Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative Publications
The Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative (AVPI) was a major 10-month research programme conducted by the Centre for International Cooperation and Security (CICS) for the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID).
The initiative, which expanded beyond DFID to involve a number of donor agencies and NGOs, grew out of a concern to understand the problems created by arms availability and their violent use, and of the ways in which measures to reduce armed violence can be integrated into poverty reduction work at both policy and programme level.