Resources and templates

Key resources

Victorian and national primary prevention strategies, policies and frameworks

• Ending Family Violence: Victoria’s 10-year plan for change
  A 10-year plan that outlines how the Royal Commission’s 227 recommendations will be implemented
  Jurisdiction: Victoria
   
• Safe and Strong: A Victorian gender equality strategy
  A framework to achieve enduring and sustained gender equality by building towards attitudinal and behavioural change
  Jurisdiction: Victoria
   
• Gender Equality Act 2020
  An Act regulating positive action towards workplace gender equality through public facing policies, programs and services
  Jurisdiction: Victoria
   
• Strong Culture, Strong Peoples, Strong Families
  A 10-year plan to support a safer future for Aboriginal families
  Jurisdiction: Victoria
   
• Dhelk Dja (Safe Our Way)
  A key Aboriginal-led Victorian agreement that commits the signatories to work together and be accountable to ensure that Aboriginal peoples, families and communities are stronger and safer, thriving and living free from family violence
  Relevance: Victoria
   
• Roadmap for Reform: Strong families, safe children
  The Victorian Government’s roadmap for reform of children, youth and family services
  Jurisdiction: Victoria
   

• Everybody Matters: Inclusion and equity statement

  The Victorian Government’s 10-year vision for a more inclusive, safe, responsive and accountable family violence system.
  Jurisdiction: Victoria
   

• Building from Strength: 10-year industry plan for family violence prevention and response
  A plan that seeks to build a family violence prevention and service system in which specialist family violence and primary prevention sectors work together with community services, health, justice, education and training sectors
  Jurisdiction: Victoria
   
• National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children
  A plan to coordinate the important work of all Australian governments, community organisations and individuals to reduce violence in Australia
  Jurisdiction: National
   
• Change the Story: A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women in Australia (2nd edition) (Our Watch 2021)
  A national framework for a consistent and integrated approach to preventing violence against women and their children in Australia
  Jurisdiction: National
   

• Pride in Prevention: A guide to primary prevention of family violence experienced by LGBTIQ communities (Rainbow Health Victoria 2020)
  Relevance: Victoria
   

• Changing the Picture: A national resource to support the prevention of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children (Our Watch 2018)
  Jurisdiction: National
   

• Changing the landscape: A national resource to prevent violence against women and girls with disabilities (Our Watch & Women with Disabilities Victoria 2022)
  Jurisdiction: National

Additional resources

These resources provide support for MEL practice across primary prevention projects.

Respect Victoria

• Re-shaping Attitudes: A toolkit for using the NCAS in the primary prevention of violence against women
• Prevention of Family Violence Data Platform

INCEPT

• Inner North West Collaborative Evaluation Project (INCEPT] – What does INCEPT provide?

Our Watch

• Counting on Change: A guide to prevention monitoring
• A Toolkit for Practitioners: Community based prevention of violence against women and their children [PDF]
• Prevention Handbook website
• Putting the Prevention of Violence against Women into Practice: How to change the story [PDF]

VicHealth

• Evaluating Victorian Projects for the Primary Prevention of Violence against Women: A concise guide
• Promoting Equal and Respectful Relationships Manual and Toolkit
• Partnership Analysis Tool

ANROWS

• Evaluation Quick Guides

Victorian Government

• Outcomes Reform in Victoria

Family Safety Victoria

• Everybody Matters: Inclusion and equity statement

Dhelk Dja

• Dhelk Dja: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Accountability Plan

Other evaluation guides

• Liverpool John Moores University/Wales Violence Prevention Unit (2020) Violence Prevention Evaluation Toolkit [PDF]
• Ohio Domestic Violence Network (2022) Empowerment Evaluation Toolkit

Stage 1 – Supporting resources

VicHealth

• Evaluating Victorian Projects for the Primary Prevention of Violence against Women: A concise guide [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing indicators and measures
  • Developing a data collection plan
  • Designing data collection instruments

• The Partnership Analysis Tool (page 6)
   
  Helpful with:

  • Stakeholder mapping matrix
  • Partnership management

• (En)countering Resistance: Strategies to respond to resistance to gender equality initiatives [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Logic model development and key evaluation questions

