Two consultancies with the Sexual Violence Research Initiative
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Dear all,
Please find attached a call for consultants to undertake desk
reviews relating to sexual violence for SVRI.
Kind regards,
St�phanie Bleeker
Coordinator Share-Net
Mauritskade 63, PO Box 95001
1090 HA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-20-568-8473
cell: +31-06-2304-7989
mailto:s.bleeker@kit.nl
http://www.share-net.nl
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The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) is seeking con-
sultants to undertake two desk reviews relating to sexual vio-
lence. The terms of reference for the reviews - on community
based approaches to addressing sexual violence and on women's
responses are copied below. Please note that we expect to be
commissioning a desk review on aspects of the medico-legal re-
sponse to sexual violence in the near future.
If you are interested in being considered for any of these re-
views, please send by Friday 23 July, 2004 a statement of inter-
est indicating for which review you would like to be considered,
a CV, and a brief (5 page max.) writing sample to Chen Reis at
reisc@who.int or by fax to: +41 22 791 1585. If you are applying
by email, please put SVRI desk review application as the subject
of your message.
For more information about the SVRI
http://www.who.int/gender/violence/sexviolresearch/en/
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TOR for community based approaches
Undertake review of community-based approaches to justice in
cases of sexual violence against women and girls. The body of
literature would include published and grey literature on ap-
proaches to justice (retributive and restorative) including sur-
vivor and/or perpetrator reintegration and individual, family
and community healing and should:
Build a database of existing programs, identifying the relevant
conceptual model driving the programs and the philosophies that
underlie these approaches, noting where the approaches are indi-
genously developed, and providing a concise summary of the steps
each approach involves.
Describe the problem that each approach is attempting to address
Discuss the basis and rationale for application of each approach
Identify best and worst practices in community based responses
and provide the international and regional human rights context
for them.
Critically evaluate the strengths and limitations to each of the
approaches discussed
Present and critique any relevant empirical data from process
and outcome evaluations.
The literature review should be broadly based, with literature
from health, social sciences, and law and include evidence from
peer reviewed journals as well as research reports from donor
agencies, government and international and local non government
organizations and other "grey" literature.
The review should take specific care to incorporate any avail-
able evidence from low and middle income countries so that the
disparity in research activity and publication between
low/middle income compared with high income countries is amelio-
rated to the extent possible.
Gaps in the current evidence base as well as differences in re-
search findings between countries should be clearly identified
and discussed in the review.
Concrete recommendations for future research should be made
based on an analysis of the findings of research to date, in-
cluding its limitations.
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TOR for women's responses:
Undertake a critical review of the international research lit-
erature on women's perceptions of and responses to sexual vio-
lence, particularly effects on their mental health and lives in-
cluding:
� What are women's psychological and psychosocial needs immedi-
ately after sexual assault and in the intermediate and long
term.
� What models of practice are used in high and low income set-
tings to provide psychological and psychosocial services?
� What are the strengths and weaknesses of these models?
� Is there any evidence that some models, or certain organiza-
tional structures are more effective than others?
� Cultural and linguistic influences on sexual violence impact
should be described including variations in understanding the
causes of sexual violence, the social and health impact of vio-
lence, and preferred approaches to healing.
The literature search should be broadly based, with literature
from health and social sciences, and include evidence from peer
reviewed journals as well as research reports from donor agen-
cies, government and non government organizations and other
"grey literature".
The research and literature identified internationally should
focus particularly on evidence from low and middle income coun-
tries in order to redress where possible the disparity in re-
search activity and publication between low/middle income com-
pared with high income countries.
Gaps in the current evidence base as well as differences in re-
search findings between countries should be clearly identified
and discussed in the review.
Concrete recommendations for future research should be made
based on an analysis of the findings of research to date, in-
cluding limitations.