"This report describes the processes that led to the development of a ten-year government plan to prevent violence against women and girls in Victoria, Australia. Between 2002 and 2008, the work of the Victorian government focused on coordinating state and NGO responses to violence.3 At the same time, a statutory health promotion foundation called VicHealth developed a sound evidence base and funded small community prevention programmes to build on the data. These parallel paths prepared the way in 2009 for the prevention plan, called A Right to Respect: Victoria‟s Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women.4 The plan came about after almost a decade of work involving legislative and policing changes and whole-of-government coordination." (from the Executive Summary)