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Webinars
Unite for a Better Life: Leveraging Podcasts to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
Dr. Vandana Sharma and Machrine Birungi highlight good practices and challenges from developing and testing the Unite for a Better Life (UBL) podcast series to...
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Webinars
Unite for a Better Life: Adapting an IPV Prevention Intervention for a Humanitarian Context
Dr. Vandana Sharma and Samuel Tewolde Gebretsadik present the process of adapting the Unite for a Better Life (UBL) programme to a humanitarian context and...
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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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Evidence Syntheses
A Rigorous Global Evidence Review of Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is preventable. Over the last two decades, VAWG prevention practitioners and researchers have been developing and testing interventions to...
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Evidence Syntheses
A Rigorous Global Evidence Review of Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is preventable. Over the last two decades, VAWG prevention practitioners and researchers have been developing and testing interventions to...
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Webinars
Preventing IPV in Rural Ethiopia: Developing, Implementing and Testing “Unite for a Better Life”
Unite for a Better Life (UBL) is a gender-transformative programme to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV. It is delivered by trained facilitators to...
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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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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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Evidence Syntheses
Parenting and Caregiver Support Programmes to Prevent and Respond to Violence in the Home
Parenting programmes are interventions or services aimed at improving interactions between parents and their children, as well as knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and practices that affect...
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Working Papers and Reports
Evaluación de Impacto del Programa P Bolivia (Spanish)
Results of an impact evaluation of the Program P Bolivia intervention which was designed to promote men’s engagement in reproductive and maternal health, caregiving, 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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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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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
Impact of the SASA! Violence Prevention Intervention
This is a summary of the findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) of SASA!—a community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce...
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Study Summaries
Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda
The Bandebereho (“role model”) intervention, adapted from Program P, aimed to promote positive fatherhood and gender equality amongst expectant fathers and fathers of children under...
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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
The Impact of SAFE on Intimate Partner Violence in Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
This study evaluated the Growing up Safe and Healthy (SAFE) programme, a multi-component intervention implemented in 2012-2013, which aimed to improve sexual and reproductive health...
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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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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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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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Study Summaries
Integrating IPV and HIV prevention: Impacts of the SHARE Intervention in Uganda
This study evaluated the Safe Homes and Respect for Everyone (SHARE) intervention, a multi-component IPV and HIV prevention program integrated into the Rakai Health Sciences...
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Webinars
Working with Couples on Violence Prevention
This webinar is based on the publication of a new Prevention Collaborative practice brief exploring the emerging area of working with couples on violence prevention....
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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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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
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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Journal Articles
Gender-transformative Bandebereho couples’ intervention to promote male engagement in reproductive and maternal health and violence prevention in Rwanda: Findings from a randomized controlled trial
This study assessed the impact of the Bandebereho gender-transformative couples’ intervention in Rwanda on impact on multiple behavioural and health-related outcomes influenced by gender norms...
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Tools and Guidance
Addressing Social Norms to Prevent Gender-Based Violence [infographic]
This infographic was developed by CARE to communicate about the work they are doing to change social norms around intimate partner violence in Sri Lanka....
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Working Papers and Reports
On Norms and Agency: Conversations about Gender Equality with Men and Women in 20 Countries
This paper summarises the findings of a qualitative field study with 4000 men and women in focus groups across 20 countries from all regions. The...
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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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Evidence Syntheses
A Mixed-method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low-and middle-income Countries
There is increasing evidence that cash transfer (CT) programs decrease intimate partner violence (IPV). However, little is known about how CTs achieve this impact. This...
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Evidence Syntheses
Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls: A Summary of the Evidence
This short summary paper presents the evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG). It is based on a...
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Evidence Syntheses
Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
This rapid review paper examines the most common and promising interventions that specifically seek to reduce different types of VAWG as an outcome, and those...
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Evidence Syntheses
What Works to Prevent Partner Violence?
This document reviews the empirical evidence of what works in low-and middle-income countries to prevent violence against women by their husbands and other male partners....
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Evidence Syntheses
Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: What Does the Evidence Say?
This paper reviews the evidence on interventions to reduce the prevalence and incidence of violence against women and girls (VAWG). It covers a wide range...
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