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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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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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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Programme Summaries
Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a gender-transformative, group and community-based initiative designed to respond to multiple sexual and reproductive health challenges. It aims to reduce both HIV ...
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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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“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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Training Curricula
Stepping Stones Training Manual Adapted for South Africa
Stepping Stones is a workshop series designed as a tool to help promote sexual health, improve psychological well-being and prevent HIV. The workshops address questions ...
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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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News
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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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...
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...
Programme Summaries
Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a gender-transformative, group and community-based initiative designed to respond to multiple sexual and reproductive health challenges. It...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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
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...
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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...
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...
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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
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...
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...
