Study of Effectiveness of a Social-Economic Intervention for Sexual Violence Survivors in Eastern DRC
Violence against women is increasingly being recognized as an urgent public health priority and a significant human rights concern, as well as a major threat to social and economic development. Globally, an estimated 20 percent of all women will fa...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/239951492426725586/Study-of-effectiveness-of-a-social-economic-intervention-for-sexual-violence-survivors-in-Eastern-DRC http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26551 |
| Summary: | Violence against women is increasingly
being recognized as an urgent public health priority and a
significant human rights concern, as well as a major threat
to social and economic development. Globally, an estimated
20 percent of all women will face some form of violence
during their lifetime, including emotional coercion,
physical violence, and sexual violence. The overall
objective of the impact evaluation is to identify low-cost
and scalable interventions, which demonstrate improvements
in social, psychological, and economic functioning of sexual
violence survivors in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC). To this end, the authors conducted an impact
evaluation of a village savings and loans association (VSLA)
program to understand its impact on economic, social, and
psychological outcomes for a sample of female sexual
violence survivors. The impact evaluation had four
components: (1) a qualitative needs assessment; (2) a
quantitative baseline assessment; (3) a qualitative
post-program assessment; and (4) a quantitative post-program
assessment. This report presents a brief description of
components 1 and 2 and then a full description of the method
and results of the impact evaluation focusing on components
3 and 4. In terms of improving the psychological, social,
and economic well-being of survivors of sexual violence,
this study shows important results in some of the social and
economic outcomes, but fewer results than expected for
psychological outcomes. One recommendation from these
results will be to explore the idea of pairing VSLA with
other interventions to work more specifically on the certain
outcomes that VSLA may not change on its own. |
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