VPA project groups
The VPA includes Process Project Groups, working on cross-cutting areas, and Technical Project Groups, focusing on specific content areas.
Process working groups
- Funders' network project group
Leaders: Jerry Reed (jreed@edc.org – Education Development Center) and Alexander Butchart (butcharta@who.int – WHO);
Aim: To bring those who support or may support violence prevention efforts to a common table to work collaboratively and cooperatively to advance global violence prevention work.
- Assets Database project group
Leader: Maria Valenti (mvalenti@ippnw.org – IPPNW);
Aim: To create an interactive database containing basic information on VPA participants; types of violence prevention they focus on; their main areas of violence prevention (e.g. data collection, advocacy, primary prevention, evaluation, etc.); other networks, alliances, and coalitions VPA participants lead or are members of; countries in which participants are active and types of activities and main partners in each country; and resources participants have to share.
- Training project group
Leaders: Jerry Reed (jreed@edc.org – Education Development Center) and Chris Mikton (miktonc@who.int – WHO);
Aim: To serve as a resource to the VPA and the violence prevention field with information on training and related activities to advance global violence prevention efforts.
Technical project groups
- Research agenda project group
Leaders: Harriet MacMillan (macmilnh@mcmaster.ca – PreVAiL) and Kathy Hegadoren (kathy.hegadoren@ualberta.ca – PreVAiL);
Aim: To establish a violence prevention research agenda on behalf of VPA.
- Criminal justice liaison group
Leader: John Carnochan (john.carnochan@strathclyde.pnn.police.uk – Violence Reduction Unit of Scotland);
Aim: To increase collaboration between the criminal justice/law enforcement and public health sectors at all levels, from local to international; to encourage the development of a shared agenda; to promote joint evidence-based violence prevention activities informed by the public health approach, with a view to improving the effectiveness of violence prevention, reducing the violence-related burden on health and criminal justice systems, and strengthening communities.
