Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls

We believe preventing violence against women and girls is possible.

Since we opened our doors in 2012, we have been documenting how often women and girls experience violence (prevalence) and how it can be prevented.

See what our evidence tells us about how to prevent violence against women and girls around the world.
Read about our leading role in the UK’s flagship program to prevent violence against women and girls, What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls, and its successor, What Works to Prevent Violence — Impact at Scale.
Learn about successful violence prevention programming in conflict settings through our work in Haiti.

Prevention of violence against women and girls: What does the evidence say? A systematic review of the evidence on successful prevention programming, in the first-ever special series of The Lancet dedicated to violence against women and girls

Long-term Change in the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence: A 20-year Follow-up Study: An article documenting the evidence supporting two strategies for successfully preventing violence against women and girls: involving women’s movements and implementing a multi-sectoral approach to violence prevention in Nicaragua

Candies in Hell: An article documenting the prevalence of intimate partner violence in Nicaragua

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