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HEVPA — Chile's National Network of Re-education Centres for Men Who Use Partner Violence

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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 56% 63/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Chile's SernamEG runs 15 government centres (HEVPA) re-educating men who use partner violence. A 2017 DIPRES evaluation found adherence fell from 86% of 1,133 men (2015) to 64% of 1,152 (2016), with almost no outcome indicators.

85.97% (974 of 1,133) % adherence
Men attended and adherence rate, 2015 (2015)
64.24% (740 of 1,152) % adherence
Men attended and adherence rate, 2016 (2016)
563,257 Chilean pesos
Average public spending per HEVPA beneficiary, 2016 (2016)
169,173 Chilean pesos
Average public spending per Centro de la Mujer beneficiary, 2016 (2016)

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Servicio Nacional de la Mujer y la Equidad de Género (SernamEG)
Period
2012–present (independent evaluation Jan.–Aug. 2017, covering 2015–2016 data)
Keywords
gender-based violence, perpetrator intervention, government social services

Context

Since around 2012, Chile's national women's and gender-equity service, SernamEG, has operated Centros de Reeducacion de Hombres que Ejercen Violencia (HEVPA), one in each of the country's 15 regions, alongside its longer-established Centros de la Mujer for women survivors.

Objectives

HEVPA aims to re-educate men who use partner violence through free, confidential psychosocial care delivered by a psychologist-social-worker pair, addressing physical violence first and psychological or controlling behaviour second.

Activities

Care begins with an initial four-session assessment phase followed by group intervention, and a man's reported change is checked, where the (ex-)partner agrees, against her own account gathered in parallel through the Centro de la Mujer.

Results

Chile's independent budget office, DIPRES, commissioned an external panel evaluation (January-August 2017) which found that of 1,133 men attended in 2015, 85.97% (974) adhered through the evaluation phase, while of 1,152 men attended in 2016, adherence fell to 64.24% (740), a drop the panel could not explain from the documentation it was given.

Conclusions

The evaluation panel explicitly criticised the 'scarcity of outcome indicators' for HEVPA, noting the data measured attendance and adherence rather than any measured reduction in violence, though it did flag the victim-corroboration design as a genuine methodological innovation worth developing further.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Average public spending per HEVPA beneficiary was 563,257 Chilean pesos in 2016, more than three times the 169,173 pesos spent per beneficiary at the Centros de la Mujer.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Operating since around 2012; each case runs an initial four-session assessment phase followed by group intervention of unspecified further duration.
Staffing & skills
Psychologist-social worker pairs deliver assessment and group intervention at each of the 15 regional centres.

Conditions for success

  • Victim-corroboration design, checking a man's reported change against the (ex-)partner's own account gathered via the Centro de la Mujer.

Common failure modes

  • Adherence fell from 85.97% (2015) to 64.24% (2016) for reasons the evaluation panel could not identify from the documentation provided.
  • The panel found a 'scarcity of outcome indicators': only attendance and adherence were measured, not any reduction in violence.
  • The panel flagged the programme's low visibility as a lost opportunity.

Where it fits

Governance type
national government agency (SernamEG)
Scale
national (15 regional centres)
Income level
high-income

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