Our Watch

• Prevention Handbook
   
  Helpful with:

  • Logic model development and key evaluation questions

• A toolkit for practitioners: Community based prevention of violence against women and their children [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Stakeholder mapping

• Counting on Change: A guide to prevention monitoring
   
  Helpful with:

  • Intersectionality and evaluation

• Putting the Prevention of Violence against Women into Practice: How to change the story [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Stakeholder mapping

Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)

• How to develop a program logic for planning and evaluation
   
  Helpful with:

  • Logic model development

Respect Victoria

• Prevention of Family Violence Data Platform
   
  Helpful with:

  • Logic model development and evaluation plan

• Re-shaping Attitudes: A toolkit for using the NCAS in the primary prevention of violence against women
   
  Helpful with:

  • Logic model development and key evaluation questions

INCEPT

• Planning for evaluation
• Logic models and theory of change
   
  Helpful with:

  • Logic model development

Stage 2 – Supporting resources

VicHealth

• Evaluating Victorian Projects for the Primary Prevention of Violence against Women: A concise guide [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing indicators and measures
  • Developing a data collection plan
  • Designing data collection instruments

• Promoting Equal and Respectful Relationships in Faith Communities: A manual and toolkit [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Designing data collection instruments

• The Partnership Analysis Tool
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a MEL framework
  • Developing a data collection plan

• (En)countering Resistance: Strategies to respond to resistance to gender equality initiatives [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing indicators and measures

INCEPT

• Planning for evaluation
• Developing indicators
• Example indicator sets
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing indicators and measures
  • Developing a MEL framework
  • Developing key evaluation questions

Our Watch

• Counting on Change: A guide to prevention monitoring
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing indicators and measures

• A toolkit for practitioners: Community-based prevention of violence against women and their children [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a MEL framework
  • Developing Communication and media plans

ANROWS

• Evaluation Quick Guides: An overview of evaluation in the VAW sector [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing indicators and measures

Respect Victoria

• Monitoring and Evaluation Strategic Framework [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing key evaluation questions

• Prevention of Family Violence Data Platform
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a MEL framework

Stage 3 – Supporting resources

VicHealth

• Evaluating Victorian Projects for the Primary Prevention of Violence against Women: A concise guide [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Data collection
  • Data analysis
  • Interpreting data
  • Data preparation

• Promoting Equal and Respectful Relationships in Faith Communities: Manual and toolkit [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Data collection

INCEPT

• Collecting and interpreting data
• Collecting demographic data
• Data collection methods
   
  Helpful with:

  • Data collection
  • Data analysis
  • Interpreting data

Our Watch

• Putting the Prevention of Violence against Women into Practice: How to change the Story [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Data collection

Stage 4 – Supporting resources

Our Watch

• Toolkit for Practitioners – Community-based prevention of violence against women and their children [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a dissemination/communications plan

  • Developing a report

• Putting the Prevention of Violence against Women into Practice: How to change the stor [PDF]
   
  Helful with:

  • Disseminating key findings

  • Developing a dissemination/communications plan

ANROWS

• Key Steps in Evaluating Interventions related to Violence against Women [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a report

  • Disseminating key findings

• Evaluation Quick Guides: An overview of evaluation in the VAW sector [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a report

VicHealth

• Evaluating Victorian Projects for the Primary Prevention of Violence against Women: A concise guide [PDF]
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a dissemination/communications plan
  • Developing a report

INCEPT

• Sharing evaluation results

• Data visualisations
   

  Helpful with:

  • Interpreting data

  • Developing a report

  • Disseminating key findings

Better Evaluation

• Final reports
   
  Helpful with:

  • Developing a report

Templates

Stage 1 templates

• Project logic model template (Powerpoint)
• Project logic model template (Word)
• Stakeholder matrix template (Powerpoint)
• Stakeholder matrix template (Word)

Stage 2 templates

• Evaluation plan template (Powerpoint)
• Evaluation plan template (Word)
• Data collection plan template (Powerpoint) 
• Data collection plan template (Word)

Stage 4 templates

• Final evaluation report template (Word)
• Dissemination and communications plan template (Powerpoint)
• Dissemination and communications plan template (Word)