ABSTRACT
The last two decades has generated increasing evidence about what works to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV). A critical contribution to this evidence comes from the DFID-UK Aid funded What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls Global Programme? which evaluated the impact of 17 different programmes designed to prevent violence against women and girls including IPV, across a range of settings in the Global South. This international programme uniquely synthesised learning across the diverse evaluations, and helped distil important insights around what works to prevent IPV, why and how. This chapter summarises evidence from two key synthesis papers produced as part of this global programme. The first of these provides important insights into how IPV prevention programmes work by considering pathways of change across individual, relationship and community levels. The second identifies key elements of design and implementation of the more successful interventions to prevent IPV.
