The EVE Project is a research study to improve the evidence around preventing violence against women in the world’s highest prevalence settings.
Project Summary
In the world’s highest prevalence settings, two out of every three women will experience physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner or stranger in their lifetime (WHO 2013). Research on violence prevention in these settings is limited. More and better evidence is needed on the interventions that work to prevent violence in high-prevalence settings.
To improve current evidence, the EVE Project takes a multidisciplinary perspective to explore the community, national and global factors that have contributed to higher rates of violence in some parts of the world. We are looking in detail at these processes through two case studies in the Peruvian Andes and Samoa.
In Peru and Samoa, the Eve Project is working with local indigenous communities to design a new intervention for violence prevention. We are using a new approach to community-led violence prevention developed by our team in the Peruvian Amazon, on the GAP Project.
Through involving indigenous communities affected by violence in designing their own prevention interventions, we are ensuring interventions are relevant to women’s lives, building sustainable relationships with local communities, and developing research capacity in low-resource settings. This has the potential to transform the ways in which research to prevent violence against women is done in high prevalence settings.
Key Project Information
Dates: 1 March 2020 to 28 February 2024
Principal Investigator: Dr Jenevieve Mannell
Status: Current
Partners: Samoa Victim Support Group (SVSG), National University of Samoa, HAMPI Consultoria en Salud
Location: Samoa and Peru
Funding: UKRI
Contact: j.mannell@ucl.ac.uk
- Research Team
Dr Jenevieve Mannell Hattie Lowe (Research Fellow)
Dr Laura Brown (Senior Research Fellow)
Dr Andrew Copas (Co-Investigator)
Affiliated Research Team
Dr Ramona Boodoosingh (National University of Samoa) Helen Tanielu (National University of Samoa) Maria Calderon (Hampi Consultores en salud) Carla Cortez Vergara (Cayetano Heredia University) Professor David Osrin (IGH) Professor Jeremy Shiffman (Johns Hopkins University)
Videos
Interview with PI Jenevieve Mannell
Engaging communities to prevent GBV: Women and Children First webinar
Co-developing interventions to address VAWG: practical insights from 5 projects
Resources
About high-prevalence settings
Samoa Observer - Village leaders engaged to lead violence research
Blog post: co-developing localised ethical guidelines (2022)
Publications
Lowe, H,. Mannell, J,. Faumuina, T,. Sinclair, L,. Tamanikaiyaroi, L,. Brown, L. Violence in childhood and community contexts: a multi-level model of factors associated with women's intimate partner violence experience in Samoa. The Lancet (2023).
Lowe H, Apelu L, Brown L, Tanielu H, Mannell J (2023) Mapping communities as complex adaptive systems: A study of theresponse to violence against women by communities in Samoa. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0290898. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290898
Mannell J, Lowe H, Brown L, et al (2022) Risk factors for violence against women in high-prevalence settings: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-synthesis BMJ Global Health;7:e007704.
Brown, L. J., Lowe, H., Gibbs, A., Smith, C., & Mannell, J. (2023). High-Risk Contexts for Violence Against Women: Using Latent Class Analysis to Understand Structural and Contextual Drivers of Intimate Partner Violence at the National Level. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(1-2), 1007-1039. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221086642
Lowe H, Brown L, Ahmad A, Daruwalla N, Gram L, Osrin D, Panchal K, Watson D, Zimmerman C, Mannell J. Mechanisms for community prevention of violence against women in low- and middle-income countries: A realist approach to a comparative analysis of qualitative data. Soc Sci Med. 2022 Jul;305:115064. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115064. Epub 2022 May 25. PMID: 35653892; PMCID: PMC7614855.
Next Generation Research Podcast with Dr Jenevieve Mannell - 'Love shouldn’t hurt: What indigenous communities can tell us about preventing domestic violence.'