Community Based Prevention of Violence against Women and their Children
Publisher: Our Watch
Date Published: 2016
Languages: English
The toolkit is a comprehensive guide for practitioners and community organizations aiming to prevent violence against women. It details a primary prevention approach, offering a community development perspective with tools for planning, implementing, and evaluating prevention activities.
Main Contribution
The toolkit focuses on a primary prevention approach, aiming to change attitudes, behaviors, and practices to prevent violence against women. It provides a community development approach, building the capacity of the community to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention activities under the themes of respectful relationships, gender equality, and the promotion of non-violent norms.
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The toolkit is designed for practitioners and community organizations wishing to engage the community in a participatory, partnership approach to prevent violence against women and their children. It encourages collaboration with other organizations as part of an integrated family violence network.
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The toolkit is designed to be flexible, recognizing that different communities need different approaches. It encourages a co-designed and community-driven process tailored to specific audiences and contexts. The toolkit provides steps for prevention work, outlines a program cycle, and emphasizes ongoing evaluation for sustainable outcomes.
GBV Prevention
The toolkit emphasizes a primary prevention approach to stop violence from occurring in the first place. It addresses themes such as respectful relationships, gender equality, and the promotion of non-violent norms to prevent violence against women.
Creating Normative Change
The toolkit contributes to normative change by promoting respectful relationships, gender equality, and non-violent norms. It emphasizes engaging the community at the outset, using their expertise, and responding to evidence on the drivers of violence against women.
How it could be adapted to the communities
The toolkit acknowledges the need for adaptability, recognizing that different groups have different starting points. It provides ready-made examples and tools that can be adapted to suit a range of situations, audiences, and contexts. The toolkit is sensitive to the unique contexts and experiences shaped by various factors such as ethnicity, faith, and socioeconomic circumstances.
Keywords
Prevention of violence against women, Primary prevention, Community development, Participatory approach, Gender equality, Respectful relationships, Non-violent norms, Community engagement, Program evaluation, Adaptability, Normative change.
