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Addressing Gender-based Violence through USAID's Health Programs: A Guide for Health Sector Program Officers, USAID, 2006. [view document]

An Advocacy Guide for Feminists , Young Women and Leadership, AWID, No. 1, December 2003 [view]

APHA Media Advocacy Manual
American Public Health Association's user-friendly manual on how to create effective media advocacy campaigns.
Available for free download: [link to document]

Clinical Management of Rape Survivors: Developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons, Revised edition, World Health Organization/United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2004. [view]

REVISED AND UPDATED: Clinical Management of Rape Survivors: Developing Protocols for use with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, WHO, UNHCR. Provides guidance to health care providers for medical management after rape of women, men, and children, 2005 [view]

Ending Violence Against Women, Programming for Prevention, Protection and Care, UNFPA 2007. This handbook, intended primarily for development practitioners, provides practical points to consider when designing and implementing projects addressing violence against women. [link to document]

Family Violence Prevention Fund: Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence. An online tool-kit for use by practitioners working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence. The tool-kit provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools. [link to document]

Gender-based Violence Tools Manual: For Assessment, Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict-Affected Settings.
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2004.
Available for free download: [link to document]

Guidelines for Gender-based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings, Focusing on Prevention of and Response to Sexual Violence in Emergencies, IASC Taskforce on Gender in Humanitarian Assistance, September 2005 [view]

HIV/AIDS & Human Rights in a Nutshell: A quick and useful guide for action, as well as a framework to carry HIV/AIDS and human rights actions forward, Program on International Health and Human Rights, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO), December 2004. [view]

Human Rights Violations by Non-State Actors: Activist Strategies from Muslim Communities by Jan Bauer and Anissa Hélie, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development and Women Living Under Muslim Laws, 2006. [ link to document ]

Improving the health sector response to gender-based violence: A resource manual for health care professionals in developing countries. Sarah Bott and Alessandra Guedes, IPPF The entire text is available for free online at the IPPFWHR website. [link to document]

Integrating poverty and gender into health programmes: a sourcebook for health professionals: module on gender-based violence,  World Health Organization 2005
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Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration: A Compendium of Assessment Tools, NCIPC, CDC, 2006: This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of assessment tools with demonstrated reliability and validity for measuring the self-reported incidence and prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence victimization and perpetration.  [link to document]

Picturing a Life Free of Violence: Media and Communications Strategies to End Violence Against Women
Catalogue of communications materials from around the world on violence against women. Jenny Drezin, UNIFEM and Johns Hopkins University's Center for Communication Programs (2001).
Available for free download: [link to document]

A Practical Approach to Gender-Based Violence: A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers and Managers
Lynn Stevens, UNFPA (2001)
This program tools describes practical strategies for integrating GBV into reproductive health services.
Available for free download: [link to document]

Practical Guide and Methods to Advance Women’s Legal Rights. USAID Office of Women in Development. [link to document]

Quantitative Research Instrument to Measure School-Related Gender-Based Violence
The Safe Schools Program has released this tool, which details the sampling methodology, interview guidelines, and suggested preliminary data analysis of a recently conducted study to assess the knowledge, attitudes, practices, and experiences of boys and girls and teachers in Malawi with gender-based physical, psychological and sexual violence at schools including in the classroom and on the school grounds as well as going to and from school. [link to document]

Researching Violence against Women: A Practical Guide for Researchers and Activists., Ellsberg M Heise L, World Health Organisation & PATH, Washington DC, 2005. [view]

Straight Talk Foundation: “Using Radio to Help Communities Talk” June 2006. This manual is about using radio for encouraging community dialogue and exploring various stages of creating programming. It was published by Straight Talk Foundation (STF), a non-governmental organization in Uganda specializing in health and development communication through radio, print, and community out-reach training, based on the importance of radio in Uganda as a tool for propelling communities into action. [view]

Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage Advocacy Toolkit, International Center for Research on Women. [link to document]

United Nations Population Fund: “Human Rights Based Programming” December 2006. This is a two in one manual designed to help practitioners use human rights programming, to empower people to exercise their reproductive rights and live free from gender-based violence. View the document [link to document]