❓Can policy reform help reduce intimate partner violence?
In this @thesvri.bsky.social podcast, @lizdarts.bsky.social, Dr. Rachael Pierotti, and Dr. Tara Cookson discuss how policy reform can shape safer, more equitable societies.
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✨ Underutilised strategies—promising approaches that are not yet used widely—can scale and deepen the impact of traditional violence prevention programmes.
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💡 Harmful alcohol use and poor mental health are key risk factors for IPV. Integrating strategies that address these factors in prevention programmes can deepen their impact.
📖 Read insights from experts in this report: https://cutt.ly/Pttpy9Af
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💡 At Prevention Collaborative, we strengthen the prevention field so practitioners can innovate & implement a wider array of effective strategies.
🔎 Discover promising yet overlooked strategies that increase reach, expand scale, & deepen impact: https://cutt.ly/BtwCSwhT
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As we mark the start of the #16Days, it’s vital to recognise the promise of policy change in helping prevent violence at scale.
Discover how we’re strengthening the evidence base on the most promising policy and legal reforms for violence prevention 👇
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❓ What can communities do about harmful alcohol use?
In South Africa, Sonke Gender Justice guides communities to:
✅ Learn about liquor laws and how to use them
✅ Form committees to tackle liquor-related issues
📖Learn how: https://cutt.ly/DtrkDpLo
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🚨Harmful alcohol use is a common risk factor for IPV and VAC globally, yet violence prevention efforts rarely address it.
💻In this webinar, practitioners share ways to integrate alcohol reduction strategies in prevention programmes.
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🧘 How can mind-body practice support collective healing for GBV survivors?
📉 Move with HaRT shows promising results, with reduced PTSD, anxiety, and depression among survivors in Uganda & the Philippines.
Read the programme summary: https://cutt.ly/StrrFzq5
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💪Mental health interventions show striking potential to strengthen violence prevention.
🎙️In this episode of Prevention Collaborative Conversations, Lori Heise & Erin Stern unpack poor mental health as both a risk factor & outcome of VAWG.
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🌍 At Prevention Collaborative, we are working to reimagine violence prevention programming, with a focus on promising but underutilised strategies that can expand reach, operate at scale, and deepen impact.
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📜 Can reforming unequal inheritance rights reduce overall levels of violence against women (VAW)?
⚖️ In India, states that gave women equal inheritance rights saw a 36% drop in reported VAW over 28 years.
🔍 Explore the evidence: https://cutt.ly/CtwCvGZw
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💡Research in Jordan shows that combining #CashTransfer with psychosocial support and gender discussion groups can improve and sustain resilience to gender-based violence.
📚 Read the full lessons learned and recommendations from IRC: https://cutt.ly/PtwXMKdr
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❓Can social protection programmes like #CashTransfers reduce VAW at scale?
✨ Amber Peterman shares the latest evidence, promising models, and key recommendations to design and deliver violence-sensitive social protection programmes.
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⚡#Edutainment is a promising yet underused strategy to prevent violence at scale.
🤖 ChattyCuz, a gamified chatbot in South Africa,helps young women navigate relationships—improving gender equitable attitudes & reducing IPV.
📉 Read the evaluation: https://cutt.ly/8twZ02ba
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🎬 How can mass entertainment help prevent VAW & VAC?
#Edutainment is a promising yet underutilised strategy that can scale prevention, reaching more people at a relatively low cost.
🎥 Watch insights from innovative edutainment programmes: https://cutt.ly/PtwT0ngh
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✨ Violence against women and children can be prevented within years, not generations with underutilised strategies.
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📝 Thank you to everyone who joined our Senior Associate @erinstern.bsky.social at#GMHSummit2025 this week!
💬 Let’s keep the conversation on the critical links between mental health, intimate partner violence, and child maltreatment going!
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🎟️ In Cape Town for #GMHSummit2025?
Don’t forget to connect with Senior Associate @erinstern.bsky.social. She will share a poster presentation on pathways between intimate partner violence and poor mental health.
📅 12 Nov 13:45-14:50
📍 Posters Area 2
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🎟️Attending #GMHSummit2025?
Don’t miss a chance to connect with our Senior Associate @erinstern.bsky.social. She will share evidence on how improving parental mental health can help prevent violence.
📅 11 Nov 15:00-16:00
📍 Breakout #2 Second Floor
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🤔 Why consider underutilised strategies to prevent violence?
📚 Because they are backed by evidence and real-world lessons from the field.
🖱️Take a deep dive: https://cutt.ly/qr48xdYG
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🚨 Harmful alcohol use can trigger IPV & child maltreatment, yet it’s often overlooked in prevention.
✨ Reducing harmful use through counselling, treatment, community action, and policy change has the potential to prevent violence.
Discover how ➡️ https://cutt.ly/xr48xZXr
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🧠 Poor mental health is both a driver and a consequence of violence.
⚡ #MentalHealth interventions can reduce the risk and effects of violence and offer vast potential to strengthen existing violence prevention programmes.
💡 Find out more: https://cutt.ly/xr48WupF
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📜 #PolicyChange is a crucial yet underutilised strategy to expand the reach and scale of violence prevention.
⚖️ Policy action like equalising inheritance rights promote gender equality and reduce the risk of violence at scale.
💡 Discover more: https://cutt.ly/rr48b9Nx
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💸 Investing in underutilised strategies such as #CashTransfers can help prevent intimate partner violence at scale by improving household economic security, empowering women, and reducing stressors which fuel violence against women and children: https://cutt.ly/pr48OgzN
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📺 While traditional violence prevention methods are effective, underutilised strategies like #edutainment can reach larger audiences to shift norms and behaviours at a relatively low cost.
Explore more: https://cutt.ly/Rr48I49W
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✨ Underutilised strategies complement traditional violence prevention methods to reach more people & deepen impact.
👉🏾 Learn more about underutilised strategies in our updated Knowledge Hub: https://cutt.ly/qr48xdYG
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❓ Why explore underutilised strategies to prevent violence? Because traditional prevention methods alone don’t match the scale and persistence of the problem.
👉🏾 Learn more at Prevention Collaborative’s updated Knowledge Hub: https://cutt.ly/qr48xdYG
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✨ Violence against women and children can be prevented within years, not generations.
Underutilised strategies can help scale up and deepen this change.
👉🏾 Visit our new webpage on underutilised strategies for more: https://cutt.ly/qr48xdYG
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