Understanding intimate partner violence (IPV) requires more than a snapshot in time. Long-term studies that follow people and communities over years can reveal patterns, risks, and protective factors as well as outcomes that shorter-term research often overlooks. They help us see how violence develops, changes, or declines across different stages of life.

In this episode, we explore why this kind of research matters for prevention, what challenges researchers face in carrying it out, and how the findings can shape policies and programmes that make a real difference.

Your host is: Ayesha Mago, Global Advocacy Director, Sexual Violence Research Initative (SVRI).

This episode’s guests are:

• Kate Doyle, Senior Fellow at Equimundo, and part of the team behind Rwanda's Bandebereho programme

• Dr Khadija Mitu, Research Lead on the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

🎧 Listen to learn:

➡︎ Why long-term evidence matters in IPV prevention

➡︎ The challenges and responsibilities of conducting longitudinal research

➡︎ How policymakers and practitioners can use this evidence to improve prevention efforts

➡︎ Top tips for securing funding for longitudinal studies

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Resources:

• https://www.equimundo.org/bandebereho/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 

• https://www.equimundo.org/resources/long-term-impacts-of-the-bandebereho-program-on-violence-against-women-and-children-maternal-health-seeking-and-couple-relations-in-rwanda/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

• https://gage.odi.org/ 

• https://www.equimundo.org/programs/program-p/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352464224000798?dgcid=author 

• https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(24)00248-9/pdf 

• https://gage.odi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GAGE-Global-violence_Policy-Brief_Oct-10-2022.pdf 

• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41287-021-00440-x 

• https://gage.odi.org/safe-is-in-the-grave-young-people-s-risk-of-sexual-and-gender-based-violence-in-the-rohingya-refugee-camps-in-bangladesh/ 

  
  

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