Creating Spaces to Take Action on Violence Against Women and Girls in the Philippines: Integrated Impact Evaluation Report
Author(s)
Holland, JeremyPublication date
2022-11-25Keywords
AccountabilityActive citizenship
Fragile contexts
Gender inequality
Gender justice
Gender-based violence
Impact assessment
Rights
VAWG
Violence against women and girls
Women's rights
Impact evaluation
Quasi-experimental evaluation
Process tracing
Mixed method approach
Civil society
Country
PhilippinesMetadata
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Oxfam GBDocument type
Evaluation reportDescription
The Creating Spaces project was a five-year, multi-country initiative aimed at reducing violence against women and girls and the prevalence of child, early and forced marriage in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines. This evaluation focuses on tackling social norm change in the Muslim Mindanao region of the Philippines, working closely with the organizations AMWA, UnyPhil, PBSP and PLCPD. It found that strategies were effectively combined at community level to begin to shift local behaviours, while local change processes were linked to higher-level advocacy for progressive legislative and policy change at national and regional levels. Creating Spaces has successfully started to move the dial, proving change is possible with concerted, strategic and sustained effort. This evaluation provides key recommendations to guide future interventions to build on these successes, and create the basis for future social transformation around violence against women and girls and child, early and forced marriage. Find out more by reading the evaluation brief or the full report.