2009 Training in Researching GBV

GENDER BASED VIOLENCE RESEARCH TRAINING: UNDERSTANDING THE SENSITIVITIES AND COMPLEXITIES

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

26th October to 6th November 2009

Overview

This is the fifth iteration of a course based on the manual Researching Violence against Women: A Practical Guide for Researchers and Activists written by Mary Ellsberg and Lori Heise. The two-week course was piloted in South Africa, in partnership with the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and local gender-based violence (GBV) networks. A Spanish course for Central American participants was offered in Nicaragua through the Latin American Alliance for the Prevention of Gender-based Violence (InterCambios) in partnership with the Center for Demographic and Health Research, Leon University (Nicaragua), and the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (Brazil).The course has also been offered regionally in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia in collaboration with the GBV Prevention Network; Liverpool VCT; Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences and Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, The International Center for Research on Women, Medical Research Council of South Africa, and Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH).

Aim of the Course

To strengthen the capacity of service providers, activists and researchers to participate in research and to use it effectively, by developing an understanding of all the factors associated with research planning and implementation.

Specific Objectives

  • Develop a critical understanding of issues of gender and gender-based violence
  • Demonstrate an understanding of violence against women as a public health issue
  • Demonstrate an understanding how to develop a research strategy
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the different methods used in violence against women with an emphasis of the use of epidemiology in such studies
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how the research can be used in advocacy
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities and awareness of the challenges of doing research on gender violence

Conveners:

  • Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Abba
  • Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH)
  • Gender and Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa
  • International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
  • The GBV Prevention Network, Research and M&E Thematic Working Group (Coordinated by Liverpool VCT)

The training was attended by 17 participants from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. View full list of participants here.

View pictures of the training here.