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Webinars
Preventing Family Violence with Gender-Transformative Parenting Programmes
Parenting and caregiving programmes offer a promising pathway to improve gender inequality and prevent both intimate partner violence and violence against children in the home....
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Programme Summaries
MAISHA Intervention in Tanzania
MAISHA is a social empowerment intervention designed to build healthy, violence-free relationships. Two trained female facilitators deliver 10 sessions to groups of about 20 women....
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Webinars
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence: Untangling the Intersections
Have you ever asked yourself: What is the link between women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and intimate partner violence (IPV)? What types of WEE approaches —...
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Evidence Syntheses
Effective Design and Implementation Elements in Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
Over the last two decades, the global community has come to recognise the profound impact of violence on the lives of women and girls. This...
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Evidence Syntheses
Effective Design and Implementation Elements in Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls – EVIDENCE BRIEF
Over the last two decades, the global community has come to recognise the profound impact of violence on the lives of women and girls. This...
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Practice Briefs
Fidelity Brief for Adapting Indashyikirwa
Using the experience of implementation in rural Rwanda, this brief guides organizations to adapt and refine the Indashyikirwa Couples Curriculum for their own contexts and...
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Webinars
Facilitating Gender Transformation
Transformative programs to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) enable deep shifts in thinking, beliefs and behavior. Participants are encouraged to critically reflect on...
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Programme Summaries
Becoming One: A Religious Couples Counselling Programme
Becoming One is a religious couples’ counselling programme designed to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV). It is delivered by Faith Leaders who teach communication skills,...
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Storybook for Children on COVID-19
“My Hero is You” is a book written for children around the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. “My Hero is You” should be read...
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UNDP Brief: GBV and COVID-19
This brief advocates UNDP Country Offices to: Integrate GBV in national and sub-national COVID-19 response plans Adapt and expand services such as shelters, safe spaces...
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COVID-19 and Ending Violence against Women and Girls
This brief by UN Women: highlights emerging evidence of COVID-19 on violence against women and girls. makes recommendations to diverse actors and organisations on how...
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How Can VAW Programmes Adapt during COVID-19?
This Guidance Note offers ideas for how violence against women (VAW) prevention organisations can safely continue programme activities and mitigate COVID-19 specific risks for women.
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COVID-19 and VAW: How Can We Amplify Self and Collective Care?
This Guidance Note focuses on how organisations can prepare to best support staff, our communities, and women at increased risk of violence during the COVID-19...
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Prevention Foundations
Prevention Foundations Brief 3: Evidence-Based Programmes to Prevent Violence Against Women
This Prevention Collaborative brief aims to inform practitioners about programming approaches which have been shown to be effective in preventing violence against women (VAW) in...
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Prevention Foundations
Prevention Foundations Brief 2: Understanding the Causes of Violence Against Women
This Prevention Collaborative brief introduces the multiple causes of violence against women (VAW) and how to analyse these factors in different contexts. With other briefs...
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Prevention Foundations
Prevention Foundations Brief 1: What is Prevention of Violence Against Women?
This Prevention Collaborative brief introduces violence against women (VAW) prevention and looks at the differences between prevention and response programmes. With other briefs in the...
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Webinars
VAW Prevention: The Latest Evidence – Part 2
Lori Heise from the Prevention Collaborative presents latest evidence on VAW prevention.
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Webinars
VAW Prevention: The Latest Evidence – Part 1
Lori Heise from the Prevention Collaborative presents latest evidence on VAW prevention.
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Webinars
‘COMBAT’ing Violence Against Women: A Success Story from Rural Ghana
The Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre (Gender Centre) in Ghana developed the Community-Based Action Teams (COMBAT) programme as a Rural Response System to...
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Programme Summaries
The Real Fathers Initiative in Northern Uganda
The Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers programme supported young fathers (aged 16 to 25 years) in Northern Uganda to build the knowledge and skills...
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Programme Summaries
The ‘COMBAT’ Programme, Ghana
This programme developed a Rural Response System (RRS) to mobilise community members, state agencies and other key actors to prevent and respond to violence against...
