Editing Violence (section)

==== Gender equality ====
Evaluation studies are beginning to support community interventions that aim to prevent [[violence against women]] by promoting [[gender equality]]. For instance, evidence suggests that programmes that combine microfinance with gender equity training can reduce intimate partner violence.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pronyk PM, etal | year = 2006| title = Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial | journal = Lancet | volume = 368| issue = 9551| pages = 1973–83 | doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(06)69744-4 | pmid=17141704| s2cid = 14146492}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Kim JC, Watts CH, Hargreaves JR, etal | year = 2007| title = Understanding the impact of a microfinance-based intervention on women's empowerment and the reduction of intimate partner violence in South Africa | journal = American Journal of Public Health | volume = 97| issue = 10| pages = 1794–1802 | doi=10.2105/ajph.2006.095521 | pmid=17761566 | pmc=1994170}}</ref> School-based programmes such as Safe Dates programme in the United States of America<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Foshee VA, etal | year = 1998| title = An evaluation of safe dates an adolescent dating violence prevention programme | journal = American Journal of Public Health | volume = 1998 | issue = 88| pages = 45–50 | doi=10.2105/ajph.88.1.45| pmc = 1508378 | pmid=9584032}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Foshee| year = 2005 | title = Safe Dates" using random coefficient regression modelling | journal = Prevention Science | volume = 6 | issue = 3| pages = 245–57 |display-authors=etal| doi = 10.1007/s11121-005-0007-0 | pmid = 16047088 | s2cid = 21288936 }}</ref> and the Youth Relationship Project in Canada<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Wolfe D, etal | year = 2009 | title = Dating violence prevention with at risk youth: a controlled outcome evaluation | journal = Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | volume = 71 | issue = 2| pages = 279–91 | doi=10.1037/0022-006x.71.2.279| pmid = 12699022 | s2cid = 11004108 }}</ref> have been found to be effective for reducing dating violence.