Cash transfers prove effective in reducing violence against women: IFPRI study (Financial Express)

Financial Express (Bangladesh) reported on the IFPRI study, Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Post-program evidence from rural Bangladesh, The study found that direct cash transfers coupled with behavior change communication (BCC) can reduce violence against women inflicted by their partners by more than a quarter. Research Fellow Shalini Roy stated, “The study results suggest that behavior change communication (BCC) was necessary to sustain the reduction in violence. Given that the BCC was focused on child nutrition, not violence or gender, we think a key function it played was to bring women together and increase their social status.”