Capturing Change Masterclass: Monitoring and Evaluation for primary prevention of violence against women and family violence initiatives

Capturing Change: Monitoring & Evaluation for the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Family Violence Masterclass - CANCELLED

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About this workshop

This full day masterclass aims to build participants’ confidence and skills to undertake effective monitoring and evaluation as part of their primary prevention of violence against women and family violence work.

This workshop explores the key theoretical approaches and practice frameworks that guide primary prevention evaluation in Victoria, supporting participants to reflect on their own practice and experience. Participants are supported to unpack some of the key challenges to putting this work into practice and will work together to explore opportunities to overcome these challenges.

What does this workshop cover?

• the current primary prevention evaluation context
• good practice approaches to primary prevention evaluation
• opportunities and challenges in designing and implementing effective primary prevention evaluation including;
  • developing indicators
  • data collection and analysis
  • sharing learnings and disseminating findings.

Who should attend?

This workshop is designed for experienced practitioners working in the primary prevention and gender equality sectors. It is also relevant for evaluators seeking to build theirunderstanding of the specific skills and knowledge required to evaluation primary prevention initiatives. Participants will be supported to reflect on and draw from their own practice experience and knowledge throughout the workshop.

Participants are required to have a strong understanding of violence against women, primary prevention, Change the Story, the causes/drivers of violence against women as this content will not be covered in the workshop. Participants are also expected to be familiar with the concept of intersectionality.

Participants are expected to have a strong understanding of the following documents:

• Victorian Government, 2017, Free from violence: Victoria's strategy to prevent family violence and all forms of violence against women https://www.vic.gov.au/familyviolence/prevention-strategy.html

• Our Watch, VicHealth and ANROWS 2015, Change the Story: a shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and childrenwww.ourwatch.org.au/getmedia/0aa0109b-6b03-43f2-85fe-a9f5ec92ae4e/Change-the-story-framework-prevent-violence-women-children-AA-new.pdf.aspx

• Our Watch 2017, Putting the prevention of violence against women into practice: How to change the story https://www.ourwatch.org.au/What-We-Do/Our-Watch-Handbook

• Victorian Government, 2018, Prevention of Family Violence Outcomes Framework and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

• VicHealth, 2014, A concise guide to evaluating primary prevention projects, https:/www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/media-and-resources/publications/a-concise-guide-to-evaluating-primary-prevention-projects

• Our Watch, 2017, Counting on Change: a guide to prevention monitoring,https://www.ourwatch.org.au/What-We-Do/Counting-on-change-A-guide-to-prevention-monitorin

Please note:

Participants are asked to bring in an example of a current or old primary prevention logic model to use on the day. This will be used as the basis for an activity reflecting on opportunities to strengthen intersectional and other practice. This can be an example of good or not-so-good logic model.

Contact us:

Please contact us with any queries or any issues with registration. We are available by email training@whv.org.au or by phone 03 9664 9340.

Supported by the Victorian Government, under the Free from violence strategy