These functional areas include economic development, education, environmental affairs, finance, health, human settlements, police or public safety, public works, roads and transport, social development, and sport and recreation, with many of these responsibilities involved in the implementation of legislation and policy relevant for the implementation of violence prevention activities (29).
Papachristos is also actively involved in the evaluation and implementation of several violence reduction strategies, most notably the Project Safe Neighborhoods and the Group Violence Reduction Strategy in Chicago.
They would also monitor the implementation of anti gender violence laws, spread public awareness and participation in women's safety, and ensure that victims can navigate and receive justice from India's complex and clogged justice system.
Since these guidelines do not provide an elaborated strategy for every unique context, the actual planning and implementation of sexual violence prevention and response programs relies on collaboration and partnerships with target communities, governments and national and international non-governmental organizations (NGO's) [ 13].
Both Martin Luther King and Gandhi were people who gained tremendous inspiration from their faith traditions and were able to perform tremendous feats of courage through the implementation of non-violence.
This relationship has resulted in ED data being recognised by the World Health Organization as key intelligence for the development, implementation, and evaluation of violence prevention initiatives [ 7, 8].
The implementation of the domestic violence module in the DHS follows WHO recommendations for ethical collection of data on domestic violence [ 12].
It has also hit out at the government for dragging its feet over the implementation of new domestic violence and sexual offences legislation designed to protect women from mistreatment and abuse in the home.
The evaluation concluded that implementation of the Domestic Violence Act can largely be attributed to the intervention.
All survey staff received special training for the implementation of the domestic violence module.
Research and subsequent interventions would benefit from the implementation of a broad violence surveillance programme that combines data from police, medical, schools, community resources (such as women's shelters), legal records and other sources.