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Viewpoint
Towards Decolonising Knowledge in the Violence Prevention Field
For many decades, women’s movements around the world have challenged knowledge hierarchies that have (re)produced ideas of gender, masculinity, security and bodily integrity rooted in...
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Viewpoint
Versions of Violence: Intimate Partner Violence in Gay Male Relationships in South Africa
Gay male relationships are often imagined to be violence-free based on the assumption that a man can not be the victim of intimate partner abuse...
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Study Summaries
Potential Pathways to Prevention: Understanding the Intersections of Violence Against Women and Children in the Family
This is a summary of findings from a study on the intersections of violence against women and violence against children, which was conducted in 2014...
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Evidence Syntheses
Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children – The Points of Intersection
This brief by the Pan American Health Organisation and the World Health Organisation provides key summary points regarding the intersection of violence against women and...
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Webinars
The Why and How of Elevating Practitioner Knowledge for Violence Prevention
Practice-Based Knowledge can compliment and unpack evidence from scientific research to better answer questions such as who programmes work for, how and why. Applying and...
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Viewpoint
“Why did you not call the police?” Intimate Partner Violence in Same Sex Relationships in South Africa
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is heralded as one of the most progressive legal documents in the world. It recognises and protects...
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Viewpoint
Caring for the Carers: Support Systems for GBV Fieldworkers
The importance of “self-care” has been recognised for many years in social work and women’s rights organisations in the Global North. It has also recently...
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Practice Briefs
Shifting Social Norms in the Economy for Women’s Economic Empowerment
This document is a summary of the process and insights from the participants of a 2017 Practitioner Learning Group (PLG) on “Shifting Social Norms in...
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Multimedia
Webinar: Tackling Gender Norms through Media
The power of the media to influence gender norms both towards greater equality and reinforcing discriminatory attitudes and behaviour has long been recognised. This webinar...
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Working Papers and Reports
Community Activism Approaches to Shift Harmful Gender Attitudes, Roles and Social Norms
This evidence review evaluates the impact made through community activism across a range of settings—from rural areas and small towns of the Eastern Democratic Republic...
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Working Papers and Reports
Redefining Norms to Empower Women: Experiences and Lessons Learned
This report documents CARE’s learnings in measuring social norms change through the Redefining Norms to Empower Women (ReNEW) project in Sri Lanka. Between 2014 and...
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Multimedia
What is Practice-Based Knowledge? Video
This video by the Prevention Collaborative sets out why we believe that practitioner learning and everyday experiences in designing and implementing programmes form an important...
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Practice Briefs
Learning from Practice: Approaches to Capture and Apply Practice-Based Knowledge
Practice-based knowledge (PBK) is currently under-used and under-valued in violence prevention programming and in building the global evidence base. This is in part due to...
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Research Basics
Measuring Social Norms
This technical brief is useful to both researchers and programmers to understand what the social norms are, and how they are related to HIV and...
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Working Papers and Reports
Social Norms and AYSRH: Building a Bridge from Theory to Programme Design
This document provides guidance to support programmers to implement norms-shifting approaches, specifically to improve adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health. It unpacks theory and...
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Tools and Guidance
Programa P Bolivia Un Manual Para La Paternidad Activa (Spanish)
The programme manual of the Program P Bolivia intervention which was designed to promote men’s engagement in reproductive and maternal health, caregiving, and healthier couple relations...
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Tools and Guidance
A Guide for Faith Communities to Prevent Violence and HIV
This guide by the Raising Voices adapts the SASA! Activist Kit to guide faith communities to come together to prevent violence against women and HIV....
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Study Summaries
Impact of Indashyikirwa in Reducing IPV in Rwanda
This is a summary of the impact made by the Indashyikirwa intervention in reducing the experiences and perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural...
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Journal Articles
Theory and Practice of Social Norms Interventions: Eight Common Pitfalls
This article identifies eight pitfalls that practitioners must avoid as they plan to integrate a social norms perspective in their interventions, as well as eight...
