A Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls in Haiti
Summary: An IDB paper on a community-based intervention to prevent violence against women and girls in Haiti, produced by its Institutions for Development sector.
Key Findings
- Grounded in the 2012 Haiti Mortality, Morbidity and Service Utilization Survey, which put prevalence at 29 percent.
- Prevalence was highest among women aged 15 to 19, at 42 percent.
- Community-based prevention rather than response services, which is the less common half of the field.
Full Description
An IDB paper on a community-based intervention to prevent violence against women and girls in Haiti, produced by its Institutions for Development sector. It sets the intervention against prevalence data from the 2012 mortality and service utilization survey, which is what makes it more than a project description.
How to cite
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), 2018, A Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls in Haiti, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/idb-2018-community-intervention-violence-women