Our story
Eliminating violence against women is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Awareness of the problem has grown exponentially, but solutions to it have not.
This Centre aims to transform our understanding of the problem by examining the structural drivers that cause and compound violence against women, and pioneering new, evidence-based approaches to radically improve policy and practice across Australia and the Indo-Pacific.
Headquartered at Monash University, the CEVAW network comprises 13 Chief Investigators from six Australian universities, and 45 Australian and international partner organisations. The Centre mobilises Indigenous and survivor-centred approaches, interdisciplinary collaborations, and Indo-Pacific partnerships to deliver scalable approaches to eliminate violence against women across the legal, security, economic, health, and political systems of Australia and the region.
13
Chief Investigators
6
Australian Universities
45
Australian and international partners
Our reach
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Our mission
To build an interdisciplinary and data-driven research evidence base, co-designed with partners, on what works to reduce VAW with an Indigenous-centred approach and socio-structural framework; and mobilise partnerships to deliver scalable approaches to eliminate VAW across communities in Australia and the Indo Pacific region.
By 2030, CEVAW will be the go-to Centre for knowledge on VAW and evidence of the approaches that effectively can eliminate it.