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100			_aMannell, Jenevieve _910175
245			_aDecolonising violence against women research : _ba study design for co-developing violence prevention interventions with communities in low and middle income countries (LMICs) _cJenevieve Mannell, Safua Akeli Amaama, Ramona Boodoosingh, Laura Brown, Maria Calderon, Esther Cowley-Malcolm, Hattie Lowe, Angélica Motta, Geordan Shannon, Helen Tanielu and Carla Cortez Vergara
260			_bBMC, _c2021
500			_aBMC Public Health, 2021, Online, 15 June 2021
520			_aBackground: There has been substantial progress in research on preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the last 20 years. While the evidence suggests the potential of well-designed curriculum-based interventions that target known risk factors of violence at the community level, this has certain limitations for working in partnership with communities in low- and middle-income (LMIC) countries, particularly when it comes to addressing the power dynamics embedded within north-south research relationships. Methods: As an alternative approach, we outline the study design for the EVE Project: a formative research project implemented in partnership with community-based researchers in Samoa and Amantaní (Peru) using a participatory co-design approach to VAWG prevention research. We detail the methods we will use to overcome the power dynamics that have been historically embedded in Western research practices, including: collaboratively defining and agreeing research guidelines before the start of the project, co-creating theories of change with community stakeholders, identifying local understandings of violence to inform the selection and measurement of potential outcomes, and co-designing VAWG prevention interventions with communities. Discussion: Indigenous knowledge and ways of thinking have often been undermined historically by Western research practices, contributing to repeated calls for better recognition of Southern epistemologies. The EVE Project design outlines our collective thinking on how to address this gap and to further VAWG prevention through the meaningful participation of communities affected by violence in the research and design of their own interventions. We also discuss the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the project in ways that have both disrupted and expanded the potential for a better transfer of power to the communities involved. This article offers specific strategies for integrating Southern epistemologies into VAWG research practices in four domains: ethics, theories of change, measurement, and intervention design. Our aim is to create new spaces for engagement between indigenous ways of thinking and the evidence that has been established from the past two decades of VAWG prevention research and practice. (Authors' abstract). Record #7238
650			_aCOLONISATION _95710
650			_aCOMMUNITY ACTION _9144
650			_aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203
650		0	_aEVE Project: Evidence for Violence prevention in the Extreme _911876
650			_aINDIGENOUS PEOPLES _9307
650			_aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _9431
650			_aPACIFIC PEOPLES _93408
650			_aPREVENTION _9458
650			_aRESEARCH METHODS _9499
650		0	_aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN _93088
651			_aINTERNATIONAL _93624
651			_aPACIFIC _93248
651			_aPERU _97683
651		4	_aSAMOA _92976
651			_aSOUTH AMERICA _910189
700			_aAmanama, Safua Akeli _910176
700			_aBoodoosingh, Ramona _98089
700			_aBrown, Laura _910177
700			_aCalderon, Maria _910178
700			_aCowley-Malcolm, Esther _910179
700			_aLowe, Hattie _910180
700			_aMotta, Angélica _910181
700			_aShannon, Geordan _910182
700			_aTanielu, Helen _910183
700			_aCortez Vergara, Carla _910184
773	0		_tBMC Public Health, 2021, Online, 15 June 2021
830			_aBMC Public Health _94668
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11172-2 _zDOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11172-2 (Open access)
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE