Economic evaluation of public health interventions: an application to interventions for the prevention of violence against women and girls implemented by the “what works to prevent violence against women and girls?” global program

Giulia Ferrari, Sergio Torres-Rueda, Christine Michaels-Igbokwe, Charlotte Watts, Rachel Jewkes and Anna Vassall

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Abstract: Violence against women and girls (VAWG) has important social, economic, and public health impacts. Governments and international donors are increasing their investment in VAWG prevention programs, yet clear guidelines to assess the ?value for money? of these interventions are lacking. Improved costing and economic evaluation of VAWG prevention can support programming through supporting priority setting, justifying investment, and planning the financing of VAWG prevention services. This article sets out a standardized methodology for the economic evaluation of complex, that is, multicomponent and/or multiplatform, programs designed to prevent VAWG in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It outlines an approach that can be used alongside the most recent guidance for the economic evaluation of public health interventions in LMICs. It defines standardized methods of data collection and analysis, outcomes, and unit costs (i.e., average costs per person reached, output or service delivered), and provides guidance to investigate the uncertainty in cost-effectiveness estimates and report results. The costing approach has been developed and piloted as part of the ?What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls?? (What Works?) program in five countries. This article and its supplementary material can be used by both economists and non-economists to contribute to the generation of new cost-effectiveness data on VAWG prevention, and ultimately improve the allocative efficiency and financing across VAWG programs.

Keywords: intimate partner violence; violence against women and girls; women’s empowerment; community mobilization; costing; cost-effectiveness; outcome measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2019-11-08
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Published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 8, November, 2019. ISSN: 0886-2605

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