Listen to global experts at a high level event celebrating the end of UKAID’s DFID's ground-breaking What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Global Programme - Tuesday 3rd March 2020

ILAS AuditoriumGalway National University of Ireland, Galway March 11 March 7 -9pm9pm SDG2030 Agenda has established an explicit target to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in public and private spheres. With just a decade left to achieve this goal, considerable work must still be done.This event, held during the week of International Women’s Day, will present…

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is preventable. Over the last two decades, VAWG prevention practitioners and researchers have been developing and testing interventions to stop violence from occurring, in addition to mitigating its consequences. This rigorous, in-depth review of the state of the field presents what is now known five years on after the UKAID-funded, What Works to Prevent…

Join us for a high-level event to mark International Women’s Day and celebrate the end of DFID’s ground-breaking What Works to Prevent Violence ProgrammeDiscover what have we have learned from six years of research across 12 countries on what works to prevent violence and debate how we can use this evidence to galvanise a more eective, scaled-up global response Speakers…

UN Women’s Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls was launched in 2010 to encourage and support evidence-based programming to more efficiently and effectively design, implement, monitor, and evaluate initiatives to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls. Under Component 2 of the What Works programme, the Global Women’s Institute (GWI) has developed guidance on…

Don’t miss the penultimate newsletter from What Works. After six years of rigorous implementation and evaluation, the global What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls programme is drawing to a close.The programme has produced a wealth of resources (peer reviewed publications, reports and briefs) which can be found online here. We will be publishing one more newsletter in March 2020 to…

Rose Wilcher, co-chair of the Interagency Gender Working Group’s Gender-Based Violence Task Force, recently spoke with Rachel Jewkes, Consortium Director of the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Global Programme. What Works, a program funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) from December 2013 through March 2020, worked in 13 countries across Africa and…

Our programme has been investing in primary prevention efforts across Africa and Asia for the last six years, efforts that seek to understand and address the underlying causes of violence, effective interventions to prevent it and evidence on the costs of VAWG. One in three women globally experience violence at the hands of a man and in some of the…

By Bukola Adebayo, CNN (CNN)A man convicted of the rape and murder of South African student at a post office has been handed three life sentences in a case that has come to symbolize the casual violence women in South Africa face.In August this year, Luyanda Botha, raped and murdered 19-year-old student Uyinene Mrwetyana when she went to pick up…

Elsabé Brits - Daily Maverick:  Results from a programme run in urban informal settlements in eThekwini look promising.First published by GroundUp Physical and sexual violence against women can be reduced, but it takes intensive work, research recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Adolescent Health has suggested. An intervention that shows promise was undertaken in urban informal settlements in…