Practice-Based Knowledge
Our guide to key resources to support your workPractice-Based Knowledge is the cumulative knowledge and learning acquired by practitioners from designing and implementing diverse programmes in different contexts, including insights gained from observations, conversations, direct experiences, and programme monitoring. This guide highlights key resources on PBK to support VAW and VAC prevention initiatives.
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Upcoming Webinar: The Why and How of Elevating Practitioner Knowledge for Effective 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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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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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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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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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Webinars
Design Thinking for IPV Prevention
This webinar shares lessons from ‘Becoming One’, an innovative counselling programme for couples delivered through faith leaders to prevent IPV...
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...
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...
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...
Opinion
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Opinion
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...
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...
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,...
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...
