Our Watch is pleased to announce the successful grant recipients of the Violence Prevention Innovation Lab’s first round challenge fund.
The 6 grantees represent a diverse range of new, community-led primary prevention initiatives across performing arts, maternal and child health, new fathers, LGBTQIA+, Indigenous-led and multicultural cohorts, and initiatives that support young people.
A full list of successful organisations and their chosen focus can be found here.
Each collaboration in this first grant round will receive $200,000 across 18 months to design, test and evaluate pilot projects. In addition, the Lab will work with grantees to capture collective knowledge to improve our understanding of what works in preventing violence against women.
The first-round challenge was open to Australian not-for-profit organisations, and Our Watch received an overwhelming 179 applications. The application process involved pitching innovative ideas to address the challenge of how to support men and boys to build respectful, positive, and gender-equal relationships, and how to encourage them to reject rigid stereotypes about what it means to be a man.
Christine Gregory, Head of Our Watch’s Innovation Lab said that the opportunity to work in agile ways and trial new ways of approaching the problem of ending violence against women is built into the lab’s design.
“What we hope to uncover are the key ingredients of prevention that are most effective and can scale up. If we know which ones are most effective, we can direct resourcing to those areas that will have the most significant impact. The opportunity to experiment using a test-and-learn approach is valuable because behaviour change is complex, and different approaches work for different groups. We are so excited to be working with such amazing organisations.”
The Violence Prevention Innovation Lab is designed and led by Our Watch and funded by Minderoo Foundation.
Find out more about the Lab here. For inquiries contact: innovation.projects@ourwatch.org.au.
Please contact media@ourwatch.org.au or call 0448 844 930.
If you cover this story, or any story regarding violence against women and children, please include the following tagline:
1800RESPECT is the national domestic, family, and sexual violence counselling, information and support service. If you or someone you know is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, domestic, family or sexual violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, chat online via www.1800RESPECT.org.au, or text 0458 737 732. Men’s Referral Service: 1300 766 491. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can access support through 13YARN.
Access guides for reporting about violence against women and their children.
Our Watch is Australia’s leader in the primary prevention of violence against women. The organisation was created to drive nation-wide change in the practices, norms, and structures that lead to violence against women and children. Read more about Our Watch here.