The ‘What Works to Prevent Violence – Impact at Scale’ Programme is a seven-year initiative funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to improve prevention and response to violence against women and girls. Samya, is a part of Implementation consortium and provides technical advisory services on Accountability towards women & girls and Feminist Principles for the whole programme. We also provide mentoring support to select grantee partners on implementation of projects on VAWG.
Building on the success of its predecessor (‘What Works 1′), the ‘What Works 2’ programme will invest £67.5 million to prevent and contribute to eliminating violence against women and girls (VAWG). Notably, the first What Works Programme (2013-2020) funded by the UK Government was recognised as “changing the face of VAWG prevention,” generating robust evidence to support donors, national governments, and practitioners. Today, we are seeing increases in VAWG and setbacks in global progress in gender equality as a result of COVID-19. More than ever, the global community must harness collective expertise to prevent VAWG, a widespread form of abuse with devastating short- and long-term impact on individuals, families and societies. What Works II Programme brings together preeminent VAWG experts to deliver ground- breaking approaches to innovation and scale-up of effective prevention efforts via its Implementation and Research and Evaluation Consortiums. The consortiums combine robust expertise and capacity in research, learning uptake, and influencing, to ensure that evidence impacts practice and policy.