October 2016

Understanding High Impact Practices and Promising High Impact Practices

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Submitted by Elizabeth Dartnall, SVRI

The Family Planning High Impact Practices initiative is a global collective working to identify “high impact practices” in the field of family planning.  They have put out a brief on all current family planning programmes and practices assessed as “high impact”.

When no one is looking: 3 years of healing in Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Results from a sustained impact evaluation of a psychosocial intervention targeting men to prevent intimate partner violence.

Written by Henny Slegh and Marian Tankink

Promundo

When Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is in the headlines, conflict, war, and rape are often the focus. And, we should be paying attention: nearly a quarter of women in DRC have experienced conflict-related sexual violence, and nearly two-thirds have experienced violence from a male partner.