KNOWLEDGEHUB
AGI-K
Reducing risks for adolescent girls in Kenya.
Design Matters!
We now have ample evidence that preventing violence is possible. To create change, however, programmes need to be…
Evaluation Matters!
Evaluation is a vital step in learning about whether and how your programme is (or is not) achieving…
FOUNDATIONS
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Global Evidence Overviews
The past 20 years have seen an enormous increase in the number and range of interventions developed and…
Implementation Matters!
The field of violence prevention routinely debates the relative merits of different programme models. Approaches gain or lose…
Understanding Prevention
Given its high prevalence and negative consequences worldwide, there is an urgent need to address violence against women…
Working with Couples
Promoting healthy relationships to reduce violence.
Finding Good Data
Rates of violence vary widely from country to country, region to region, and community to community.
Intimate Partner Violence
Physical, sexual, economic, and/or psychological abuse by a current or former spouse or intimate partner are all forms…
Violence against Children at Home
Every year, approximately three-quarters of the world’s children experience some form of violence.
WOMEN’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT
Increasing women’s economic status to address VAWG
Intersections of Violence against Women and Violence against Children
In the home, violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) intersect in multiple ways.
Violence against Adolescent Girls
Adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable to violence. They continue to face the same violence that younger children do—such…
VIOLENCE AGAINST LGBTQI+ PEOPLE
Around the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people (LGBTQI+) experience high rates of violence, often…
Violence against Women with Disabilities
Research from low- and middle-income countries suggests that women with disabilities are twice as likely to experience intimate…
ABOUT VIOLENCE
BALIKA
Addressing the drivers of child marriage in Bangladesh.
Elements of Effective Programmes
What makes violence prevention programmes effective? As our field grows and generates new evidence, we can draw important…
Gender, Power, and Feminism
Today’s efforts to address violence against women and their children comes after decades of organising by women and…
Preparing and training staff or facilitators
The skills, attitudes, and behaviours of staff or facilitators are key to successful programme implementation. This is particularly…
Right-Sizing Your Evaluation
‘Right-sizing’ your evaluation means selecting an evaluation approach that fits the task at hand. Considerations include what evidence…
Supporting Parents and Caregivers
A promising strategy to address violence against both women and children.
Bandebereho
Engaging fathers and couples to break cycles of violence in Rwanda.
Ensuring Well-Being
Even programmes focused on violence prevention will touch the lives of many women who have already experienced abuse.…
Gender Transformative Programming
Gender inequality is an important driver of violence and other negative health and social outcomes. A commonly used…
INTERSECTIONS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
In the home, violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) intersect in multiple ways. They frequently…
Mobilising Communities
Employing community-based mobilisation programmes to address VAWG.
Practice-Based Knowledge
Practice-based knowledge is the cumulative knowledge and learning acquired by practitioners through years of innovation, reflection, and refinement.…
PREVENTION STRATEGIES
Understanding the Context
What do you need to know before you get started? Understanding the specific context in which a programme…
Becoming One
Faith-based counselling to strengthen relationships in Uganda.
Developing a Theory of Change
How do we expect change to happen? What evidence underlies our expectations? A theory of change lays out…
Feminist Leadership and Self- and Collective Care
Why highlight resources on feminist leadership and on self- and collective care in a knowledge hub on violence…
Key Indicators and Measures
Human-centred design (HCD) is a creative approach to problem-solving that can be applied to programme development, adaptation, or…
PROGRAMME EXAMPLES
Our goal is to make all materials on a programme easily accessible in one place. If you are…
Programme Monitoring
Monitoring is the systematic process of collecting, analysing, and applying information as a prevention programme proceeds. We often…
Working with Faith, Traditional, and Opinion Leaders
Engaging community stakeholders to prevent VAWG.
Addressing Poor Mental Health
A consequence of and strategy to prevent VAWG.
CETA
An accessible model to address common mental health issues.
Coping with Resistance and Backlash
Prevention work often aims to disrupt the way things are—challenging established hierarchies of gender and power, shifting norms…
Ethics and Best Practices
Collecting monitoring or evaluation data, as well as the programming itself, can introduce a risk of harm for…
Fostering Behaviour Change
Effectively preventing violence against women requires changing behaviours, which is often a gradual, complex, and lengthy process.
GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING
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Pre-Testing and Piloting
As you develop detailed implementation plans, it is important to create opportunities to ‘pretest’ or pilot these plans,…
Collaborating with Researchers to Evaluate Your Programme
Collaboration between practitioners and researchers helps build a rigorous knowledge base on how a programme or intervention is…
Programme Selection and Adaptation
We now have multiple programme models from around the world that have reduced violence in the home. This…
Reducing Harmful Alcohol Use
Potential for addressing violence against women and children.
Social Norms Change
Social norms do change, sometimes quite rapidly: Consider how quickly the social rules of communication shifted when email,…
Child, Early, and Forced Marriage
Each year, 12 million girls around the world are married before the age of 18.
OUR RESOURCES
Effectively Communicating Your Findings
Communicating the findings of your programme’s monitoring and evaluation—including what was and was not successful—benefits a wide range…
Human-Centred Design
Human-centred design (HCD) is a creative approach to problem-solving that can be applied to programme development, adaptation, or…
Working with Men and Boys
Synchronised programming to reduce VAWG.
Friendship Bench
A bench with a higher purpose.
Cash Transfers
Reducing violence through greater economic security.
Designing for Scale
Many current violence prevention models, while effective, have only shown small-scale impact among select participants or communities. To…
Sexual Harassment
Unwelcome sexual behaviour that is offensive, humiliating, or intimidating can be written, verbal, or physical, and it can…
SPECIAL TOPICS
Shifting Social Norms
Transforming norms that perpetuate violence.
Edutainment
Using the power of mass entertainment to promote change.
Change Starts at Home
Combining a radio drama, couples’ programme, and norms diffusion activities to reduce IPV among couples in Nepal
CHANGING LAWS AND POLICIES TO PREVENT VAWG
Laws and policies– including those intended to address violence and underlying risk factors have the potential to affect…
COMBAT
Taking community action to prevent and respond to violence in Ghana.
COVID-19
The Covid-19 pandemic and its related lockdowns and restrictions have contributed to increased risk of violence in the…
CURRICULUM LIBRARY
This page offers a range of violence prevention curricula, all in one place! For more information about each…
Education Sector
Health Sector
Indashyikirwa
Working with couples in rural Rwanda.
Justice Sector
MAISHA
Empowering women in Tanzania.
MTV Shuga
An edutainment behaviour change TV series to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and IPV among young people in…
Real Fathers
Supporting fathers to reduce violence against women and children in Uganda.
SASA!
Supporting communities to prevent IPV in Uganda and globally.
SHARE
Mobilising communities around HIV and violence prevention in Uganda.
Stepping Stones and Creating Futures
Combining gender transformation with livelihoods strengthening to reduce violence in South Africa.
Unite for a Better Life
Building on traditional ceremonies to foster change in Ethiopia.
Urban Planning Sector
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN CONFLICT AND HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is exacerbated in humanitarian emergencies due to a variety of factors, including:…
WFP Economic Transfer Programmes
Cash or food transfers contributing to reducing violence in Ecuador and Bangladesh.
WORKING ACROSS SECTORS TO PREVENT VAWG
As the violence against women and girls (VAWG) prevention field seeks to reach more people through scale, there…
Zindagii Shoista
Working with families to support women in Tajikistan.