RIVA brings together practitioners, funders, policymakers and researchers to rethink the foundations of the system preventing and tackling violence against women and girls.
We believe cross-sector convening is essential for change, and are interested in widening the range of actors involved in tackling violence against women and girls. Our convenings are intended to create practical space for collaboration, learning, and the development of actionable reform across sectors.
Future events
Social investment: capitalising safe accommodation and specialist provision
July 2026
Closed roundtable identifying recommendations to social investors, providers and policymakers.
Social investment: social outcomes contracts and the Better Futures Fund
July 2026
Closed roundtable identifying recommendations to social investors, providers and policymakers.
Previous events
Lunch and learn: Intractable High Risk (MARAC) Cases: A Way Forward
Webinar hosted by the Office of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, January 2026
Event for DAC staff and civil servants, exploring the implications of the research paper Intractable High Risk (MARAC) Cases: A Way Forward.
Intactable High Risk (MARAC) Cases: A Way Forward
Webinar hosted jointly with My Sister's Place, November 2025
RIVA officially launched with the publication of the research paper Intractable High Risk (MARAC) Cases: A Way Forward. The research explored how contextualised engagement alongside perpetrator disruption can improve outcomes in some of the highest harm domestic abuse cases, while reducing demand on public services, particularly children’s safeguarding systems.
Social Investment in tackling Violence Against Women and Girls
A series of two roundtables, July and September 2025.
Closed invitation roundtables of leaders from the social investment, commissioning and specialist violence against women and girls organisations. Discussion looked at current use of social investment in tackling violence against women and girls, and how mechanisms could be amended or developed to catalyse investment. Findings informed the RIVA insight paper How social investment could help resource the government's VAWG strategy.
Collaboration
If you would like to collaborate with RIVA, contribute to our work, or invite us to participate in an event or discussion, please contact us.