Resource package for strengthening countries’ health systems response to violence against women

Overview

To support and guide countries and partners to strengthen a health systems response to address violence against women, WHO has produced several tools, including:

• clinical and policy guidelines;

• implementation handbooks and manuals;

• training curriculum;

• evidence-based policy, prevention and intervention strategy packages.

The resource package consolidates these documents to support countries to develop or update their national or subnational guidelines, protocols, standard operating procedures, health provider training materials, and multisectoral action plans to prevent and respond to violence against women.

The resource package is also intended to be used for training and sensitization of policy-makers, advocates, health care providers and managers of services and programmes to address violence against women.

Figure 1 shows the different documents with weblinks, and their intended audiences and uses.