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. 2019 Aug 21;4:54. Originally published 2019 Mar 25. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15128.2

Table 2. Community interventions to prevent violence against women and girls.

1 Community mobilisation and group formation
Community organisers     •    Identify community members who want to join groups of women, men, and
young people
    •    Convene and facilitate groups
    •    Share experiences and deliver modules on gender norms, understanding
violence against women and girls, vulnerabilities to it and appropriate responses,
rights, and negotiation skills
    •    Identify women who want to become volunteer sanginis
2 Crisis intervention, counselling and legal support for survivors
Community volunteer sanginis     •    Identify incidences of violence against women
    •    Assess safety, provide initial counselling and information on rights and law to
survivors
    •    Record incidents, negotiate action, and intervene to ameliorate conflict
    •    Arrange referral to SNEHA.
    •    Organise temporary shelter and childcare
    •    Support survivors in accessing family interventions and police or health services
    •    Locate perpetrators of violence and negotiate with them and families
    •    Conduct community follow-up
Community organisers, officers, coordinators     •    Support sanginis in their field activities
    •    Provide support to survivors of violence and coordinate family interventions
    •    Arrange referral to SNEHA, police, or health services
    •    Coordinate and undertake community follow-up
    •    Act as main contact between community and counselling teams, and
communicate with stakeholder networks
Groups of women, men, and young people     •    Identify incidences of violence and inform sanginis and community officers
    •    Intervene to ameliorate conflict
    •    Arrange referral to SNEHA
    •    Support survivors of violence in accessing family interventions and police or
health services
    •    Locate perpetrators of violence and negotiate with them and families
Counsellors     •    Provide crisis counselling and intervention services
    •    Counsel survivors of violence and their families
    •    Make home visits for crisis intervention, family discussions, and follow-up
    •    Organise referral to police, health and legal services and negotiate with them
    •    Assess survivor mental health and refer for therapy
3 Community action and system liaison
Community organisers, officers, coordinators     •    Organise and participate in community campaigns and support visible collective
action
    •    Liaise with police and health providers and negotiate with community bodies
Groups of women, men, and young people     •    Participate in community campaigns and contribute to visible collective action
    •    Liaise with police and health providers and negotiate with community bodies
    •    Negotiate with municipal representatives for infrastructure and entitlements
Community volunteer sanginis     •    Support and participate in community campaigns and contribute to visible
collective action
    •    Liaise with police and health providers and negotiate with community bodies