In the first of our RIVA Conversations series bringing insight from across the VAWG system, Dr Laura Knight of the Youth Endowment Fund unpicks why a public health approach hasn’t yet been applied to VAWG, and makes the case for a What Works Centre to drive evidence-informed practice.

Can devolution shift power, not just policy? RIVA considers how the ambition to shift power set out in Rewiring the State will affect government’s ambition to halve violence against women and girls.

Examining the structural conditions limiting long-term reform across the VAWG system, including fragmentation, weak infrastructure, and limited capacity for continuous improvement.