How does the world look from another’s perspective – particularly from the view of a woman who is experiencing violence? In Her Shoes allows us to temporarily experience life as a woman experiencing violence. It is an interactive, educational exercise used in a workshop setting to help us connect to the day-to-day reality for women experiencing violence, deepen our empathy and compel us to take action.
Resources
For each unit, you will need the Participant Workbook, the Facilitator’s Guide, and a slide presentation. Some units also require additional materials available on the unit pages.
For this training, you will need the following resources available from our partners:
References
Before teaching the course, facilitators are advised to familiarize themselves with the following resources and job aids:
This guide includes detailed guidance on the clinical management of women, men and children who have been raped, taking into account available resources, materials, drugs, and national policies.
The 2018 Field Manual provides evidence-based information about the application and adaptation of global sexual and reproductive rights or human rights standards in humanitarian settings. Available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
This tool offers providers and program planners a strategy to strengthen post gender-based violence health services through evidence-based standards. It includes guidelines for the health care sector and an additional tool to support implementation.
The Guidelines support humanitarian stakeholders in protecting crisis-affected persons by: implementing GBV prevention and mitigation strategies; strengthening national and community-based systems; and aiding the recovery of communities through supporting local and national capacity.
These guidelines provide a practical approach to helping child survivors, and their families, recover and heal from the impacts of sexual abuse.
This resource package uses global standards on providing basic support and information to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) without doing further harm. We encourage the adaptation of this resource to the local context with the support of a GBV specialist.
Written for a clinical audience, this handbook shares detailed guidance about providing first-line support to people who are survivors of intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence.
This toolkit is practitioner-focused and addresses key knowledge gaps within and between sectors, to help support service provision and coordination in low-resource settings. It is part of a World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Project on Strengthening Medico-Legal Services for Sexual Violence Cases in Conflict-Affected Settings, supported by United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict (UN Action).
Before taking the course, participants are advised to take the MISP Distance Learning Module.
Feedback on the Training Materials
The IAWG Training Partnership Initiative is interested in hearing from you. Please share any questions or feedback to info.iawg@wrcommission.org regarding the training materials and their use in your context.