1st Policy Workshop on:
What Works to Stop Violence Against Women?

What Works to Stop Violence Against Women?

Causal Evidence, Real World Impact

Friday, 16 May 2025

OECD Headquarters | 2 rue André Pascal, Paris, France

Château de la Muette, Room D

To help build capacity for accurate, outcome-focused policy evaluations – and to strengthen evidence for policymaking – the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) partners with WomEmpower to host an applied evaluation workshop on May 16, 2025 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.

The workshop featured presentations from leading researchers, who discussed the policy implications of their research, outlined how policymakers can implement different types of causal evaluation in their national context, and explored new data sources for VAW. Researchers presented research from social, justice, health and other policy domains, with a particular emphasis on research design and data needs for robust causal evaluations of what works. 

The workshop was an opportunity for policymakers to connect with researchers on future evaluations and to connect with VAW counterparts across OECD countries, and create a practical dialogue between policymakers, researchers, OECD and WomEmpower on what further knowledge and data are needed to strengthen policy on VAW. The program of the workshop can be found here.

Speakers

Emma Armstrong  (I Choose Freedom Non-Profit Organization)                      Mark Pearson (OECD)     

Dan Anderberg (Royal Holloway University of London)                                        Elsa Pilichowski (OECD)                    

Sanna Bergvall (University of Gothenburg)                                                                  Daniel Fernández-Kranz (IE Business School) 

Gabriel Facchini (Royal Holloway University of London)                                       Helmut Rainer (University of Munich) 

 Valerie Frey (OECD)                                                                                                           Núria Rodríguez-Planas (CUNY and University of Barcelona)

 Jorge García-Hombrados (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)                            Judit Vall Castelló (University of Barcelona)    

Jeffrey Grogger (University of Chicago)                    

To learn more about the event: https://lnkd.in/enyrApiP

To learn more about the OECD’s work on this topic: https://lnkd.in/e9RUXPjs