Preventing Violence Against Women and Children Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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4 The State of Prevention Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
4 The State of Prevention Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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The term translation will be used to refer to the process by which research knowledge that is related to violence prevention either directly or indirectly is used to inform violence prevention activities and initiatives. This process is represented by the arrow connecting boxes 2 and 3.
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Another workshop speaker, James Lang from the United Nations Development Programme, commented that the currently available data have a number of problems related to the methodologies and measurements used and the lack of longitudinal data. Workshop participants mentioned a number of implications that the limitations in data from low- and middle-income countries have for successful prevention of violence against women and children.
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government, and the private sector aimed at addressing sexual violence among girls. He noted that one of the three main pillars of the program is to collect data that quantify and describe the problem of sexual violence against girls and that can then guide action, while also working with countries in translating that information to policies and prevention programs.
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Workshop participant and forum chair Mark Rosenberg said, "As we are trying to develop interventions that can travel well and can be put in place in developing countries that don't have big budgets, it will become more and more important for us to move into this next stage of research, looking at implementation and delivery." As noted above, in this report implementation refers to a specific set of activities that are designed to put an intervention into practice and is represented in Figure 4-1 by the arrow connecting boxes 3 and 4. Some participants spoke about different aspects of implementation, while others gave specific examples based on their experiences with particular programs and initiatives.
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Discussing ways to address this challenge, workshop participant and forum member Michael Phillips said that there is a need for a more formalized approach to implementation that uses situation analysis to examine the various aspects of a setting that will help identify how best to adapt a particular intervention. A number of workshop speakers shared examples that illustrated the importance of considering cultural values when implementing interventions, particularly interventions that are being adapted for different populations.
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Dr. Wilson described how focus groups in New Zealand with Maori mental health nurses were important in efforts to make sure an intervention designed to provide women with resources related to intimate partner violence was appropriate for the target population.
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He noted that opportunities exist for local evaluations that seek to marry quality research with quality program implementation. There are "not enough people coming in [to the National Institute of Drug Abuse]
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Workshop participants talked about various efforts to create centralized repositories of information related to successful violence prevention interventions and also spent time discussing the aspects of dissemination that deal with scaling up interventions so that they can be implemented on a larger scale. The importance of ensuring that interventions brought into new communities and new settings are adapted to meet the specific needs and values of the populations being targeted was a common theme in discussions of scaling up.
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Mercy suggested that additional efforts should be made to develop a "cadre of people who can understand the evidence base and can work at the ground and community level to work with people who are going to integrate these types of effective programs into their schools, their service programs or whatever." To that end, workshop participant Rosemary Chalk from the Institute of Medicine drew a parallel between the current need to adapt and implement evidencebased violence prevention interventions in communities and similar efforts a century ago to implement research-based agriculture techniques through the creation of the Agricultural Extension Service.
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2008. Adverse health conditions and health risk behaviors associated with intimate partner violence.
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