What can you do on VAW prevention with 3-4 years* of funding?

Option

Justification

Resource Considerations

Optimise, implement and evaluate an evidence-based program

– If a program has already been effective in the same or a very similar context, this is adequate time to optimize, implement and evaluate the same program in new communities
– If the program has already been proven effective by a robust evaluation (e.g. mixed methods RCT), a lighter touch evaluation strategy is likely to be sufficient (e.g. mixed methods baseline / endline)

– See here for example implementation costs for different program approaches
– Program evaluations can vary from $50 k (simple baseline/ endline) to > $500k (mixed RCT)

  Integrate violence prevention into a sector-based program

– In addition to community-based interventions, sector-based programs (e.g. Health, education, urban planning, transport) can provide a key platform for taking VAW prevention efforts to scale.
– Investments can mitigate risks to women and children of existing sectoral work (e.g. to reduce sexual harassment on public transport) and then integrate violence prevention into school curricula, community health worker training etc

 – Case by case

  Establish a new platform for evidence, learning and/or capacity development or support an existing one

– It is important to design and fund accessible, inclusive platforms and mechanisms to synthesize, share evidence and learning on VAW prevention to different audiences that need this (e.g. practitioners, researchers, policymakers).

– There are a number of existing platforms (e.g. www.shinehub.org, www.prevention-collaborative.org, www.svri.org, www.endvawnow.org) which could be supported with funding or to develop further initiatives on key priority areas (e.g. on practice-based knowledge, qualitative and indigenous knowledge, national level programming evidence etc)

– Case by case