Partners for Prevention (P4P) was a landmark regional joint programme implemented by UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV between 2008 and 2017, with funding support from the Australian Government. The initiative aimed to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) by addressing its root causes—particularly harmful norms around masculinity and gender inequality—through primary prevention efforts that engaged boys and men.
As one of the first multi-country efforts in Asia and the Pacific focused on prevention, P4P played a pioneering role in advancing evidence-based policy advocacy, capacity development, and communications for social change. The programme worked across national borders to facilitate regional learning and collaboration, while also anchoring its approach in local realities and civil society leadership.
Throughout its implementation, P4P helped catalyze conversations around prevention by generating and sharing new insights, tools, and methodologies. It contributed to shaping more inclusive approaches to engaging communities, practitioners and policymakers in long-term, transformative work.
By bridging research, practice and policy, and by fostering collaboration across UN agencies, governments, and civil society, Partners for Prevention left a lasting legacy. Its tools, networks and data remain in use today, informing regional strategies and national efforts to stop violence before it starts.
Below you will find a selection of key resources produced by the programme, organized by regional and country-level focus. These include research publications, training tools, evaluation reports and other outputs developed in partnership with national actors across Asia and the Pacific.
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS
Additional P4P resources from Cambodia include Research on Strategies to Resist Gender Discrimination and VAW (2013), Exploring the Implementation of Policies to Address VAW in Cambodia (2013), and Mapping Masculinities: A Framework Analysis of Factors Associated with VAW in Cambodia (2011) which provide further insight into local dynamics, policy implementation, and gender norms shaping violence prevention efforts in the country.
Papua New Guinea
In Viet Nam, an additional set of P4P resources captures the impact and lessons learned from male engagement initiatives to prevent violence against women and girls in Da Nang Province. These include A Qualitative Endline Study of a Male Advocate Intervention to Prevent VAWG (2017), Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Male Advocate Clubs (2017), and Lessons Learned Report: Male Advocate Club Project (2017). An earlier school-based prevention initiative is also documented in The Love Journey: A School-based Approach for Primary Prevention of Gender Violence and Promotion of Gender Equity (2013).
VIDEOS
See more videos at the Partners for Prevention YouTube channel.
STORIES
