Understanding Harm

We need to understand harm to end child sexual abuse. Understanding Harm is an ambitious, multi-year research initiative to generate the highest quality data on the scope and nature of perpetration. These data are necessary to drive better prevention policy and practice, and to ensure more robust funding for prevention. Explore our gold standard research tools and expertise, and stay tuned for country insights.

The Key To Ending Abuse

For too long, child sexual abuse has been ignored in our communities. Efforts to prevent abuse often place the responsibility for safety on children themselves. This isn’t okay and it isn’t enough. We seek to understand harm to end child sexual abuse.

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Prevention GPS | Survey, Design, Analysis

Understanding Harm is generating the highest quality data on perpetration prevalence and risk factors in countries across the globe. We’re sharing our gold standard survey and methodology to support more and better data worldwide.

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Call to action: European Commissioner Magnus Brunner

The European Commission’s ongoing leadership and proactive commitment is key to building global momentum for prevention. Explore the Commissioner’s perspective on the importance of understanding harm and generating high quality and reliable data.

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Inside The Research

Prevention Global’s new e-magazine explores the ideas, methods, and people at the heart of cutting-edge prevention research and translates complexity into clear, meaningful insight. The inaugural edition looks behind the scenes at Understanding Harm.

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In conversation with European Commission's Ľubica Debnárová

Prevention at scale requires global collaboration. The European Commission continues to be a leading voice and actor. We sat down with Ľubica Debnárová to reflect on prevention opportunities, barriers, and priorities.