Scaling up health system response to and prevention of violence against women in primary health care settings: A cluster randomized trial

This is a collaborative project of CEHAT and MASUM with technical support from George Washington University and World Health Organisation, Geneva, and is funded by What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls, an initiative of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of UK government. The project has been conceptualised based on CEHAT’s decade long work on advancing the health sector’s response to VAW and contribution in development of WHO’s clinical and policy guidelines on ‘Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women’, for low- and middle-income countries in 2013.

The four-year project aims to build health systems’ response to violence against women in Ch. Sambhajinagar district of Maharashtra. It will be implemented in Gangapur, Paithan, Vaijapur and Kannad blocks of district. It is an intervention research project (CTRI/2024/07/071367) and will involve all the public health facilities and healthcare providers including ASHA workers in four blocks.