New international resources: ending violence against children and enhancing resilience

The World Health Organization, as part of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, has developed a guide outlining seven strategies to end violence against children. The document, INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children, outlines strategies that evidence has shown are effective in reducing violence. The seven strategies include:

• implementation and enforcement of laws
• norms and values
• safe environments
• parent and caregiver support
• income and economic strengthening
• response and support services
• education and life skills

The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children also launched a new fund  to provide financial support in the following three priority areas:

• Preventing online violence, with a particular focus on sexual exploitation
• Addressing violence in everyday lives of children, with an initial focus on investments in path finding countries to implement evidence-based programming
• Addressing the prevention of violence against children facing conflict and crisis

The fund is accepting applications for the first call for proposals focused on the first priority area - online child sexual exploitation. Deadline for applications is 28 August 2016.

New VAWnet special collection: Fostering Resilience, Respect & Healthy Growth in Childhood and Beyond

The US National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women (VAWnet) also recently published a new online special collection: Fostering Resilience, Respect & Healthy Growth in Childhood and Beyond.

The Special Collection offers resources that promote strategies for creating environments where children can thrive, with a particular focus on enhancing resilience across the lifespan. The collection emphasises primary prevention strategies that foster healthy attitudes and behaviors, but also includes material on understanding of trauma in the context of child development and post-traumatic growth as a positive framework. 

The resources are organised by audience for: young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and school-based professionals, helping professionals, gender-based violence intervention and prevention advocates, and communities and organisations.

The collection was developed by the Adult Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (ACE-DV) Leadership Forum, a project of the US National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.

Related resources

The following are key, recent resources from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

Preventing child abuse and neglect: A technical package for policy, norm and programmatic activities (2016)
This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect.  

THRIVES: A Global Technical Package to Prevent Violence Against Children (2015)
This publication contains guidance to countries on the best available violence prevention evidence to reduce violence against children.

Essentials for childhood: Steps to create safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments (2014)
The Essentials for Childhood Framework proposes strategies communities can consider to promote relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive citizens so that they, in turn, can build stronger and safer families and communities for their children.