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EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN ANTI-VIOLENCE
PERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES
WAVE is partner of the two
years Daphne Project named: “Evaluation of European Perpetrator Programmes”
which started on 1st of January 2013. In this project, WAVE will, in
collaboration with men counselling centres, evaluate the Anti-Violence
Perpetrator programmes already in place for a few years.
The project consortium consists of Dissens e.V. in Germany and six partner
organisations from select European countries. The fundamental goal underlying
all project objectives and activities is the promotion of women’s and
children’s safety from domestic violence by improving the quality and impact of
domestic violence perpetrator programmes. This leads to the following concrete
objectives: To provide an overview and analysis of current practices of outcome
monitoring in perpetrator programmes in select European countries: how many and
which programmes do monitor outcomes, which methods do they use (based on which
rationale), which difficulties do they encounter and what are their needs and
proposals for improving their monitoring practice?; to provide an overview and
analysis of research studies evaluating perpetrator programmes (published and
unpublished) in European countries, with regard to results, study designs,
methodologies, instruments; and to develop a set of criteria related to
scientific robustness that can accommodate realistic approaches and a variety
of methods and thus point to a ‘new generation’ of evaluation research. This
includes bringing together the researchers of the main outcome studies
currently being carried out in Europe (e.g.: in the UK – Respect, in Norway – ATV)
in a workshop to present and discuss their experiences, the conceptual and
methodological difficulties and solutions found as well as proposals for future
evaluation practice and research.
Another objective is to identify possibilities and obstacles for multi-country
European outcome research studies and for the centralised analysis of
comparable outcome data that could be collected by programmes in different
countries by means of the toolkit to be developed in the project. A toolkit and
good practice guidelines shall be developed for outcome measurement (including
design, methodology and instruments) and translated so they can be used by
perpetrator programmes in different European countries without the need of
major scientific support. Also, a web-tool to upload data collected with the
toolkit which can then be centrally analysed shall be developed.