3. Violence is a complex issue
1. Violence is complex & political
2. Causes and solutions to violence unfold
across levels of society
3. A spectrum of work - from primary
prevention, protection, service provision
and policy – is required
4. Evidence-based interventions need to be
coordinated across this spectrum
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4. Prevention Programming
• Emerging evidence of promising prevention models*
• Grounded on evidence and theory
• Targeting all levels
• Long term approach
*Models (school-based interventions, sports for development
and prevention, community mobilisation, community
empowerment, parenting & childhood, communication &
campaign, etc.)
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5. Capacity Development for Prevention
To see results, prevention interventions must:
Be of high quality;
Be well coordinated across all sectors;
Sustain and continue.
Strong capacity is needed to ensure quality,
coordination, and continuity of prevention
interventions
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6. Capacity Development for Prevention
… Enhance capacity to understand violence & its
prevention, and to design, implement, monitor, and
evaluate effective interventions
Human resources capacity (knowledge and skills)
Institutional capacity (systems and structures)
Networks & partnerships (cross-sectoral coordination)
(WHO, Capacity building for preventing injuries and violence: Strategic plan 2009-
2013)
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7. How Can P4P Support?
Provide technical assistance to:
Refine intervention strategies and approaches based
on evidence of promising models
Design, implement, monitor, and evaluate prevention
interventions
Design and conduct trainings on violence and its
prevention
Link regional and global expertise
8. How Can P4P Support?
Support knowledge and skills generations through:
Regional Learning Community for Transforming
Masculinities to Promote Gender Justice for East
and Southeast Asia (RLC)
Linking RLC national process to Good Men
Campaign
www.regionallearningcommunity.ning.com
9. Regional Learning Community
Grouping of activists & practitioners in the region (more
than 10 countries)
Foster a regional community of social justice
Collectively generate knowledge and skills for transforming
masculinities and gender power relations through:
Curriculum development
Series of learning events and trainings
Networking
Partnership
10. Structure
•Human rights, social/gender justice & all forms of
Part 1
Part 1
injustice, oppression, inequality and hierarchy
WHY?
WHY?
•Patriarchy (intersectionality), power, gender,
Part 2
Part 2
masculinities (basis)
WHAT?
WHAT?
•Masculinities and: Sexualities, Violence, etc. (more
and Sexualities, Violence, etc. (more
Part 2
Part 2
specific & in-depth)
WHAT?
WHAT?
•Pathways to transformation (spaces of resistance,
Part 3
Part 3
personal transformation, social change)
HOW?
HOW?
11. RLC’s Cambodia Team
Core group formed (GADC, Banteay Srei, PHD, CWCC,
Pannasastra University & Diakonia) & looking to expand
partnerships (Good Men campaign)
National adaptation process being initiated – link to Good
Men Campaign
Aiming to enhance analytical understanding of gender
justice, and critical skills for transformative activism through:
National curriculum development
Training and collective learning process
Networking and movement building
Regional engagements
It is great to hear that capacity development is a key component for this social mobilization initiative in Cambodia. This is because capacity is a key to assure quality of interventions.
As we all here know, violence is a complex issue. There are many factors contributing to the perpetration and victimization of violence. It’s not a private issue, it involves all levels of the society, from individual, family, community, and society. As it’s a complex issue, it needs complex solutions. There is a spectrum of work, from primary prevention, protection, service provision, and policy. Interventions at all levels have to be grounded strongly upon good understanding, knowledge, and evidence of what can work and cannot work.
In the field of prevention, there is emerging evidence of promising prevention models – what works to prevent violence before it starts. There are various types of prevention interventions such as working with young people at school or out of school settings, working with young people through sports, arts, or music, community mobilisation through community communication and activities, working with parents (especially fathers) on parenting and childhood development, campaigns, etc. It’s very important that prevention interventions must be based on evidence (understanding factors contributing to violence, and critical elements driving change).Data:Prevalence, causes, risk and protective factors and consequences Evidence:What solutions work? What interventions are promising or effective in Asia? Theories of change: What, Why and How?What is the interventions trying to change, and why? How do we know that change will help end violence and improve the lives of women and men? A goal of more evidence is to identify effective program strategies or best practices that may have universal application
As we know, prevention of VAW means changing norms, beliefs, behaviours, practices, and systems. It takes a long time to see results, change. Therefore prevention interventions must be proper and of good quality. If interventions are superficial, fast, and short-sighted, we cannot expect change. We may be able to raise some awareness, but we will not change perceptions, attitudes, and practices. Interventions should be coordinated with other development interventions across different sectors. Additions, interventions must be long-sighted using approach that ensure long-term change. To ensure quality of our programmes/interventions/activities, good coordination, and continuity, capacity development is a key component.
Capacity building is one of the main challenges facing the violence prevention field, giving that the field is relatively new, and there are still “learning by doing”. Despite increased awareness, recognition and political commitment to violence prevention and response, capacity building has for so long been needed to realise commitments and effectively implement interventions. A comprehensive and sustained approach to capacity building is necessary and important. Capacity building for this field means the capacity and ability to understand violence (risk and protective factors contributing to perpetration and victimization of violence, not only simply gender inequality); How violence is created and affected by all levels of the society. It means also the capacity to understand its prevention – what can prevent violence before it happens, what do we know that will change, what can we influence, and how we can do it. We need capacity to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate effective interventions/programmes.This means – capacity of our human capital (ourselves, our staff, and our partners) in terms of knowledge and skills. Another is institutional capacity in terms of systems, structures, and resources our institutions have in place to create results. Importantly, it’s the capacity to strengthen networks and partnerships to prevent violence in a coordinated integrated manner.
