"What Works To Prevent Violence is a global programme administered by a consortium led by the Medical Research Council of South Africa, in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Social Development Direct, on behalf of DFID. Its aim is to build knowledge on what works to prevent violence against women and girls. There are many forms of violence against women and girls, but the programme focuses on intimate partner violence (emotional, economic, physical, sexual), non-partner sexual violence, and child abuse (emotional, physical, sexual). The focus of the consortium is on identifying effective strategies for prevention – that is, preventing violence from ever occurring by addressing the root causes or established risk factors for violence. Such interventions may entail interventions with women and girls and/or men or boys, and include men or boys who have already perpetrated violence if their goal is to stop further perpetration, or perpetration of another type of VAWG. Similarly it may include interventions with women or girls who have experienced violence if they have a goal to prevent further violence of the same or a different type." (from the introduction)