United States' Strategic Approach to Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence

The document includes:

• Primary Roles of the Department of State and USAID
• Objective 1: To Increase Coordination of Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response Efforts among United States Government Agencies and with Other Stakeholders
  • Action 1.1: Improve Inter-agency and Intra-agency Coordination
  • Action 1.2: Ensure Greater Collaboration with Other Stakeholders
• Objective 2: To Enhance Integration of Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response Efforts into Existing United States Government Work
  • Action 2.1: Integrate Content on Gender-based Violence into Existing Agency Programs and Policies
  • Action 2.2: Increase the Use of Existing Platforms to Advance Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence
• Objective 3: To Improve Collection, Analysis, and Use of Data and Research to Enhance Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response Efforts
  • Action 3.1: Promote Ethical and Safe Research, Data Collection, and Evidence-based Analyses on Different Forms of Gender-based Violence and Prevention and Response Efforts at the Country and Local Level
  • Action 3.2: Prioritize Monitoring and Evaluation of United States Government Programs
  • Action 3.3: Identify and Share Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and Research Within and Across Agencies and with Outside Partners
• Objective 4: To Enhance or Expand United States Government Programming that Addresses Gender-based Violence
  • Action 4.1: Replicate or Scale Up Successful Programs
  • Action 4.2: Assess Pilot Country Approach
• U.S. Department of State Implementation Plan
• U.S. Agency for International Development Implementation Plan