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Agenda        (PDF 138KB)
About the Workshop  
Break-out Group Descriptions
Background Readings &  Biographies (PDF 227KB)
Presentations from the Workshop 
Report on the Outcomes of the Workshop (PDF 296KB)
Policy Research Working Paper     

The Gender and Development group has commissioned three background documents addressing the issue of gender-based violence in preparation for the workshop.

1. Bott, Sarah, Ellsberg, Mary, and Morrison, Andrew.  Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in middle and low-income countries:  a global review and analysis.  Profiles of Documented Interventions (MS Word)

2. Morrison, Andrew, and Orlando, Maria Beatriz.  The Costs and Impacts of Gender-Based Violence in Developing Countries: Methodological Considerations and New Evidence.(PDF 1531KB)

Participants were encouraged to read the following background documents relating to the breakout group topics prior to the workshop.

Break-out Group I: Social Protection, Micro-finance and Gender-Based Violence

Break-out Group II: Education, Health and Gender-Based Violence

Break-out Group III: Gender-Based Violence in Conflict-Affected Environments

Break-out Group IV: Justice for Victims? Legal Aspects of Gender-Based Violence

Additional Recommended Readings:

1. Morrison, Andrew, Ellsberg, Mary, and Bott, Sarah.   Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Review of Interventions.

2. Barker, Gary. 2005.  Dying to be Men: Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Promundo. Abstract, first chapter and information on ordering a copy.

3. Center for Health and Gender Equity, "Population Reports: Violence Against Women". In Issues in World Health, Series L, No. 11: Pp.1-42.

4. Morrison, Andrew R. and Biehl, Maria Loreto (Eds.). 1999.  Too Close to Home: Domestic Violence in the Americas. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank. Executive summary and order form (PDF 29KB)

5. World Health Organization, 2002.   World Report on Violence and Health. Etienne G. Krug, Linda L. Dahlberg, James A. Mercy, Anthony B. Zwi and Rafael Lozano (Eds.). Geneva: WHO

6. World Health Organization. 2004.    The Economic Dimensions of Interpersonal Violence. Geneva: WHO.

7.  Link to Latin America and Caribbean gender site on gender-based violence