Preventing IPV in rural Ethiopia: Developing, implementing and testing "Unite for a Better Life"

Unite for a Better Life is a gender-transformative program to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV. It is delivered by trained facilitators to groups of women, men or couples within the context of the traditional coffee ceremony in rural Ethiopia, or tea talks in the Somali refugee context. Through 16 participatory, skills-building sessions, the program targets the underlying social, cultural and behavioral determinants of IPV in these contexts.

During this webinar, Dr Vandana Sharma and Samuel Gebretsadik highlight lessons and challenges of addressing social norms related to IPV through programing and research in a humanitarian context. They also share preliminary qualitative findings including displacement-related changes in norms and how these informed intervention adaptations.