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Working with Couples

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Many prevention programmes seek to engage both women and men to challenge the beliefs, behaviours and norms which underpin violence against women and children. Many of these programmes engage men and women in small group training and/or through community-level activities. Couples programmes work specifically with intimate partners—usually those that are married of cohabiting—to support them to develop healthy relationships free of intimate partner violence. This is our guide to resources on working with couples to prevent violence

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Unite for a Better Life: Leveraging Podcasts to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence

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Unite for a Better Life: Adapting an IPV Prevention Intervention for a Humanitarian Context

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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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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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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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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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Preventing IPV in Rural Ethiopia: Developing, Implementing and Testing “Unite for a Better Life”

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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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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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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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Unite for a Better Life: Leveraging Podcasts to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence

Dr. Vandana Sharma and Machrine Birungi highlight good practices and challenges from developing and testing the Unite for a Better...

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Unite for a Better Life: Adapting an IPV Prevention Intervention for a Humanitarian Context

Dr. Vandana Sharma and Samuel Tewolde Gebretsadik present the process of adapting the Unite for a Better Life (UBL) programme...

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Preventing IPV in Rural Ethiopia: Developing, Implementing and Testing “Unite for a Better Life”

Unite for a Better Life (UBL) is a gender-transformative programme to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV. It is...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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Bandebereho Couples’ Intervention to Promote Male Engagement in Rwanda

The Bandebereho (“role model”) intervention, adapted from Program P, aimed to promote positive fatherhood and gender equality amongst expectant fathers...

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Implementing and Evaluating the Common Elements Treatment Approach

What interventions work best to prevent and reduce violence in families where violence and substance use are ongoing phenomena? In...

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The Impact of SAFE on Intimate Partner Violence in Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This study evaluated the Growing up Safe and Healthy (SAFE) programme, a multi-component intervention implemented in 2012-2013, which aimed 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...

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