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040 _aAFVC
100 _aMannell, Jenevieve
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245 _aLove shouldn’t hurt – E le sauā le alofa :
_bco-designing a theory of change for preventing violence against women in Samoa
_cJenevieve Mannell, Pepe Tevaga, Sina Heinrich, Sam Fruean, Siliniu Lina Chang, Hattie Lowe, Laura J. Brown, Caroline Vaczy, Helen Tanielu, Esther Cowley-Malcolm and Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni
260 _bTaylor & Francis,
_c2023
500 _aGlobal Public Health, 2023, 18(1)
520 _aDespite the widespread adoption of Theories of Change (ToC) for programme evaluation, the process of collaboratively developing these theories is rarely outlined or critical analysed, limiting broader methodological discussions on co-production. We developed a ToC as part of E le Sauā le Alofa (‘Love Shouldn’t Hurt’) – a participatory peer-research study to prevent violence against women (VAW) in Samoa. The ToC was developed in four phases: (1) semi-structured interviews with village representatives (n = 20); (2) peer-led semi-structured interviews with community members (n = 60), (3) community conversations with 10 villages (n = 217) to discuss causal mechanisms for preventing VAW, and (4) finalising the ToC pathways. Several challenges were identified, including conflicting understandings of VAW as a problem; the linearity of the ToC framework in contrast to intersecting realities of people’s lived experiences; the importance of emotional engagements, and theory development as a contradictory and incomplete process. The process also raised opportunities including a deeper exploration of local meaning-making, iterative engagement with local mechanisms of violence prevention, and clear evidence of ownership by communities in developing a uniquely Samoan intervention to prevent VAW. This study highlights a clear need for ToCs to be complemented by indigenous frameworks and methodologies in post-colonial settings such as Samoa. (Authors' abstract). Record #8145
650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aCOMMUNITY ACTION
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650 _aEVE Project: Evidence for Violence prevention in the Extreme
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aPACIFIC PEOPLES
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650 _aPREVENTION
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650 _aRESEARCH METHODS
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650 4 _aSAMOAN PEOPLE
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650 0 _aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aSAMOA
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700 _aTevaga, Pepe Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni
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700 _aHeinrich, Sina
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700 _aFruean, Sam
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700 _aChang, Siliniu Lina
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700 _aLowe, Hattie
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700 _aBrown, Laura
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700 _aVaczy, Caroline
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700 _aTanielu, Helen
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700 _aCowley-Malcolm, Esther
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700 _aSuaalii-Sauni, Tanasailau
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773 0 _tGlobal Public Health, 2023, 18(1)
830 _aGlobal Public Health
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856 _yDOI: 10.1080/17441692.2023.2201632 (Open access)
_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2201632
856 _uhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-health/research/z-research/eve-project-evidence-violence-prevention-extreme
_zAbout the EVE Project
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