Research project
The current phase of the research collaborative’s work (2019-2021) is focussed on conducting innovative research to understand the linkages between cash transfers (CT) and intimate partner violence (IPV) that builds upon already-funded CT evaluations in Ghana, Ethiopia and Bangladesh.

Resources and knowledge management
The research collaborative aims to use the findings to put IPV on the agenda of social protection policymakers and implementers. The collaborative is also producing briefs, journal articles and discussion papers which are available through the website.

Research projects
The Equality Institute works to understand the prevalence and drivers of VAWG in different contexts, and what works to prevent it, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. EQI conducts process and impact evaluations of violence prevention programs; evidence reviews to inform policy and prevention practice; and women-led research on VAWG and has worked across 13 countries. This has included:
• A quasi-experimental mixed-methods impact evaluation of a community-mobilization prevention programme (SASA! Adaptation) in Kiribati in collaboration with UN Women and the Kiribati government.
• A qualitative process evaluation of Oxfam’s Safe Families program, an innovative primary prevention intervention in the Solomon Islands, to understand the processes of shifting harmful social norms that drive family and sexual violence.
• A large-scale strategic evaluation of Australian development assistance for EVAWG over 10 years in collaboration with the Global Women’s Institute. The evaluation provided a critical lens for assessing the gains made since 2008 and made recommendations to guide Australia’s aid programme and policy engagement on VAWG for the next decade.
• A comprehensive literature review and analysis on different manifestations of family violence, and on proven and promising practices for primary prevention. The project was a comprehensive literature review of 11 different communities throughout Australia.

Resources and knowledge management
EQI has undertaken systematic evidence and literature reviews focused on prevention as well as produced tools to support prevention practice such as COFEM’s Feminist Pocketbook and a Guide to Prevention Monitoring, and the Gates Gender Equality Toolbox.

Skills development and technical support
EQI has undertaken capacity strengthening work with hundreds researchers, practitioners and policymakers to better understand what causes violence against women and how to prevent it. As global thought-leaders, EQI provides strategic advice and technical support to major organizations to address VAWG.

Advocacy and collective action
EQI plays a strategic policy advocacy role in Australia and internationally to promote more effective investment in VAWG prevention, and increase the scale and effectiveness of prevention strategies worldwide. EQI supports campaign design and delivery as well as designing policy frameworks for gender equality and violence prevention. EQI has also produced media-based interventions to prevent VAWG and engages with a large online audience [LINK TO INSTA] to build feminist movements and challenge social norms.

Intersectionality
EQI takes an intersectional approach as a core principle of their work.

Research projects
GWI generates research in order to inform policy reform and prevention practice. This has included a comprehensive review of evidence-based interventions to prevent VAWG as well research focussed on violence against adolescent girls, refugee and conflict-affected populations and prevention in conflict and humanitarian settings. GWI is a partner in the What Works program - Violence Against Women and Girls in Conflict and Humanitarian Crises component. GWI also partnered with the Equality Institute to evaluate the Australian Government’s investment to end violence against women and girls.

Resources and knowledge management
GWI hosts the Communications X-Change which is an online library of audio and visual materials contributed by organisations and individuals from around the world who are working to end violence against women and girls.

Skills development and technical support
GWI produces manuals and toolkits to support researchers and practitioners to conduct ethical and technically sound research, monitoring and/or evaluation on gender-based violence and adaptation of proven prevention approaches including with humanitarian and conflict-affected populations and in school and community settings. GWI teaches an online course on Gender and Development called GenderPro, with modules on VAWG research and prevention. GWI is also a partner with the World Bank, IDB and ICRW to develop sector-based resources on VAWG programming. These resources are available at: vawgresourceguide.org.

Advocacy
GWI works with social movements to jointly create evidence to shape effective policy making and programming. A range of policy briefs are available on the GWI website containing recommendations for action by policymakers, donors and practitioners.

Intersectionality
GWI’s work includes a focus on adolescent girls, conflict-affected and refugee populations and violence against sexual and gender minority women.

Research projects
The Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health and School of Nursing undertakes various research projects focussed on prevention and response to violence against women including:
• DFID’s What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls Research Program
• Research and practice on gender and social norms
• Trials to evaluate the impact of prevention programs in humanitarian and conflict settings (recent studies in Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya and DRC).
• Research on integration of mental health and violence prevention interventions.
• Intervention development, and program evaluation specific to partner violence and sexual violence (recent studies in Malawi, Kenya).
• Multiple studies and adaptations of My Plan, an Ap-based decision aid to help users assess the health and safety of their relationships.
• Expertise in unique dynamics of violence prevention and response for women who trade sex, engage in sex work, or are trafficked/sexually exploited.
• Expertise in instrument development and validation for psychosocial problems of violence-affected women (e.g. depression, anxiety, stigma, traumatic stress).

Networking and shared learning
Faculty member, Professor Lori Heise, is Technical Director of the Prevention Collaborative as well as a member of the Research Collaborative on Cash Transfers and IPV.

Research
GVHC works with partners around the world to conduct multi-disciplinary, action-oriented research. Its overarching purpose is to better understand how to prevent violence and strengthen community and health systems responses to it. GVHC collaborates with policy makers, non-governmental organisations and public health bodies around the world to ensure that the evidence we generate feeds into social change. GVHC is a WHO Collaborating centre on gender-based violence and health. GVHC’s areas of expertise also include violence against children and adolescents, human trafficking, migration and labour exploitation, and intimate partner violence against men in same-sex relationships.

Skills development and technical support
GVHC runs an annual short course on researching gender-based violence.

Research projects
AiW is committed to pioneering academic research on women in the Arab world including in the area of gender-based violence.

Resources and knowledge management
Al-Raida, AiW’s flagship interdisciplinary journal since 1976 is a bi-annual, interdisciplinary journal, publishing both academic and non-academic materials. It is available online through AiW’s website. AiW also produces country gender profiles and an occasional paper series.

Research Practice
AiW offers various education programs including a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies which aims to generate a cadre of young, dynamic, qualified researchers in the field.

Prevention Practice
AiW undertakes ground-breaking development programs, including a focus on gender-based violence prevention, in collaboration with a variety of national and international organisations to carry out advocacy, build capacity, and strengthen support programs for women in the MENA region.

Networking and shared learning
AiW facilitates networking and communication with national, regional, and international organisations and universities concerned with women’s and gender issues.

Research projects
The Centre for Global Women’s Studies was commissioned to undertake the third component of the DFID What Works to prevent violence against women and girls research program in Ghana, South Sudan and Pakistan. The Centre also undertakes research to understand the interlinkages between gender, violence and health and the implications of violence for individuals, communities and states. Research and policy reports are available through the Centre’s website.

Intersectionality
The Centre’s research projects have also included a focus on researching the sex trade, older women and women, peace and security.

Research projects
The Population Council’s research contributes to the global evidence base on the prevention of violence against women and girls, preventing harmful practices such as FGM/C and child marriage, and influences policies and programs to end violence. Multiple studies and impact evaluations are underway, many of which explore linkages with HIV; sexual and reproductive health; maternal, newborn and child health; and girls’ education, address underlying issues of empowerment and gender norms, and rigorously test innovative solutions.

Research Practice
The Council leads the Africa Regional SGBV Network—a multi-country, multi-partner SGBV response and research initiative in East and Southern Africa, including a special focus on refugee survivors in humanitarian settings. The Council was instrumental in creating the International Network to Analyse, Communicate, and Transform the Campaign Against FGM/C (INTACT), which promotes high-quality research, disseminates key findings, and strengthens links between researchers and program and policy leaders.

Resources and knowledge management
The Council produces fact sheets, research reports, peer-reviewed publications and tools to support research dissemination and utilisation.

Skills development and technical support
The Council conducts capacity-building activities to ensure researchers have the necessary orientation and skills to undertake research to the highest quality and ethical standards, and to use these research findings to advocate for change.

Research projects
Promundo carries qualitative and quantitative studies around the world. Their most known research - the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), created and coordinated by Promundo and ICRW - is a comprehensive study on men’s and women’s practices and attitudes as they relate to gender norms including intimate partner violence. As of 2019, IMAGES or IMAGES inspired studies had been carried out in more than 40 countries around the world. Promundo also undertakes research in areas of violence prevention including youth, fatherhood and caregiving, economic justice and conflict and security. Details are available in the publications and resources section of Promundo’s website.

