Alexander Butchart Coordinator, Prevention of Violence

1. Violence prevention and official development assistance (ODA) agencies Alexander Butchart Coordinator, Prevention of Violence Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention World Health Organization

2. VPA background • Interpersonal and self-directed violence • WHO-based secretariat and leadership • Launched 2004, 12 founding participants

3. VPA Founding Participants • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for • Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention, USA • Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada • Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, • Germany • Health Protection Agency North West, UK • Hessiches Sozialministerium, Germany • Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Violence • Medical Research Council of South Africa • Ministry of Health, Belgium • Ministry of Health, Jamaica • The California Wellness Foundation, USA • United Kingdom, Department of Health

4. VPA background • Network of governments, development agencies, foundations and NGOs • In 2006, over 30 participants (numbers capped) • More development agency representatives will be invited to participate

5. Strengthen support for science-based violence prevention Increase collaboration and exchange of information on violence prevention Facilitate implementation of World report on violence and health recommendations VPA Objectives

6. VPA working group Government representatives Belgium, Jamaica, UK Development agencies Germany National Agencies, Centres and Councils Canada, South Africa, Uganda, USA NGOs Denmark Violence prevention and ODA

7. Make the case for increased attention Assess gaps in programming Suggest a strengthened agenda Stimulate ODA dialogue on violence prevention Reducing the impact of violence on health, security and growth: How development agencies can help Violence prevention and ODA: draft discussion document

8. Violence prevention and ODA: the current agenda Visibility of violence prevention programming: content analysis of official international development agency websites from 22 OECD/DAC countries

9. What's shaping the agenda? Millennium Development Goals Violence against women, gender-equity interventions Human rights-based approaches Vulnerable groups, legal reform interventions Human security-based approaches Collective violence, security sector interventions Violence prevention and ODA: the current agenda Visibility of violence prevention programming: content analysis of official international development agency websites from 22 OECD/DAC countries

10. What's weak or missing? Types of violence Youth violence weak Suicide/self-directed violence very weak Elder abuse almost absent Gender focus Male to male violence Policy and programme guidance Scientific evidence base Primary prevention, "upstream" orientation Fundamental processes and systems Cross-cutting strategies for prevention and care Violence prevention and ODA:the current agenda Visibility of violence prevention programming: content analysis of official international development agency websites from 22 OECD/DAC countries

11. What needs attention? Inadequate focus on high risk groups Limited attention to underlying risk factors Piecemeal prevention approaches Restricted range of sectoral entry points Lack of support for fundamental processes Violence prevention and ODA: the current agenda Visibility of violence prevention programming: content analysis of official international development agency websites from 22 OECD/DAC countries

12. International- and national-level recommendations Science-based Foundation building and specific violence prevention interventions Suggestions for strengthening the ODA violence prevention agenda

13. International Develop common criteria for "upstream" violence prevention programming Expand entry points to include public health and sectors able to influence risk factors Include violence indicators in routine poverty and development surveys Suggestions for strengthening the ODA violence prevention agenda Foundation building

14. National Develop action plan and lead agency Enhance data collection capacity Increase collaboration and information exchange Implement and evaluate specific violence prevention actions Strengthen victim care and support systems Suggestions for strengthening the ODA violence prevention agenda Foundation building

15. National Specific interventions by type of violence Cross-cutting interventions Suggestions for strengthening the ODA violence prevention agenda Interventions

16. Specific interventions by type of violence

17. Cross-cutting interventions for all types of violence

18. First round reflects violence prevention and public health inputs Second round will incorporate ODA policy maker inputs Stimulate international dialogue Enhance coherence across ODA agencies Formulate an internationally-owned violence prevention strategy Implement the global strategy Violence prevention and ODA:next steps

19. 3rd Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Milestones Meeting Scottish Police College Tulliallan Castle Kincardine, Fife 17-19 July 2007