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Multimedia
SASA! Video
This short video introduces the SASA! approach that mobilises communities to address power imbalances between women and men to reduce risks of violence and HIV.
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Study Summaries
The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore Programme: Engaging Boys to Prevent Violence in Bihar, India
This intervention, targeting boys and young men aged 13–21, provided gender transformative life skills education and sports–coaching in Patna district, Bihar. It aimed to promote...
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Study Summaries
The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore Violence Prevention Programme: Women’s Intervention in Bihar, India
This intervention targeted married women in existing village-level self-help groups (SHGs) in Nawada, Bihar. It provided gender transformative learning sessions on violence against women(VAW) together...
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Training Curricula
Gender Socialisation and Gender Dynamics in Families – The Role of the Home Visitor
This is a training module for practitioners visiting homes, to equip them with knowledge about gender, the impact of gender inequality on children and parental...
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Evidence Syntheses
A Review of Communication Initiatives Addressing GBV, Gender Norms, and Harmful Traditional Practices in Crisis-Affected Settings
This is a review of development communication initiatives across the world to prevent gender-based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices (HTP), related health concerns, and promote positive gender...
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Tools and Guidance
Gender-Based Violence Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation with Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations
Research, monitoring and evaluation of gender-based violence (GBV) programmes among refugee and conflict-affected populations often raise questions regarding quality and ethics. This manual and toolkit...
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Programme Summaries
The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) Programme to Prevent VAW in Bihar, India
The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) Programme was implemented to better understand what works to prevent violence against women (VAW) in...
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Prevention Stories
Co-Creating Systems for Primary Prevention of Gender-Based Violence with Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
Developed by the community, for the community, the GAP project is a unique initiative to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) in remote, low-resource settings. The project is...
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Working Papers and Reports
What are Social Norms? How are They Measured?
This report is based on a review of 173 different publications and articles on social norms in global development, and discusses what the social norms...
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Multimedia
Wilton Park Deliberations: How to Radically Reduce VAWG by 2030? (Part 2)
In March 2019, Wilton Park in partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) gathered 50 diverse actors in...
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Multimedia
Wilton Park Deliberations: How to Radically Reduce VAWG by 2030? (Part 1)
In March 2019, Wilton Park in partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) gathered 50 diverse actors in...
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Working Papers and Reports
Building a Shared Agenda on the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
In March 2019, Wilton Park in partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) gathered 50 diverse actors in...
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Tools and Guidance
Why Do People Do What They Do? A Social Norms Manual
This manual was developed from the training material used in a Multi Country Study on the Drivers of Violence. It asks the question “Why do...
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Tools and Guidance
Community-Based Norms Focused Interventions: Definition and Attributes
While social norms change is a powerful tool used in various development interventions, particularly in the fields of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health...
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Tools and Guidance
The Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET)
This is an overview of the the Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET), a simple, practical tool to identify social norms that hold relevant behaviours in...
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Tools and Guidance
Resources for Measuring Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Programme Implementers
This is a resource for programme planners and implementors who are engaged in norms-shifting interventions to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG). It provides guidance...
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Tools and Guidance
Violence Against Women Self-Assessment Tool
This self-assessment tool provides an opportunity for organisations preventing violence against women (VAW) to reflect on their work compares to current evidence of the most...
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Tools and Guidance
Social Norms, Gender Norms and Adolescent Girls: A Brief Guide
This brief by the Overseas Development Institute provides a useful overview of key thinking on social norms concerning gender inequalities that affect adolescent girls to...
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Tools and Guidance
‘Get Moving!’ Facilitators Guide
This Get Moving! Facilitators Guide can be used by at least one staff member of an organisation to engage everyone, from directors to support staff, programme...
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Working Papers and Reports
Global Scoping of Advocacy and Funding for the Prevention of VAWG
This report by the Equality Institute presents findings from a global scoping on funding and advocacy within the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) prevention...
