Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- Why This Report and Why Now? -- Scope of the Report -- Organizational Framework: Life-Cycle and Ecological Approaches -- Estimating the Costs and Consequences of Violence across Levels of Society -- Summary of Data and Methods -- Outline of Chapters -- Notes -- References -- 2 Patterns of Violence against Women and Girls in South Asia -- Excess Female Child Mortality -- Child Marriage -- Intimate Partner Violence within Marriage -- Forms of Violence That Need More Research to Establish Prevalence -- Disclosure and Care-Seeking across Forms of Violence Faced by Women and Girls -- Understanding the Violence That South Asian Women and Girls Face -- Notes -- References -- 3 What Underlies Violence against Women and Girls in South Asia? -- Socioeconomic and Demographic Changes -- Government, Religious Institutions, and Legal Systems -- Social Norms and Gender Relations -- Risk Factors for Violence against Girls and Adolescents in the Ecological Framework -- Risk Factors in Marriage: Dowry Violence and Intimate Partner Violence -- Risk and Protective Factors for Violence That Is Not Limited to a Particular Life Stage or Marital Status -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Learning from Interventions to Address Violence against Women and Girls -- Implications of Recent Economic, Political, and Social Changes for Violence -- Methods to Identify and Definitions of Targeted Interventions -- The Landscape of Evaluated Interventions in South Asia: A Summary -- Preventing Excess Female Child Mortality -- Preventing and Responding to Abuse Faced by Girls throughout Childhood -- Preventing Child Marriage.

The Importance of Birth Registration to Address All Forms of Violence against Girls -- Opportunities, Gaps, and Challenges in Addressing All Forms of Violence against Girl Children -- Addressing Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence within Marriage -- Addressing Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces -- Preventing and Responding to Honor Killings -- Addressing Custodial Violence against Women and Girls -- Preventing and Responding to Trafficking of Women and Girls -- Looking across Forms of Violence: Key Lessons and Challenges -- Notes -- References -- 5 Where Do We Go from Here? -- Recommendations for All Actors -- Recommendations for Governments -- Recommendations for Donors 212 Recommendations for Nongovernmental Organizations -- Recommendations for the Research Community -- Media -- Recommendations for the Private Sector -- Concluding Remarks -- Note -- References -- Appendix A Data Sources Available and Used for Descriptive Analysis -- Appendix B World Bank Projects Addressing Gender-Based Violence, Active in 2008 or Later -- Appendix C Evaluated Interventions to Address Excess Female Child Mortality -- Appendix D Evaluated Interventions to Address Abuse against Girl Children -- Appendix E Evaluated Interventions to Prevent Child Marriage -- Appendix F Evaluated Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence -- Appendix G Evaluated Interventions to Address Sexual Harassment -- Appendix H Evaluated Interventions to Address Honor Killings -- Appendix I Evaluated Interventions to Address Custodial Violence against Women and Girls -- Appendix J Evaluated Interventions to Address Trafficking of Women and Girls -- Appendix K Evaluated Interventions That Engage Men and Boys in Addressing Violence against Women and Girls -- Online Appendixes -- Boxes -- Figures -- Map -- Tables -- Back Cover.