Prevention Practice
Promundo has designed and adapted a number of evidence-based interventions to engage men and boys in violence prevention. These include:
• Prevention+ - a five-year, multi-country program that addresses the root causes of gender-based violence at individual, community, institutional, and government levels.
• Program P - a direct and targeted response to the need for concrete strategies to engage men in active fatherhood from prenatal care through delivery, childbirth, and their children’s early years as a strategy for violence prevention. As of 2018, Program P has been adapted in over 15 countries.
• The MenCare+ program - building on Program P and a collaboration between Promundo and Rutgers WPF, is a multi-component program working to engage men and women as partners in maternal, newborn, and child health; in sexual and reproductive health and rights; and in violence prevention.
• Manhood 2.0: a curriculum developed by Promundo and the University of Pittsburgh to engage young men aged 15 to 24 in reflecting on the impacts of harmful gender norms, specifically those surrounding issues such as teen pregnancy prevention, dating violence and sexual assault, and the bullying of LGBT+.

Resources and knowledge management
Articles, reports, educational, materials and videos focussed on engaging men in violence prevention are available through the website. This includes country, regional and thematic IMAGES reports. Promundo also produces the biennial report, State of the World’s Fathers.

Skills development and technical support
Promundo has developed manuals and tools to support engaging men in violence prevention including the Program P and H Manuals,
Very Young Adolescence 2.0:, a curriculum designed for girls and boys aged 11-14 to promote gender equality and sexual and reproductive health by recognizing and questioning unequal relations of power and violence and to develop the skills to challenge and prevent it; and and a guidance note, produced with UN Women, Understanding How to Engage Men in Gender-Transformative Approaches to End Violence Against Women.

Advocacy and collective action
The Program P Manual contains a step-by-step guide to create and launch a MenCare Community Campaign. Prevention+ also includes an advocacy component to influence the adoption and implementation of national-level policies and systems of evidence-based programming for violence prevention. Promundo has also leveraged major sporting events for campaigning such as the It’s Exploitation campaign launched during the 2014 World Cup to raise awareness about the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in Brazil.

Research projects
The SAMRC's Gender and Health Research Unit conducts high quality scientific research, to describe the magnitude, trends, drivers and context of different forms of gender-based violence in South Africa and globally. It seeks to build understanding of the costs of inaction on gender-based violence through describing the health impact of physical, sexual, emotional and economic intimate partner violence, rape and child abuse.

The Unit’s research describes and evaluates services and policies developed in South Africa to respond to gender-based violence in the health sector and criminal justice system and works with Government to develop solutions to problems especially in post-rape care in the health sector. It has developed global knowledge on prevention of gender-based violence through our work to develop, implement and rigorously evaluate evidence-based interventions across countries of Africa and Asia. A full list of current and previous research projects is available through SAMRC’s website.

The Unit also hosted DFID’s What Works to prevent violence against women and girls? Global programmefrom 2013-2020, with the SAMRC serving as the Secretariat of the What Works programme and aiming to ensure coordination and synergy between the components.

Research practice
From 2006 – 2019 the Unit hosted the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) and retains a close relationship with the SVRI. The Unit also builds capacity for sustainable research and intervention globally to end GBV and has a primary role in disseminating research findings to global and local stakeholders. This includes developing and evaluating prevention interventions.

The Unit works to grow research capacity in the fields of gender and health and to use research findings to transform practice. This includes developing training materials for communities and healthcare workers on GBV and building gender equity, HIV/AIDS as well as sexual and reproductive health promotion.

Intersectional analysis
SAMRC’s research particularly focuses on intersections with HIV, disability and mental health.

SDDirect has provided VAWG research, evaluations and technical advice for DFID VAWG initiatives, UN agencies and INGOs. This includes:

Research projects
• Being a member of the research consortium for DFID’s What Works to Prevent Violence against Women 5-year global research and innovation program.
• Conducting operational research as part of multi-year DFID programmes in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
• Undertaking a GBV service gap analysis and follow on qualitative study on economic violence for the World Bank in Kenya.
• Leading an independent impact evaluation of the Madhya Pradesh Safe Cities Initiative.
• Research on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and VAWG prevention for Plan UK in Uganda and Cambodia.

Resources and technical support
• Being the lead contractor for a global helpdesk service on VAWG that provides research and expert advice, reports and products to DFID and other UK Government Departments.
• Developing global implementation guidance on preventing violence against women for UN Women, based on the RESPECT framework, and on school related gender-based violence (SRGBV) for UNESCO.
• Providing a helpdesk for the Gender-based Violence Area of Responsibility, providing research and advice services for humanitarian actors working on GBV risk mitigation, prevention and response in emergencies.
• Technical support on preventing sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment through DFID’s Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub, SDDirect’s Safeguarding Diagnostic, and ongoing technical support to development finance institutions.

Intersectionality
SD Direct manages a Disability Inclusion Helpdesk for DFID. They are also leading disability inclusive GBV programme development in Malawi and Zimbabwe and undertaking research with women with disabilities in Kenya and Nigeria.

Research projects
The SVRI is committed to increasing and strengthening policy-relevant research and its uptake to improve and expand VAW prevention and response efforts. This includes strengthening the evidence base by supporting and funding innovative research on VAW in LMICs. The SVRI also refines and advances a research agenda on key gaps in knowledge and practice and works to disseminate and debate new knowledge and trends in the field and information on topical issues.

Research practice
The SVRI builds and shares knowledge, skills, tools with researchers to implement sound research & ensure their research can support advocacy efforts and influence policy and practice. This includes strengthening the capacity of researchers for undertaking ethical, methodologically-sound research, building skills in research uptake and mentoring young & emerging researchers from LMICs. The SVRI also develops and disseminates guidance documents and tools to support ethically and methodologically sound research. These are available through the SVRI website. The SVRI also hosts the SVRI listserv.

Networking and shared learning
The SVRI provides platforms for researchers, activists, policymakers, practitioners, academics, journalists and donors to share, learn and connect. This includes organising and convening the SVRI Forum to share new knowledge and skills and promote exchange between researchers, policymakers, practitioners and activists. The SVRI forum provides a safe space to discuss difficult issues, research challenges, new approaches and solutions. The SVRI also organises events to foster collaborative solutions to complex problems and gaps in the field and serves as a knowledge hub for research on VAW.

The SVRI also develops partnerships with actors whose work intersects with SVRI’s and brokers partnerships between new and existing networks and initiatives to promote sharing of information and learning. This is supported by research to analyse, learn from and improve partnering experience.

Advocacy and collective action
The SVRI works to build an understanding of the magnitude and consequences of VAW, and effective VAW prevention and response interventions through using research to influence policy and practice. The SVRI also aims to strengthen understanding among decision-makers of the value of research for policy making and programme development.

The SVRI works with donors and decision-makers to advocate for investment in VAW research and evidence-based programmes and to influence evidence-informed funding strategies. SVRI also identifies opportunities for researchers working on key issues to connect with key decision-makers and funding streams.

Research projects
The Child Protection and Rights team works on multiple forms of violence against children, harmful practices and child labour, as well as other relevant areas, such as migration and gender-responsive social protection. The team promotes evidence-based policy and programming through generating new evidence, increasing awareness and use of existing evidence, strengthening capacity for research, and strengthening research networks.

The full range of Innocenti publications, including discussion papers, briefs and reports is available through their website, but the following are recent and/or ongoing efforts of particular relevance to violence against children:

• Evidence and Gap Map (EGM) on violence against children prevention and response, produced jointly by Innocenti and Campbell Collaboration, aims to identify all existing impact evaluation and systematic reviews related to reduction of violence against children in low and middle- income countries. The EGM provides a visual and interactive display of completed and on-going studies structured around the WHO-INSPIRE framework of intervention and outcomes.

• The Disrupting Harm project, which includes a multi-country survey, was established to generate high-quality evidence on technology-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse of children and will be implemented in 14 countries thru a partnership between UNICEF, ECPAT and INTERPOL.

• Multi Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children was led by Innocenti and national partners in Peru, Zimbabwe, Vietnam and Italy and included an impact case study on ‘Changing National Policy on Violence Affecting Children in Peru.’

Resources and knowledge management
Innocenti develops a range of evidence synthesis tools, including evidence gap maps, evidence digests, systematic reviews and other research knowledge management products. This includes a gap map on adolescent’s well-being, a gap map on child welfare interventions in LMICs (including protection from violence and exploitation) and a research digest on adolescence, published quarterly. UNICEF Innocenti has a dedicated team for Research Facilitation and Knowledge Management.

Skills development and technical support
Innocenti provides face to face training, e-learning courses, podcasts and research tools for UNICEF staff and global audiences to support generation, communication and utilisation of research. Toolkits in the form of web-based packages have also been produced to enhance practitioners’ capacity in research methods, when conducting research with children.

