PRACTICE GUIDE Rubric: Quality practice elements for men’s behaviour change programs (MBCPs) in the Northern Territory
The Rubric: Quality Practice Elements for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCPs) in the Northern Territory is a tool developed as part of ANROWS’s Evaluation of the Northern Territory’s men’s behaviour change programs. It is designed to accompany the Quality Practice Elements for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCPs) in the Northern Territory and will be useful to people funding, designing and delivering men’s behaviour change programs, and more broadly working to enhance community safety and wellbeing.
This rubric is a tool that can be used to guide users through a practical self-assessment, designed to lift the overall quality of a men’s behaviour change program (MBCP). The rubric is designed to support users through an assessment of quality practice in MBCPs using a rating matrix for each of the nine quality practice themes identified in the QPEs. It encourages users to outline evidence of quality practice, as well as enablers and barriers to quality practice, and supports programs to prioritise actions that will promote continuous improvement. It is useful for broader advocacy efforts to identify where additional resourcing or other support may be needed to achieve quality practice. The rubric should be used in conjunction with the QPEs.
ANROWS was commissioned by the Northern Territory Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities (TFHC; now Department of Children and Families) to undertake evaluations of the two MBCPs in the Northern Territory: the Perpetrator Intervention Service in Darwin and the Marra’ka Mbarintja Men’s Family Violence Prevention Program in Alice Springs. ANROWS developed the QPEs and associated rubric for MBCPs in the Northern Territory as part of answering the overarching evaluation question: “What might quality MBCP practice look like in the context of the Northern Territory?”
The rubirc was developed as part of ANROWS’s Evaluation of the Northern Territory’s men’s behaviour change programs.
Suggested citation
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2025). Rubric: Quality practice elements for men’s behaviour change programs (MBCPs) in the Northern Territory [Rubric]. ANROWS.