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Global Violence Prevention Advocacy Newsletter
Using Science to Prevent Violence
August 2006
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-- A Call for Impact Evaluation on Development Aid
-- Guide from The Society for Prevention Research
-- CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health

Using evidence-based practice to prevent violence means applying principles
of evaluation to program design and implementation. This month's Enewsletter
provides evaluation tools that researchers and practitioners might find
helpful.

Evaluating the work of prevention in any social problem has never been easy.
That cannot stop us. We will more easily advance the science of violence
prevention when we come as close as we can to knowing what works and why.
Funders and policymakers could help the field of violence prevention by
looking and listening for programs that have proven or promising results.

A Call for Impact Evaluation on Development Aid
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The Center for Global Development, a Washington, D.C. think tank, created
Evaluation Gap Working Group to understand the reasons for the lack of
evaluation in the provision of aid to low-and middle- income countries.
After a year of deliberation, the group produced a report, When Will We Ever
Learn? Improving Lives through Impact Evaluation.

The report discusses what the international community could do to close the
gap. As a result, CGD organized a web-based "call to action," also available
on the site.

Center for Global Development on Evaluation
http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/evalgap/calltoaction

Guide from The Society for Prevention Research
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The Society for Prevention Research encourages science-based programs that
have submitted themselves to an evaluation process. The Society offers a
guide, Standards of Evidence for Program Effectiveness. In it readers will
find suggestions for meeting both efficacy and effectiveness standards.

Through the guide, the Society expresses its interest in research that
establishes causal relationships. Programs that prevent violence may not be
able to meet such standards of efficacy because many confounding factors
contribute to violent acts. Yet, by wrestling with the concepts found in
this guide, program managers will be better able to offer testable
hypotheses about why and where their programs work.

Guide from The Society for Prevention Research
http://www.preventionresearch.org/commlmon.php

CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through its weekly
publication MMWR, offers a primer for those who wish to meet scientific
standards for evaluating programs. The guide provides a framework, includes
a description of creating a logic model, clarifies steps, reviews standards,
and describes the uses of program evaluation.

CDC Evaluation Framework

Fran Henry, Project Coordinator
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