Brazil's 2006 Maria da Penha Law created dedicated domestic-violence courts nationwide. Independent studies find it cut female domestic-homicide rates by roughly 9–19%, …
G7-launched coalition of development finance institutions that certifies gender-lens investments against the '2X Criteria'; three consecutive funding rounds have mobilised over US$33.6 …
Law 27,499 (2018) requires mandatory gender-violence training for every public official across Argentina's executive, legislative and judicial branches. Over 235,000 national civil …
CARE International Balkans' Young Men Initiative combines compulsory in-school curricula, offsite retreats and community/media campaigns to shift adolescent boys' attitudes toward violence …
Since 1984, Fiji's oldest women's crisis service has paired direct survivor support with nationwide community education and 'male advocacy' training for police, …
Suva, Fiji
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
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Ireland's 2020 'Coco's Law' criminalised sharing intimate images without consent and persistent online harassment. A 2024 review found almost 100 prosecutions and …
Norway's Barnehus network combines forensic interview, medical exam and therapy for child victims of violence under one roof. A 2021 evaluation found …
Italy's 2011 Legge Golfo-Mosca required listed companies to reserve a growing share of board seats for the under-represented gender. Female board representation …
Rome, Italy
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%89/100
France's 2011 Loi Copé-Zimmermann mandated rising board gender quotas (20% by 2014, 40% by 2017) for listed and large companies, voiding non-compliant …
Paris, France
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 17%89/100
A case-managed intervention for high-harm, serial domestic-abuse perpetrators combining behaviour-change work, disruption and victim support. A Bristol University evaluation found physical abuse …
Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%89/100
Since July 2014, Germany's Mütterrente credits parents — overwhelmingly mothers — pension points for child-raising time. Peer-reviewed analysis finds this cuts one …
Berlin, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 17%89/100
A CDC-funded cluster-randomised trial across 26 Kentucky high schools found Green Dot's bystander-training model reduced sexual violence, dating violence and stalking versus …
A three-year comparison-group evaluation in Senegal's Kolda region found Tostan's rights and health education programme cut women's approval of FGC from 72% …
Kolda, Senegal
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 17%89/100
In Nairobi's informal settlements, a paired girls' empowerment/self-defense and boys' bystander curriculum cut sexual assault by 3.7 percentage points in a cluster-randomised …
Nairobi, Kenya
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 17%89/100
Intensive one-to-one case management for high-harm domestic abuse perpetrators in England and Wales. An independent University of Bristol RCT (2016–2019, n=506) found …
London, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 17%89/100
Technovation Girls has run girls' tech-entrepreneurship programmes in 120+ countries since 2010; an independent 2020 WestEd alumnae study found 76% of alumnae …