Putting a Stop to Gender Violence through Community Action: The Experience of a Network of Women Leaders in Peru

This policy brief describes the creation of the Women Leaders Network in Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru, and how it serves as a successful model for transformation and structural change for gender equality. This network has been able to unify existing and rising women leaders around a common cause, addressing gender based violence (GBV), while maintaining an intersectional approach. Once unified, the women pushed the local government to create a permanent taskforce for preventing and responding to GBV in which the women leaders and representatives of the local government, judiciary, police, healthcare and others participate.