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Policy Analysis Tool: Eliminating gender-based violence and discrimination

Policy Analysis Tool: Eliminating gender-based violence and discrimination

This policy analysis tool assists in the area of eliminating gender-based violence and discrimination. The following three aspects are evaluated: interventions to create supportive legal and policy frameworks to prevent and redress all forms of violence against women, including in intimate partner settings; comprehensive post-rape care protocols for HIV prevention; and finally, components that need to be included in prevention strategies around gender-based violence. This has been adapted from the “Framework for Women, Girls, and Gender Equality in NSPs on HIV and AIDS in Southern and Eastern Africa”. The original Framework is a collaboration of 19 organisations.

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