Love Shouldn't Hurt – E le Sauā le Alofa: Co-designing a theory of change for preventing violence against women in Samoa. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Love Shouldn't Hurt – E le Sauā le Alofa: Co-designing a theory of change for preventing violence against women in Samoa. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)
- Main Title:
- Love Shouldn't Hurt – E le Sauā le Alofa: Co-designing a theory of change for preventing violence against women in Samoa
- Authors:
- Mannell, Jenevieve
Tevaga, Pepe
Heinrich, Sina
Fruean, Sam
Chang, Siliniu Lina
Lowe, Hattie
Brown, Laura J.
Vaczy, Caroline
Tanielu, Helen
Cowley-Malcolm, Esther
Suaalii-Sauni, Tamasailau - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Despite the widespread adoption of Theories of Change (ToC) for programme evaluation, the process of collaboratively developing these theories is rarely outlined or critical analysed, limiting broader methodological discussions on co-production. We developed a ToC as part of E le Sauā le Alofa ('Love Shouldn't Hurt') – a participatory peer-research study to prevent violence against women (VAW) in Samoa. The ToC was developed in four phases: (1) semi-structured interviews with village representatives (n = 20); (2) peer-led semi-structured interviews with community members (n = 60), (3) community conversations with 10 villages (n = 217) to discuss causal mechanisms for preventing VAW, and (4) finalising the ToC pathways. Several challenges were identified, including conflicting understandings of VAW as a problem; the linearity of the ToC framework in contrast to intersecting realities of people's lived experiences; the importance of emotional engagements, and theory development as a contradictory and incomplete process. The process also raised opportunities including a deeper exploration of local meaning-making, iterative engagement with local mechanisms of violence prevention, and clear evidence of ownership by communities in developing a uniquely Samoan intervention to prevent VAW. This study highlights a clear need for ToCs to be complemented by indigenous frameworks and methodologies in post-colonial settings such as Samoa.
- Is Part Of:
- Global public health. Volume 18:Issue 1(2023)
- Journal:
- Global public health
- Issue:
- Volume 18:Issue 1(2023)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 18, Issue 1 (2023)
- Year:
- 2023
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2023-0018-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-02
- Subjects:
- Violence against women -- theory of change -- Samoa -- theory-driven approaches to intervention development
Public health -- Periodicals
362.105 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgph20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17441692.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/17441692.2023.2201632 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1744-1692
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 4195.475233
British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 26984.xml