This was a joint webinar delivered by the Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) and Prevention of Violence Against Women (PVAW) teams on 4 October 2023. The webinar featured five guest speakers and included affirmative consent best-practice principles and legislative changes, the translation of these principles to both practitioners and community-based audience, and an outline of some existing initiatives.

This resource offers a snapshot of the key evaluation report findings for the Discussing Affirmative Consent webinar.

KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • 195 people attended, with the following feedback:
  • Increased understanding of the role of affirmative consent in the primary prevention of gender-based violence (33%), with a high proportion of people selecting High to very high (99%).
  • Increased understanding of current initiatives or interventions related to affirmative consent, selecting high to very high (80%), with an overall 49% increase of understanding.
  • Increase of confidence in building the capacity of a professional network to implement principles of affirmative consent in their own work (30%), with the majority of participants selecting high to very high (72%).

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