1. Violence against women as a health and development issue
2. Ethical considerations for researching violence against women
3. Developing a research strategy
4. Quantitative approaches to research
5. Qualitative approaches to research
6. The challenge of defining and measuring violence in quantitative research
7. Developing a sampling strategy
8. Tools for collecting quantitative data
9. Tools for collecting qualitative data
10. Building your research team
11. In the field
12. Analyzing quantitative data
13. Analyzing qualitative data
14. From research to action
Appendix 1. The WHO violence against women instrument
Appendix 2. Training exercises for interviewers
Appendix 3. Suggested resources