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Zindagii Shoista (Living with Dignity) — Family-Level Violence Prevention in Rural Tajikistan

Tajikistan · Panjakent · See the Tajikistan profile

Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 43% 74/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

A 30-month, UK Aid-funded programme paired gender-dialogue sessions with livelihoods training for 80 families in four Tajik villages. Women reporting any past-year intimate-partner violence fell from 66.4% to 37.2%, with parallel drops in depression and food insecurity.

66.4% to 37.2%
Women reporting any past-year IPV (baseline to 30 months)
44.9% to 15.7%
Women reporting past-year physical IPV (baseline to 30 months)
48.3% to 7.7%
Men self-reporting any IPV perpetration (baseline to 30 months)
17.9% to 56.6%
Women earning income (baseline to 30 months)
28.5 to 13.6
Women's average CES-D depression score (baseline to 30 months)
Zindagii Shoista (Living with Dignity) — Family-Level Violence Prevention in Rural Tajikistan

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
International Alert, CESVI and local partners ATO, Farodis and Zanoni Sharq
Period
2016–2019
Keywords
domestic violence prevention, gender norms, livelihoods, family counselling

Context

Zindagii Shoista ('Living with Dignity'), designed by International Alert with CESVI and local partners, paired 13 sessions of gender-norms dialogue (adapted from South Africa's Stepping Stones) with 7 sessions of income-generating skills training for 80 families across four villages in rural Tajikistan.

Results

Women's reports of any past-year intimate-partner violence fell from 66.4% at baseline to 37.2% at 30 months, physical IPV from 44.9% to 15.7%, and men's self-reported perpetration from 48.3% to 7.7%; women earning income rose from 17.9% to 56.6% and average CES-D depression scores fell from 28.5 to 13.6, all changes statistically significant.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
International Alert and CESVI facilitators, local partners ATO, Farodis and Zanoni Sharq

Conditions for success

  • combining gender-norms dialogue with income-generating skills training in the same programme
  • engaging couples and, where possible, two generations of each family

Common failure modes

  • no control group and a small sample (80 families) mean results cannot be fully attributed to the intervention alone
  • about 20% of participants were lost to follow-up, and male labour migration disrupted some men's participation

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