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ABOUT WhatWorks2Malawi

The PKN is a 4.5 year programme that seeks to contribute to progressive realization of women's rights in Malawi through reducing the following types of intimate partner violence: physical, sexual, economic and psychological violence.

 

PKN expected outcomes include:

  • Survivors are more willing and able to report violence and seek help.

  • People (including traditional and religious leaders, family members and in-laws and wider community members) in the programme’s target areas are less tolerant of IPV and more supportive of help-seeking from survivors of violence.

  • Formal and informal violence front-line response services provide more accessible and accountable, survivor-centred support.

  • Government of Malawi prioritises VAWG prevention and improved response efforts based on robust evidence, practice-based knowledge and ethics.

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Accountability and Ethics:

PKN uses gender transformative approaches that center women & girls in their diversity

to ensure that no harm is caused to them directly or indirectly.

All program staff and activists will be trained and grounded onto the PKN models and

feminist principles of VAWG prevention programming.

Safeguarding policy is in place and a focal person for all safeguarding issues for PKN

program is available.

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Evaluation and Learning:

The programme’s research questions are:

  • in Malawi on rates of IPV in the last 12 months for women ages 18-49?

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  • What is the effect on women's experience of IPV at a household level in households receiving an economic empowerment intervention (MO)within the context of a SASA! Together community?

  • What impact does institutional strengthening programming have in Malawi on how services are delivered to women?

  • Is SASA! Together implemented in a context where institutions are being strengthened cost-effective in reducing IPV and changing social norms at a community level?

  • What are the lessons for future programming (e.g. about reach, fidelity, inclusion) of the delivery of a combined approach to reduce IPV in intervention districts?

How intervention will prevent VAWG:

PKN will work at scale and is designed to use multiple pathways of change to address multiple risk factors across the whole socio-

ecology surrounding women at risk and survivors of violence.

The interventions target the individuals, family, community, actors along justice system, survivors of IPV and special attention is paid to people living with disabilities.

A clear Theory of Change is based on WROs delivering community level prevention and response initiatives to reduce violence and

increase demand for survivor cantered

response services.

Theory of Change

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Previous evaluation:

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  • The design of PKN has been informed by practice-based lessons relating to consortium design, community-level delivery of prevention interventions, pragmatic methodologies for including and tracking the inclusion of PWDs, working with response service institutions from the front-line through district to national level.

  • PKN is based on two proven VAWG prevention approaches - SASA! Together and Moyo Olemekezeka (adapted from Zindagii Shoista) that address various drivers of VAWG namely gender attitudes and norms, family and relationship skills, including families strengthening and managing household income.

Our main activities:

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Community Level Prevention

  • SASA! Together (community mobilisation)

  • Moyo Olemekezeka (family level and social empowerment level)

​Community Level Response.

  • Survivor Support Fund (financial support & accompaniment

  • Gender transformative curriculum for formal and informal frontline service providers

District & National Level Response

  • Gender transformative curriculum & ongoing engagement with the district duty bearers

  • Embedded technical support to Malawi Police Service

  • National referral pathways & technical support to operationalize

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Achieving Scale:

 

  • Deepening Impact; PKN will address multiple risk factors including social norms, improving family relations, strengthening survivor response mechanisms through combining gender transformation and economic empowerment as well as disability inclusion.

  • Expanding reach; PKN will directly work in two districts with an average population of 350,000, a minimum of 1,000 duty bearers.

  • Vertical Scale: From local to national level through the policy advocacy work.

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Participation in What Works 2:

PKN will share lessons from WROs perspective on what it takes to ensure ethical scale in preventing IPV.

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