This is a multi-agency community policing prevention and enforcement program aimed at reducing violence with firearms and other weapons in high-crime areas.
It involves initiatives to increase arrests and convictions, improve the tracking of parole offenders, and reduce the nuisance they cause, as well as physical enhancement, community outreach, and community policing efforts. It is coordinated by a planning group. These initiatives were best implemented over a 6-9 month period in 2008.

This is a police strategy focused on public nuisance and serious crimes. The objective is to reduce disorderly nighttime gatherings and consumption of alcoholic beverages in public spaces.
Six police officers in civilian clothes were assigned to the designated area with the instruction to make arrests and issue fines for consuming alcoholic beverages on the street. In addition, police vehicles were sent to various corners of the residential blocks to disperse uncontrolled concentrations.

Yo Importo, Yo Aprendo, Yo Decido (I Matter, I Learn, I Decide) is a psycho-socio-educational intervention focused on adolescent women from rural communities in Mexico. The objectives of the intervention include reducing teenage pregnancy, reducing gender-based violence, and increasing girls’ self-efficacy, i.e., building a more empowered self-perception.

This is an experiment to evaluate the impact of data collection through automatic police vehicle tracking technology on police effectiveness to reduce and prevent crime. The intervention associates the technology installed in the vehicles with the police hot spot strategy to track police presence during patrols and street actions.
Vehicle location data is sent to commanders, who analyze the distribution of police resources in different areas of the city to ensure that police officers are redirected to the places where criminal activity needs to be prevented the most.

This is a clinical approach to addressing intimate partner violence. The goal is to reduce violence against women, improve the use of community resources, increase safety planning, decrease reproductive coercion, and improve the quality of life and mental health of victims.
The intervention is carried out in health centers by nurses previously trained to perform intimate partner violence screening, referral support, and women’s health/safety risk assessments.

This is a program focused on problem-solving and crime prevention. ComunPaz seeks to articulate initiatives aimed at the peaceful resolution of community conflicts in areas once dominated by the FARC in Colombia.

This is a crime prevention strategy at bus stops aimed at reducing the incidence of crime in areas with high crime rates.

Stepping Stones is a program that seeks to improve the sexual health of its participants by using participatory learning approaches to develop awareness, risk knowledge, and communication skills, as well as to stimulate critical reflection among participants (men and women between the ages of 15 and 26, who typically attend schools/educational institutions).

This is a probation program that applies intensive and restrictive supervision to offenders at high risk of committing serious crimes. The goal is to reduce crime and recidivism rates.
The program requires more frequent meetings (once a week) between probation officers and offenders, random home visits, monthly drug testing, and the application of harsher punishments (zero tolerance). Participants are selected on the basis of an instrument that assesses the risk of recidivism into violent crime.

This is an educational program that provided training activities focused on human rights and violence against women and children aimed at women already participating in a rural microcredit program.
Sumaq Warmi (“Wonderful Woman”) provided training on gender and violence to women living in rural Peru through two-hour sessions once a month for seven months. The program approach was based on the training materials used by the “ Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity” (IMAGE), which was launched in South Africa in 2001.