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

EVE项目（极端暴力预防证据）的目的是为如何在世界上最普遍的环境中预防对妇女和女孩的暴力行为建立一个证据基础。这包括25%以上妇女在过去一年中遭受身体和/或性暴力的国家或地区。EVE项目采取了一种非殖民化的方法，通过加强当地土著社区的能力来建立这一研究证据，以发展他们自己对暴力侵害妇女行为及其预防的理解。除了一项国际工作包，比较各国妇女暴力和暴力行为的驱动因素和保护因素外，我们还与秘鲁和萨摩亚社区合作，共同制定干预措施，以当地解决冲突和社会变革的方法为基础。这产生了一些短期影响，包括：与来自16个不同国际组织的33名共同作者在主要期刊（BMJ全球卫生、社会科学与医学、BMC公共卫生）上发表了一系列关于VAWG高患病率环境的合作研究论文；一个国家的殖民历史与其当前的VAWG患病率之间存在确凿的关联（Brown et al 2022）；一个由50名社区代表组成的网络，这些代表接受了妇女妇女工作组数据收集和分析方面的培训；以及与社区合作共同开发VAWG干预措施的新方法的试点研究，称为参与式社区主导的干预发展（PCID） （Mannell et al, 2021）。作为这个扩展的一部分，我们将继续这项重要的工作：(a)阐述已确定的殖民主义与暴力侵害儿童行为之间的关联，为当前关于非殖民化暴力侵害儿童行为研究和实践的讨论提供信息；(b)研究社区主导的儿童保护战略的潜力，以解决太平洋地区目前经历的暴力侵害儿童行为高风险；(c)制定包容性衡量工具，考虑土著社区中遭受暴力侵害儿童行为比例最高的群体的独特需求，包括年轻人；残疾妇女和性别认同被边缘化的个人。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.