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Communities Care — UNICEF's Community-Dialogue Model to Prevent Gender-Based Violence, Mogadishu

Somalia · Mogadishu · See the Somalia profile · See the Mogadishu profile

Evidence: Quasi-experimental Top 43% 74/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

UNICEF's Communities Care programme ran 15-week facilitated dialogues on GBV norms in Mogadishu. A 2012–2015 evaluation found intervention districts (Yaqshid, Bondhere) improved significantly more than control districts (Karaan, Wadajir) on norms and service confidence.

b=-0.558, p<0.001, Cohen's d=0.70
Attitudes on protecting family honour vs. supporting survivors
b=-0.309, p=0.003, Cohen's d=0.38
Attitudes on a husband's right to use violence
b=0.318, p<0.001, Cohen's d=0.67
Confidence GBV services would respond adequately
Communities Care — UNICEF's Community-Dialogue Model to Prevent Gender-Based Violence, Mogadishu

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
UNICEF Somalia, with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and local NGOs
Period
2012–2015
Keywords
gender-based violence prevention, social norms change, humanitarian response, child protection

Context

UNICEF's Communities Care programme trains community members to facilitate 15 weeks of structured dialogue on gender-based violence norms in Mogadishu, run separately then jointly with single-sex and mixed-sex groups, alongside training for health, legal, security and social-service providers.

Results

A 2012-2015 quasi-experimental evaluation found intervention-district residents improved significantly more than comparison districts on protecting family honour over supporting survivors (Cohen's d=0.70, p<0.001), on a husband's right to use violence (d=0.38, p=0.003), and on confidence that GBV services would respond adequately (d=0.67, p<0.001).

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
trained community dialogue facilitators, health, legal, security and social-service provider trainers

Conditions for success

  • running single-sex dialogue sessions before joint mixed-sex sessions over 15 weeks
  • training service providers in parallel with community dialogue to strengthen survivor response

Common failure modes

  • a parallel South Sudan pilot was disrupted when conflict displaced the study population before endline data collection
  • the evaluation measured shifts in stated norms and service confidence rather than directly observed reductions in violence

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