Preventing violence against women in high-prevalence settings: The EVE Project

EVE项目（预防极端暴力的证据）的目的是为如何在世界上最普遍的环境中预防暴力侵害妇女和女童行为建立证据基础。这包括在过去一年中有25%以上的妇女遭受过身体和/或性暴力的国家或地区。EVE项目采取非殖民化的方法，通过加强当地土著社区的能力，形成他们自己对暴力侵害妇女和女童行为及其预防的理解，来确立这一研究证据。除了比较各国对妇女和女童的暴力的驱动因素和保护因素的国际工作包外，我们还与秘鲁和萨摩亚的社区合作，共同制定干预措施，以当地解决冲突和社会变革的办法为基础。这促成了若干短期影响，包括：在主要期刊上发表了一系列关于对妇女和女童暴力高发环境的合作研究论文，来自16个不同国际组织的33名共同作者参与了这些论文的撰写（BMJ全球健康，社会科学和医学，BMC公共卫生）;一个国家的殖民历史和目前对妇女和女童的暴力流行之间的实证关联（Brown等人，2022年）;一个由50名社区代表组成的网络，他们接受了对妇女和女童的暴力数据收集和分析培训;以及一项试点研究，研究了一种新的方法，即与社区合作共同制定对妇女和女童的暴力干预措施，称为社区主导的干预发展（PCID）（Mannell等人，2021年）。作为此次延期的一部分，我们将通过以下方式继续这项重要工作：（a）详细阐述殖民主义与对妇女和女童的暴力行为之间已查明的联系，为目前关于对妇女和女童的暴力行为的研究和做法非殖民化的讨论提供信息，（B）审查社区主导的儿童保护战略的潜力，以解决太平洋地区目前面临的对妇女和女童的暴力行为的高风险，以及（c）开发包容性的衡量工具，考虑土著社区内遭受暴力侵害和暴力侵害比例最高的群体的独特需求，包括青年人、残疾妇女和性别认同边缘化的个人。我们的长期目标是通过改变我们研究和制定预防暴力干预措施的方式，确保对生活在高流行率环境中的妇女和女孩的生活产生可衡量的影响。

The purpose of the EVE Project (Evidence for Violence prevention in the Extreme) is to establish an evidence base for how to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the world's highest prevalence settings. This includes countries or regions where over 25% of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence in the past year. The EVE Project takes a decolonial approach to establishing this research evidence by strengthening the capacity of local indigenous communities to develop their own understandings of VAWG and its prevention. In addition to an international work package comparing national VAWG drivers and protective factors, we are working with communities in Peru and Samoa to co-develop interventions that build on local approaches to conflict resolution and social change. This has contributed to several short-term impacts including: a series of collaborative research papers on high-prevalence settings for VAWG with 33 co-authors from 16 different international organisations published in leading journals (BMJ Global Health, Social Science & Medicine, BMC Public Health); a substantiated association between a country's colonial past and its current prevalence of VAWG (Brown et al 2022); a network of 50 community-based representatives trained in VAWG data collection and analysis; and a pilot study of a new approach to co-developing VAWG interventions in partnership with communities called Participatory Community-led Intervention Development (PCID) (Mannell et al 2021). As part of this extension, we will continue this important work by: (a) elaborating identified associations between colonialism and VAWG to inform current discussions on decolonising VAWG research and practice, (b) examining the potential for community-led child protection strategies to address the high risk of VAWG currently experienced in the Pacific region, and (c) developing inclusive measurement tools that consider the unique needs of groups within indigenous communities who experience some of the highest rates of VAWG, including young people, women living with disabilities, and individuals with marginalised gender identities. Our long-term aim is to ensure measurable impacts for the lives of women and girls living in high-prevalence settings through transforming how we research and develop interventions to prevent violence.