Research projects
ICRW works with implementing and research partners to conduct innovative research that advances the evidence on VAWG including on intimate partner violence, coerced and forced sex, public harassment and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage. Key research partnerships that ICRW contributes include the Violence Against Women and Girls Resource Guide (with the World Bank Group, Inter-American Development Bank, and Global Women’s Institute at George Washington University) and the global Know Violence in Childhood initiative. ICRW is also a research partner, together with National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway and Ipsos MORI, for the third component of DFID’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Program, on the social and economic costs of violence against women.

Skills development and technical support
ICRW provides on-site or virtual training and individualised mentoring, to assist clients to improve their knowledge and skills to design evidence-based gender programming.

Advocacy
ICRW engages in evidence-based policy advocacy on issues such as child marriage and HIV stigma.

Networking and shared learning
The network connects partners who are simultaneously implementing SGBV projects, including a comprehensive model of care, support and prevention of SGBV, in order to share strategies and learning.

Resources and Knowledge Management
Lessons learned by network members are documented in order to develop best practices and implementation guidelines that will be relevant for others seeking to strengthen programmes throughout the region. Technical and meeting reports, peer-review publications, resources and learning briefs are available through the website.

Networking and shared learning
Apolitical partners with governments, foundations, universities and NGOs to identify and share policy best practice from around the world, including in relation to primary prevention.

Resources and Knowledge Management
Apolitical convenes high level policy events, webinars and online forums and shares relevant resources and information with its members via an online platform.

Advocacy and collective action
APA advocates for structural and systemic change to address the unequal power relations that perpetuate gender inequality, and violence and discrimination against women and marginalised groups. APA engages in regional and global forums and processes to raise the profile of SRHR in Asia Pacific and to influence governments in the region to prioritise SRHR issues including the right to be free from violence.

Resources and Knowledge Management
APA produces publications on SRHR in Asia Pacific, including policy briefs, reports and joint statements as well as sharing human rights based monitoring tools to track progress in the region.

Networking and shared learning
APA facilitates opportunities for members to meet and share experiences and learning. Members are also supported to engage with global and regional processes.

Intersectionality
APA has a specific focus on sexual rights and the rights of marginalised groups.

Networking and shared learning
CLADEM is a network of activists and women’s organisations taking a feminist socio-legal approach to achieving women’s human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Advocacy and collective action
CLADEM promotes women’s rights by monitoring compliance with international treaties, proposing legislative reforms, undertaking research and training, and organising group action.

Intersectional approach
CLADEM takes an inter-disciplinary and intersectional approach, recognising cultural, ethnic-racial, sexual, intergenerational and social diversity.

Networking and shared learning
FAR supports networking opportunities for members to engage with experts in women’s human rights mechanisms and leaders of feminist organisations and supports convenings for members to develop joint strategies. For the period 2018-2020, ending gender-based violence against women was identified as a strategic priority for FAR, including the risks and threats experienced by women human rights defenders.

Resources and Knowledge Management
FAR conducts research, documentation, and feminist analysis of situations adversely affecting women’s rights including sharing policy briefs, reports, and information as tools for advocacy.

Skills Development and technical support - advocacy
FAR facilitates knowledge of and access to UN human rights mechanisms, and regional mechanisms, so that women’s rights organisations and movements can more effectively hold governments accountable.

Networking and shared learning
CUSP is a temporary community of practice made up of the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP), Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE), the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, Oxfam, Raising Voices, Salamander Trust, Sonke Gender Justice, and Tostan. It aims to share evidence and practice-based learning on social norm change interventions designed to prevent violence against women and improve sexual and reproductive health and rights. CUSP reflects critically on what it takes to adapt and scale methodologies effectively and ethically.

Resources and Knowledge Management
CUSP has developed a practice brief, published a journal article on the politics and possibilities of scale-up, curated a collection of case studies and presented on their work in numerous forums. You can find these resources on the Raising Voices website.

Advocacy and collective action
CUSP influences the broader field of social norms change programming by speaking with a united advocacy voice on scale-up issues, prioritising the visions, needs and safety of communities and defining collective recommendations based on a feminist analysis.

Advocacy and collective action

1. JASS builds connections that bring diverse women and organisations together to develop shared crosscutting agendas and joint strategies for action on critical priorities including violence against women. Through regional teams of local activists in Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, and Mesoamerica, JASS trains local leaders, strengthens community organising, builds broad alliances, and helps link grassroots solutions to global advocacy.
   Skills development and technical support
   JASS equips activist leaders to organise women and build alliances through training, reflection, and learning processes - using and adapting a variety of JASS’ curricula, political tools and applying popular education methods over a long period.

Resources and Knowledge Management
JASS develops toolkits, dictionaries and training curricula to support its learning processes, including practical tools to support feminist movement building and resources to document and publicise the innovative ways women are addressing serious global issues including violence against women.

Prevention Practice
The Alliance seeks to add value to existing initiatives, by bringing to the fore the relevance of transforming masculinities resulting from patriarchal structures, and engaging men and boys in this work. The Alliance plays a pivotal role in shaping the discourse and agenda of the “men and masculinities” work within the women’s rights and gender justice field, in particular in the areas of gender-based violence prevention, advancing SRHR for all, redistributing unpaid care-work, and transforming masculinities in peace and security.

Networking and shared learning
Through country-level, regional and global networks, MenEngage seeks to provide a collective voice and joint actions on strengthening intersectional feminist approaches to engage men and boys in gender equality. The Alliance focuses on strengthening capacities through a Community of Practice approach, by creating spaces that enable exchange and mutual learning, thus strengthening the quality of the work and make connections to enable partnerships and joint programming and advocacy.

Advocacy and collective action
The Alliance carries out collective advocacy to support progressive outcomes in critical policy making processes at country, regional and global levels. It adds a ‘men and masculinities’ perspective to such processes and elevates the voices of its members and partners by connecting local realities on specific issues with global level frameworks and processes.

Resources and Knowledge Management
MenEngage Alliance facilitates the exchange of information and knowledge across the Alliance and within the broader field, through the identification, collection, packaging and dissemination of good practices and lessons learned in the field of transforming masculinities and engaging men and boys.

Accountability
MenEngage Alliance works, together with its partners, to strengthen accountable practices among its members and stakeholders to promote work with men and boys that is gender transformative and based on feminist and human rights principles.

Networking and shared learning
COFEM’s primary objective is to create a safe and supportive space for connection, discussion, problem solving, mutual support and activism to advance feminist, women-centred strategies for ending violence against women and girls.

Advocacy and collective action
Through its network, COFEM advocates for women and girl-led movements and activism to be at the forefront of efforts to end violence against women and girls. COFEM members take part in regional and global forums and events.

Resources and Knowledge Management
COFEM develops tools that can empower practitioners, researchers, activists and academics to advance feminist-informed approaches to addressing violence against women. This includes the COFEM Feminist Pocketbook, a series of short tip sheets on key topics related to addressing GBV in humanitarian and development settings. COFEM also hosted a Knowledge Summit of online learning events that are available through the COFEM website, alongside other useful resources.

Resources and knowledge management
The Prevention Collaborative hosts a highly curated knowledge platform that identifies and features resources of particular relevance and use to individuals funding, designing and implementing violence prevention programs in low-and middle-income countries.

Skills development and technical accompaniment
The Collaborative works with donors, implementing partners and women’s organisations to strengthen their ability to work effectively to prevent violence against women and their children. Our 18-month Accompaniment Program matches trained “prevention mentors” with local groups seeking to enhance their prevention efforts.

Networking and shared learning
The Collaborative builds community and facilitates learning through convening working groups, hosting webinars, and catalysing opportunities for members to share their expertise and learn from each other.

Advocacy
The Collaborative engages with regional and global processes and advocates with donors, governments and others to challenge key constraints in the prevention field and make progress towards violence prevention.

Networking and shared learning
WAVE consists of more than 150 members in 46 European countries. Members share information about violence against women and children in their respective countries, facilitating the exchange of ideas and dissemination of information throughout Europe. Members participate in collective activities, projects and an annual conference.

Advocacy
WAVE’s Step Up! Campaign is focussed on ratification and implementation of the Istanbul Convention.

Networking and shared learning
AWID works with members and movements they support to strengthen collective action in solidarity with feminist causes and defenders at risk. AWID connects members and allies and convenes and facilitates spaces to strengthen and engage across movements, to effectively influence and to co-create agendas and processes.

Advocacy and collective action
AWID aims to advance feminist agendas, including primary prevention, through work with policy makers, funders and activists in regional and global spaces. AWID campaigns for funding for women’s rights organisations and movements and aims to influence funders’ policies and practices.

