As part of the What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls programme, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) conducted research between 2014 and 2017 in the Dadaab refugee camps with two humanitarian agencies (IRC and CARE) who were delivering gender-based violence (GBV) response services.
Despite a growing field of research on the prevalence and dynamics of violence against women and girls in humanitarian settings, there is still limited evidence on how to provide effective prevention and response services to survivors of violence in humanitarian contexts.
This research aimed to address this evidence gap through research examining how this GBV response model of comprehensive case management with task sharing works to influence access to care, wellbeing, safety, and mental and physical health outcomes among GBV survivors in the Dadaab refugee camps.
The launch will share the key findings from this research and include recommendations for policy, programming and research.