Community actions in response to violence against women
| Type of action | Examples |
| Emergency intervention | |
| Providing crisis support to survivors | Intervening in suicide attempts by survivors |
| Taking survivors to hospital for injuries | |
| Extracting survivors from abusive homes | |
| Interrupting ongoing violence | Physically separating couples or stopping violence |
| Shouting at or distracting perpetrators | |
| Calming down couples or perpetrators during fights | |
| Survivor support | |
| Providing informal support to survivors | Encouraging survivors to resist violence |
| Providing emotional support to survivors | |
| Donating money or items to survivors | |
| Promoting couple communication | Encouraging reconciliation and mutual forbearance |
| Mediating or arbitrating in family disputes | |
| Perpetrator engagement | |
| Verbally sanctioning perpetrators | Admonishing perpetrators for doing wrong |
| Confronting perpetrators over their actions | |
| Showing perpetrators that they are being unreasonable | |
| Threatening or punishing perpetrators | Threatening police action or imprisonment |
| Threatening case registration with NGO | |
| Threatening or effecting violence against perpetrators | |
| Institutional referral | |
| Connecting survivors to NGO services | Providing contact details of NGO to survivors |
| Notifying NGO staff of new cases of violence | |
| Getting survivors to visit and register with NGO | |
| Getting the police to respond to cases of violence | Asking police officers to speak to perpetrators |
| Helping survivors file cases against perpetrators | |
| Helping police catch and prosecute perpetrators | |
NGO, non-governmental organisation.