We believe that gender-based violence violates women’s human rights and aim to create a gender-equitable world by supporting member organisations in their work with those who choose to use violence in intimate partnerships, predominantly men.

• Men take responsibility for ending gender inequality.
• Society holds perpetrators accountable for their violence.
• Men who use violence against their partners and children can change.
• Perpetrator work across Europe is done in a safe, effective, and accountable way.
• Perpetrator work is perceived as a key element to ending domestic violence.
• Women and children are safe from domestic violence.

Without an approach for targeting perpetrators of domestic violence and holding them accountable, any strategy to stop intimate partner violence is incomplete.

• support our members in offering accountable, victim-focused and gender-informed perpetrator work.
• offer innovative and essential training for perpetrator programmes.
• advocate for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention.
• promote perpetrator programmes at European and international levels.
• innovate the evaluation of perpetrator programmes through the IMPACT Outcome Monitoring Toolkit.
• change the way society perceives domestic violence by focusing on perpetrator accountability and victim safety.
• raise awareness of domestic violence, e.g. through campaigns.
• foster international exchange between perpetrator programmes through conferences and study visits.
• further research by regularly participating in international projects.