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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Programme Summaries
MAISHA Intervention in Tanzania
MAISHA is a social empowerment intervention designed to build healthy, violence-free relationships. Two trained female facilitators deliver 10 sessions to groups of about 20 women. ...
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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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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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Webinars
Facilitating Gender Transformation
Transformative programs to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) enable deep shifts in thinking, beliefs and behavior. Participants are encouraged to critically reflect on ...
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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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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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Programme Summaries
MAISHA Intervention in Tanzania
MAISHA is a social empowerment intervention designed to build healthy, violence-free relationships. Two trained female facilitators deliver 10 sessions to...
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...

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...
Webinars
Facilitating Gender Transformation
Transformative programs to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) enable deep shifts in thinking, beliefs and behavior. Participants are...

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...
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...
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...
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....
Webinars
VAW Prevention: The Latest Evidence – Part 2
Lori Heise from the Prevention Collaborative presents latest evidence on VAW prevention.

Webinars
VAW Prevention: The Latest Evidence – Part 1
Lori Heise from the Prevention Collaborative presents latest evidence on VAW prevention.

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...
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
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...
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...

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...
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...

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...
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...
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,...

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...