The Promoting Respect and Equity Together regional prevention of gender-based violence strategy for the Southern Metropolitan Region brings together over 30 organisations. These primary prevention organisations and practitioners work to address the drivers of gender-based violence challenge discrimination and oppression and to identify systemic and structural changes, all of which contribute to the prevention of gender-based violence. It’s important to ensure that this work is both informed by and responds to, the needs of people with lived experience.
This Lived Experience Framework aims to be a guide for organisations and practitioners to safely and ethically embed lived experience across a wide range of work to strengthen primary prevention of gender-based violence practice.
This framework aims to ensure that primary prevention of gender-based violence is both informed by and responds to, the needs of people with lived experience of gender inequality and multiple intersecting forms of oppression and discrimination and/or marginalisation.
We hope that this framework will be piloted by organisations across the Southern Metropolitan Region:
- To build capacity of organisations who work in primary prevention to value and embed lived experience in the most evidence-based, ethical and best-practice ways.
- To build capacity of practitioners to embed lived experience in ways that ensure the work reflects the needs of the communities for whom the work is designed.
- To ensure that people with lived experience are valued and respected through ethical, clear and accountable processes.
- To ensure that mutuality: opportunities for training, career development, appropriate remuneration and other methods of recognition are built into organisations’ ways of working.
- To explore the links between embedding lived experience in primary prevention and the possibility for healing, recovery and empowerment.