| TOPIC |
Sexual violence in the context of conflict or humanitarian crisis. |
Studies that did not address sexual violence of women, men or children. Studies that addressed female genital mutilation, trafficking, enforced sterilisation, and/or HIV prevention. |
| TYPES OF STUDIES/DATA |
Studies containing primary empirical data describing the implementation or impact of interventions including: cross-sectional surveys, prospective or retrospective single group or comparison group designs, evaluations including formative evaluation, case studies, qualitative studies based on interview or focus group, policy analysis, field data. |
Studies describing only the nature and extent of the problem; or barriers to implementation of, or access to, interventions generally; or interventions that were not specific to sexual violence; papers that mentioned interventions without any descriptive information or primary empirical data that described the implementation or impact of interventions. |
| TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS |
Survivors of sexual violence, combatants, peacekeepers, humanitarian workers, community members, camp residents, service providers. |
Commentators or actors not directly involved in implementation of interventions |
| TYPES OF INTERVENTIONS |
Interventions which aimed at reducing the incidence of or risk of sexual violence, including secondary and tertiary prevention of sexual violence. |
Interventions that did not make reference to reduction of sexual violence as a specific aim or outcome (e.g. DDR programs/peace-building programs where this aim was not explicit), or interventions aimed at HIV prevention. |
| SETTINGS |
Context of conflict, post-conflict or other humanitarian emergency in lower and middle-income countries. |
Context of the intervention was not conflict/post-conflict or humanitarian crisis as identified by the author(s) in title/abstract. Interventions not conducted in the specific context of conflict/post-conflict or humanitarian crisis (eg. school interventions). Countries not included on the World Bank List of low/middle-income countries in 2010. |
| TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS |
Research papers or research/descriptive reports published since 1990. |
Letters, editorials, comment, periodicals, review, editorials, art works, news updates, speeches that were not published in journals. |
| LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION |
English. Where study titles and abstracts were in English, but manuscripts were in a foreign language and met other inclusion criteria, translation was considered. |
Study titles and abstracts in a language other than English. |
| PUBLICATION DATE |
January 1990-August 2011 |
Studies published before 1990. |
