While prevalent and serious, violence against women is not inevitable and all of us can take action to prevent violence.
This Action Plan focusses on how to:
- transform the deep underlying causes of violence against women so that violence against women doesn’t occur in the first place, and
- target and disrupt the drivers of violence against women. This approach is known as primary prevention.
The four broad themes contained in our plan are:
- Advance women and gender diverse people’s leadership and participation in economic, social and civic life across the municipality
- Promote the safety of women and gender diverse people in our communities and public spaces
- Engage men and boys to shift unhealthy norms of masculinity and condoning of violence
- Achieve sustainable primary prevention for our municipality.
This Action Plan is dedicated to our external-facing work with communities and sits alongside the newly enacted Gender Equality Act 2020 requiring all local councils to take positive action towards achieving workplace gender equality, and to consider and promote gender equality in policies, programs and services that interface with communities.
