The Stepping Stones and Creating Futures program aimed to decrease the rate of intimate partner violence in urban informal settlements in South Africa. Three hour sessions were held twice a week over a two and a half month period with participants aged 18 - 24 years. The sessions were peer led, interactive, and participatory, and participants reflect on gender norms, conflict in relatinoships, and developing livelihoods strategies.
The study demonstrates that men's self-reported past year IPV perpetration was lower when exposed to the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention. It also showed that women's livelihoods were strengthened by the intervention. But it did not reduce women's experiences of IPV.
