Our strategy
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Eliminating Violence Against Women (CEVAW) will adopt a socio-structural framework for understanding the causes and progressing effective solutions to VAW.
To achieve the Centre’s aims, the research program will adopt an innovative, three-fold approach, encapsulated in the following strategic objectives, known as the three I’s:
- Indigenous
Employ an overarching approach that empowers Indigenous women and victim-survivors of violence in all research and partnerships, and that equips the next generation of researchers and practitioners across Australia and the Indo-Pacific to develop and apply improved, community-centred solutions.
- Interdisciplinary
Implement a new, Interdisciplinary research program that interrogates regional variation in patterns and responses to forms of violence against women (VAW) that will generate insights on under-researched forms of violence; draw cross-national comparisons; test promising prevention initiatives and enable the effective translation of new knowledge that partners can use to advocate for and/or implement changes in policy and practices to eliminate VAW.
- Indo-Pacific
Facilitate a regional community of theory and practice through the building of an interactive Indo-Pacific Evidence Platform, a comprehensive, interactive database on VAW for Australia and the Indo-Pacific region, that will enable researchers and practitioners to design and share effective responses to eliminate VAW in a multitude of diverse policy, income and cultural settings.
By building strategic and strong partnerships with Australian and international research institutions and partner organisations, CEVAW will translate research into innovative tools and strengthened capacity to drive the elimination of violence against women. With almost $50M investment from the ARC and contributing organisations, CEVAW is poised to make a significant, global impact.
Our priorities
To further build the evidence base on the causes, contexts and effective responses to VAW in the Indo Pacific region, providing global reach of open-access, real-time data
To co-design and field-test effective VAW prevention programs
To develop innovative justice and perpetrator engagement models that drive reductions in VAW
To train a new generation of VAW researchers and workforce-ready in Indigenous-informed, interdisciplinary approaches
To establish a regional network supporting translation of knowledge