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Programme Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (or “role model”) intervention was based on Program P and part of the global MenCare fatherhood campaign. It aimed to promote positive fatherhood...
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Webinars
Design Thinking for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
This webinar shares lessons from ‘Becoming One’, an innovative counselling programme for couples delivered through faith leaders to prevent IPV in Uganda. The discussion covered...
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Working Papers and Reports
Intersections of VAW and VAC: Expert Perspectives On Service Coordination in Kampala, Uganda
This report provides findings of a qualitative study that focused on the perspectives of service providers in Kampala, Uganda on the linkages between intimate partner...
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Working Papers and Reports
Elevating Practice-Based Knowledge to Improve Prevention Programming
This paper by the Prevention Collaborative sets out why we believe that practitioner learning and everyday experiences in designing and implementing programmes form an important...
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Programme Summaries
The Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) Programme in Rakai Uganda
The Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) intervention was a multi-component intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV prevention programme integrated into the Rakai Health...
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Introducing the Prevention Collaborative’s Accompaniment Programme
We are excited to launch our Accompaniment Programme that matches specially-trained Prevention Mentors with partner organisations that are seeking to share, strengthen and expand their...
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Multimedia
MenCare+ Bandebereho Project in Rwanda
This documentary film shares the work and achievements of the MenCare+ Bandebereho project in Rwanda in engaging expectant fathers and their parters to promote men’s...
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Training Curricula
The Bandebereho Facilitator’s Manual
This manual was developed for facilitators in the MenCare+ (Bandebereho) project. The manual consists of guidance to facilitate 15-session small group workshops with expectant fathers...
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Webinars
Implementing and Evaluating the Common Elements Treatment Approach
What interventions work best to prevent and reduce violence in families where violence and substance use are ongoing phenomena? In this webinar, practitioners and researchers...
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Study Summaries
A Common Elements Treatment Approach to Reduce IPV in Zambia
This brief summarises a randomised controlled trial of a Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) in Zambia to prevent and reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against...
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Training Curricula
Transforming Masculinities – Training Manual
This training manual by Tearfund equips ‘Gender Champions’, men and women who volunteer within communities, to lead and facilitate change with respect to sexual and...
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Training Curricula
Indashyikirwa Couples’ Curriculum Training Module
This Couples’ Curriculum by Indashyikirwa is designed to foster a process of change to reduce violence against women amongst couples in Rwandan communities. It consists...
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Training Curricula
Indashyikirwa Community Activist Training Module
This training module was developed to equip Indashyikirwa community activists with the skills to conduct community-based activism to prevent violence against women. This training module...
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Viewpoint
Partnerships in Practice: Reflections on the Indashyikirwa Research-Programming Partnership in Rwanda
Partnerships between organisations implementing programmes and the research teams evaluating them can sometimes be fraught with tensions and misunderstandings. This can be due to team...
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Tools and Guidance
Mobilising Communities To Prevent Domestic Violence
Based on the methodology of Raising Voices at its inception, this resource guide aims to assist organisations to plan, implement and monitor a community mobilisation project...
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Prevention Stories
Holistic Youth Development as a Life Course Approach to Violence Prevention
Globally, research shows that there is a close association between boy’s childhood exposure to violence and the perpetration of intimate partner violence by men in...
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Multimedia
The SASA! Approach for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV
This short film describes the SASA! approach for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV, by showing how it is used in communities in Kampala, Uganda.
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Multimedia
Raising Voices: A Training Video for Organisations in East and Southern Africa
Designed for organisations that are working to prevent intimate partner violence by using a community-based approach, this training video by Raising Voices complements their resource...
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Multimedia
Unpacking Resistance
This video by the Domestic Violence Resource Centre Australia delves into the experience of resistance from the perspective of practitioners working in the violence prevention...
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Multimedia
Indashyikirwa Intervention to Prevent IPV in Rwanda
This video provides an overview of Indashyikirwa, a community IPV prevention programme that was implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Women’s Network, and Rwanda Men’s Resource...
