WUNRN
UN Women Virtual Knowledge Centre
to End Violence Against Women & Girls
The UN Women Global Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence
against Women and Girls is
an online resource in English, French and Spanish, designed to serve the needs
of policymakers, programme implementers and other practitioners dedicated to
addressing violence against women and girls. The Centre is an initiative of UN
Women, bringing together the valuable contributions of expert organizations and
individuals, governments, United Nations sister agencies, and a wide range of
relevant actors. Part of the overall effort is encouraging shared ownership of
the site and ongoing partnership-building for its continuous development and
sustainability.
The primary purpose of the
Global Virtual Knowledge Centre is to encourage and support evidence-based
programming to more efficiently and effectively design, implement, monitor and
evaluate initiatives to prevent and respond to violence against women and
girls. To achieve this, the Global Virtual Knowledge Centre offers a ‘one
stop’ service to users by making available the leading tools and evidence on
what works to address violence against women and girls. It draws on expert
recommendations, policy and programme evaluations and assessments, and
fundamentally, on practitioners’ experiences from around the world.
The
site offers users:
step-by-step
guidance on ‘how
to’ work with specific sectors, groups or areas of intervention
proven and promising approaches
recommended training and other
practical tools for implementation
a roster of specialized
organizations, by country and languages
summaries of evaluations
and key findings
links to key
sources of data and other on-line resources
an emerging
observatory of leading initiatives; and
a calendar of
major events and training opportunities.
The more than 750 products
and features available in some 50 languages will be expanded and updated on an
ongoing basis to ensure that practitioners have timely access to current information,
knowledge and resources. Every few months, an expanding number of programming
guidance modules will continue to be developed and added for specific issues
and population groups.
In addition to functioning as
a user-friendly central repository, the Global Virtual Knowledge Centre will
offer practitioners enriched opportunities for knowledge sharing and
communication through forthcoming interactive spaces.
We look forward to your
feedback and to hearing from you, as well as your own expert contributions. Your
voice counts in helping us to mobilize continued support and expansion of this
shared global resource.