Promundo, Aline Nalon, Everton Rangel, Liz Cosmelli, Luciana Araújo, Luciano Ramos, Priscila Pereira, Stallone Abrantes, Tábata Pedrosa, Tássia Áquila

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The Gender-Based Violence Booklet for Social Assistance professionals is part of the material produced to support institutional strengthening on GBV in the activities of the Salvador Project: Preventing Gender-Based Violence through the Social Assistance System, of the World Bank.

The World Bank aims to innovatively improve the effectiveness of the Unified Social Assistance System's service offering, recognizing the perceptions and social norms that establish and reinforce gender-based violence (GBV), and strengthen the institutional capacity to prevent GBV and reception. This project has five implementation stages: a) local diagnosis; b) production of methodology and materials on GBV; c) training of professionals and intervention for beneficiaries on the prevention of GBV; d) evaluation and monitoring of results; and f) dissemination.

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The Project was built and coordinated by the World Bank's Social Protection and Employment team in Brazil and was only possible due to an international donation from the Rapid Social Response Program (RSR) Gender-smart fund, financed by the United Kingdom and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. RSR Gender-smart aims to reduce gender disparities and boost socioeconomic outcomes for women and girls by developing and promoting gender-smart and intentional social protection policies.

The notebook aims to contribute to the preventive practice of technical teams of Basic Social Protection on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), understanding the territory as a powerful space, through articulations with local partners, envisioning social assistance and intersectoral networks and collaborating to group activities. The theoretical content contained in this material, together with the methodological activities, are tools for more effective and assertive care, as well as for reflective groups and activities in general that focus on preventing situations of violence, with a focus on GBV, with children, adolescents, young people and adults of all genders and sexual orientations. The Booklet is divided into two parts: a) addresses the role of Social Assistance and its impact on situations of Gender-Based Violence; b) reflects on topics related to Gender, Sexual Diversity, Causes and Effects of Gender-Based Violence.

The content and activities were tested and approved through pilot training with around eighty Basic Protection and Special Protection professionals from the Secretariat for Social Promotion, Combating Poverty, Leisure and Sports of Salvador in September 2021.

Theoretical and methodological materials of this notebook were produced by a very motivated team, professionals with experience in social areas, intellectuals who work or have worked in Social Assistance and who are producing on the themes demanded by the notebook in the academic field or outside it, and who had the challenge of translating this language in a text that dialogues with the realities that technicians and techniques face in their daily lives, in addition to producing reflective content that points out alternatives for action. A team of SUAS and GBV experts carefully reviewed the material, qualifying it for better applicability.

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Here we have an incomplete document, as its reading and action will be complementary to what it proposes, and the desire is for it to be a “living notebook”. Thus, in each hand it passes through, each time it is put into practice, it will be completed.

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We wish you a good reading and good use of this theoretical and methodological content!

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