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It is important to assess your own position and capacity to work on VAW prevention. A simple way to do this is to conduct a participatory SWOT analysis with your team using the questions below and then use this to assess your readiness to implement a prevention programme. Equally, this exercise could be done with potential partner organisations.

INTERNAL TO ORGANISATION	EXTERNAL TO ORGANISATION
STRENGTHS	OPPORTUNITIES
●What does your organisation do best that is relevant to prevention programming? ●What are the key knowledge, capacities and skills of your leaders and staff related to VAW and prevention programming? ●What kind of networks / relationships do you have with key actors/organisations working on or interested in prevention? ●What presence and relationships do you have at community level – with CSO, women’s rights organisations, leaders, community volunteers and response service providers? ●What internal financial resources do you have to invest in developing your prevention expertise and programming?	●Are there key government laws, policies and political commitments to work to prevent VAW? ●Are there donors interested in VAW prevention? Any specific funding mechanisms you can access? ●Are there other groups or organisations who might support what you are doing? What might they do to aid your success? ●Do you think there is public appetite in your context to make progress on gender equality and preventing violence against women?
WEAKNESSES	THREATS
●Where would you need to develop greater staff knowledge, capacity and skills? On VAW prevention? On programming? ●Does this fit with your organisational vision and purpose? Do you have the staff commitment and motivation to work on this area? ●What relationships and networks do you need to build at national, district or community level? ●Do you have the position and political credibility to work on this area? ●Do you have sufficient financial resources to invest in prevention? How certain is your funding?	●Where would you need to develop greater staff knowledge, capacity and skills? On VAW prevention? On programming? ●Does this fit with your organisational vision and purpose? Do you have the staff commitment and motivation to work on this area? ●What relationships and networks do you need to build at national, district or community level? ●Do you have the position and political credibility to work on this area? ●Do you have sufficient financial resources to invest in prevention? How certain is your funding?

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