Guidelines, Research and Other Tools
This section contains a selection of guidelines to inform sexual violence research and interventions.

Treatment Guidelines

• Guidelines for medico-legal care for victims of sexual violence
• Clinical Management of Rape Survivors, Revised 2005 edition - guide to the development of protocols for use in refugee and internally displaced person situations

Research Guidelines

• How to Conduct a Situation Analysis of Health Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault - a Guide, SVRI, 2006
  
• Thompson MP, Basile KC, Hertz MF, Sitterle D. Measuring Intimate  Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration: A Compendium of Assessment Tools. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and     Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2006
• Interpreting Research Studies, In Brief, Series No.2 Guttmacher Institute, 2006
• Researching Violence Against Women: A Practical Guide for Researchers and Activists, 2005
• A Guide for Conducting Research on the Formulation of Sexual and Health-related Behaviour Among Young Men:* Training Guidelines, Resources, Study Guides, and Informed Consent Forms. The CATALYST Consortium, 2005

Research and Other Tools

• Conducting in-depth interviews: A Guide for Designing and Conducting In-Depth Interviews for Evaluation Input
• Using mystery clients: A Guide to Using Mystery Clients for Evaluation Input
• Preparing a case study: A Guide for Designing and Conducting a Case Study for Evaluation Input.
  
• Preventing Violence: A guide to implementing the recommendations of the World Report on Violence and Health, WHO, 2004
• Toolkit To End Violence Against Women, National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women

Research Tools: Conflict Settings

• Documenting women's rights violations by non-state actors, Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2006
  
• Guidelines for Prevention and Response: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons, UNHCR
• Gender Based Violence Tools Manual, For Assessment, Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict-Affected Settings. Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium.
  Also available in:
  • Arabic
  • French

Sexual Violence Surveillance

• Sexual Violence Surveillance: Uniform definitions and recommended data elements.  Version 1.0, CDC, Basile K & Saltzman L, 2002
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR 2004;53(SS-02):1-96, 2003

General Guidelines

• IASC Guidelines