The VPA Approach

World Health Organization. The VPA approach [internet]. Geneva: WHO; 2023 [acesso em 2023 jun 14].

Interpersonal violence – violence between individuals in families and communities – is a public health problem.

Each year, around 520 000 people die due to interpersonal violence, and millions more suffer the effects of non-fatal violence. In response, many governments, nongovernmental organizations and communities are supporting the development and implementation of prevention strategies.

Many governments and non-governmental organizations have already taken steps to prevent violence. Their efforts have not been coordinated or linked with the shared vision of using data-driven planning and evidence-based programming and prevention methods. The World Health Organization’s World report on violence and health (WRVH) and Global Campaign for Violence Prevention have inspired an effort to combine interests in preventing violence.

The Violence Prevention Alliance is a network of institutions linked by their voluntary adoption of shared violence prevention principles and policies derived from the WRVH. Participation is open to WHO Member State governments, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, and private, international and intergovernmental agencies working to prevent violence. The Violence Prevention Alliance activities will expand the number of agencies that apply a public health approach to implementing violence prevention programmes and services. They will enhance the impact of individual programmes on national and local policy and practice. The Alliance is part of an ongoing effort to integrate more countries into the Global

Campaign for Violence Prevention, while connecting similar groups at regional and local levels to facilitate better sharing of knowledge.

The Violence Prevention Alliance was launched in January 2004 and builds upon the evidence-based principles and recommendations described in the WRVH. The Report details a public health approach to violence prevention based on an ecological framework, and provides nine recommendations for building violence prevention capacity. These principles and recommendations have been endorsed and adopted in resolutions by the World Health Assembly, the African Union and the World Medical Association. Concrete steps towards their implementation have already commenced in nearly 50 countries.

The Violence Prevention Alliance will encourage mutually supportive and coordinated programmes, strategies and policy decisions that are consistent with the latest knowledge on violence prevention.

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