SW 3703 Gender Violence in Global Perspectives

1. SW 3703Gender Violence inGlobal Perspectives Session 6 / 27 Feb 2008

2. Session plan • Housekeeping (paper, next session, guest speaker paper) • Feedback from last session • Approaches to address VAW • VAW from development perspective • SAP & poverty • Links between poverty & VAW • UN MDGs & VAW • Gender responsive budgeting • Assessment • Blog assignment • Feedback

3. Feedback • Average score: 4.6/5.0 • Best part: Valandra (Guest speaker) • Learning: Culture; African-American perspective • Confusion: “Race traitor”, feedback forms, history & culture  DV

4. Approaches towards addressing VAW(Based on Moser, as cited in Pickup) • Welfare • Equity • Anti-poverty • Efficiency • Empowerment

5. Approaches to address VAW

6. VAW from a development perspective • What is “development”?

7. Poverty • Structural adjustment as a cause of poverty • Video: The luckiest nut in the world

8. Links between poverty and VAW • Is poverty a cause of VAW? • Does poverty enhance women’s vulnerabilities towards violence? • Does poverty impact men and women differently?

9. Links between poverty and VAW • Poverty may limit and/or inform women’s income generation options • Women may face backlash for participating in certain income generation activities that defy traditional gender scripts • Women may be compelled to choose income generation activities that may be a form of violence • Women may be more prone to coercion from their own families

10. Links between poverty and VAW • Poverty may make women more vulnerable to sexual abuse and violence • Poverty may limit women’s economic choices and alternatives to marriage • Poverty may limit women’s ability to resist violence • Poverty may limit women’s ability to seek support from social networks and professional services

11. Links between poverty and VAW • Poverty may influence the nature and extent of support women receive from professional services • Video: Sasa!

12. UN Millennium Development Goals • The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

13. UN Millennium Development Goals • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Achieve universal primary education • Promote gender equality and empower women • Reduce child mortality • Improve maternal health • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Ensure environmental sustainability • Develop a global partnership for development

14. UN Millennium Development Goals Based on today’s readings and our understanding from previous class sessions, discuss in your small group how working towards the MDGs assigned to your group will prevent and address VAW.

15. Gender-responsive budgeting • Gender-responsive budgeting as a tool to address gender inequity in development

16. GBV from a development perspective: Assessment Narrow definitions of development may look at economic aspects alone while ignoring social aspects Fear of intervening in the “private zone” of family Violence is often not directly addressed during development goals and debates • Help see connections between poverty and VAW • Help draw links between VAW, women’s low status and development