Overview of Activities
The LAC-YVP project pursues three approaches to improve USAID and other stakeholders’ capacity to design and implement youth violence prevention programming:
- Conduct regional analyses of crime and violence, including relevant drivers and risk factors. The project will increase information on crime and violence by carrying out a series of broad research activities. These may include an evaluation of USAID institutional capacity and learning needs, a stakeholder and program analysis, and country-level feasibility studies for specific interventions.
- Generate evidence on crime and violence prevention, with a particular focus on secondary and tertiary interventions. The project will evaluate interventions in order to increase the evidence base on the most effective programming to prevent crime and violence. Interventions to be evaluated may include existing programs in North America and/or the LAC region. Additionally, the project will also evaluate new programs, emphasizing secondary and tertiary interventions, to explore what works and what does not work (and why) to reduce youth violence.
- Disseminate evidence and information on what works to prevent crime and violence in LAC. The project will develop, compile, and make available resources to inform the design of more effective programs. Policymakers, practitioners and researchers will be able to access this information through various tools and knowledge exchange platforms such as conferences, e-newsletters, and policy briefs. The project will also facilitate communities of practice, including a regional Advisory Group of experts that will suggest new research efforts, ground-truth programmatic approaches, connect research to policy, and work collaboratively across ongoing USAID-funded programs, multilaterals, donors and cities for cumulative impact.
