Evaluation of the Train the Trainer Program: Report prepared for the eSafety Commissioner

In 2024, eSafety commissioned the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) to evaluate the eSafety and Pacific Community (SPC) frontline Train the Trainer program on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV). The program was initially run in Fiji in November 2024, with frontline responders working across 11 countries (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands).

This report draws together the key findings from the three-stage evaluation of the training program which sought to assess whether the program improved frontline workers’ confidence and knowledge on TFGBV, whether it changed the behaviour and practice of frontline workers in responding to, and supporting, victim-survivors of TFGBV, and whether there are gaps in the training program that need to be addressed. It also provides recommendations from across the three stages of the evaluation.