This collaborative project between CEHAT and World Health Organization (WHO) implemented the clinical and policy guidelines developed by WHO (2013) for responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women. WHO approached CEHAT to test approaches to roll out these guidelines and tools for healthcare providers’ response to violence against women. CEHAT collaborated with WHO to implement the project in two medical colleges of Maharashtra– GMC Aurangabad and GMC Miraj. The project focused on addressing response barriers faced by healthcare providers, building their capacity, establishing protocols and designing models of care as well as providing crucial evidence on design, implementation and impact of interventions aimed at improving the health systems’ response to violence against women in low and middle income countries.