Resources and Knowledge Management
AWID produces publications, tools and multimedia resources which support feminist analysis including on the state of funding for women’s rights organisations and movements. These are available through the AWID website.

Networking and shared learning
FEMNET is a membership-based feminist network with over 700 members across 46 African countries. FEMNET facilitates networking and communication among African women’s organisations to facilitate shared learning, strategies and information. Ending violence against women and girls is a priority focus area for FEMNET.

Resources and Knowledge Management
FEMNET regularly issues publications on a wide range of issues related to gender equality and women’s empowerment including a biannual African Women’s Journal, monthly E-Bulletins and multimedia resources.

Advocacy
FEMNET advocates for African women’s rights to be recognised in key policy and development frameworks and mobilises African women to
to hold governments to account on priority areas including ending harmful practices with specific reference to female genital mutilation (FGM) and the prevention of violence against women and girls.

Networking and shared learning
The VAWG Working Group bring together members working on violence against women in order to facilitate joint advocacy, research, networking and knowledge exchange and learning to influence the programming, policy and prevention practice of the UK Government.

Resources and Knowledge Management
Resources on violence against women produced by GADN and its members are available through the website.

Networking and shared learning
The Network is over 500 members strong, working in 18 different countries. It aims to foster increased solidarity between and among members through collaborative activities including meetings, events and programs such as the Sister to Sister Initiative which is a 6 month relationship-building programme between individual members. The Network also engages in cross-regional collaborations with other networks.

Resources and Knowledge Management
The GBV Prevention Network maintains an extensive library of publications from both members and non-members, relevant to addressing violence against women in the region.

Skills Development and technical support
The Network creates tools, methodologies and resources designed to support members’ rights-based analysis of violence against women. These are available through the website.

Advocacy
The GBV Prevention Network has a number of action groups to support members to engage in advocacy and share strategies on specific issue areas. The Network also engages with global and regional campaigns on violence against women.

Research Project
The JLI GBV Hub strives to increase the quality and quantity of robust, practical evidence on the role of local faith communities in GBV prevention through data collection and the testing and development of research methodology and tools that can be used to measure faith-based organisation response and impact on violence prevention in other locations in the world.

Resources and Knowledge Management
The hub website contains publications, resources, webinars and briefs together with a toolkit to support engaging religious leaders to challenge harmful and traditional practices.

Advocacy and collective action
The Network coordinates actions with other women’s networks and feminist networks at local, regional and international levels with the goal of influencing governments’ agendas and regional and international processes and forums including in relation to safe cities for women. This includes strengthening women’s leadership, demands, and dialogue with local governments.

Networking and shared learning
The Women and Habitat Network coordinates work and shares strategies and learning with women’s organisations affiliated with the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) in the English-speaking Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Resources and Knowledge Management
The Network produces and disseminates knowledge, which is rooted in a gender-based perspective, on issues including increased safety in cities, through publications, workshops, tools, and participation in international events and forums.

Networking and shared learning
SIHA Network is a network of 136 civil society organisations from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Somali-land, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Uganda. The network aims to strengthen learning within civil society organisations that address and challenge violence against women and girls in the Horn of Africa, with a focus on sexual violence and sexual exploitation and abuse in conflict and post-conflict situations, domestic violence and sexual harassment in public spaces.

Advocacy
SIHA works through, and in support of broad coalitions of grass-root members to campaign and advocate for women rights and equality. This includes engagement in regional spaces and observer status at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Resources and Knowledge Management
SIHA has been actively engaged in the production of knowledge – through research, documentation of human rights violations, production of films and radio shows, and political analysis. These resources can be accessed through SIHA’s online library, including SIHA’s annual Women in Islam journal.

Networking and shared learning
WLUML facilitates the exchange of information, expertise, strategies and experience among its networkers. This also involves documenting trends, generating new analysis, and supporting networkers’ participation in exchanges and international events. A focus on ending violence against women cuts across all of WLUML’s work.

Advocacy and collective action
WLUML responds to, circulates and initiates international alerts for action and provides concrete support for individual women. Networkers also engage in collective action including included training sessions, workshops, research for advocacy, meetings and exchanges around specialised topics.

Resources and knowledge management
WLUML collects, analyses and circulates information regarding women’s diverse experiences and strategies in Muslim contexts using a variety of media including newsletters, an occasional journal, and issue-specific publications.

Advocacy
The coalition works together to support faith groups to speak out against sexual violence and to influence legislation and policies through collective action.

Resources and Knowledge Management
A compilation of resources including stories, fact sheets and church-based resources are available through the website.

Advocacy and collective action
AMwA’s flagship program is the African Women’s Leadership Institute which aims at developing feminist leaders at personal and collective levels to effectively influence policy and decision-making including at the African Union. AMwA also supports the African Feminist Forum at the regional level, hosts the working group of the Uganda Feminist Forum; and has influenced the zero tolerance campaign on Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the Great Lakes Region.

Resources and Knowledge Management
AMwA produces policy briefs, research reports and other resources to document issues affecting African women including the prevention of violence against women. These resources are available on AMwA’s website.

Prevention Practice
Breakthrough uses music, new media and mass media campaigns to change behaviours and attitudes in the prevention of violence across India. Breakthrough also works with over 400,000 young people and community leaders to change deep-rooted cultural norms that perpetuate gender-based discrimination and violence such as through Breakthrough’s Adolescent Empowerment programme which works with adolescents and youth to lead actions against gender based violence and discrimination.

Advocacy and collective action
Breakthrough’s ‘Bell Bajo’ or ‘Ring the Bell’ on domestic violence campaign received global acclaim and reached 130 million people. Three campaigns #AskingForIt, #ShareYourStory and #StandWithMe have also focussed on the prevention of sexual violence and harassment. Campaigns have also focussed on gender-based sex selection and early marriage.

Prevention Practice
FWCC’s Male Advocates for Women’s Rights Program in Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga and PNG takes a gender transformative and women’s rights approach, addressing the root causes of VAW and seeking men’s accountability.

Skills development and technical support
FWCC’s Regional Training Program provides four-week training courses to a range of partners, including network members, CSOs, NGOs and government agencies on human rights, women’s rights, causes of gender inequality and the nature and prevalence of VAW. It fills critical information and training gaps for service providers in the Pacific. FWCC also implements a Safe Accommodation for Women program focused on technical support and mentoring in EVAW service provision for organisations in the Pacific region.

Networking and shared learning
FWCC coordinates The Pacific Women’s Network Against Violence Against Women which is a network of organisations and advocates that work together on ending violence against women strategies in the Pacific. The network meets every four years and has been in existence since 1992.

Prevention Practice
In Nicaragua, Puntos de Encuentro developed a mass communication strategy, Somos Diferentes, Somos Iguales (We are different, We are equal), to promote women’s rights including freedom from violence. Activities included a national television series (Sexto Sentido, or Sixth Sense), a radio talk show for youth and community activities such as training workshops for young people and youth leadership camps. A second series, Contracorriente (Turning the Tide), which has broadcast in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Bolivia, is the basis for several regional campaigns to prevent sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of adolescents.

Research
Puntos de Encuentro, with Centro Bartolomé de las Casas and Promundo, implemented studies into masculinities and violence in Nicaragua within the bi-national research project promoting non-violent forms of masculine identities in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Prevention practice
Raising Voices developed SASA! (2008) and SASA! Together (2020) to spark community-wide change by transforming imbalances of power. This activist approach is now being implemented and adapted by over 60 organisations in more than 25 countries. Raising Voices also developed the Good School Toolkit which helps educators and students explore what makes a healthy, vibrant, and positive school, and this tool is currently used nationwide in Uganda.

Resources and knowledge management
Raising Voices creates and publishes a variety of resources designed to strengthen the practice and discourse on the prevention of violence against women and children. Communication materials and materials to support multimedia campaigns are also available through the website.

Skills development and technical support
The Violence Prevention Learning Center at Raising Voices provides opportunities for learning and skill-building to prevent violence against women and children, including building capacity to use SASA! Together and the Good School Toolkit and apply evidence-based principles and practices to violence prevention work.

Advocacy and collective action
Raising Voices engages in national, regional, and global advocacy through coalitions and networks such as the Gender-Based Violence Prevention Network, COFEM, and CUSP in order to advocate for principles of VAW prevention, ethical social norms scale up, and to advance feminist movement building.

Prevention Practice
Sonke’s regional programs unit works across 22 countries in Africa to share the lessons Sonke has learnt from its work in South Africa, including the One Man Can model and Community Action Team approach.

