Table 1.

The EVE Project objectives and design components

Objectives	Design Components	Methods
To co-create ethical guidelines for violence prevention research and intervention in collaboration with high-prevalence communities	1. Developing ethical guidelines	Semi-standardised interviews Participatory hermeneutic analysis
To establish the causal mechanisms for how community participation prevents VAWG in high-prevalence settings	2. Developing theories of change	Stories of change as case studies Collaborative thematic analysis
To develop, validate and feasibility-test new tools for assessing VAWG prevalence in high-prevalence settings	3. Outcome measurement	Participatory listing/ ranking exercises Focus group discussions
To co-create an intervention in collaboration with high-prevalence communities	4. Participatory Community-led Intervention Development (PCID)	Participatory action research workshops and activity testing