STRIVE at SVRI Forum 2015
15 September 2015
SVRI Forum 2015 on ‘Innovation and Intersections’ brings together researchers, gender activists, funders, policy makers, service providers, practitioners and survivors from around the world and will showcase innovation to end sexual violence, intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse, and strengthen responses to survivors in low and middle income countries.
Read the full programme here. Please join and/or publicise the following plenary or parallel sessions on STRIVE’s work on partner violence and HIV.
15 September, 11:30 – 13:00
Parinita Bhattacharjee: ‘All in the name of love: Involving sex workers and their intimate partners in research related to love, violence and power in intimate relationships using participatory tools in Karnataka, India’
15 September, 11:30 – 13:00
Prakash Javalkar: ‘Forms of intimate partner violence and associated HIV risk and vulnerability among women in sex work in Karnataka, India’
15 September, 16:30 - 18:00
Dr Shelley Lees: 'Integrating culture into interventions to prevent gender-based violence'
16 September, 11:30 – 13:00
Dr Lori Heise: chairing ‘Using research to influence policy’ session
16 September, 14:00 – 14:30
Parinita Bhattacharjee: ‘All in the name of love: Involving sex workers and their intimate partners in research related to love, violence and power in intimate relationships using participatory tools in Karnataka, India’ Poster presentation
16 September, 14:30 – 16:00
Sheila Harvey: ‘The Maisha Trial: Study design and the prevalence of physical and sexual violence at baseline’
16 September, 14:30 – 16:00
Dr Lees: ‘Understanding the everyday lives and experiences of intimate partner violence of women participating in a microfinance programme in North West Tanzania’
17 September, 11:30 – 13:00
Dr Heise: Plenary session on ‘Economic empowerment interventions for the prevention of violence against women and children’, presenting: ‘The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach? A mixed methods study on the causal mechanisms/pathways between a cash and in-kind food transfer programme and decreased intimate partner violence’
Relevant projects
Maisha: Microfinance and gender training to reduce violence against women
Image: SVRI Forum 2015 Programme. Credit: Sexual Violence Research Institution (SVRI)
