Papers published on 'what works' to prevent violence against women and girls

A series of papers summarising the evidence on 'what works' to prevent violence have been published in full.

'What Works To Prevent Violence' is a global programme which aims to build knowledge on what works to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG). To inform the priorities for innovation grants and research under the What Works programme, the Consortium undertook a review of the evidence on VAWG and interventions to prevent it. These reviews are presented in four rapid evidence review papers:

• State of the field of violence against women and girls: What do we know and what are the knowledge gaps?
• Interventions to prevent violence against women and girls
• Effectiveness of response mechanisms to prevent violence against women and girls
• Approaches to assess value for money and scale up of violence against women and girls prevention.

An additional paper presents an overall summary of the findings of these four evidence reviews, and based upon these findings presents an overarching research and innovation agenda for the 'What Works' programme.

Summary versions of the papers have prevously been released.

The full and summary papers can be accessed through the Clearinghouse library.