What can you do on VAW prevention with 2 years* of funding?

Option

Justification

Resource Considerations

Adaptation and pilot of a successful intervention to a different context (e.g. a curriculum based intervention)

– A program that is successful in one socio-cultural and political context may not be appropriate to another. It is likely to need changes in the language, nature of content, changes to activities, delivery mechanisms and partnerships. It is essential to understand the importance of good adaptations and invest adequate resources and time. Adaptation needs a minimum of 1 year and can take longer.

– A UK-funded study on prevention program costs suggests that quality adaptation can cost $40k-$500k depending on context, intervention, scale. (Also see here)

Capacity development of an organization to develop a strategy, program priorities and staff capacity to do VAW prevention work.

– Many organisations and staff have limited expertise on VAW prevention and how to design and implement a quality program
– Longer term accompaniment is needed to support an organization to develop strategy and capacity on prevention – including workshops, on the job mentoring on program design and implementation etc
– e.g. NGOs with experience on gender and response who want to start work on prevention; preparing other institutions (e.g. schools, workplaces, government bodies) to do prevention work)

– Group course (30-40 people) e.g. Virtual $20.000; in person $50-80,000
– Tailored accompaniment e.g. 20 days over 2 years e.g. $ 40,000

Work with a national (or state level) government to develop a national prevention strategy

– Other successful processes to develop national prevention strategies and build capacity to implement these have taken around 2 years (e.g. Australia, Fiji, Peru)
– Time is needed to review existing policy, (any any NAP / strategy) build capacity and ownership of government decision-makers and staff and for a robust reflection, analysis and co-design process including other stakeholders

– Not available, but this this guide on Making progress in Prevention Possible which provides guidance to set up a national monitoring framework for VAW prevention.

Conduct and publish a national VAW survey to provide data on the prevalence, causes and consequences of violence

– This can be a good option where there is national buy-in from the government and other key actors
– This time is needed to produce a robust research design, get ethical approval, train research teams in conducting research on VAW, cleaning and analyzing quantitative data, producing regression analysis, and publishing the results. See the KnowVAWData website for more information.

– Likely to costs upwards of $1 million

Facilitate a process of regional dialogue and exchange on prevention

– The funds could be used to establish or accelerate dialogue in a specific region between countries and different types of actors to galvanise commitment and action on prevention e.g. workshops, webinars

– Case by case

Extend / build on an existing program

– Where an existing programme has been established and implemented, 2 years of funding could help to roll this out to further groups or communities – integrating learning and updating as needed