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Estrategias de Reeducación para Agresores de Violencia de Pareja — Mexico's Federal Health-Sector Perpetrator Programme

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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 55% 63/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Since 2009, Mexico's Health Ministry has run group re-education for men who exercise partner violence; a peer-reviewed 2015 evaluation across 8 states found 75% of screened, willing men attended one session, but only 21.5% completed 13+, and recidivism was not measured.

5,539
People screened across 8 states (2010) (2010)
3,699 of 5,539 screened
Attended at least one session (2010)
21.5 %
Attendees reaching 13+ sessions (fuller dose) (2010)
22 of 147
Perpetrator programmes with any impact evaluation across Latin America
Estrategias de Reeducación para Agresores de Violencia de Pareja — Mexico's Federal Health-Sector Perpetrator Programme

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Centro Nacional de Equidad de Género y Salud Reproductiva (CNEGSR), Secretaría de Salud
Period
2009–present (2010 evaluation cohort across 8 states)
Keywords
public health, gender-based violence, behaviour change, federal government

Context

Since 2009, Mexico's Centro Nacional de Equidad de Género y Salud Reproductiva (CNEGSR), part of the federal Secretaría de Salud, has operated group re-education for men who exercise partner violence, offering weekly 2.5-hour group sessions (2-15 participants).

Activities

The men's track uses a 24-module curriculum built on a gender perspective, an ecological model, Peace Education and Reconciliation Therapy, delivered by facilitators trained for 50 hours.

Results

A peer-reviewed evaluation tracked implementation across eight states in 2010: of 5,539 people screened, 88.3% screened positive for perpetration or victimisation, 85% of those agreed to participate, and 75% (n=3,699) attended at least one session — but 78.5% of actual attendees completed only 1-12 sessions and just 21.5% reached the 13+ sessions considered a fuller dose.

Conclusions

The evaluation is explicit that it does not identify predictor variables for refusal, dropout or therapeutic failure and does not measure recidivism. A 2020s regional mapping by the UN/EU Spotlight Initiative found this evidence gap widespread across Latin America: 147 perpetrator programmes region-wide but only 22 with any impact evaluation at all.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
CNEGSR / Secretaría de Salud federal programme staff, facilitators trained for 50 hours in the 24-module curriculum

Conditions for success

  • a structured, gender-perspective curriculum grounded in Peace Education and Reconciliation Therapy
  • government-run scale reaching thousands screened annually across states

Common failure modes

  • adherence drops sharply after initial attendance — only 21.5% complete the 13+ sessions considered a fuller dose
  • no recidivism or durability-of-change measurement exists
  • region-wide, only 22 of 147 Latin American perpetrator programmes have any impact evaluation

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