Programa Haz su Parte (El Salvador) (El Salvador)
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Description

The Educación Comunitaria para la Prevención de la Violencia de Género - ECPVG (Community Education Program for the Prevention of Gender Violence), better known as Haz su Parte (Do your Part), aims to facilitate the process of raising awareness and critical reflection of adolescents regarding the eradication of gender violence against adolescent girls and young women. To this end, the program seeks to improve conflict management skills and change attitudes towards gender-based violence. ” (Do your Part), aims to facilitate the process of raising awareness and critical reflection of adolescents regarding the eradication of gender violence against adolescent girls and young women. To this end, the program seeks to improve conflict management skills and change attitudes towards gender-based violence.
The program was implemented in 2013 in 17 secondary schools in the country and is aimed at adolescents between 13 and 18 years of age.

Impact evaluations

A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) found different effects according to the participant’s gender [1].
Among women, although no effect was found on experiencing physical or emotional violence, the program improved their scores on the theoretical knowledge test that was carried out, and the percentage of women who talked about gender-based violence in the week before the intervention increased from 49% to 63%. There was also evidence that women changed their attitudes toward gender norms related to household chores and increased their resources for modulating their emotional response to stress.
Among men, although their knowledge of the topic increased (theoretical knowledge test score), there was no evidence of changes in the content of their conversations on the topic, in their ability to modulate an emotional response, or in their attitudes.

Bibliographic reference

[1] Bando et al. (2018). El efecto de la educación en las actitudes de género: Evidencia experimental en educación secundaria en El Salvador. IDB. https://publications.iadb.org/es/el-efecto-de-la-educacion-en-las-actit…

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