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Remedial, Institutional or Radical? Explaining Community Responses to Violence against Women in an NGO Programme to Prevent Violence in Mumbai, India

Remedial, Institutional or Radical? Explaining Community Responses to Violence against Women in an NGO Programme to Prevent Violence in Mumbai, India
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Our Courage Has Grown : A Grounded Theory Study of Enablers and Barriers to Community Action to Address Violence against Women in Urban India

"Community members play a key role in addressing violence against women, but often need encouragement, support and protection to do so."Transforming communities into safe and supportive environments for women facing risk of violence has long been a goal for feminist activists and researchers.

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Delan Devakumar: redressing racism and discrimination in health

Delan Devakumar, Professor of Global Child Health and Co-Director of the Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents at University College London (UCL), UK, has always understood racism and what it is like to be discriminated against. About a year before he was born, his parents’ house in Sri Lanka was burnt down. “It was a targeted attack”, he says. “My father comes from the Tamil minority group.” Later, as a south Asian boy growing up in north Wales, UK, he experienced racism first hand and recalls how “in the 1980s and 90s there weren’t many people who looked like us; being called names and sometimes physical acts of violence were more normal then”.

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Community Resource Centres to Improve the Health of Women and Children in Informal Settlements in Mumbai: A Cluster-Randomised, Controlled Trial

"This clearly defined model for integrated community-based health intervention in informal settlements merits adaptation and assessment in other contexts, particularly in Asia and Africa." As of 2011, about 41% of Mumbai, India s households were in informal settlements, where women and children in particular face multiple health issues.

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Social and Psychological Readiness to Take Collective Action Against Violence Against Women: A Mixed Methods Study of Informal Settlements in Mumbai, India

"These findings open up avenues for policymakers to treat communities as less vulnerable and more capable of changing situations and problems that affect them." Interventions that mobilise communities to tackle the social and structural drivers of violence have been found to be effective in some contexts to prevent violence against women (VAW).

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