Networking and shared learning
As the Secretariat of the MenEngage Africa (MEA) Alliance, Sonke coordinates training, technical assistance and peer exchange among organisations in West, Central, East and South Africa. Sonke is also the co-Chair of the MenEngage Alliance Global Board

Skills development and training
Sonke develops Africa’s next generation of advocates and leaders through the MenEngage Africa Training Initiative (MATI) which is a two-week programme that builds participants’ capacity on the intersection of women’s health, empowerment and masculinities, the UCLA- Sonke Fellowship Program and the University of Pretoria/Sonke Advanced Human Rights Course

Advocacy
Sonke engages in advocacy and campaigning in South Africa, the region and globally to advocate for progressive legislation and programming around gender equality, gender-based violence and human rights.

Intersectionality
Programmes are informed by the perspectives and priorities of those working to advance the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersexual communities, people living with HIV and AIDS, and refugees and migrants.

Research
VOICE builds humanitarian response with local women- and girl-led solutions, organizations, and movements at its heart. VOICE conducts research, advocacy, communications, mentorship, and network-building between local female leaders, influential humanitarian actors, and donors all over the globe. Recently they:
• conducted research into funding for violence against women and girls (VAWG) in humanitarian settings, in collaboration with IRC.
• Published research showing a glaring gap in VAWG prevention programmes for those with disabilities and older women in humanitarian crises, with Elhra.

Resources and knowledge management
• We know that even when donors are committed to ending VAWG, they struggle to identify and connect with organizations doing effective work. VOICE looks to address barriers that prevent direct donor funding of local women’s and girls’ rights organizations. We analyse the existing evidence base to illustrate what works to address VAWG from the perspectives of women and girls in emergency settings and support organizations to document and evaluate program methods so that critical lessons and adaptations are not lost.

Skills development and technical support
VOICE works with women and girls to develop locally-created innovations to improve disaster response. VOICE deploys a team of experts with in-depth knowledge and experience on violence against women and girls in humanitarian settings to work with local female leaders to drive action within their communities. We combine tool-development and capacity building of both aid and donor agencies and local women’s rights groups, to grow greater direct resourcing of local women’s organizations and their solutions to addressing violence.

Advocacy and collective action
VOICE works to bring attention to the issues facing women and girls in humanitarian settings and to advocate in regional and international forums for greater funding and accountability for solutions to address violence against women and girls to be driven by women and girls themselves. We use advocacy, communications and mentorship to ensure that humanitarian actors hear and listen to the voices of women and girls and recognize them as leaders. VOICE works to claim critical space for women and girls and the institutions working on their behalves

Intersectionality
VOICE takes an intersectional approach as a core principle of their work. VOICE prioritizes diversity of professional, cultural and lived experiences, bringing together established experts and emerging young professionals advancing the VAWG field.

Advocacy and collective action
The campaign is an organising strategy for individuals and organisations around the world to call for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence against women. It has a focus over 16 days from the 25th of November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) to 10th of December (International Human Rights Day). After an evaluation of the campaign in 2015, the 16 days campaign is shifting its focus from awareness raising to collective action. In 2018, the campaign focussed on advocating for the International Labor Organisation (ILO) to adopt a legally binding convention to end gender-based violence in the world of work.

Research
The safe cities campaign began with pilot studies of women's safety in cities using safety audits – an action research method, in Brazil, Liberia, Ethiopia, Nepal, and Cambodia. Research studies and reports have also been produced by ActionAid to inform the campaign.

Advocacy and collective action
ActionAid Safe Cities Programmes in all countries have demanded action from local governments to prevent violence in urban spaces.

Research and prevention practice
ALIGN provides new research and insights from practice that increase our understanding of – and what works to change – discriminatory and harmful gender norms. It focusses, in particular, on low- and middle-income countries, but also spans learning on gender norms across wider population groups and contexts.

Resources and knowledge management
ALIGN is a digital platform that collates and shares key materials (including new learning and innovative methodological and programming approaches) on gender norms and norm-change processes including on gender-based violence.

Networking and shared learning
ALIGN aims to foster collaboration on gender norms between implementers, researchers, policy makers and donors including through events, webinars and social media. The Learning Collaborative is one notable partner with a dedicated ALIGN page to support this shared learning on social norms.

Funding – research and prevention practice
ALIGN previously funded research and convening on gender norms research for small-scale action research, and research translation projects. ALIGN is currently seeking funds for a granting facility to support initiatives that advance knowledge on gender norms.

Advocacy and collective action
The worldwide Enough campaign, which is led by Oxfam International, aims to challenge the social acceptance and prevalence of GBV by addressing the social norms and belief systems that underpin and drive abuse. The campaign takes a two-pronged approach focusing on both the transformation of community norms and achieving national, regional and global policy and legislative changes.

Enough works with key change agents to influence social norm change in social, community and political spheres including musicians, artists (including graffiti artists), youtubers, teachers, government officials and private sector actors. The campaign also recognises the pivotal role of women’s rights organisations and feminist movements and seeks to collaborate, support and add value to these actors’ work.

The campaign is strongly anchored in local contexts, with tailor-made national campaigns, focused on local issues, developed with Oxfam country teams and national women’s rights organisations and feminist movement actors. Regional and global campaigning activities bolster national campaigning, including through innovative global campaigning activities utilising art, music and social media and activities to support the mobilisation of young people at the regional level. A list of campaign partners is available through the website.

Resources and knowledge management
The campaign is supported by research and policy analysis available through the campaign website. This includes research to expose regional and global patterns in social norms and belief systems driving gender-based violence and MEL projects that enable collective learning.

Resources and Knowledge Management
The GCVP provides a platform for the dissemination and uptake of evidence-based violence prevention resources developed by WHO and its partners. The campaign website contains a full list of violence prevention publications and resources.

Networking and Shared Learning
The campaign seeks to ensure a coordinated international response and for the sharing of “what works” through active networks and regular meetings.

Advocacy
Media and advocacy materials are available through the campaign website. This includes a Global plan of action to prevent interpersonal violence.

Prevention Practice
In light of increasing demand for more accurate, reliable and comparable VAW prevalence data, the kNOwVAWdata Initiative, launched in 2016. The Initiative builds on a long history of support from Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and UNFPA to countries conducting VAW prevalence studies throughout Asia and the Pacific.

A hallmark of this flagship DFAT-UNFPA Initiative is the partnership with the University of Melbourne and Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS). Under this partnership, UNFPA and the University of Melbourne have developed, and are annually conducting, a standard 4-week curriculum for capacity building to measure the prevalence of VAW and improve data literacy.

Research
Partners for Prevention coordinated the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea - Bougainville and Sri Lanka, to generate knowledge on how masculinities relate to men’s perceptions and perpetration of gender-based violence. Country-level and regional findings reports, as well as guidance on how to replicate the study, are available through the website. SVRI are now the custodians of Partners for Prevention UN Multi-country Study data.

Technical support – research
The Partners for Prevention research team provided comprehensive technical support to national and regional partners to conduct research and analysis on gender-based violence across Asia and the Pacific and to apply this research to their programming.

Prevention Practice
During the second phase of the program (2014 to 2017), there was a focus on the design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of localised VAWG prevention interventions in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Viet Nam. Results from each evaluation, lessons learned from the project, and intervention guides are available on the website.

Networking and shared learning
The program also focussed on building regional cooperation and collaborations, including supporting two sub-regional consortia of practitioners and activists - the South Asian Network to Address Masculinities (SANAM) in South Asia, and the Regional Learning Community (RLC) East & Southeast Asia.

Advocacy and collective action
Partners for Prevention also supported mass media campaigns, and long-term community mobilisation approaches to prevent violence.

Prevention Practice
Prevention+ engages young and adult men as partners and advocates, alongside young and adult women, to challenge and transform harmful gender norms and practices. Men and women participate in comprehensive gender-based violence prevention programs and trusted community leaders are recruited to support the program as role models. Prevention+ is led by a consortium of Rutgers, Sonke Gender Justice, and Promundo, and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Advocacy and collective action
Prevention+ also includes an advocacy component to influence the adoption and implementation of national-level policies and systems of evidence-based programming for violence prevention.

Skills development and training
Prevention+ trains and provides tools and guidance for government officials and staff, service providers, and civil society to integrate gender-transformative approaches in their work.

Prevention Practice
The RESPECT framework contains a set of action-oriented steps that enables policymakers and program implementers to design, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate interventions and programs using seven strategies to prevent violence against women. It is based on the 2015 UN framework for action to prevent violence against women and updated with new evidence. The framework, key messages and infographics are available on the WHO website.

