Preventing Intimate Partner Violence in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, and the Uganda Nationa by Louise Flavahan

Author:Louise Flavahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2015-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Community Intervention Efforts to Reduce IPV in the Region

As workshop moderator Karim Nanji, a professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine at Muhimbili University in Tanzania, explained, much of the work within IPV has focused on the collection of hard data and one-on-one screening efforts. However, it is important to think about the ways that communities can inform both the prevalence of IPV and its prevention. Some of the most promising prevention efforts, both in terms of efficacy and cost-effectiveness, are those that implement a community-mobilization approach. These approaches directly engage with and challenge the prevailing social norms within the region that lead to the acceptability of violence against women discussed throughout the workshop. A few of these programs and interventions have been touched upon briefly elsewhere within this summary. This chapter will explore these programs in more depth to provide a better understanding of their operation.

MENKEN

Referenced elsewhere in this summary, speaker Charlotte Watts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explained in her presentations that IPV and GBV are often extreme manifestations of gender inequality. As the following discussions will show, the power of community mobilization efforts to influence these inequities and other prevalent social norms in a short period of time is enormous. In his presentation, Francis Nyagah of the MenEngage Kenya Network (MenKen) outlined his organization’s approach to reducing gender inequality and the associated risk factors in Kenya by engaging and educating men across the country.

MenKen is an alliance or network of organizations working together to engage men and boys in GBV reduction and HIV prevention. Broadly, MenKen has five focus areas:

The prevention of GBV;

The promotion of sexual and reproductive health (with the specific aim of reducing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS);

Positive fatherhood;

Building the capacity of organizations and institutions working to engage men and boys in GBV and HIV/AIDS reduction; and

Building partnerships with other organizations, institutions, and governments.

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