Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls through Security and Justice (S&J) Programming. Part A: Strategic rationale, vision and principles

Overview

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is the most widespread form of abuse worldwide, affecting one third of all women in their lifetime. VAWG limits progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, violates women and girls’ human rights and can have a negative impact on long-term peace and stability. In line with its international and national commitments, preventing VAWG is a top priority for the UK Government and DFID’s Ministerial team.
This two-part guidance note is part of series of DFID guidance notes on VAWG. It focuses specifically on how to address VAWG through Security and Justice (S&J) programming, where DFID aims to make progress towards two key impacts:

1. Women and girl survivors achieve justice and access to comprehensive support services.

2. Women and girls are protected from all forms of VAWG and the threat of VAWG.

This guidance note is not intended to be prescriptive, but aims to provide practical advice and tips to support DFID advisors and programme managers and other UK government departments to strengthen the impact of S&J programmes in addressing VAWG. It can be used to inform existing security and justice programmes as well as new programmes that are either focused on VAWG specifically or will address VAWG in a broader security and justice response. It reflects the principles outlined in other DFID guidance on S&J programming.

Part A (this part) sets out the strategic rationale and broad approach to addressing VAWG in S&J programming and covers the following:
 The UK Government’s commitments on VAWG
 Why it is important for S&J programmes to address VAWG
 DFID’s vision and key outcome areas to address VAWG through S&J programming
 Principles to guide S&J programming related to VAWG
 Calculating Value for Money (VfM) of VAWG interventions
 Where to go for more information and guidance

Part B then provides specific guidance on designing programmes or programme components for each key outcome area:

 Specific challenges to be addressed in each key outcome area
 Questions to inform DFID’s engagement strategy  Key entry points
 Examples of interventions
 Examples of results and indicators
 Case studies of best, promising and poor practice and lessons learned