Rural Response System to Prevent Violence Against Women in Ghana
Problems addressed
Violence against women
Effectiveness

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Effective

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Life periods served
Teenagers (14 to 17 years)
Adults (18 to 59 years)
Where the program was applied
Community (streets or community centers)
Country of application
Ghana
Description

This is a program to prevent intimate partner violence by raising awareness in the community and supporting victims.
The teams are made up of people chosen by the community itself and are then trained by the program, implement actions to raise community awareness regarding violence against women, and offer support to victims. Representatives of government agencies are also trained by the program.

Impact evaluations

An impact assessment showed that in the intervention communities, intimate partner violence decreased from 17.1% to 7.7%. In the control group communities, the rates varied from 9.3% to 8.0%. The prevalence of physical violence decreased from 16.5% to 8.3% in the treated communities, and from 14.6% to 10.9% in the control groups [1].
The study had a quasi-experimental design. Two districts in the central region of Ghana were randomly assigned to each group. Data was collected by means of repeated, randomized household baseline surveys with 2,000 women and 2,126 men, and 24 months later with 2,198 women and 2,328 men [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Ogum Alangea, D., Addo-Lartey, A. A., Chirwa, E. D., Sikweyiya, Y., Coker-Appiah, D., Jewkes, R. & Adanu, R. M. K. (2020). Evaluation of the rural response system intervention to prevent violence against women: Findings from a community-randomised controlled trial in the Central Region of Ghana. Global Health Action, 13(1), 1711336. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1711336

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