economic growth projects, such as awareness, engagement with GBV specialists, gender analysis, partnering with GBV service providers, and promoting women's leadership.
Creating Normative Change
The toolkit suggests several strategies for creating normative change, including engaging men as allies in GBV prevention, requiring sexual harassment policies for USAID contractors and grantees, and elevating women and girls as leaders in programming and policy.
How it could be adapted to the communities
The toolkit emphasizes the importance of understanding the specific forms of GBV in a given context through gender analysis. It encourages engagement with local organizations and service providers and emphasizes the need to address cultural practices that contribute to GBV. Adapting the toolkit to communities involves tailoring the strategies to the unique contexts and challenges of specific communities.
Keywords
Gender-based violence, Economic growth projects, Access to finance, Enterprise development
