Do No Harm Toolkit

The two Do No Harm guidance material kits contain training guidelines and resources for any organisation working at the community level to facilitate women’s economic empowerment. The kits include tools on gender and power analysis, safety mapping, and policies and processes for staff exposed to violence against women. The kits have been developed by International Women’s Development Agency and draw on key findings from the Do No Harm research project from Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands which explored the relationship between economic inclusion and empowerment programs, and violence against women.

The key lessons learned from the research were that working with men is necessary, there is an existing need for community-based gender transformative programs, and women’s economic empowerment programming must adopt a ‘do no harm’ approach. The guidance material kits use these lessons to assist program designers and implementers to integrate the elimination of violence against women into women’s economic empowerment programming.