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In many developing countries violence between young people or the abuse of women, children and the elderly seriously hampers economic and social development. This document is designed to act as guide for development agencies, UN organisations, governments and NGOs to develop a shared vision of violence prevention and how to expand existing agreements to prevent violence. Based on a review by the World Health Organization, it includes analysis of the contents of 22 development agency websites, and reviews violence prevention within international development programming. It focuses on interpersonal and self-directed violence, since many more people loose their lives through these types of violence than through collective violence. The primary audience of the document is policy-makers, high-level planners and others in the international development field with decision making authority, who set the international development agenda and influence donor policy.

Chapter 1 describes the impact of violence and reviews some of the health, social and economic consequences of violence for individuals, communities and countries. Chapter 2 assesses the impact of the 2002 World report on violence and health, and reviews methods of preventing violence. Chapter 3 highlights the problems with the current violence prevention agenda in development, Chapter 4 addresses how to strengthen this agenda, while Chapter 5 provides guidance on the institutional foundations necessary to implement violence prevention at a national level. The authors argue for increased attention by international development agencies to violence prevention, and aim to stimulate dialogue on the role of international development agencies in the prevention of violence globally.

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