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Three out of four children in the world experience violence. Ending it calls for proven solutions.

The Evaluation Fund supports high-quality research evaluations of programs that are designed to prevent violence against children in low- and middle-income countries, so that all children can live a life free from violence.

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The Evaluation Fund supports high-quality research evaluations of programs that are designed to prevent violence against children in low- and middle-income countries, and we help improve the ability of researchers and advocates to effectively share what they have learned with audiences that matter.

Our projects

Since 2011, we have supported 22 research studies in 17 countries. Through a variety of methods and across a myriad of contexts, we have helped grow the evidence base on what works and what doesn’t to prevent violence against children.


Implementation and enforcement laws
Norms and values
Safe environments
Parent and caregiver support
Income and economic strengthtening
Response and support services
Education and life skills
Implementation and enforcement laws
Objective: Ensure the implementation and enforcement of laws to prevent violent behaviors, reduce excessive alcohol use, and limit youth access to firearms and other weapons.
Norms and values
Objective: Strengthen norms and values that support non-violent, respectful, nurturing, positive and gender equitable relationships for all children and adolescents.
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Jordan
Jordan
Uganda
Uganda
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Safe environments
Objective: Create and sustain safe streets and other environments where children and youth gather and spend time.
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Dominican republic
Dominican Republic
Kenya
Kenya
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Parent and caregiver support
Objective: Reduce harsh parenting practices and create positive parent-child relationships
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Jordan
Jordan
China
China
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Income and economic strengthening
Objective: Improve families’ economic security and stability, reduce child maltreatment and intimate partner violence.
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Kenya
Kenya
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
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Response and support services
Objective: Improve access to good-quality health, social welfare and criminal justice support services for all children who need them – including for reporting violence – to reduce the long-term impact of violence.
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Dominican republic
Dominican Republic
Ethiopia
Ethiopia
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Education and life skills
Objective: Increase children’s access to more effective, gender-equitable education and social-emotional learning and life-skills training, and ensure that schools environments are safe and enabling.
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Uganda
Uganda
Uganda
Uganda
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We align our work with the INSPIRE strategies.

The Evaluation Fund Reducing Violence Against Children
Albania
ALBANIA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
This study looks at the effectiveness of a program to reduce violence against children in educational settings.
Rwanda
RWANDA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
This study examines the effectiveness of a family-based intervention model that is part of the Rwandan social protection program,...
Dominican republic
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
INSPIRE - Response and support services
INSPIRE - Safe environments
This study looked at how community-based interventions reduced violence against children in the most vulnerable communities of the Dominican...
Indonesia
INDONESIA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
Bahasa Indonesian: Mengurangi kekerasan terhadap anak di Indonesia melalui program pengasuhan dan kunjungan rumah
Ethiopia
ETHIOPIA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Response and support services
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a program to reduce violence against children by targeting men, boys, and the...
South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
INSPIRE - Response and support services
This study evaluated the SPARC program on changing gender-related attitudes and ending child sexual violence.
Burundi
BURUNDI
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
INSPIRE - Response and support services
INSPIRE - Safe environments
To address sexual violence against children with disabilities, this evaluation examines the effectiveness in reducing intra-family violence.
Indonesia
INDONESIA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
This study evaluates a pilot parenting program to prevent violence against young children in home settings in West Java.
Jordan
JORDAN
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
In four UNRWA schools in Jordan, this study examines the effectiveness of a program to prevent violence and abuse...
Uganda
UGANDA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
This study examines the effectiveness of a community-based intervention to reduce violence against children in rural, post-conflict settings.
Uganda
UGANDA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
This study examines the effectiveness of Nurse-Midwife home visiting program in Wakiso District, Uganda.
Burkina Faso
Uganda
UGANDA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Norms and values
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
INSPIRE - Safe environments
This implementation research project explored what aspects of the Good Schools Toolkit are suggestive of being most important for...
Uganda
UGANDA
INSPIRE - Education and life skills
INSPIRE - Parent and caregiver support
INSPIRE - Response and support services
This study examines various a community-based, locally-led childhood violence prevention program in rural Uganda.