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Section 1: About your work
- How would you describe the organisation you work for? [select all that apply]
- Advocacy organisation
- Commercial or industrial business
- Community health or mental health service
- Community legal service
- Community sporting club
- Crisis response service
- Early childhood education or care service
- Faith-based community organisation
- Family violence sector peak body
- Federal government agency or department
- Global or national non-government organisation (NGO)
- Harmful sexual behaviour service
- LGBTIQA+ organisation
- Local Council
- Media or advertising organisation
- Multicultural, refugee or asylum seeker support organisation
- Philanthropic organisation or charity
- Private primary or secondary school
- Public or private healthcare provider (hospitals, clinics etc)
- Public primary or secondary school
- Specialist sexual assault service
- State government agency or department
- Union
- University, TAFE, or other registered training organisation
- Victorian non-government organisation (NGO)
- Women’s health service
- I work as an individual (including consultant/sole-trader)
- Other ____________
- Which of the following best describes your role within your organisation? [select most applicable option]
- Academic/Lecturer/Professor (e.g. teaching, lecturing in academic institution or research)
- Board member or member of a governance/management committee
- Consultant or sole trader
- Counsellor or case manager (e.g. providing individualised support to victim-survivors)
- Executive or senior leader (e.g. CEO or Director)
- Policy advisor or advocate (e.g. working on policy development or advocacy)
- Program Manager or coordinator (e.g. overseeing specific programs or initiatives)
- Project officer (e.g. working on a specific program or initiative)
- Support staff (e.g. administrator, Human Resources, IT support)
- Teacher (e.g. delivering educational programs in schools)
- Trainer or educator (e.g. leading workshops, conducting training sessions)
- Volunteer
- Other, please specify ____________
- What type of activities do you undertake as part of your role? [select all that apply]
- Community development
- Community education and awareness raising
- Consent and respectful relationships education
- Direct participation programs with defined communities or population groups (e.g. men and boys, young people, new parents or new migrants or refugees)
- Direct service delivery (i.e. health or social care)
- Health promotion
- Media, communications and campaigns
- Mentoring programs with defined communities or population groups (e.g. young people)
- Policy advocacy
- Policy development and/or advice
- Research
- Resource development
- Support and advocacy for victim-survivors (e.g. counselling, support groups, legal support, crisis response)
- Training for professionals (e.g. healthcare workers, educators, social workers etc)
- Human resources and workplace policy and program development (e.g. gender equality or inclusion work in an organisation or setting)
- Other ____________
- Which communities or groups do you work with or target as part of your role? [select all that apply]
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Boys, male adolescents and/or men
- Children (primary school age)
- Children in early childhood education and care
- Executive team, managers, staff, contractors and/or members of governance bodies (e.g. board members) at the organisation where I am employed
- General population
- LGBTIQA+ communities
- Low socioeconomic status communities
- Multicultural communities
- New parents
- Older people
- People from faith-based communities
- People from migrant or refugee backgrounds
- People in workplaces
- People with disabilities
- Prevention practitioners
- Sporting club members
- State or Federal government agencies, decision-makers or people of influence (e.g. Members of Parliament)
- University or TAFE students
- Victim-survivors
- Young people (secondary school age)
- Other ____________
- Which geographic regions are covered by your prevention activities? [select all that apply]
- Statewide – Activities implemented across all of Victoria
- Metropolitan Melbourne
- Eastern Metropolitan Melbourne
- Inner Metropolitan Melbourne
- Northern Metropolitan Melbourne
- Southern Metropolitan Melbourne
- Western Metropolitan Melbourne
- Regional Victoria
- Barwon South West
- Gippsland
- Grampians
- Hume/Goulburn North East
- Loddon Mallee
- National
- International
- Other (please specify)
- What funding sources support your prevention-related activities? [select all that apply]
- Collaborative funding
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs
- Federal government
- Fee for service
- Fundraising including crowdfunding
- In-kind contributions
- International grants or funding
- Local government
- Non-government organisations (including women’s health services)
- Philanthropy, including charities and trusts
- Private sector
- Social enterprise income
- State government
- Statutory authorities (e.g. water boards, Respect Victoria, VicHealth)
- University or academic partnerships
- Internal revenue
- None of the above
- Other ____________
Section 2: Progress between 2022 and now
Options for all questions for this section were:
- Much better
- Somewhat better
- Somewhat worse
- Much worse
- No change / about the same
- Unsure
- Better in some ways, worse in others [please specify]
- Prefer not to say
Your organisation
- Compared to three years ago, support from my organisation’s leaders to address and prevent gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, collection and management of data (e.g. monitoring and evaluation data, demographic data, etc) for prevention initiatives within my organisation is:
- Compared to three years ago, commitment to the monitoring and evaluation of prevention initiatives within my organisation is:
