The document "Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Against Women: Taking Action and Generating Evidence" by the World Health Organization and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine aims to provide policymakers and planners with a comprehensive framework for developing evidence-based programs to prevent intimate partner and sexual violence against women. The document is structured into several chapters: 1. **Nature, Magnitude, and Consequences**: This chapter outlines the prevalence, nature, and consequences of intimate partner and sexual violence, emphasizing the hidden costs and long-term impacts on health, education, and employment. 2. **Risk and Protective Factors**: It identifies the ecological model of violence, risk factors associated with both intimate partner violence and sexual violence, and protective factors. The chapter also discusses gender norms and inequality as key factors. 3. **Primary Prevention Strategies**: This chapter summarizes the scientific evidence base for primary prevention strategies, including programs with known effectiveness, emerging evidence, and those with potential but needing further evaluation. 4. **Improving Program Planning and Evaluation**: It presents a six-step framework for taking action, generating evidence, and sharing results, emphasizing the importance of rigorous evaluation and adaptation to local contexts. 5. **Future Research Priorities and Conclusions**: The document concludes with future research priorities and key conclusions, highlighting the need for continued evidence generation and the integration of outcome evaluations into prevention projects. The document emphasizes a public health approach, which focuses on primary prevention, addressing underlying causes, and integrating scientific evaluation procedures into all prevention initiatives. It also advocates for a life-course perspective, recognizing how early life experiences influence the likelihood of later becoming a perpetrator or victim of violence. The document is intended for policymakers, program developers, planners, and funding bodies in public health and related sectors, as well as other interested parties such as government departments, NGOs, local authorities, and researchers. It provides a valuable resource for enhancing and strengthening multisectoral collaboration in the design, delivery, and evaluation of primary prevention programs.The document "Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Against Women: Taking Action and Generating Evidence" by the World Health Organization and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine aims to provide policymakers and planners with a comprehensive framework for developing evidence-based programs to prevent intimate partner and sexual violence against women. The document is structured into several chapters: 1. **Nature, Magnitude, and Consequences**: This chapter outlines the prevalence, nature, and consequences of intimate partner and sexual violence, emphasizing the hidden costs and long-term impacts on health, education, and employment. 2. **Risk and Protective Factors**: It identifies the ecological model of violence, risk factors associated with both intimate partner violence and sexual violence, and protective factors. The chapter also discusses gender norms and inequality as key factors. 3. **Primary Prevention Strategies**: This chapter summarizes the scientific evidence base for primary prevention strategies, including programs with known effectiveness, emerging evidence, and those with potential but needing further evaluation. 4. **Improving Program Planning and Evaluation**: It presents a six-step framework for taking action, generating evidence, and sharing results, emphasizing the importance of rigorous evaluation and adaptation to local contexts. 5. **Future Research Priorities and Conclusions**: The document concludes with future research priorities and key conclusions, highlighting the need for continued evidence generation and the integration of outcome evaluations into prevention projects. The document emphasizes a public health approach, which focuses on primary prevention, addressing underlying causes, and integrating scientific evaluation procedures into all prevention initiatives. It also advocates for a life-course perspective, recognizing how early life experiences influence the likelihood of later becoming a perpetrator or victim of violence. The document is intended for policymakers, program developers, planners, and funding bodies in public health and related sectors, as well as other interested parties such as government departments, NGOs, local authorities, and researchers. It provides a valuable resource for enhancing and strengthening multisectoral collaboration in the design, delivery, and evaluation of primary prevention programs.