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Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

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About ANROWS

ANROWS was established by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments of Australia to produce, disseminate and assist in applying evidence for policy and practice addressing violence against women and their children.

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To support the take-up of evidence, ANROWS offers a range of resources developed from research to support practitioners and policy-makers in delivering evidence-based interventions.


Evaluating interventions related to violence against women

 

This resource has been updated. Please see the updated Evaluation Quick Guides here.

 

A guide and key steps to evaluating interventions related to violence against women, aimed to improve services, secure funding and acknowledge the quality of practitioners’ work and that of their clients.

A guide to evaluating interventions related to violence against women

Evaluation is a standard requirement for most community- based services, programs and projects. Ideally, they are done by evaluators, but often they are done by those delivering the services, who may have little evaluation knowledge and skills.

This guide, Evaluating interventions related to violence against women, can be seen as a companion to other evaluation guides. It is a resource for community and health workers, clinicians, as well as educators, activists, policy-makers, academics and others. It is designed to help them evaluate interventions related to violence against women (VAW), so they can use the findings to improve services, secure funding and acknowledge the quality of work delivered by practitioners.

This guide also provides information to assist non-professional evaluators with commissioning or assessing evaluation processes and outputs. It explains the importance of understanding the context of evaluation, and determining an organisation’s level of “evaluation-readiness”.

Finally, it seeks to help evaluators with no VAW-specific experience to consider key issues and challenges in evaluating interventions that address issues of domestic and family violence (DFV) and/or sexual assault (SXA). It provides some ideas to help evaluators plan and design evaluations that are ethically robust, culturally sensitive and gender-responsive.

Key steps in evaluating interventions related to violence against women

This is a quick reference resource for community and health workers, clinicians, educators, activists, policy-makers, academics and others. It is designed to help them evaluate interventions related to violence against women (VAW) so that they can use the findings to improve services, secure funding, and acknowledge the quality of work delivered by practitioners.

This publication provides a summary of the eight key steps over three stages presented in A guide to evaluating interventions related to violence against women (McEwen, 2018).

For best use, print this document ‘double sided’.

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