Any additional comments about your organisation? [open text box]
Victoria and the national context
- Compared to three years ago, efforts to ensure that prevention of gender-based violence initiatives in Victoria are inclusive of trans and gender diverse people is:
- Compared to three years ago, policies and legislation to improve Victoria’s efforts to prevent gender-based violence are:
- Compared to three years ago, the Victorian Government’s data collection about prevention initiatives is:
- Compared to three years ago, the political will of Victorian state MPs to address gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, the awareness of the Victorian community about gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, Victorian community readiness to take action to prevent gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, the quality of Victorian community-led action to prevent gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, men’s willingness to discuss and learn more about their role in preventing gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, men and boys’ active participation in initiatives to prevent gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, the amount of media coverage about gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, the extent of media outlets (e.g. print, online, television, radio, social media) reporting on gender-based violence is:
- Compared to three years ago, the quality of media reporting and coverage of incidents of gender-based violence is:
Any additional comments about progress in Victoria and the national context? [open text box]
Section 3: About the impact of your work
- What are the main goals of the prevention work you do? [select all that apply]
- Advocating for policy and legislation change to improve safety and prevent gender-based violence at a state or national level
- Building the skills and capabilities of prevention practitioners
- Building the skills and capabilities of professionals to address and prevent gender-based violence (e.g. healthcare workers, teachers etc)
- Building skills for bystander interventions at an individual, organisational, or structural level
- Changing attitudes that condone violence against women
- Changing attitudes that limit women’s independence
- Changing attitudes that discriminate against the diversity of women
- Changing attitudes that promote unhealthy gender norms, particularly related to masculinity
- Challenging different forms of oppression that intersect with gender inequality (e.g. racism, colonialism, ableism etc)
- Coordinating collective community action within a region or sector
- Engaging men and boys in prevention and/or gender equality efforts
- Fostering partnerships with organisations to collectively prevent gender-based violence
- Implementing policies and practices within organisations to improve safety and prevent gender-based violence
- Improving community awareness and understanding of gender-based violence
- Improving the inclusion of victim-survivor voices in primary prevention activities
- Improving young people’s understanding of consent and respectful relationships
- Other ____________
- How effective do you believe your prevention activities have been in achieving their goals?
- Very effective – have met or exceeded their goals
- Moderately effective –have achieved some, but not all, of their goals
- Slightly effective – some progress has been made, but there is room for improvement
- Not effective – have not achieved their intended goals
- Mixed effectiveness – please specify
- Unsure / Too early to assess / too soon to determine the effectiveness
- None of the above
- Which option best describes how your prevention activities are evaluated? [select all that apply]
- We administer surveys, collect data and analyse the results ourselves
- We collect data internally and an external evaluator analyses it and provides a final evaluation report
- An external evaluator collects all data and provides a final evaluation report
- We provide data or a report requested by our funder for evaluation
- We do not collect any data
- Other ____________
- What kinds of data do you collect as part of your prevention activities? [select all that apply]
- Quantitative data (typically closed or limited responses to questions in surveys, participant numbers, demographic information and countable outcomes)
- Qualitative data (typically open test responses in surveys, testimonials, interview responses, focus group responses, observational data)
- Community or stakeholder endorsements
- Anecdotal data
- Case studies
- Administrative data
- We do not collect any data
- Other ____________
- In your opinion, what is the most significant change resulting from your prevention work in the last three years (2022-2024)? [open text box]
- What has helped or hindered your ability to do your prevention work effectively? [open text box]
Section 4: About Respect Victoria
- To your knowledge, which (if any) of the following describes Respect Victoria’s role/s [select any that apply]
- Promotes awareness and educates the community about family violence and violence against women
- Promotes behaviour change in the community to reduce family violence and violence against women
- Provides advice to government and organisations on policy and systems change to reduce family violence and violence against women
- Works with organisations leading and delivering prevention work to better co-ordinate efforts
- Leads and supports research on prevention of family violence and violence against women
- Leads systems to improve monitoring, evaluation, and evidence gathering on prevention of family violence and violence against women
- Submits a regular report to government on how prevention efforts across Victoria are progressing