Prevention Practice
The Spotlight Initiative focusses on six key pillars: promoting laws and policies to prevent violence, discrimination and address impunity; strengthening national government and regional institutions; prevention – promoting gender-equitable social norms, attitudes and behaviours; high quality essential services for survivors of violence; improving the quality, accuracy and availability of data on violence against women; and promoting strong and empowered civil society and autonomous women’s movements.

Funding – prevention practice
Launched with a seed funding commitment of €500 million from the European Union, the Spotlight Initiative aims to demonstrate the impact of a significant, concerted and comprehensive investment in gender equality and ending violence against women.

In 2020, Spotlight Initiative will launch its new web-based donation platform that will feature multiple women’s funds, as part of a global campaign to raise funds and sub-grant to grassroots, women-led organisations working to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.

Advocacy and collective action
The UNiTE campaign, managed by UN Women, calls on governments, civil society, women’s organisations, young people, the private sector, the media and the UN system to join forces in addressing violence against women and girls. The campaign uses the colour orange as a theme (‘orange your world’) and engages with the 16 days of activism as a campaign focus.

Resources and knowledge management
The global knowledge platform, which is managed by UN Women, consists of three individual websites:
• Global Database on Violence against Women which provides up-to-date information on initiatives taken by UN Member States to address all forms of violence against women;
• Inventory of United Nations activities to end violence against women; and
• Virtual knowledge centre to end violence against women and girls which includes policy and programming guidance, links to key data sources and on-line resources, and case studies and evaluation summaries.

Research projects
DFID’s 6 year £25 million What Works to Prevent Violence program, which launched in 2014, supported and evaluated primary prevention efforts across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. It was delivered by a consortium led by the South Africa Medical Research Council (SAMRC) in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Social Development Direct (SDDirect).

What Works has driven innovation and evidence in three main areas:

• Global Program: Rigorously evaluating 15 innovative approaches to prevent VAWG across 12 countries in Africa and Asia. It is also conducting research on VAWG and disability and supporting costing studies to generate evidence on the value for money of VAWG prevention programming.
• Conflict and Crises: Researching the drivers, prevalence, trends over time and effective prevention and response mechanisms for addressing VAWG in conflict and humanitarian settings (led by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in partnership with CARE International UK and the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University).
• Costs of Violence: Building the business case for action on VAWG by developing new economic research methods for measuring social and economic costs of VAWG and generating data on the impacts of VAWG on households, businesses, and economies. The research is based on empirical studies in South Sudan, Ghana and Pakistan (led by the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway in partnership with Ipsos MORI and International Center for Research on Women).

Resources and knowledge management
The What Works website includes an evidence hub containing journal articles, reports, presentations, evidence briefs, videos, curricula and infographics.

Advocacy and collective action
ARC plays a unique role in facilitating strategic planning around LGBTI issues internationally, including gender-based violence prevention, and enhancing access to UN mechanisms for human rights activists working on these issues around the world.

Resources and knowledge management
ARC develops tools, kits, and opportunities for collaboration, information exchange and joint strategising to support activists around the world in their work to advance sexual orientation and gender identity issues. ARC also maintains the Yogyakarta Principles in Action site which tracks uses of the Yogyakarta Principles, as well as other resources to support use of the Principles.

Networks and shared learning
ARC International fosters the development of strategic networks to advance human rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity and maintains a global listserv to support information exchange among activists working in this area.

Prevention Practice
CARE works with issues of GBV, including prevention. Projects include:

The DFID-funded Indashyikirwa programme which is a community-level Gender based Violence (GBV) prevention programme that is being implemented in 14 sectors across seven districts of Rwanda by CARE International and partners Rwandan Men's Resource Centre (RWAMREC) and Rwanda Women's Network (RWN). The programme consists of interventions designed to work at an individual, family and community level to shift attitudes, practices and social norms that perpetuate gender inequality and gender-based violence. Indashyikirwa was evaluated through a community randomized controlled trial and accompanying qualitative research under DFID’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls programme.

In Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, CARE is implementing a programme to prevent violence and harassment at work, with a focus on garment factories.

Research
CARE’s research examines strategies working to prevent violence and how this information can be used to improve programming. CARE has developed innovative tools including the Inner Spaces Outer Faces Initiative (ISOFI) and Social Analysis and Action toolkits. Other recent research projects include the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence, GBV Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance for Non-GBV Programs, Child Marriage, and Gender Integration. CARE is currently also conducting research on social norms in Sri Lanka and has developed a sexual harassment prevention toolkit based on research in Cambodia.

CARE International is also a partner in the third component of DFID’s What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women research programme focussed on effective prevention and response mechanisms for addressing VAWG in conflict and humanitarian settings.

Prevention Practice
In conflict and emergency settings, IMC works with local partners, staff and volunteers committed to ending violence against women and girls, to identify and mitigate specific risk factors for GBV in different environments. IMC also engages communities to promote women’s and girls’ equality and to foster positive, non-violent behaviour.

Resources and knowledge management
IMC contributes to the development of global guidance and best practices for humanitarian gender-based violence prevention. IMC is a core member of the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility under the Global Protection Cluster, serves on the Gender-Based Violence Information Management System (GBVIMS) Steering Committee and is also part of the Reference Group for the InterAgency Standing Committee’s (IASC) Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action. IMC has also worked with UNFPA and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to develop and rollout a multi-phased learning course, the Managing GBV Programmes in Emergencies (MGBViE) learning program.

Prevention Practice
In 40 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the IRC’s programs work to improve the prevention of and response to violence against women. Programs include:
• A specific focus on the prevention of and response to violence against adolescent girls in humanitarian settings including safe space programming and life skills training and mentoring by older adolescent girls.
• Engaging Men in Accountable Practice program which focuses on engaging men in examining and challenging destructive notions of masculinity, gender and power in post-conflict settings, while being guided by the voices and inputs of women and girls. An introductory Guide, training guide and implementation guide have been developed to support others to implement this one year program.
• The IRC’s EA$E (Economic and Social Empowerment) model gives women access to financial resources and provides opportunities to both women and men to create more equitable gender dynamics within their households.

Research
IRC led the Conflict and Crises component of the What Works to Prevent Violence Program which researched the drivers, prevalence, trends over time and effective prevention and response mechanisms for addressing VAWG in conflict and humanitarian settings (Other partners include CARE International UK and the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University). IRC continues to conduct mixed methods research on the drivers of VAWG and prevention and response efforts.

Advocacy and Collective Action
IRC is advocating for donors to increase funding for gender-based violence within humanitarian assistance.

Prevention Practice
Ending violence against women is a priority theme for Oxfam and Oxfam supports VAWG programming in over 40 countries. Approaches include:
• Prevention of violence against women as part of Oxfam’s humanitarian response.
• Advocacy for legislation and enforcement of laws and policies including supporting women’s rights organisations to undertake advocacy.
• Campaigns for change in social norms and behaviour condoning VAWG.
• Dedicated projects focussed on girl’s empowerment and prevention of violence against girls.

Research
Oxfam conducts research to inform its policy and advocacy work. Recent research projects include:
• Research analysing the beliefs of young people aged 15 to 25 from eight Latin American and Caribbean countries, about violence and partner relationships.
• Research into attitudes to sexual harassment of women, girls and gender non-conforming people on public transport in Sri Lanka.
• Multi-country research into gaps in implementation of laws on violence against women and girls.

Advocacy and Collective Action
Enough, led by Oxfam International, is a global campaign aiming to change widely accepted and harmful social norms that too often justify violence against women and girls.

Previously, Oxfam led the We can end all violence against women campaign in South Asia, which was replicated in several African and East Asian countries and used a model of individual change makers.

Prevention Practice
Plan’s program work includes a focus on ending violence against women and girls. This includes:
• Safer Cities for Girls, which aims to build safe, accountable, and inclusive cities with and for adolescent girls including safety and access to public spaces. This programme has been developed with partner organisations UN-Habitat and Women in Cities International and is currently being implemented in eight cities. Delhi, India; Hanoi, Vietnam; Cairo, Egypt; Kampala, Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya; Lima, Peru; San Francisco, Paraguay, and Honiara, Solomon Islands.
• Champions of Change - a global youth engagement programme which encourages boys and young men to identify and challenge harmful, negative masculinities that perpetuate discrimination and violence, whilst empowering girls to defend their rights.
• School-related gender-based violence – a focus of Plan’s Learn Without Fear campaign.

Research
Plan International also conducts research to inform its program and advocacy work. Recent projects have included:
• Research into street harassment across five major cities: Lima, Madrid, Kampala, Delhi and Sydney.
• As part of Plan’s Promoting Equality and Safety in Schools programme (PEASS), research was undertaken to assess the prevalence, nature, response and reporting of school-related gender-based violence.

