Building a Respectful Community Partnership
Building a Respectful Community Strategy 2022–26 (PDF)
The new Strategy aims to guide and inspire organisations across Melbourne’s north to prevent gender-based violence and promote gender equity in workplaces, community groups and neighbourhoods, communications, services and facilities.
For more information about the Building a Respectful Community project, click here.
Building a Respectful Community Action Plan 2022–24 (PDF)
The BRC Action Plan 2022-2024 is the first of two action plans which will guide the implementation of the Building a Respectful Community Strategy 2022-206 for the first two years.
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Engaging Men in the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence (PDF)
The ‘Engaging Men in the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence (PGBV) Community of Practice’ (CoP) is a collective action of the BRC Partnership co-chaired by WHIN and the City of Whittlesea. This practice guide was developed by the CoP to share learnings on how to set up safe, facilitated spaces with recommendations for similar CoPs.
This document is available in PDF (click image at left or title above) and Word format here.
Preventing Violence Against Women: Stories of Achievement from Melbourne’s North (PDF)
WHIN’s third Stories of Achievement features 15 case studies of the commitment and innovative works of the Building a Respectful Community Partnership. This publication focuses on preventing gender-based violence and progressing gender equality in the northern metropolitan region in the year 2021–22.
Preventing Violence against Women: Stories of achievement from Melbourne’s north: 2020 (PDF)
A collection of case studies of preventing violence against women projects across diverse settings and population groups, shared by the Building a Respectful Community Partnership. WHIN compiled this collection to promote evidence-based and intersectional practice and assist prevention workers to share learnings, challenges and successes. The previous collection of case studies from 2017 is also available here.
Evaluation of the Building a Respectful Community Strategy and Partnership 2017-2021 (PDF)
This report evaluates the third term of the BRC partnership, an alliance of 24 organisations led by WHIN who are committed to working together to prevent violence. It assesses the degree to which the partnership has progressed towards the goals and objectives outlined in the 2017-2021 strategy.
Building a Respectful Community Evaluation Report 2017–19 (PDF)
This evaluation brings together data from 24 organisations to evaluate primary prevention of violence against women action across Melbourne’s north and the Building a Respectful Community (BRC) Partnership approach. It reports on the first two years of implementation of the BRC Strategy and will inform future directions and actions for the next two years.
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign (25 November–10 December) is a global campaign dedicated to ending violence against women and girls.
Campaign resources 2020-2021
In 2023, WHIN produced social media tiles in Arabic, English, Greek, Hindi, Urdu and Tamil with two additional messages related to sexual and reproductive health.
16 Days WHIN 2023 Tiles (High Resolution JPEGS in ZIP file 10MB)
Campaign resources 2020-2021
In 2020 and 2021, WHIN led a social media campaign using inclusive social media tiles designed in-house, with the theme ‘Taking Action for Gender Equality Every Day’. This theme features one action per day that we can all take to prevent gender-based violence.
16 Days WHIN 2021 High Resolution Tiles (JPEGS in ZIP file 23MB)
Taking Action for Gender Equality Every Day Social Marketing Package 2020 (PDF)
Communication resources
Communications Guidelines for Preventing Violence Against Women (PDF)
This resource is for communications officers to support them in promoting gender equality and preventing violence against women. It provides a guide to performing gender analysis for communications outputs and considerations for gender-responsive practice.
Leading the North to Prevent Violence against Women (Video)
This short video highlights the strong leadership in Melbourne’s northern region in the prevention of violence against women. It features workplace leaders from the Building a Respectful Community Partnership talking about gender equitable strategies they’re using in their workplaces.
Preventing Violence against Women in the North (Video)
Building A Respectful Community: Preventing Violence against Women in the North is our regional infographic clip. This conversation starter can be used as a resource for individuals and organisations working in the northern region of Melbourne to use and share.
