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This guide contains five steps for funders, evaluators and partners working in the field of the primary prevention of violence against women, to build capacity for evaluation, learning and improvement. The steps are based on the extensive experience of the Victorian Heath Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) and its Mental Wellbeing program, specifically its preventing violence against women stream from 2008 to 2015. The guide is a companion piece to an earlier paper, written by the same author, that provides the theoretical and practice-based rationale for participatory and learning-oriented evaluations in primary prevention, ‘Evaluating preventing violence against women initiatives: A participatory and learning-oriented approach for primary prevention in Victoria’. The earlier paper was part of a two-part series published by VicHealth in 2013, ‘Trends in evaluation: Preventing violence against women’.

The purpose of this guide is to demonstrate to others how they, too, can build capacity for evaluation, learning and improvement in the field of primary prevention, in the same manner in which VicHealth’s Mental Wellbeing program, its evaluators and its partners have done over several consecutive years. Available to stakeholders in the preventing violence against women field, this guide is part of VicHealth’s commitment to knowledge dissemination and integration. (Author's abstract).

Access the website for Preventing Violence Against Women (PVAW): Trends in evaluation. Record #5356