| Expected Outcomes of the Community Based Intervention | |
| Specific objective 1 | Conduct baseline assessment of domestic VAW in the study area |
| - determine the prevalence of domestic VAW (physical, sexual, psychological) | |
| Specific objective 2 | Identify associated factors of domestic VAW |
| - Identify the associated factors - explore community perception - Explore stakeholders engagement level - explore implementation barriers or bottlenecks of VAW program at implementers side | |
| Specific objective 3 | Design intervention implementation strategy to tackle domestic VAW |
| - Prepare the intervention material and validate according to the local culture - Integrate with community based health extension program - Conduct advocacy workshop and work with the local administrative bodies | |
| Specific objective 4 | Implement culturally acceptable interventions to address bottlenecks and DVAW |
| *advocacy workshop four times a year (4 session) | |
| - create awareness on politicians - create champions of domestic VAW prevention - enhance commitment to implement policy documents at community level | |
| *community mobilization monthly for a year (12 sessions) | |
| - involving the community in the domestic VAW prevention - engaging stakeholders - create community ownership | |
| *Awareness creation to the women (at least once per month) | |
| - enhance their communication and negotiation skill - enhance their awareness about gender equality - transform their wife-beating acceptance attitude | |
| *involving husbands (6 to 12 sessions) | |
| - participate husbands/partner as change agent - enhance their awareness about gender equality - improve masculine attitude and transform | |
| Specific objective 5 | To assess the outcome of community based intervention on domestic VAW |
| - conduct endline assessment - perform data analysis to determine the prevalence of domestic VAW - compute the difference between endline and baseline (prevalence, community acceptance, factors) - integrate with health extension program - scale up to other sites - learn from success and failure | |