Research on violence against women and girls in South Asia

This research examines Intimate Partner Violence in the fragile and post-conflict contexts of Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 March 2017
Country:
Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan
Document Type:
Research Paper
Theme:
Social Change

Abstract

This Department for International Development (DFID) funded research is aimed at addressing crucial knowledge and evidence gaps around men’s perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in South Asia.

The focus is on adolescence and young adulthood, a time of life in which gendered identities and patterns of behaviour are often intensified and consolidated, ­­­­in the fragile and post-conflict contexts of Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.

The Overseas Development Institute convened a research consortium to investigate the ways in which both community-level social norms and broader political economy factors influence the tendency to perpetrate IPV and, in turn, the efficacy of existing programming approaches.

The research programme comprised global and country-specific literature reviews, a multi-level quantitative analysis of young men’s attitudes about violence against women and girls, and qualitative and longitudinal data collection to better understand the complex mix of individual, household, community and policy level factors that underpin the high level of IPV in the region.

The research consortium comprises Aga Khan University (Pakistan), Emory University, Nepal Institute for Social and Environmental Research and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

Citation

  • Rozina Karmaliani, Nargis Asad, Kausar S. Khan, Sohail Bawani, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Nicola Jones, Taveeshi Gupta, Anita Allana, Hussain Maqbool, Yasmeen Somani and David Walker.Understanding intimate partner violence in Pakistan through a male lens (2017), ODI, London

  • Rozina Karmaliani, Nargis Asad, Kausar S. Khan, Sohail Bawani, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Nicola Jones, Taveeshi Gupta, Anita Allana, Hussain Maqbool, Yasmeen Somani and David Walker. Intimate partner violence in Pakistan: not just a women’s issue (2017), ODI, London

  • Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Fiona Samuels, Taveeshi Gupta, Aloka Talukder, Virginie Le Masson, Kathryn M. Yount. Understanding intimate partner violence in Bangladesh through a male lens. (2017), ODI, London

  • Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Fiona Samuels, Taveeshi Gupta, Aloka Talukder, Virginie Le Masson, Kathryn M. Yount. Intimate partner violence in Bangladesh: not just a women’s issue . (2017), ODI, London

  • Anita Ghimire and Fiona Samuels. Understanding intimate partner violence in Nepal: Prevalence, drivers and challenges. (2017), ODI, London

  • Anita Ghimire and Fiona Samuels. Understanding intimate partner violence in Nepal through a male lens. (2017), ODI, London

  • Anita Ghimire and Fiona Samuels. Intimate partner violence in Nepal: not just a women’s issue (2017), ODI, London

  • Fiona Samuels, Nicola Jones and Taveeshi Gupta. Men and intimate partner violence: from research to action in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. (2017), ODI, London

  • Fiona Samuels, Nicola Jones and Taveeshi Gupta. Tackling intimate partner violence in South Asia: why working with men and boys matters for women. (2017), ODI, London

  • Fiona Samuels and Taveeshi Gupta. Literature review of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence in South Asia. (2017), ODI, London

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