Evidence The indicators you identify need to be relevant and achievable given the specific objectives and interventions of your VAW prevention programme. Using indicators that do not precisely focus on the types of change your programme is designed to achieve will lead to wasted resources and findings that may suggest your programme is less effective than it is.
Your indicators will also need to specify who you expect to experience or demonstrate particular types of change.
For example, if you are using the ecological model to inform your ToC, at what level might your programme interventions influence a particular change in behaviour? Is it among direct participants of the programme, their partners, family or friends, or broadly, in the wider community?
Disaggregating your indicators (e.g. by age, disability, socio-economic status) can help you to track change across different subgroups, and provide helpful information about how you could better target future interventions to be more inclusive.
Don’t forget that you will also need indicators which track potential backlash and unintended negative consequences.
It is helpful to consider the following questions when identifying indicators for your VAW prevention programme:
•What types of change is it reasonable to expect as a result of your programme?
•How much time will it realistically take for these changes to take place?
•Who is likely to experience or demonstrate these changes as a result of your programme?
•What indicators would help to show you whether these changes are taking place?
•Will data on this indicator help you to improve future programming?
•What data will you need to measure progress against your indicators?