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Multimedia
How a Lack of Accountability Undermines Work to Address Violence Against Women and Girls
This video by COFEM brings forth the issue of a lack of accountability in the violence prevention field that undermines work towards addressing violence against...
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Multimedia
Raising Boys to be Men Who Care
This two-minute animation invite to reimagining a world free from gender-based violence, using lessons from the MenCare+ program. The film was produced by Rutgers and...
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Programme Summaries
The Indashyikirwa Programme, Rwanda
The Indashyikirwa programme aimed to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) and improve the wellbeing of survivors in selected communities in seven districts of Rwanda. It...
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Webinars
Parenting Programmes to Prevent Family Violence: Challenges and Opportunities
This webinar includes presentations from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Philippines, sharing experiences designing, managing and evaluating parenting interventions to reduce violence against...
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Practice Briefs
Social Norms Change at Scale: Insights from Stepping Stones
This is a case study of Stepping Stones, which “promotes an inclusive, community-wide approach to address the complex issues communities face in changing social norms...
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Practice Briefs
Social Norms Change at Scale: Insights from SASA!
This case study documents the SASA! intervention that uses community mobilisation to change norms and behaviours that perpetuate gender inequality, violence and vulnerability of women...
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Practice Briefs
Social Norms Change at Scale: Insights from IMAGE
This is a case study of the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE), which is a combined effort to address economic and gender...
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Practice Briefs
Social Norms Change at Scale: Insights from GREAT
This case study by the Community for Understanding Scale Up (CUSP) documents a social norm change intervention by the Gender Roles, Equality, and Transformation (GREAT)...
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Working Papers and Reports
Social Norms Background Reader
In this background reader, the Learning Collaborative to Advance Research and Practice on Normative Change for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Well-being provides a...
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Working Papers and Reports
Identifying and Describing Approaches and Attributes of Normative Change Interventions
While there is much interest in the public health field on the application of social norms change approach, there is seldom consensus or common standard...
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Prevention Stories
Engaging Influential Students to Tackle Peer Violence in Indonesia
Background In Indonesia, more than 1 in 5 students, aged 13 to 15 (18 million children), have experienced violence by their peers at schools, according...
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Webinars
Training and Mentoring Facilitators to Lead Critical Reflection Groups for Preventing Violence
What works best to recruit, train and support community facilitators to lead discussions on gender and power? Research and experience tell us that such critical...
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Practice Briefs
Strengthening Prevention Work with Men and Boys in Community Settings
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 makes a global commitment to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private sphere....
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Prevention Foundations
Why does GBV programming focus on women and girls?
This Tip Sheet is part of the COFEM Feminist Pocketbook (www.cofemsocialchange.org) . The Feminist Pocketbook is a resource to support practitioners, researchers and others working...
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Prevention Foundations
Why does a feminist perspective matter in work to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls?
This Tip Sheet is part of the COFEM Feminist Pocketbook (www.cofemsocialchange.org) . The Feminist Pocketbook is a resource to support practitioners, researchers and others working...
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Webinars
The Indashyikirwa Couples Intervention to Prevent VAW in Rwanda
Erin Stern will present an overview of Indashyikirwa, a community IPV prevention programme that was implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Women’s Network, and Rwanda Men’s...
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News
Prevention Collaborative Mentors join the Violence against Children (VAC) Winter School
In early December, 8 members of the Prevention Collaborative joined the VAC Winter School hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The Winter School,...
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Webinars
Elevating the Value of Practice-Based Knowledge
We are all affected by a deep, longstanding bias that privileges ‘scientifically’ derived knowledge. Yet, diverse forms of learning and ‘evidence’ are critical for agile...
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Multimedia
Once Upon a Girl
“Once upon a girl” tells the story of a girl who begins to question the “do’s and “don’ts” of the world around her, and how...
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Multimedia
Once Upon a Boy
This video by Promundo tells the story of a boy and his experiences growing up, including peer pressure, his first sexual relationship, his first job,...
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Viewpoint
Addressing violence against children and women in the family: A call for an integrated approach
Violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW) are global epidemics with prolonged impacts on the health, well-being, and safety of individuals and societies....
