Gender-Based Violence Legal Aid -A Participatory Toolkit.

Toolkit.

American Refugee Committee International

2005

This toolkit provides three tools and a step-by-step process to help field staff design GBV services that will incorporate "adequate, appropriate, and comprehensive prevention and response strategies" with a multisectoral approach. One underlying principal of this toolkit is that GBV services and GBV legal aid need to be implemented in a gradual and culturally appropriate manner to maximize effectiveness and to prevent harmful consequences and backlash to the survivors from the community. A second underlying principle is that people in the community are the most knowledgeable of the unique characteristics of their environment and how to best address them. Therefore, this toolkit uses a participatory approach to both conduct a Preliminary Assessment of the given community and to design an Action Plan for that community. Due to the nature of participatory approaches, the results produced by this toolkit will vary from setting to setting, and therefore subsequent programs will vary as well. Ultimately, the varying means to the same end will prove to be more effective because they will be developed by and based on the community in which GBV is being addressed.

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