Indashyikirwa Program Resources

Evidence and learning

Indashyikirwa: Gender equality helping farmers cope with increased food insecurity

One of a series of food briefs, this case study provides a snapshot of how the original Indashyikirwa intervention in Rwanda is helping couples to deal with food current shortages more proactively and equally.

Evidence Brief: Impact of Indashyikirwa

This brief, developed by What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls, summarizes impact evaluation findings.

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Practice Brief: Working with couples to prevent IPV – Lessons from Indashyikirwa in Rwanda

This practice brief highlights lessons learned from working and conducting research with couples to prevent intimate partner violence.

Practice Brief: Women’s Safe spaces for IPV – Lessons from Indashyikirwa in Rwanda

This brief is aimed at those interested in providing informal support services as part of a comprehensive intimate partner violence prevention program.

Practice Brief: Engaging opinion leaders in an IPV-prevention program – Lessons from Indashyikirwa in Rwanda

This practice brief highlights – and assesses the value of – lessons learned from engaging opinion leaders as part of a comprehensive intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention program.

Practice brief: Community activism with couples engaged in an intimate partner violence prevention program – Lessons from Indashyikirwa in Rwanda

This practice brief highlights the lessons learned from engaging couples as community activists as part of an intimate partner violence prevention program.

Couples’ curriculum training module

This curriculum attempts to bring together recent learning in the field of gender based violence (GBV) prevention in order to create the most effective program possible for couples the communities where Indashyikirwa will be implemented.

Community activist training module

This curriculum attempts to bring together recent learning in the field of gender-based violence (GBV) prevention in order to create the most effective program possible for training community activists in the communities where Indashyikirwa will be implemented.

Women’s space facilitators training module

This curriculum attempts to bring together recent learning in the field of gender-based violence (GBV) prevention in order to create the most effective program possible for women’s space facilitators in the communities where Indashyikirwa will be implemented.

Opinion leaders training module

This module attempts to bring together recent learning in the field of gender-based violence (GBV) prevention in order to create the most effective program possible for opinion leaders in the communities where Indashyikirwa will be implemented.

Infographic: Key elements of Indashyikirwa’s couples curriculum

Reducing intimate partner violence within couples and communities. This infographic visualizes the key elements of the couples curriculum and how it was implemented during the Indashyikirwa program in Rwanda. The curriculum promotes nurturing equal, non-violent relationships among couples.

Infographic: Indashyikirwa engagement process

A model for working with women, men, and communities to end gender-based violence. This infographic visualizes the couples curriculum, activist training, and embedding social change process - elements of the Indashyikirwa program model for working with women, men and communities to end gender based violence in Rwanda.

Fidelity Brief for adapting Indashyikirwa Couples’ Curriculum

This brief, developed by CARE’s partner the Prevention Collaborative, highlights essentials for implementing the Indashyikirwa Couples Curriculum based on the experience in Rwanda to guide organizations to make informed decisions when refining the program to be more appropriate for their given contexts and target populations.

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