Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report Michael Flood I 2018 a university for the real world Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report Michael Flood I 2018 Flood, M. (2018). Working Together With Men: Final evaluation report. Melbourne: HealthWest Partnership. a university for the real world Michael Flood: Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report 2018 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .....................................................................................1 FULL REPORT ......................................................................................................7 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................7 Background ...............................................................................................................................................7 The project ................................................................................................................................................8 Evaluation: methods and data ...........................................................................................................12 Findings: A summary of WTWM’s impact and significance ...........................................................15 Objective 1: Engaging men ................................................................................................................18 The use of strategies for engaging men identified as effective......................................................... 18 Success at attracting men ..................................................................................................................... 19 Participant engagement and satisfaction ........................................................................................... 20 Buy-in and support from the wider organisation ............................................................................. 24 Objective 2: Increased awareness and understanding of violence against women .........................32 A role in preventing violence against women? ................................................................................. 33 An interest in taking action ................................................................................................................. 34 Violence against women as important and personal........................................................................ 35 Increases in knowledge ........................................................................................................................ 36 The persistence of violence-supportive attitudes .............................................................................. 38 Objective 3: Build the knowledge, skills and capacity of men in Brimbank to develop and implement community-based initiatives to prevent violence against women and children ..........40 Sense of one’s role in violence prevention .......................................................................................... 40 Knowledge of key frameworks, concepts, and strategies in violence prevention ......................... 44 Perceived capacity to implement community-based initiatives ..................................................... 45 Objective 4: Increase capacity of men in Brimbank to advocate and sustain PVAW actions ........50 Fostering effective projects .................................................................................................................. 50 Principles of effective practice ............................................................................................................. 52 Significance ............................................................................................................................................ 60 Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report v Recommendations ..............................................................................................................................63 Replication and scale-up ...................................................................................................................... 63 Recruitment ........................................................................................................................................... 64 Education ............................................................................................................................................... 65 Technical support .................................................................................................................................. 67 Forms of advocacy ................................................................................................................................ 68 Accountability processes ...................................................................................................................... 68 Appendix .......................................................................................................................................70 Quantitative surveys: Sources used .................................................................................................... 75 Quantitative surveys: Text ................................................................................................................... 76 Working Together With Men: Survey 1 ............................................................................................. 76 Working Together With Men: Survey 2 ............................................................................................. 79 Working Together With Men: Survey 3 ............................................................................................. 82 Focus Group Schedule: First focus group .......................................................................................... 86 Focus Group Schedule: Second focus group ..................................................................................... 87 Key Informant Interviews: Round 1 ................................................................................................... 89 Key Informant Interviews: Round 2 ................................................................................................... 91 Protocol for observation of the training ............................................................................................ 92 References ......................................................................................................................................96 Michael Flood: Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The project and its impact Working Together with Men is an innovative violence prevention project based on community engagement and mobilisation. The project aims to contribute to the prevention of violence against women by engaging men to develop and implement primary prevention strategies in their local communities. Working Together with Men was the focus of an impact evaluation, conducted by Dr Michael Flood from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). How the project works Working Together With Men focuses on recruiting men from the community, training them, and then involving them in project planning in activities to prevent violence against women. The Working Together With Men project took place over 2015-2017 in Brimbank, a local government area in the west and northwest of the city of Melbourne. The project was coordinated by the HealthWest Partnership, a consortium of community organisations including IPC Health, Brimbank City Council, cohealth, and Women’s Health West, and funded by the federal Department of Social Services. Working Together With Men uses a range of strategies to educate, train, and mobilise men as violence prevention advocates. The project began with community-based recruitment, through information sessions. Fifty or so men, from diverse backgrounds, Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report 1 participated in these opening events. Men interested in continuing in the project then took part in face-to-face education, in a series of educational workshops and sessions. They received support and mentoring from a dedicated project coordinator and guidance from an Advisory Committee. The seven men who continued with the project throughout its two years took part in training workshops, project planning sessions, and regular social meetings. In 2017 these men designed and implemented their own local violence prevention projects. The project’s impact Impact evaluation was built into the design and implementation of the project. Dr Flood coordinated the evaluation, in collaboration with the project coordinator, Cuong La. The evaluation used diverse forms of data to assess the project’s impact, including both quantitative data (surveys) and qualitative data (interviews, focus groups, observation of project events, and a desk review of documents). This document summarises the evaluation’s findings, and these are described in more detail in the full report. Working Together With Men has been successful at recruiting men into violence prevention education, educating them about violence against women and its prevention, and building a supportive and motivated group of prevention advocates. 2 Working Together With Men: Final Evaluation Report Objective 1: Engage men The project was successful