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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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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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SVRI Knowledge Exchange: Pivoting to Remote Research on Violence against Women during COVID-19
This SVRI Knowledge Exchange discusses when — and how — to safely proceed with remote data collection about violence against women (VAW) during COVID-19 (or...
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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: Violence Against Women Prevention Programmes
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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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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Evidence Syntheses
Guidance for DFID Country Offices on Preventing and Responding to VAW and VAC
This is a brief guidance note prepared by DFID of the UK Government to inform their country offices on the intersections between violence against women...
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Multimedia
Will You Be My Mother? (VAC Advocacy Video)
Will You Be My Mother? is part one of ‘Will You Ever Forgive Me?’ a feature length film that documents four poignant stories told from...
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Evidence Syntheses
Bridging the Gaps: A Global Review of Intersections of Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children
This article presents a review of evidence on intersections between violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC)—including sexual violence by non-partners. It especially...
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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
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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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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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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Research Basics
Quantitative Measurement of Gendered Social Norms
This guide by ALIGN gives an overview of quantitative approaches to measuring gendered social norms. It draws from existing practices in the field, such as...
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Evidence Syntheses
Evidence Brief: Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence
Cash transfers to poor households reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in over 70% of the 22 rigorous quantitative and qualitative studies reviewed. Within the quantitative...
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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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The Prevention Collaborative: Knowledge Strategy
One of the Prevention Collaborative’s core objectives is to ensure that existing research and practice-based knowledge on the causes of violence and how best to...
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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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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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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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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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Working Papers and Reports
Social Norms: A Review
This article provides: a) a review of literature on social norms; b) draws out similarities and differences in key operational definitions of social norms; c) reviews theories that...
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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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Multimedia
‘Tea Consent’ – Sexual Consent Explained
In this short advocacy video, sexual consent is explained using ‘tea’ as a metaphor.
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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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Multimedia
The Man Box – The Pressures of a ‘Real Man’
This short video summarises the findings of a survey by The Men’s Project that asked 1,000 Australian men, aged 18 to 30, about the pressures...
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Multimedia
‘The Mask You Live In’ Trailer on Harmful Masculinities
Research shows that compared to girls, boys in the United States are more likely to be diagnosed with a behaviour disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail out...
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Tools and Guidance
Scaling Up Norms-Shifting Interventions Targeting Adolescents and Youth
This resource by the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change, addresses the scaling of social norms change interventions targeting adolescents and youth’s sexual and reproductive...
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Journal Articles
On the CUSP: The Politics and Prospects of Scaling Social Norms Change Programming
This paper highlights learnings from the Community for Understanding Scale Up (CUSP), which is a working group of nine organisations who are developing and scaling social...
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Evidence Syntheses
What Works to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Women and Girls in Conflict and Humanitarian Settings?
This briefing paper by the Global Women’s Institute and International Rescue Committee provides an overview of the existing evidence 1) on the prevalence of violence...
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Multimedia
Ending Violence Against Women and Girls – Meron’s Story
This is an advocacy video by Womankind, that tells a story of a woman called Meron and her children who experience violence. One day she meets...
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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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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
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
On the Nature of Intimate Partner Violence
Sudha Shetty at the Hague Domestic Violence project unpacks the nature of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States, and as well as globally, with entrenched...
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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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Working Papers and Reports
Preventing Childhood Violence in the Home: A Prevention Collaborative Position Paper
A core objective of the Prevention Collaborative is to address violence in families, affecting both women and children. This paper outlines the Prevention Collaborative’s analysis...
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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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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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Webinars
Training to Lead Critical Reflection Groups for Preventing Violence Against Women
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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Working Papers and Reports
Towards More Effective Strategies to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children: A Prevention Collaborative Analysis
This paper outlines the analysis that informed the founding of the Prevention Collaborative, and locates our efforts within the wider violence prevention field. Specifically, it...
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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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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
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and Most Significant Change (MSC)
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and Most Significant Change (MSC) are both asset-based approaches that seek to support positive change. AI is a strategy and approach to...
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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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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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Evidence Syntheses
Understanding the Linkages between Social Safety Nets and Childhood Violence: A Review of the Evidence from Low and Middle Income Countries
This review is timely as cash transfers have proven to be a powerful tool in tackling intimate partner violence (IPV). A large body of research...
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Evidence Syntheses
What Works Evidence Review: Intersections of Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children
This 4-page brief summarises the state of evidence on the intersections between violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW). The authors argue that...
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Journal Articles
Global Prevalence of Past-year Violence Against Children: A Systematic Review and Minimum Estimates.
This paper provides important prevalence data on the scale of violence (emotional, physical, sexual and multiple exposures) against children around the world. The researchers carried...
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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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Evidence Syntheses
Piecing Together the Evidence on Social Norms and Violence Against Women
Developed by the Equality Institute, this booklet maps the current state of evidence on violence against women and girls (VAWG), with a specific focus on...
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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
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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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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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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Training Curricula
Program H Manual
Program H is named after homens and hombres, the words for men in Portuguese and Spanish. Launched in 2002 by Promundo and partners and now...
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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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Research Basics
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence
This brief provides guidance for the non-expert on how to collect valid quantitative data on partner violence in an ethically and methodologically sound manner. Specifically,...
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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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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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Evidence Syntheses
Gender Socialisation During Adolescence in Low-and-middle-income Countries: Conceptualisation, Influences, and Outcomes
Adolescence is a critical period in the development of gender attitudes and behaviours, which have potentially life-long effects. The rapid changes that take place during...
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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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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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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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Tools and Guidance
Approaches to Scale-up and Assessing Cost-effectiveness of Programmes to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
With its focus on low-income and middle-income countries, this review paper summarises evidence on the cost and value for money (VFM) aspects of interventions to...
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Evidence Syntheses
Response Mechanisms to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
This paper examines the evidence base on the effectiveness of response mechanisms for VAWG in preventing the occurrence or reoccurrence of violence. In this paper,...
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Evidence Syntheses
State of the Field of Research on Violence Against Women and Girls
This paper reviews the knowledge base on the scale, scope and nature of VAWG and the factors that drive it at individual, relationship, community and...
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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
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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