Table 2 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
| Â | Included | Excluded |
|---|---|---|
1. Focus | Intimate partner violence (IPV) and/or sexual violence (SV) against women/girls in the context of conflict or humanitarian emergency—including forced marriage/pregnancy, sexual slavery, enforced sterilization. IPV includes violence in the context of child marriage | Studies not addressing SV/IPV. Studies addressing female genital mutilation, trafficking, or HIV prevention, except where interventions to address these issues are part of interventions aimed at SV/ IPV, SV within military organizations. Interventions for violence directed towards children apart from adolescents or violence in the context of child marriage |
2. Studies/data | Empirical studies describing the outcomes of interventions | Studies describing nature/extent/ impacts of SV/IPV or barriers to implementation of, or interventions not specific to SV/IPV; papers lacking primary empirical data describing impacts of interventions |
3. Participants | Participants in interventions to address SV/ IPV including survivors, service providers, perpetrators, male/female community members, institution representatives, armed groups or humanitarian workers | Commentators or actors not directly involved in implementation or experience of interventions |
4. Interventions | Interventions aimed at reducing the incidence of or risk of SV/ IPV and other forms of GBV where these are also targeted by the intervention, or interventions where reduced risk of SV/IPV was a measured outcome of the intervention | Interventions that do not refer to reduction of SV/IPV as a specific aim or outcome e.g. peace-building /community development programs or interventions aimed at HIV prevention |
5. Settings | Contexts of conflict, post-conflict or other humanitarian, emergency, including epidemic outbreaks in low and middle-income countries as defined by the World Bank 2019 | Context of the intervention not identified by the author(s) in title/abstract as conflict/post-conflict or humanitarian crisis. Interventions not conducted in the context of conflict/post-conflict or humanitarian crisis. Countries not listed as LMIC by the World Bank Note: Interventions delivered in Greece to refugees/migrants from LMICS considered for inclusion |
6. Publications | Research papers or research reports | Letters, editorials, comment, periodicals, editorials, art works, news updates, speeches |
7. Language of publication | English | Titles and abstracts in a language other than English |
8. Publication date | September 2011–May 2020 | Before September 2011 (end date of search in 2011 review) |