Citation

Marie Choup A. Bull. Latin Am. Res. 2016; 35(4): 452-466.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Society for Latin American Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/blar.12486

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Despite a consensus in the Americas that gender-based violence is rooted in inequality and historic precedent and exacerbated by socio-economic hardship, government programmes and institutional evaluations of programmes to combat violence against women tend not to tackle the problem at source. Instead, governments and policy evaluations tend to focus on domestic violence survivor services. This article analyses current work to evaluate government efforts to fight violence against women and unpacks scholarly and policy consensus on the root causes of the violence. I then illustrate the disconnect between root causes of violence and government programmes, to emphasise the need to link programmes more closely to agreed-upon causes of violence.

Language: en