Love shouldn’t hurt – E le sauā le alofa : co-designing a theory of change for preventing violence against women in Samoa Jenevieve Mannell, Pepe Tevaga, Sina Heinrich, Sam Fruean, Siliniu Lina Chang, Hattie Lowe, Laura J. Brown, Caroline Vaczy, Helen Tanielu, Esther Cowley-Malcolm and Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni
By: Mannell, Jenevieve.
Contributor(s): Tevaga, Pepe Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni | Heinrich, Sina | Fruean, Sam | Chang, Siliniu Lina | Lowe, Hattie | Brown, Laura | Vaczy, Caroline | Tanielu, Helen | Cowley-Malcolm, Esther | Suaalii-Sauni, Tanasailau.
Material type: ArticleSeries: Global Public Health.Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2023Subject(s): DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | COMMUNITY ACTION | EVE Project: Evidence for Violence prevention in the Extreme | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | PACIFIC PEOPLES | PREVENTION | RESEARCH METHODS | SAMOAN PEOPLE | VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | INTERNATIONAL | SAMOAOnline resources: DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2023.2201632 (Open access) | About the EVE Project In: Global Public Health, 2023, 18(1)Summary: Despite the widespread adoption of Theories of Change (ToC) for programme evaluation, the process of collaboratively developing these theories is rarely outlined or critical analysed, limiting broader methodological discussions on co-production. We developed a ToC as part of E le Sauā le Alofa (‘Love Shouldn’t Hurt’) – a participatory peer-research study to prevent violence against women (VAW) in Samoa. The ToC was developed in four phases: (1) semi-structured interviews with village representatives (n = 20); (2) peer-led semi-structured interviews with community members (n = 60), (3) community conversations with 10 villages (n = 217) to discuss causal mechanisms for preventing VAW, and (4) finalising the ToC pathways. Several challenges were identified, including conflicting understandings of VAW as a problem; the linearity of the ToC framework in contrast to intersecting realities of people’s lived experiences; the importance of emotional engagements, and theory development as a contradictory and incomplete process. The process also raised opportunities including a deeper exploration of local meaning-making, iterative engagement with local mechanisms of violence prevention, and clear evidence of ownership by communities in developing a uniquely Samoan intervention to prevent VAW. This study highlights a clear need for ToCs to be complemented by indigenous frameworks and methodologies in post-colonial settings such as Samoa. (Authors' abstract). Record #8145Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Global Public Health, 2023, 18(1)
Despite the widespread adoption of Theories of Change (ToC) for programme evaluation, the process of collaboratively developing these theories is rarely outlined or critical analysed, limiting broader methodological discussions on co-production. We developed a ToC as part of E le Sauā le Alofa (‘Love Shouldn’t Hurt’) – a participatory peer-research study to prevent violence against women (VAW) in Samoa. The ToC was developed in four phases: (1) semi-structured interviews with village representatives (n = 20); (2) peer-led semi-structured interviews with community members (n = 60), (3) community conversations with 10 villages (n = 217) to discuss causal mechanisms for preventing VAW, and (4) finalising the ToC pathways. Several challenges were identified, including conflicting understandings of VAW as a problem; the linearity of the ToC framework in contrast to intersecting realities of people’s lived experiences; the importance of emotional engagements, and theory development as a contradictory and incomplete process. The process also raised opportunities including a deeper exploration of local meaning-making, iterative engagement with local mechanisms of violence prevention, and clear evidence of ownership by communities in developing a uniquely Samoan intervention to prevent VAW. This study highlights a clear need for ToCs to be complemented by indigenous frameworks and methodologies in post-colonial settings such as Samoa. (Authors' abstract). Record #8145