Gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread, affecting people in every country and across every industry, income level, race, ethnicity, religion and education level. It affects women’s ability to access healthcare, benefit from income-generating activities, participate fully in political and civic life and contribute to economic growth. The Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) program has developed a “Toolkit to Address Gender-based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development”, along with other resources:

• Toolkit to Address Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development provides practical, how-to guidance for agriculture and MSD project technical staff and gender and social inclusion advisors. This toolkit specifically focuses on GBV within the context of day-to-day agriculture programming. (2022)
• Pilot Testing of the Toolkit To Address Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development: Learning Brief tells the story of piloting the GBV in Ag Toolkit with the Feed the Future Uganda Inclusive Agriculture Markets (IAM) Activity. (2022)
• Resource Compendium: Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Other Sectors provides a practical, easy to use collection of resources that contain tools for preventing, mitigating, and responding to GBV in agriculture and other sectors. (2022)
• Gender-Based Violence Resource List and Good Practices in Agriculture and Other Sectors  captures and synthesizes existing GBV resources and promising practices in agriculture and other technical sectors. (2020)
• Annexed worksheets to the GBV in Ag Toolkit in Word format for adapting to a specific project:
  •  Worksheet: Learn About and Identify GBV in Project Activities
  • Tool: GBV Safety Mapping
  • Tool: GBV Mapping Across a Project and Applied to a Value Chain Assessment
  • Worksheet: Organizing GBV-related Information
  • Worksheet: Prioritizing GBV Concerns in Agriculture and MSD Projects
  • Worksheet: Prioritizing Potential Project Actions to Address GBV
  • GBV Tip Sheet Template
  • Worksheet: Collecting Community Information and Developing Referral Lists 
• Dissemination events, including:
  • Agrilinks' Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development on July 14, 2022
  • CGIAR's Project-level experiences in addressing gender-based violence in agriculture on August 18, 2022
• A video testimonial of the Benefits of using the Toolkit to Address GBV in Agriculture and Market Systems Development in the Colombia IPACE Activity: 

For more information on these resources, contact Katie Cheney at [email protected].