Project Details
Project Description
Family violence, violence against women and sexual violence is serious and remains widespread across Victorian communities. Violence against women is preventable. The exclusionary capacity of sport is well documented, with critiques illustrating how certain sports perpetuate hyper-masculine norms that work to exclude other gender identities.
Whilst gender inequality within sport is well documented, sport remains a significant cultural arena within the Australian psyche and potentially a space where dominant and damaging forms of masculinity, such as those linked to violence, can be contested and challenged. Community sporting clubs have strong influence on the gender relations, attitudes, behaviours and social norms, of the communities they work with.
As such, community sport has been identified by policy makers, organisations and practitioners, as an important site to deploy education, initiatives and programs, that seek to influence culture change as a way of contributing to gender-based violence primary prevention strategies.
This research involves an impact assessment of the 2022-2024 Preventing Violence Through Sport: Taking a whole-of-sport approach to engage young people and the broader community grants program (The Program). The Program aims to support new and existing partnerships between community sport and primary prevention that are innovative and strengths-based.
Monash University will conduct an impact assessment of The Program by:
· Designing a Theory of Change aligning with the guidelines and grant program
· Developing an Evaluation Framework and Evaluation Toolkit
· Assessing the extent to which the Program has increased the understanding of the gendered drivers, shifted attitudes and behaviours among sport organisations, their members and communities
· Systematically documenting how the funded projects implemented the guidelines.
Whilst gender inequality within sport is well documented, sport remains a significant cultural arena within the Australian psyche and potentially a space where dominant and damaging forms of masculinity, such as those linked to violence, can be contested and challenged. Community sporting clubs have strong influence on the gender relations, attitudes, behaviours and social norms, of the communities they work with.
As such, community sport has been identified by policy makers, organisations and practitioners, as an important site to deploy education, initiatives and programs, that seek to influence culture change as a way of contributing to gender-based violence primary prevention strategies.
This research involves an impact assessment of the 2022-2024 Preventing Violence Through Sport: Taking a whole-of-sport approach to engage young people and the broader community grants program (The Program). The Program aims to support new and existing partnerships between community sport and primary prevention that are innovative and strengths-based.
Monash University will conduct an impact assessment of The Program by:
· Designing a Theory of Change aligning with the guidelines and grant program
· Developing an Evaluation Framework and Evaluation Toolkit
· Assessing the extent to which the Program has increased the understanding of the gendered drivers, shifted attitudes and behaviours among sport organisations, their members and communities
· Systematically documenting how the funded projects implemented the guidelines.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 15/12/22 → 29/08/25 |