Why we do it
The Challenge
Violence is a complex social problem with multiple causes.
There is no single intervention that can address all the underlying causal or contributory factors to violent behaviour. An effective intervention in one community is not guaranteed the same efficacy in another community, or at a larger scale.
There is also no single organisation or institution that can deliver all the services needed to address violence. Multi-stakeholder collaboration is therefore crucial for preventing violence against women and children.

We need to work together
Achieving multisectoral collaboration is not easy. Organisational culture and context, sectoral relationships, differing values and worldviews, and individual personalities and politics make collaboration difficult to achieve. This makes it difficult for information and lessons to flow between stakeholders in a way that facilitates the use of evidence from tested interventions in policy and other programmes.
Consequently, many evidence-based programmes are developed and tested in communities with the promise that if they are found to be effective, they will be scaled-up to other communities and perhaps the rest of the country. And yet, this is almost never the case. Literature is replete with promising projects with evidence of effect that were not scaled-up and in some cases they were discontinued.