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Partnerships Phase 1 and Phase 2

Partnerships Phase 1

A total of $25.3 million was committed by the Australian Government over three and half years to June 2001. In announcing Partnerships, the Prime Minister, the Hon John Howard MP, spoke of this initial allocation as a "down-payment to back the effort to find out what will work in preventing domestic violence, and to try new ways of helping those who need it most"

Building on achievements and knowledge embodied in existing State and Territory projects and programmes, over 100 Partnerships projects were conducted across Australia. Specifically, $8million was allocated to projects administered by States and Territories, $4million for projects with national application and $13.3million for Australian Government projects.

These model and pilot projects were focused on six priority themes:

• Working with children and young people

• Working with adults to break patterns of violence

• Working with the community

• Protecting people at risk

• Information and good practice

• Helping people in regional Australia

Partnerships Phase 1 officially ended on 30 June 2001, and a national meta-evaluation of the initiative has been conducted to draw together the findings of the various evaluations of Australian Government, national and State and Territory projects. The findings from this evaluation have been used to inform the development of Partnerships Phase 2.

In particular, it has enabled the development of a national framework for developing approaches to domestic violence, which provides the structure and guiding principles to take the commitment forward.

Partnerships Phase 2

In May 1999, the Australian Government made an election commitment to allocated a further $25 million to a second phase of Partnerships, which ran until June 2005. Projects conducted under this phase were developed from the emerging findings of the national evaluation of Partnerships Phase 1 and focus on six priority areas:

• community education

• indigenous family violence

• children experiencing domestic violence

• men who use violence

• Services for women

• National Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse