Promoting Health Gender Norms and Behaviours in Early Adolescence: Common drivers and effective SBC approaches to prevent violence in adolescent intimate partner relationships
Authors: Elizabeth Yarrow, Professor Dame Carolyn Hamilton, Ramyah Harrichandiran, Adam Cunliffe and Forida Parvin
October 2023
This technical paper explores programmatic models for addressing violence in adolescent intimate partner relationships. While gaps in evidence remain, there is a relatively wide literature including systematic evidence reviews and meta-analyses evaluating the quality of evidence on programs designed to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV), including among adolescents. UNICEF, however, has not yet developed a cohesive programmatic response to addressing this form of violence, which could be taken to scale and adapted in low- and middle-income contexts (LMICs) worldwide.