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Evidence Syntheses
Ending Violence in Childhood: Global Report 2017
This 2017 report by the global learning initiative, Know Violence in Childhood, documents the scale of violence experienced by children across the world in their...
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Tools and Guidance
COFEM Feminist Pocketbook
The Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM) has developed this useful resource on feminist approaches to addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG). It...
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Evidence Syntheses
Literature Review: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
This review of literature documents the state of violence against women and girls (VAWG) globally and in Australia by referring to a wide range of...
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Practice Briefs
Training and Mentoring Community Facilitators to Lead Critical Reflection Groups
In order to foster shifts in attitudes, norms and behaviors around gender and violence, many activists and practitioners working to prevent violence against women (VAW)...
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Practice Briefs
Preventing Partner Violence: Working with Couples
Intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention programming in the Global South is primarily focused on working with women. Yet, over the last few years this has...
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Tools and Guidance
Fidelity to the SASA ! Activist Kit
This programme brief elaborates the significance of the methodology of SASA!—a community mobilisation approach to prevent violence against women (VAW) and HIV, by Raising Voices...
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Tools and Guidance
Global Guidance on Addressing School-Related Gender-Based Violence
This guidance set forth by the UNESCO and UN Women provides key information on approaches, methodologies, tools, and resources to address school-related gender-based violence. Targeting a...
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Tools and Guidance
Raising Voices Good School Toolkit
Raising Voices has developed this toolkit as a response to the research evidence that suggests the incidence of violence at schools on a regular basis. The...
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Tools and Guidance
INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework
The INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework is a follow up of the INSPIRE Handbook that provides seven core strategies to improve programmes and services...
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Tools and Guidance
INSPIRE Handbook: Action for Implementing the Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children
The INSPIRE handbook is comprised of evidence based strategies to improve programmes and services addressing violence against children. It caters to various stakeholders across multiple...
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Tools and Guidance
Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Resource Guide
Primarily targeted at the IDB and WBG staff, and as well as other development actors with little or no experience addressing VAWG, this guide provides...
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Tools and Guidance
Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action
These guidelines set forth by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) equip humanitarian actors to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and...
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Tools and Guidance
Minimum Standards for Prevention and Response to Gender Based Violence in Emergencies
This document by the UNFPA provides guidance for humanitarian actors on effective and appropriate prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian settings. Developed...
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Tools and Guidance
Rethinking Domestic Violence: A Training Process for Community Activists
This training guide and toolkit by Raising Voices provides capacity to prevent domestic violence for diverse stakeholders, including NGO workers, activists, police officers, community leaders,...
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Tools and Guidance
Toolkit for Optimising Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence — Part 2
This toolkit by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) put forth a set of tools to support programmes that focus on cash-based interventions and gender-based violence...
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Tools and Guidance
Toolkit for Optimising Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence — Part 1
This toolkit by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) put forth a set of tools to support programmes that focus on cash-based interventions and gender-based violence...
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Integrating Cash Transfers into Gender-based Violence Programmes in Jordan: Benefits, Risks and Challenges
This report by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) focuses on IRC’s cash transfer programme for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Commenced in 2013, the programme aimed...
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Training Curricula
Preventing Violence against Women and Girls: Engaging Men through Accountable Practice— PART 3 Implementation Guide
This three-part resource package by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides practical insights on engaging men and boys in preventing VAWG in humanitarian settings. It...
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Training Curricula
Preventing Violence against Women and Girls: Engaging Men through Accountable Practice— PART 2 Training Guide
This three-part resource package by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides practical insights on engaging men and boys in preventing VAWG in humanitarian settings. It...
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Training Curricula
Preventing Violence against Women and Girls: Engaging Men through Accountable Practice— PART 1 Introductory Guide
This three-part resource package by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides practical insights on engaging men and boys in preventing VAWG in humanitarian settings. It...
