Practice Briefs
Practice Briefs
These are program summaries that describe technical approaches used in VAC prevention; and emerging results including evidence of change and evidence of effectiveness (in situations where the intervention was subjected to rigorous scientific measurement). Practice briefs are useful sources of local knowledge and promising practices useful in improving the quality of program work and institutional policy measures on child protection and safeguarding.
Guidance note on compiling Practice Briefs from program interventions aimed at preventing violence against children.
Whereas there is no blueprint on what should constitute content for different knowledge products, in recognition of the fact that East Africa actors in VAC prevention have different capacities in documenting evidence; VaCNets Virtual hub hereby outlines essential elements for each knowledge product for guidance purposes and encourages users to do further research to enable generation of good quality knowledge products.
The outline below is not a blue print. It is only a guide for contextual application and hence further reading as you compile your Practice Brief is encouraged.
- Title
- Background/context
- Description of program intervention elements
- Results measurement & change observed
- Programming Lessons
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If you are working to protect children from abuse in either Kenya, Tanzania or Uganda, and would like to show case the difference you are making in preventing violence against children, email your write up to: [email protected].
Similarly, if you have different reports (e.g baseline, monitoring and evaluation reports) for a particular VAC intervention and need help to identify evidence within and compile it into a knowledge product to use for a particular cause (e.g. awareness raising, networking, advocacy), contact VaCNets virtual hub on same email address above for technical support.
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VaCNets Virtual Hub is a knowledge Hub of Impact and innovations Development center under the learning Initiative on prevention of Violence Against Children (VAC) in East Africa. Established in March 2022, the Hub exists to serve as a central repository of all types of evidence including local knowledge from program practice and research on What works in prevention of VAC in East Africa; as well as a platform that connects practitioners for knowledge exchange and learning from available evidence.