Guidance

Violence Against Women and Girls: Infrastructure and Cities briefing note

• From: Department for International Development
• Part of: Violence against women and girls overseas and Violence against women and girls
• Published: 20 June 2017

The overall purpose of the paper is to provide a framework for how to address violence against women and girls (VAWG) through programming and policy dialogue on infrastructure and cities.

Documents

Violence against Women and Girls, Infrastructure and Cities: briefing note

PDF, 1.54MB, 75 pages

Details

The paper aims to support DFID advisors and programme managers to integrate VAWG as an important consideration of all urban and infrastructure programming and policy dialogue.

It is divided into 4 key parts, which are designed to work independently of each other or together as one resource document:

• Overview - short 2-pager summary of the key issues, with a table of how to address VAWG through urban and infrastructure programmes
• Section 1 - provides a brief introduction to VAWG and why it matters to urban and infrastructure programmes
• Section 2 - identifies the key risks and opportunities for each of ICED’s seven entry points, as well as during the construction phase. These sub-sections are also intended to be short stand-alone briefs to help the integration of VAWG into sectors (e.g. Energy, WASH)
• Section 3 - highlights some of the conditions for success – what is needed for a programme to be transformative. It concludes with ideas for getting started

Document information

Published: 20 June 2017

From: Department for International Development

Part of: Violence against women and girls overseas Violence against women and girls