Inspire Framework
Launched in 2016, INSPIRE is a set of seven evidence-based strategies for countries and communities working to eliminate violence against children. Created by eight agencies with a long history of child protection work, INSPIRE serves as a technical package and guidebook for implementing effective, comprehensive programming to combat violence.
What is INSPIRE?
The INSPIRE technical package consists of seven complementary and mutually reinforcing strategies, and two cross-cutting activities to help connect interventions across sectors and assess progress. INSPIRE is intended to support countries in their efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children.
The strategies will advance efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal target 16.2 to end all forms of violence against children. INSPIRE is based on the best available evidence of what works globally. INSPIRE is intended for a wide audience, including, policymakers and legislators; civil society actors, practitioners and implementors of violence prevention programmes; NGOs, funders of social, economic, humanitarian, and civil society initiatives; and advocates working in the violence against children sector.
INSPIRE is an acronym with each letter representing a strategy for ending violence against children.
This package of seven evidence-based strategies
builds on growing evidence that violence against
children is preventable, and on a growing public
consensus that it will no longer be tolerated. The
package will help unify multisectoral efforts to raise
awareness that, although levels of violence vary
within and between countries, no society is immune
as violence against children is everywhere, and it will
encourage deeper engagement to prevent it and to
treat the harmful consequences when it does occur.
The package is anchored in recognition by the
Convention on the Rights of the Child that all children
have the right to be free from all forms of violence. It
also responds to the extensive and costly impacts that
violence against children has on public health and
development. It is an essential tool to help achieve
Sustainable Development Goal Target 16.2, which calls
for ending all forms of violence against children, and
it will be useful to help achieve goals 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11
and 16 that target poverty, health, education, gender
equality, safe environments and justice.
We have an opportunity and a responsibility to prevent
violence, protect children and have a positive impact
on a broad range of health, social and economic
challenges facing low-, middle- and high-income
countries. Violence against children can be prevented
if the global community acts now, acts wisely and acts
together. This package presents evidence-based ways
to do it
A Decade of INSPIRE – Evidence in Action to End Violence Against Children
Ten years ago, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the U.S. CDC, and seven international partners launched INSPIRE: Seven Strategies to End Violence Against Children.
This webinar celebrated a decade of evidence in action and highlight the next phase of INSPIRE’s global implementation and research agenda. It brought together global leaders, researchers, and practitioners to discuss what the new evidence means for countries, sectors, and systems working to end violence against children.
An Introduction to INSPIRE
The Seven Pillars of INSPIRE
I
Implementation and Enforcement of Laws
INSPIRE encourages laws that ban violent punishment of children by parents, caregivers, teachers and other adults, along with laws criminalizing perpetrators of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. INSPIRE also found that laws preventing alcohol misuse and youth access to firearms (and other weapons) have been proven to decrease violence.