A theory of change for community interventions to prevent domestic violence against women and girls in Mumbai, India

Daruwalla, Nayreen; Jaswal, Surinder; Fernandes, Prakash; Pinto, Preethi; Hate, Ketaki; Ambavkar, Gauri; Kakad, Bhaskar; Gram, Lu; Osrin, David

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15128.1

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“…IV. Costly preventive action is possible: women taking action against domestic violence are able to change men's attitudes, including those of their own partners (Abramsky et al, 2014;Daruwalla et al, 2019;Pronyk et al, 2006;Wagman et al, 2015), but this requires time and effort. Let e ij ∈[0,∞) denote effort spent by woman j in changing the attitude of man i, with larger values denoting greater effort.…”

Section: Child Sexual Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Community mobilisation interventions have been developed to challenge domestic violence-related social norms through a range of activities (Abramsky et al, 2014;Pronyk et al, 2006;Wagman et al, 2015). This includes engaging police, courts, shelter homes, physical and mental health services, and non-specialist community members (Daruwalla et al, 2019). They actively involve community members in decisions about intervention delivery, including the development of strategies to tackle local priority issues (Rosato et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their open-ended approach makes such interventions effective, but also unpredictable . For example, a documentation exercise for a communitybased intervention to prevent violence against women in Mumbai, India, found a plethora of community actions (Daruwalla et al, 2019) (Table 1). These ranged from negotiating with the family of a woman facing dowry harassment to organising a campaign to free a woman who was locked in her house and beaten by her partner.…”

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“…Game theory predicts the behaviour of players in a setting, where the 'payoffs' to strategies chosen by individuals depends on strategies adopted by Table 1 Actions taken by community members to address violence against women in a community-based intervention in Mumbai, India. Adapted from (Daruwalla et al, 2019).…”

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Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism

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Interventions promoting collective action have been used to prevent domestic violence in a range of settings, but their mechanisms of operation remain unclear. We formalise and combine feminist theoretical approaches to domestic violence into a game-theoretic model of women’s collective action to change gendered social norms and outcomes. We show that social norms create a social dilemma in which it is individually rational for women to abstain from action to prevent domestic violence among neighbours, but all women suffer negative consequences if none take action. Promoting altruism among women can overcome the social dilemma. Discouraging women from tolerating domestic violence, imposing additional external punishment on men for perpetrating violence, or lowering costs to women of taking action against violence may not work or even backfire. We invite researchers on community mobilisation to use our framework to frame their understandings of collective action to prevent domestic violence.

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“…The many mechanisms we found mixed evidence for point to a clear need for more nuanced approaches, such as realist theory, in which mechanisms only activate when ‘firing conditions’ are met 99. For example, a recent theory of change of community mobilisation to prevent domestic violence in India posited that community members being willing to participate in the programme was a necessary precondition for groups with collective agency to develop 100. Current best practice guidelines for theories of change actually recommend listing necessary conditions for mechanisms 101.…”

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Promoting women’s and children’s health through community groups in low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review of mechanisms, enablers and barriers

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IntroductionCommunity mobilisation through group activities has been used to improve women’s and children’s health in a range of low-income and middle-income contexts, but the mechanisms through which it works deserve greater consideration. We did a mixed-methods systematic review of mechanisms, enablers and barriers to the promotion of women’s and children’s health in community mobilisation interventions.MethodsWe searched for theoretical and empirical peer-reviewed articles between January 2000 and November 2018. First, we extracted and collated proposed mechanisms, enablers and barriers into categories. Second, we extracted and synthesised evidence for them using narrative synthesis. We assessed risk of bias with adapted Downs and Black and Critical Appraisal Skills Programme checklists. We assigned confidence grades to each proposed mechanism, enabler and barrier.Results78 articles met the inclusion criteria, of which 39 described interventions based on a participatory group education model, 19 described community-led structural interventions to promote sexual health in marginalised populations and 20 concerned other types of intervention or multiple interventions at once. We did not have high confidence in any mechanism, enabler or barrier. Two out of 15 proposed mechanisms and 10 out of 12 proposed enablers and barriers reached medium confidence. A few studies provided direct evidence relating proposed mechanisms, enablers or barriers to health behaviours or health outcomes. Only two studies presented mediation or interaction analysis for a proposed mechanism, enabler or barrier.ConclusionWe uncovered multiple proposed mechanisms, enablers and barriers to health promotion through community groups, but much work remains to provide a robust evidence base for proposed mechanisms, enablers and barriers.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42018093695.

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Process evaluation of a community mobilization intervention for preventing men’s partner violence use in peri-urban South Africa

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A theory of change for community interventions to prevent domestic violence against women and girls in Mumbai, India

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References 53 publications

Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism

Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism

Promoting women’s and children’s health through community groups in low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review of mechanisms, enablers and barriers

Process evaluation of a community mobilization intervention for preventing men’s partner violence use in peri-urban South Africa

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