Measuring Violence Against Women Amidst War and Displacement in Northern Uganda Using the ‘Neighborhood Method’

ResourceSS_VAW Uganda NMThis study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, sought to establish incidence rates for gender-based violence (GBV) in internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Northern Uganda. The assessment involved a ‘neighborhood methodology’, in which adult female heads of household reported about their own experience, their sisters’ experiences, and their neighbors’ experiences. It found that gender-based violence – particularly intimate partner violence – is commonplace in post-conflict Uganda.

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Measuring Violence Against Women Amidst War and Displacement in Northern Uganda Using the ‘Neighborhood Method’

Author(s): Lindsay Stark, Les Roberts, Wendy Wheaton, Anne Acham, Neil Boothby, & Alastair Ager
Year of Publication: 2009
Resource Type: report

 

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