Over the past few years, international cooperation has become increasingly aware of the impact that situations of violence exert on individuals and on society. A psychosocial approach takes into consideration, for instance, the effects of structural and armed violence on the emotional state and the everyday social relations of individuals, as well as on social and political structures.
SDC uses in all their programmes on SGBV a psychosocial approach – combining the psychological development of individual persons, and their interaction with their social environment.
SDC - Gender Based Violence - Final report - SDCs experience in addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence (2016)
Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence is a topic in which SDC has amassed considerable experience over the last 15–20 years. This document brings together and analyses the knowledge generated over these years.
SDC Toolkit - Gender, Conflict Transformation and the Psychosocial Approach (2006)
The present working tool is meant to facilitate the integration of psychosocial methods into the existing programme of international cooperation. The toolkit explains the relevance of psychosocial thinking in activities unfolding in a context with structural and armed violence, while demonstrating what this implies in everyday work. Although the focus of this toolkit is on regions of conflict, most of the individual sheets contained within are useful for the work in other contexts as well.
2016
