type_of_violence / Violence against children
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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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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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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Study Summaries
An Evaluation of the Real Fathers Initiative in Uganda
This study (an RCT) evaluated the scale up of the Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative in Acholi and Karamoja Sub Regions in Northern...
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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
Harmful Connections: Examining the Relationship between Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children in the South Pacific
This is a review of literature about the connection between violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) in the South Pacific Island countries. It consolidates existing...
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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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Journal Articles
Towards a Feminist Understanding of Intersecting Violence Against Women and Children in the Family
This study explores a gap in literature on the intersections of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and violence against children (VAC) by answering how...
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Journal Articles
Converging Drivers of Interpersonal Violence: Findings from a Qualitative Study in Post-hurricane Haiti
This paper documents lessons from a qualitative assessment of the Transforming Households: Reducing Incidence of Violence in Emergencies (THRIVE) project in Côteaux, Haiti. It highlights multiple...
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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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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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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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Community
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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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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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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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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Evidence Syntheses
Respectful Relationships: Education in Schools
This paper was written following a decision by the Australian Government to include Respectful Relationships Education on the school curriculum. It aims to support policy...
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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
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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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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