This summary presents the evidence on the effectiveness of response mechanisms for violence against women and girls in preventing the occurrence of violence. It is based on a rapid review of the existing evidence through a review of reviews and online searches of academic databases and individual programme evaluations. The full piece can be found here.

In 2019, partners in the Philippines* piloted a "Living Lab" – a multi-stakeholder, co-research and co-design process – to develop child-centred indicators for violence prevention in the City of Valenzuela.

In this document, members of the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change share the resources they have identified as most useful to their work addressing social norms to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health. These include reports, manuals, peer review publications and books on social norms theory, measurement and practice.

In the past decades, donors and development actors have been increasingly mindful of the evidence to support long-term, dynamic social norms change. This paper draws lessons and implications on scaling social norms change initiatives for gender equality to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) and improve sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), from the Community for Understanding Scale Up (CUSP). 

Beginning in August 2012, the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, Pathfinder International and Save the Children pilot-tested GREAT for 22 months in northern Uganda in partnership with the Concerned Parents Association and Straight Talk Foundation. Since then, more than 260 community groups and school-based clubs used the GREAT toolkit, and activities reached over 100,000 people.

This series of thematic briefs, which were developed by UNGEI and partners, aims to summarize the latest learning and evidence synthesized from two regional workshops on how best to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence held in West and Central Africa and East and Southern Africa.

A global product of the Knowledge Network

The End Violence Knowledge Network has published a Methods Menu to untangle the variety of options available for measuring baseline data on violence against children across the world. 

Violence against children can happen almost anywhere. But, though school can be a site of abuse, it can also be an ideal place to tackle the causes of violence in a lasting way.

This piece, which was published by Apolitical, is a collection of effective interventions to prevent violence against children and women across the world.