Advocacy and Collective Action
Plan advocates for the prevention of violence in schools as part of the Global Partners Working Group on school-related gender-based violence.

Prevention Practice
The Asia Foundation works with institutions and communities in 18 countries to change attitudes and social norms that perpetuate gender-based violence and the exploitation of women and girls. It has pioneered initiatives to combat trafficking in over a dozen source, transit, and destination countries. Examples of violence prevention work include:
• In Cambodia, the Asia Foundation conducts training on safe migration and anti-trafficking strategies for community youth-based networks in high-risk provinces.
• In Afghanistan, the Asia Foundation has supported the training of formal and community-based justice sector workers on the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and women’s rights within Islam.
• In Timor-Leste, the Foundation supports the Nabilan (Ending Violence Against Women) Program which aims to prevent violence against women and children, including through social norm change and community mobilisation.
• In India, the Foundation engages young men and boys to transform the gender norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls. It does this by supporting local partners to empower adolescent boys to explore and enact positive masculinities and to become leaders in advocating for gender equality.
• In Nepal, the Asia Foundation designed the Shuvayatra mobile app to connect migrants with services and information in an effective, accessible, and sustainable way.

Prevention Practice
In the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu and Australia (through World Vision’s work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities), World Vision's Channels of Hope for Gender project engages with religious leaders, training them to use their influence and the religious texts they teach within communities to spread awareness about gender equality and non-violence. The project also involves working with governments, service providers and the justice sector to strengthen the support networks available for women and children who experience violence.

World Vision is also focussed on preventing and responding to violence against girls in emergency and humanitarian contexts through programs such as creating Child Friendly Spaces and strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms, including community watch groups and child protection committees.

Advocacy and Collective Action
World Vision’s advocacy in the prevention space is focussed on ending violence against children.

Funding – prevention practice
Every year, the AWDF makes grants to over 100 groups, organisations and institutions focussed on supporting both established and small local women’s rights organisations. It funds across the African continent including in North Africa, and under Leading from the South also supports organisations in six countries in the Middle East. Ending violence against women in all its form through prevention and response is an identified grant making priority within the ‘body and health rights’ thematic area. AWDF is a member of the Amplify Change consortium and manages grants to organisations working to advance sexual and reproductive rights including an end to violence against women.

Resources and knowledge management
AWDF manages AfriREP which is an open access digital library with resources on African feminism and women's rights movements in Africa. AWDF also compiles relevant news and produces publications including a primer for African Women’s Rights Organisations on preventing violence against women (2019).

Skills development and technical support
AWDF provides technical skills and trainings aimed at developing and strengthening grantees’ organisations and their work in areas including financial management, resource mobilisation and leadership and governance. AWDF also organises thematic convenings and other training.

Networking and shared learning
AWDF hosts the regional African Feminist Forum – a platform connecting independent African feminist activists from across Africa and supports activities of its sister national feminist forums. AWDF also provides space for the Young Feminist Collective, an informal network of young feminist activists in Ghana, and organises the Flourish Retreat, a healing and wellbeing retreat for frontline feminist activists including those focused on work to end violence against women.

Funding – prevention practice and movement building
FRIDA provides resources and opportunities to support young and emerging feminist organisations – consisting of small grants of flexible funding and core support to newly established groups in low and middle income countries.

Networking and shared learning
FRIDA supports learning exchanges between grantee partners, convenings for activists to connect and travel for young feminists to be heard at key decision-making spaces.

Resources and knowledge management
FRIDA has produced a resource mobilisation toolkit to act as a guide and referral to youth-led initiatives.

Skills development and technical support
FRIDA also provides grantees with access to special online platforms, an accompaniment program, webinars, and funds to invest in organisational development.

Advocacy and collective action
FRIDA is working with funders and institutions to change the way feminist causes are supported, and by making sure that young feminists have a voice in resource mobilisation decisions.

Funding – prevention practice and movement building
The Global Fund for Women has identified freedom from violence as one of three focus areas for grants and funds efforts addressing all levels of gender-based violence. The focus is on providing grantee partners with multi-year, flexible and core support funding. Movement building is also key to the Fund’s strategic grant making.

Networking and shared learning
The Global Fund for Women partners with other women’s funds in a variety of ways including seeding and supporting local women’s funds—national and regional organisations that also make local grants to women’s rights groups The Fund also supports women’s groups to connect to other local, national, or regional groups to share, learn, and organise together.

Resources and knowledge management
Based on research, evidence, and practice, the Global Fund for Women developed a Movement-Capacity Assessment Tool to help movement partners assess their strengths and challenges.

Advocacy and collective action
The Global Fund shares stories and voices through campaigns to ensure women’s and girls’ perspectives and solutions are heard and can inspire new advocates and donors.

Funding – prevention practice and movement building
Leading from the South (LFS) supports women’s rights activism and lobbying efforts by women’s organisations, movements and networks at the regional, national, and grassroots levels in low and middle income countries. It is financed in its first phase through a €40 million fund from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Violence against women is an identified priority area for grants.

Networking and shared learning
LFS aims to build partnerships across strategic regional and global alliances and convenes critical spaces for South-South learning.

Skills development and technical support
LFS also provides technical and financial resourcing to strengthen the organisational capacity of grantees.

Advocacy and collective action
LFS promotes advocacy by women’s organisations and networks in the Global South and through this supports movement action.

Funding – prevention practice and movement building
Mama cash provides grants to self-led, feminist organisations, and helps to build the partnerships and networks needed to successfully defend and advance women’s, girls’, trans and intersex people’s human rights globally. Mama Cash’s thematic portfolio, ‘body’ includes the prevention of violence against women.

Skills development and technical support
Mama Cash also provides accompaniment support to grantees including financial support to cover capacity building, organisational development, networking and fundraising opportunities.

Resources and knowledge management
Conducting research, analysis and evaluation, Mama Cash shares learning about the impact and effectiveness of funding feminist activism.

Advocacy and collective action
Mama Cash collaborates with other women’s funds to raise resources, make grants and influence the donor community to fund feminist activism.

Funding – prevention practice
The Initiative to End Violence Against Girls and Women supports grantees who are working in primary prevention with a focus on ending violence against girls and women during and after conflict, ending trafficking and sexual exploitation, economic justice and ending domestic and sexual violence in the United States. A focus on movement building and support for local and community organisations is emphasised across these priority areas.

Prevention Practice
Oak Foundation has two programmes that work on violence prevention. The Issues Affecting Women Programme primarily provides core support grants and capacity development support to women’s organisations that work to ensure women are visible, able to exercise their rights and influence and contribute to making systemic change. The Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme has two sub-programmes that work to (1) promote, advance and scale up solutions to reduce child sexual abuse; and (2) engage with and hold global institutions accountable to prevent abuse and to end impunity for child sexual abuse. The webpages of the programmes provide additional detail and the most up-to-date information regarding the respective funding strategies.

Funding – prevention practice
UAF, and its sister funds, was established to provide support to women and trans human rights defenders/activists or organisations led by women or trans activists when an unexpected situation arises that requires an immediate and time-urgent response. Applications can be made online in any language and two types of rapid response grants are available:

• Security grants for a period of up to 3 months when the safety and security of women or trans human rights defenders/activists/organisations are threatened as a result of their human rights work.
• Opportunity grants for a period of up to 6 months to respond to an unexpected opportunity for advocacy or mobilisation that may result in advancements for women and LGBTQI’s rights.

Resources and knowledge management
The UAF webpage included news updates, publications, a list of other funding sources for women’s human rights activists, a list of resources to support the security and well-being of women’s human rights activists.

Advocacy and collective action
The UAF and sister funds also engage in advocacy and alliance building actions including supporting convening spaces for activists and policy-makers together to develop strategic responses and create policy change, including the prevention of gender-based violence.

Funding – prevention practice
Wellspring priorities supporting grantees who are working to create social change and the realisation of human rights and access to economic and social justice including the prevention of violence against women. This includes a focus on the most marginalised and vulnerable communities and on efforts to hold Governments accountable to their human rights commitments. Wellspring supported the Wilton Park meeting to build a shared agenda on prevention of violence against women and girls (May 2019).

Advocacy and collective action
Wellspring aims to foster enhances advocacy efforts including on-the-ground advocacy and efforts to improve how advocacy is conducted.

Skills development and technical support
Wellspring also provides organisational development support to grantees to ensure they have effective programmatic and operational systems and practices in place to achieve their goals including facilitating connections at local, national, regional, and international levels.

