Exploring the Contributing Factors to Increasing Violence against Women and Girls during the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Case of Bole –Sub City of Addis Ababa City Administration
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The research title entitles with exploring the contributing factors for the increasing of violence against women and girl at bole sub-city in the Addis Ababa city administration. This thesis therefore takes a closer look at the factors that contribute to the increasing of violence against women and girl at the time of COVID 19 in comparison with prior to COVID 19 at the study area, in Addis Ababa city administration. Qualitative research method is utilized in having an indepth interviewee and key informant interviewee .By using a snowball sampling technique and purposive sampling technique. Therefore, the result from the data indicated that the contributing factors for the increasing of violence against women and girls could be categorized in to two phases The first phase of the factors are the existing reasons of violence prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 such as poverty, trend of normalizing the case of violence, lack of awareness, trusting people without knowing the true personality of the perpetrator. The second phases are the new factors that came up with the following of the outbreak of the pandemic those are the existing of the pandemic by itself, lockdown, victims misperception that legal institution were closed, regarding dropping charges, regarding the increase of under-reported cases of violence, concerning the trend of Watching pornography image and video emotional factors. Therefore, as per the research finding those contributing factors that have existed prior to and after the outbreak of COVID-19 has played crucial role for the increase of violence against women and girl during the pandemic at Bole Sub-city of Addis Ababa city administration. The study also find out the impacts of violence on the lives of women and girls during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the impacts get worsened in line with COVID 19 further the study participant recommends their idea to prevent violence against women and girls when such pandemics occur in the future.
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COVID-19, violence against women and girls, Lock down