A holistic, nationwide approach to prevention cannot rely on any single strategy, setting or technique to reach everyone or create long-lasting change.
To make change ‘stick’, our national approach to prevention needs to include a number of different techniques that support the transformation of norms, practices and structures across multiple settings.
Policy makers and funders need to ensure that prevention work spans multiple settings in a coordinated and mutually reinforcing way.
It is important to scan your environment to ensure that your prevention work is not duplicating other work and to seek opportunities to connect your work to larger strategies or efforts.
Measuring prevention work
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How to measure prevention work's effectivenessCounting on change from Our Watch is a guide for policy-makers, researchers and advocates on measuring population-level progress towards the prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia.
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A graphic that shows how progress in prevention happensA downloadable graphic from Our Watch that illustrates how progress in prevention happens.
Resources about Australia's national response
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A guide to the Australian policy contextAn ANROWS guide to the Commonwealth, state and territory governments' frameworks and policies to reduce violence against women and their children.
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A national plan to reduce violence against women and their childrenThe Australian Government's National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010‐2022 brings together the efforts of governments across the nation to make a real and sustained reduction in the levels of violence against women.