Addressing comprehensive needs of adolescent girls in India: A potential for creating livelihoods

Scoping study on adolescent programming that addresses both the productive and reproductive dimensions of girls’ lives.

Can women ‘refuse’ condoms? Dilemmas of condom negotiation among men living with HIV in South Africa

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Research on the nature of relationships, disclosure of HIV status and gender power dynamics

SASA! An introduction

This short version of STRIVE's video about SASA! introduces the programme and its work in Uganda. SASA! is an innovative approach to mobilising communities to prevent violence against women and HIV. It is designed by Raising Voices and implemented in Kampala, Uganda, by the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention, CEDOVIP.

Stemming girls’ chronic poverty: Catalysing development change by building just social institutions

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This report highlights ways in which five context-specific social institutions inform and determine the life opportunities and agency of girls and young women.

On norms and agency: Conversations about gender equality with women and men in 20 countries

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World Bank report based on the largest data set ever collected on the topic of gender and development.

SASA! video: Prevent violence against women now

Violence against women touches everyone's lives. We tend to believe that this violence - rooted in the inequality between men and women - must be very difficult to prevent. But an approach called SASA! makes us think again. 

SASA! video: Prevent violence against women now

Violence against women touches everyone's lives. We tend to believe that this violence - rooted in the inequality between men and women - must be very difficult to prevent. But an approach called SASA! makes us think again. 

Marriage as a risk factor for HIV: Learning from the experiences of HIV-infected women in Malawi

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How do women understand the effects of marriage on their risk of HIV infection? 

In light of the gender inequalities that characterise intimate partner relationships in Malawi, this paper argues that marriage is an important risk factor for HIV infection among women. 

Drawing from focus group discussions with 72 women attending antiretroviral clinics in Malawi, the article explores narratives of:

SASA! Activist Kit: Preventing violence against women

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Violence and the threat of violence limit women's capacity to avoid HIV infection. Many women also experience violence because they are HIV-positive. The root cause of this violence is the imbalance of power in relationships between women and men, girls and boys.

SASA! is a community mobilisation programme developed by Raising Voices in Kampala, Uganda. The Activist Kit is a comprehensive toolkit based on extensive field testing. It is designed for individuals and communities to start working toward a balance of power between women and men. 

Social norms theory and practice: resources from STRIVE workshop

Presentations on how a social norms perspective might be applied to partner violence and other issues. 

In January 2013, STRIVE brought together a group of researchers and practitioners in a three-day meeting that aimed to:

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