Funding – prevention practice
The Womanity Award supports innovative solutions that address the root causes of violence against women and fosters partnerships between organisations around the world to adapt and scale those solutions, including funding, capacity building and mentoring.

Womanity also works in India focusing on strengthening social ventures that benefit women and girls. The Foundation leverages the power of media to challenge gender stereotypes for a more inclusive society in the MENA region, and supports Afghan girls to pursue STEM careers in Afghanistan.

Prevention Practice
UNDP, as part of its implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports national partners to develop and implement response and prevention work. For example:
• UNDP is a key partner in the European Union-United Nations Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
• UNDP was also a lead partner in the UN Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence (UNMCS) and Partners for Prevention.
• CAF-development bank of Latin America and UNDP have partnered in an initiative to support governments and partners in the eradication of violence against women in Peru, Ecuador and Argentina.

Prevention Practice
UNFPA works in 135 countries to address violence against women and girls (VAWG) including eliminating harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, child marriage and son preference that manifests in gender-biased sex selection. The Fund also collects data to accurately document incidents of violence, and helps to develop, enforce and reform national laws and policies on VAWG.

UNFPA has a strong focus on the health sector in its prevention work on GBV. The focus of the vast majority of UNFPA Country Offices and the Regional Offices are aimed at strengthening the capacity of health systems in order to ensure that GBV prevention, protection and response is integrated into sexual and reproductive health policies and programmes. UNFPA has undertaken VAWG prevention programmes engaging men and boys as well as rolled out comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes in schools.

At the global level, UNFPA is one of the core participating agencies of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative. UNFPA is undertaking prevention work under the Prevention pillar of this Initiative. UNFPA is one of the key agencies that has developed the UN Prevention Framework – RESPECT. The Fund co-chaired the Inter-Agency Violence Against Women Task Force and is a key partner in the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign. UNFPA is also a member of Stop Rape Now: UN Action to Stop Sexual Violence in Conflicts, co-chairs the Joint Programmes to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Child Marriage and implements the Global Program to Address Son Preference and Gender-biased Sex Selection.

Prevention Practice
All UNHCR operations with programming implement a variety of prevention programming, based on a context analysis. This is achieved through inclusive and targeted programming that engages men and boys and confronts inequitable gender norms of masculinity and femininity. A short global overview of UNHCR’s work on SGBV can be found at: https://www.unhcr.org/protection/women/5ce7d6784/sexual-gender-based-violence-prevention-risk-mitigation-response.html

In 2020, UNHCR will launch a SGBV Policy on Prevention, Risk Mitigation and Response to SGBV which outlines mandatory core actions on each area. This complements the 2018 updated Age, Gender and Diversity Policy which promotes the advancement of gender equality in all operations.

Prevention practice
UNICEF provides technical support to regional, and national actors, including governments, universities and non-governmental organisations in implementing multi-sectoral programming on VAWG, in coordination with other UN agencies, and with a specific focus on children/girls. For instance, UNICEF currently implements 25 country and regional programmes with other UN agencies under the Spotlight Initiative. Out of the six programme outcomes, UNICEF focuses on Outcome 3 on Prevention/Social Norms. The common approaches include community engagement, engagement with traditional and religious leaders, social norm change through education-related interventions, media advocacy and parenting.

Research projects
The Office of Research Innocenti is UNICEF’s dedicated research centre. Globally and regionally, research has been carried out on VAWG and in both emergency and development settings. Research studies include: A Familiar Face; Harmful Connections; and Making the Connection. Information on these projects is available through the UNICEF website.

Resources and knowledge management
UNICEF programming is accompanied by a robust learning agenda which seeks to capture programming dimensions such as impact, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability in order to support scale-up and replication.

Funding – prevention practice
The UN Trust Fund prioritises funding for three areas - expanding access to multisectoral services; preventing violence against women and girls; and strengthening the implementation of laws, policies and national action plans. The UN Trust Fund awards grants after an open and competitive call for proposals. The Trust Fund is committed to funding organisations that are operating at the grassroots level, and its main added value is its increased focus on small women’s rights, and women-led organisations. In addition, the Trust Fund also has two special windows for funding: the disabilities and humanitarian crises window.

Resources and knowledge management
The UN Trust Fund has created a platform for harvesting, analysing and disseminating useful lessons from the evaluations of UN Trust Fund projects that inform programming. They also form partnerships with other researchers and practitioners to contribute to the global evidence base on prevention.

Advocacy and collective action
The Trust Fund creates partnerships and mobilises support for increased and effective global resourcing to prevent and end violence against women and girls through global advocacy campaigns, resource mobilization and high-profile events. It focuses on communicating grantee narratives as a way of strengthening the case for supporting CSOs directly. Finally, the Trust Fund also has an explicit focus on collective action and movement building for EVAW/G, particularly through its collaboration with the EU Spotlight Initiative.

Technical Support and skills development
Capacity development at the Trust Fund includes in-person workshops, online training sessions and dedicated technical support (on EVAW/G project design, management, monitoring, data collection, evaluation, financial and operational management, ethics and safety, risk mitigation and communications) in order to strengthen grantee capacity to end or prevent violence against women and girls, and sustain results.

Resources and knowledge management
UN Women manages the Global Knowledge Platform to End Violence against Women, which aims to improve coordination, information-sharing and the use of evidence-based approaches among different actors in order to address violence against women more effectively.

Prevention Practice
Initiatives which are being supported by UN Women include:
• To address sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces, UN Women, in partnership with mayors, other UN agencies and civil society, implements the Safe Cities/Safe Public Spaces Initiative.
• UN Women, in partnership with UNFPA and other UN agencies, has developed and is supporting the implementation of the Essential Services Programme to improve the quality of and access to services for survivors.
• UN Women has produced numerous handbooks to bridge the norms to policy to programming gap, including, for example: Handbook Addressing Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (with ILO); Voices against Violence (with the World Association of Girl Guides Girl Scouts); Guide to Address School-Related Gender-Based Violence (with UNESCO); and the Handbook to Address Violence against Women in and through the Media (with UNESCO).
• UN Women supported Partners for Prevention, a regional UN joint programme for Asia and the Pacific, which produced evidence and programmatic evaluations.
• UN Women led the development of the UN framework to underpin action to prevent violence against women drawing together contemporary knowledge and practice in violence prevention.
• UN Women is developing a package of prevention implementation materials, including guidelines, for the RESPECT Women: Preventing Violence against Women Framework.
• UN Women plays a leading role in the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, which includes a pillar on prevention implemented in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific.
• UN Women coordinates the Pacific Partnership initiative, a major programme linking governments, CSOs and communities to prevent VAWG in the Pacific region and produce evidence regarding what works in these contexts.

Research
WHO contributes to research and evidence-building to highlight the magnitude of violence against women, its risk factors and consequences, and to identify effective interventions for prevention through initiatives such as:
• Developing ethical and safety recommendations for intervention research on VAW.
• Updating and implementing the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence against women.
• Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence.
• WHO was a founding member of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI).

Skills development and technical support
WHO works to strengthen country capacity of health systems to respond to violence against women such as through:
• Building capacity of research institutions on research on violence against women such as by providing guidelines on methods, and on ethical and safety aspects of conducting research.
• Evidence-based guidelines and tools on the health response to violence against women in humanitarian and conflict settings.
• Strengthening methodologies and measurement and building national capacities for violence against women data (a joint WHO and UN Women program).

Advocacy and prevention practice
WHO has developed the RESPECT Initiative, which is a framework for engaging policymakers in the prevention of violence against women. WHO has also been active in advocacy in relation to indicators to monitor the SDG target on elimination of violence against women and girls and is a member of UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Funding – research and prevention practice
The Bank reports over $300 million in development projects aimed at addressing GBV in World Bank Group (WBG)-financed operations, both through standalone projects and through the integration of GBV components in sector-specific projects. The World Bank also supports funding mechanisms such as the SVRI and World Bank Development Marketplace Awards for Innovation.

Resources and knowledge management
In partnership, the World Bank has compiled a comprehensive review of the global evidence for effective interventions to prevent or reduce violence against women and girls as well as sector-specific resources in a VAWG Resource Guide. The World Bank also conducts rigorous impact evaluations through the regional Gender Innovation labs, as well as the Development Marketplace. The World Bank also compiled data and information on GBV in South Asia in a report Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia.

Networking and shared learning
The World Bank regularly convenes a wide range of development stakeholders to share knowledge and build evidence on what works to address violence against women and girls. For example, the World Bank’s Global Platform on Addressing GBV in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings facilitated knowledge sharing through workshops and learning tours.