What works to prevent violence | Innovation Grants

Building on the success of its predecessor which showed that violence against women and girls (VAWG) is preventable, What Works II is a seven-year UK aid funded programme to test and scale up of evidence-based, practice-informed violence prevention approaches.

They are interested in testing innovative approaches and developing promising collaborations to take VAWG prevention work in new directions. Innovation grants are intended to support the development and implementation of projects designed to achieve one of more of the following goals:

• Design and test ways to prevent forms of violence that have been under-researched (such as conflict-related sexual violence, technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), violence in climate-related or humanitarian emergencies).

• Testing different delivery platforms or modalities such as media and technology etc.

• Testing new partnerships e.g. between a digital rights organisation and a women’s right organisations (WROs).

• Develop approaches to address violence in populations or settings where little experience exists (for example, refugees, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, or LBT populations.)
  

These grants are of up to GBP 500,000 to organisations or consortia led by WRO's in the Global South, for up to 3 years, that are designed to achieve a measurable reduction in VAWG in humanitarian or development contexts.

For more information and application click here.