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Tools and Guidance
DFID Guidance Note: Shifting Social Norms to Tackle Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
This guidance note seeks to advise how programmes targeted at VAWG prevention can identify and address harmful social norms and constructions that sustain violence. It...
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Working Papers and Reports
Community Based Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of Evidence and Essential Steps for Adaption
This review by the World Bank focuses on primary prevention programmes targeted at intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. It looks at programmes that aim...
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Training Curricula
Breaking the Cycle: An Action Guide on the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence Among Youth
Breaking the Cycle is a training programme that was launched in 2017 to provide tools for working with young people in the area of gender-based...
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Prevention Stories
Adaptative Programming: Engaging Absentee Fathers in a Parenting Programme
The popularity of parenting programmes as a strategy to prevent violence against women and children has soared over the last decade. There is strong evidence...
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Prevention Stories
How Bicycles Started to Shift Gender Norms in Zaatari Refugee Camp
Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan is the size of a small city. Home to some 80,000 Syrian refugees, the camp spans more than five...
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Prevention Stories
How Personal Stories of Violence Can Change the Dynamic Between Trainers and Trainees
Early in 2018, Sharanya Gautam, Assistant Director at the Indian NGO Voices 4 Girls, travelled to the town of Jamshedpur in the state of Jharkand...
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Prevention Stories
Giving Technical Assistance on Gender and VAWG Prevention: Balancing ‘Ownership’ and ‘Transformation’
When a public-sector organisation in Afghanistan decided to produce a set of gender resources for its employees, independent consultant Julienne Corboz was asked to provide...
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Training Curricula
Program M Manual
Program M is named after mulheres and mujeres, the words for women in Portuguese and Spanish. It was launched in 2006 as a companion to...
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Training Curricula
Program H|M|D: A Toolkit for Action
This toolkit presents the short version of the approach contained in Programs H and M. It seeks to make the model accessible so that an...
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Practice Briefs
Adaptive Programming: Addressing Unintended Consequences
Many violence prevention programmes are designed based on a theory of change that sets out pathways to expected results drawing on the available evidence. While...
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Tools and Guidance
Respectful Relationships Education Toolkit
The Our Watch Respectful Relationships Education Toolkit was designed to help schools to develop and sustain a whole school approach to prevent gender-based violence by...
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Tools and Guidance
Pathways to Change to Reduce Spousal Violence Against Women and Girls
This brief demonstrates the pathways to change to reduce spousal violence and improve the response to spousal violence as a result of the SAFE intervention...
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Tools and Guidance
Applying Social Norms Theory for Measurement [Presentation]
These slides summarise how CARE sought to apply social norms theory to practice in three different programmes: Sri Lanka: An IPV prevention programme focused on...
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Tools and Guidance
Top 20 Resources on Social Norms
This is a list of top 20 resources identified by members of the Learning Collaborative for Advancing Research and Practice on Normative Change for Adolescent...
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Working Papers and Reports
Social Norms and Girls’ Wellbeing: Linking Theory and Practice
This report seeks to better explore the connections between social norms theory and practice as they relate to girls’ lives, and the implications for efforts...
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Practice Briefs
Tipping Point Social Norms Innovations Series: Amra-o-Korchi, Bangladesh
This brief outlines CARE’s experience with implementing ‘Amra-o-Korchi’ in Bangladesh. This was one of a series of ‘Tipping Point’ programme innovations that CARE piloted to...
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Tools and Guidance
CARE’s Journey Piloting Social Norms Measures for Gender Programming
This “Theory to Practice” brief describes CARE’s journey to understand social norm theory from academia, and apply it in development practice. CARE’s interest stemmed from...
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Tools and Guidance
VAWG Resource Guide: Social Protection Brief
The briefing note looks at the intersections between social protection (SP) and violence against women and girls (VAWG), and options for integrating intervention to prevent...
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Tools and Guidance
Community-based Prevention of Violence Against Women and their Children
This accessible toolkit compiled by Our Watch in Australia comprises a suite of materials for practitioners wishing to work with communities to prevent violence against women....
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