Affirmative Consent was a joint webinar delivered by WHISE’s Sexual & Reproductive Health and Prevention of Violence Against Women teams on 4 October 2023.
The webinar featured five guest speakers. The speakers explored:
- affirmative consent best-practice principles and legislative changes
- the translation of these principles to both practitioners and community-based audience
- an outline of some existing initiatives.
This is the Evaluation Report for the Affirmative Consent webinar. It draws on results from pre-, post- and follow-up participant surveys.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Worth highlighting is the increased understanding of current initiatives or interventions related to affirmative consent, selecting high to very high (80%), with an overall 49% increase of understanding.
The questions that asked about participants’ confidence in building the capacity of a professional network to implement principles of affirmative consent in their own work had an overall increase in confidence of 30%, with the majority of participants selecting high to very high (72%).
There was a 40% overall increase in participants’ confidence in applying a gender lens to their work: the majority of participants selected confident to very confident (84%), with 52% of those people selecting very confident. Furthermore, there was an 11% increase of confidence in undertaking primary prevention of violence against women at work, with the majority of people selecting very confident (48%).