What Works 2 (WW2)

About this project

The What Works 2: Play for Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls project is designed based on the successful results and findings of the What Works 1 Phase: Right To Play’s Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls in Pakistan Through Sports and Play 2015-2018. Part of FCDO’s innovative global programme, What Works 1 tested various models in multiple countries across the globe, helping generate evidence on what exactly worked to prevent Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in low-middle income countries. Right To Play’s play-based experiential learning methodology, which aimed to reduce peer violence and bullying amongst children in schools in Hyderabad, Pakistan, was found effective based on the results of a cluster-randomised controlled trial (RCT). A total of 446 boys and 483 girls from the intervention arm and 376 boys and 447 girls from the control arm were enrolled in the trial, which found reduction in peer violence in school and family violence in the home. The RCT not only showed positive results indicating an overall decrease in peer perpetration and victimisation of violence, but consequently reduction in depression amongst children as well. The evaluation of the programme also found an improvement in gender attitudes (i.e. becoming less patriarchal), reduction in corporal/physical punishment at both the school and the home, with the instances of (children) witnessing violence also reduced. The new project, Play for Prevention of VAWG, is a follow up…

Published by

Right To Play UK · International NGO

Countries

Pakistan

Sectors

Primary education

Funded by

FCDO is the only funder of this project.

Published by Right To Play UK to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 13 May 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: GB-CHC-1112404-WW2_2024.1.1.

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