What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale Programme Annual Programme Meeting 2025

The APM 2025 will bring together the What Works II Implementation and Research programme partners, Grantee Partners, Independent Advisory Board, and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in-person to explore the theme: ‘Meeting the Moment on our Journey to Scale’. 

The What Works II Programme aims to eliminate violence against women and girls (VAWG) worldwide in our lifetime. This event will explore how we can collectively navigate the challenging global contexts we currently face, and the opportunities that lie ahead on the road to achieving our mission. 

The 2nd APM will offer an opportunity for collective reflection and envisioning of a safer future for women and girls, learning from previous similar global trends, and creative strategising around how we can best ‘Meet the Moment’.  

The event will also provide a platform to connect with, and learn from, ongoing work by  Grantee Partners funded by the What Works II Programme, on how to best be inclusive and intersectional in generating new evidence to move the VAWG prevention field forward and build a world free of violence against women and girls. 

Session themes

Throughout the APM a series of expert-led sessions, presentations and group discussions will cover a range of topics including: 

• Adapting VAWG Prevention Programmes

• Working with governments to scale up and sustain VAWG prevention 

• Developing effective political analyses and advocacy approaches  

• Evidence generation 

• Ethical safeguards in research 

• Implementation Research and Practice-Based Learning 

• Cost-effectiveness  

• Diversity, inclusion and accessibility 

• Applying feminist principles and an accountability lens to projects and research 

More information

• Find out more about what our Grantee Partners are doing to prevent VAWG.