Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Intervention Research on Violence against Women

These recommendations have been developed to help answer questions specific to conducting research on health-based interventions to prevent and respond to violence against women (VAW). Research on strategies that use health or health care as an entry point (regardless of the implementation setting, such as a clinic or community) is the focus. However, the discussion may be relevant to research on other kinds of VAW interventions.

The target audience for these guidelines includes stakeholders engaged in research on health-based interventions to address VAW. Such research may be conducted by multidisciplinary and cross-national or regional teams composed of researchers, programme implementers, evaluators, activists, advocates and care providers.