GUIDELINES

The Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children 2023–2028: Policymaker’s Guide

This resource is a guide to The Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children 2023–2028 (the agenda) for policymakers. It provides practical tips for integrating the priorities laid out by the agenda into policy development, funding decisions and law reform.

The agenda is a national research framework relevant for anyone working to support the safety of women, children and LGBTQI+ communities from domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV).

This guide provides an overview of how policymakers can use the agenda in their work. It emphasises the agenda’s role in developing evidence to inform policy and law reforms, guiding service design implementation and fostering collaborations between policymakers, researchers and practitioners.

The guide offers practical tips for:

• advocating for new evidence to address known gaps
• funding evaluation-ready programs
• commissioning new research
• leveraging existing administrative data.

Existing evidence gaps are articulated in themes that emerge from the agenda’s research priorities in this guide, providing a quick reference and starting point to identify areas of focus.

The agenda and this resource were all built with an understanding that ways of working and knowing impact the quality and usefulness of research evidence. The guide also steps out the principles that inform the agenda and those who need to be involved in generating meaningful change.

This guide will be useful for policymakers at all levels of government, service designers and law reform advocates.

 

 

Suggested citation

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2024). The Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children 2023–2028: Policymaker’s Guide. ANROWS.