Capability Mapping
Strict mapping from the Government VAWG Strategy to imabi, WalkSafe+ and Hollie Guard
Method: The Strategy determines the comparison categories. Product features are only shown where they directly support that strategic objective. Blank cells are deliberate. SARA and decision-persona capabilities are shown separately as operational enablers, not as Government VAWG Strategy requirements.
imabi
27/31
priorities with mapped capability
WalkSafe+
5/31
priorities with mapped capability
Hollie Guard
8/31
priorities with mapped capability
| VAWG Strategy priority | What the Strategy is seeking | imabi | WalkSafe+ | Hollie Guard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pillar 1 — Prevention & Early Intervention | ||||
| Prevention before violence starts | Address root causes; disrupt dangerous attitudes; stop harmful behaviours escalating | Campaigns, Guides and targeted communications can deliver preventative interventions and reinforce local/national prevention activity | — | — |
| Challenge misogyny, harmful attitudes and behaviours | Challenge harmful beliefs, misogyny and behaviours that enable abuse | Campaigns, Guides and targeted content can be used to challenge harmful attitudes and behaviours | — | — |
| Awareness and behaviour-change campaigns | Drive behaviour change across society through sustained awareness activity | Channels, campaigns, Guides, Noticeboard and targeted communications support sustained and audience-specific activity | Local safety information where deployed | — |
| Understand and measure attitudes | Performance framework includes attitudes towards women, misogyny and harmful behaviour | Your Voice, surveys and snapshot questions can capture attitudes and perceptions; Intelligence can analyse change and patterns over time | — | — |
| Identify harm / emerging concerns early | Enable concerns and harmful behaviour to be identified before escalation | Your Voice and surveys provide signals; imabi Intelligence analyses available data for emerging patterns, trends and risk signals | — | — |
| Public/community environments | Create environments where abuse is not tolerated and harmful behaviour can be challenged | Location Alerts, Guides, campaigns and local Channels can support preventative activity in places and communities | Safety Map and Safe Spaces support safer-place information | — |
| Pillar 2 — Relentless Pursuit of Perpetrators | ||||
| Robust VAWG data and intelligence | Improve data so policing can understand VAWG and act effectively | imabi Intelligence combines and analyses available safety, reporting and community datasets to generate intelligence | — | Hollie Guard has announced a broader data/intelligence initiative |
| Identify patterns and hotspots | Use robust data to identify patterns and understand where harm is occurring | Geographic, temporal, trend and heatmap analysis across available datasets | — | Flare provides hotspot information |
| Intervene early and effectively | Use intelligence to support earlier, better-targeted action | Emerging signals, patterns and recommendations can support earlier preventative/operational intervention | — | — |
| Inform allocation of resources | Use better intelligence to support effective resource allocation | Intelligence outputs, hotspot analysis and decision profiles can support prioritisation and targeting | — | — |
| Address under-reporting / surface hidden harm | Improve visibility of VAWG that may otherwise remain hidden | Your Voice enables anonymous sharing of experiences/concerns and provides routes to formal police/Crimestoppers reporting | Anonymous community reporting including following, flashing and catcalling | Flare anonymous VAWG / DA / ASB reporting |
| Identify / monitor / disrupt perpetrators | Use technology and policing approaches directly against perpetrators | — | — | — |
| Evidence supporting investigation/enforcement | Support effective enforcement against perpetrators | — | — | Audio / video / location evidence capture |
| Pillar 3 — Support Victims & Survivors | ||||
| Routes to professional and specialist support | Enable victims/survivors to reach police, healthcare, professionals and specialist support services | Provides configurable information and direct routes/signposting to specialist support, police and other appropriate services | — | Hollie Gazzard Trust resources where accessed through its wider service |
| Routes to disclosure / reporting | Enable victims/survivors to report or disclose to appropriate services | Direct routes to formal reporting/support services; Your Voice can provide a separate anonymous route for sharing experiences and concerns | Anonymous community reporting is available, but is not treated here as specialist victim support | Incident / Flare reporting |
| Specialist victim/survivor support delivery | Provide tailored specialist support enabling victims to cope, recover and live safe, independent lives | — | — | — |
| Safe accommodation / housing / therapeutic or advocacy support | Provide the practical, therapeutic and specialist services described in the Strategy | — | — | — |
| Whole-of-Society Approach | ||||
| Whole-of-society participation | Action across government, public services, business, civil society, communities and individuals | Pillar/Channels model enables police, councils, transport, universities, BIDs, businesses, charities/community organisations and others to participate within a connected safety ecosystem | — | — |
| Regional collaboration with stakeholder identity and control | Enable organisations to contribute collectively while maintaining their own responsibilities and relationship with communities | Each stakeholder can retain its own branded identity, Channel, content, audience and control while contributing to a shared regional approach | — | — |
| National and local coordination | Combine national direction and campaigns with locally relevant delivery | National campaigns/content can coexist with regional and local stakeholder-controlled Channels, priorities and engagement | — | — |
| Cross-sector collective approach | Bring different parts of society into a coordinated response | Shared platform enables different sectors to contribute their own role rather than requiring one organisation to own the entire public-facing response | Safe Space partnerships involve participating venues/organisations | Police and organisational deployments |
| Engage communities and wider society | Engage communities, workplaces and wider society in long-term change | Two-way engagement through Your Voice, surveys, campaigns, Guides, Noticeboard, snapshot questions and targeted communications | — | — |
| Preserve local ownership within collective delivery | Support coordinated action without removing local accountability and identity | Stakeholders retain control of their own Channel and engagement while participating in regional/national collective activity | — | — |
| Evidence, Performance & Learning | ||||
| Measure attitudes and harmful behaviour | Track prevention indicators including attitudes towards women, misogyny and harmful behaviour | Surveys, snapshot questions and Your Voice can capture relevant measures; Intelligence can analyse change over time | — | — |
| Build evidence about what works | Use evidence and evaluation to improve interventions | Campaign engagement, surveys, Your Voice and Intelligence can provide evidence before, during and after interventions | — | — |
| Turn evidence into decision support | Use data and evidence to support action | Intelligence converts available data into patterns, trends, risk signals, insights and recommendations for different decision contexts | — | Announced Hollie Guard intelligence initiative aims to provide actionable insights |
| Operational Enablers — Supporting Delivery, Not Strategy Requirements | ||||
| SARA problem-solving workflow | Operational police process: Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment | imabi Intelligence can structure intelligence and intervention activity through the SARA cycle and support assessment of impact | — | — |
| Decision profiles / personas | Present the same intelligence in the context needed by different decision-makers | Intelligence can assume decision perspectives such as Police Gold Command, operational policing and council/local-authority planning | — | — |
| Intervention planning and prioritisation | Translate intelligence into operationally relevant choices | Patterns, hotspots, recommendations, SARA outputs and decision profiles can inform response options and priorities | — | — |
| Assessment and feedback loop | Assess what changed after an intervention and feed learning into future activity | SARA Assessment, Intelligence, Your Voice and surveys support a closed learning loop | — | — |
| End-to-end prevention loop | Connect engagement, intelligence, action and evaluation | Community/lived-experience data → Intelligence → emerging signals/patterns → decision profile/SARA → response → assessment → further engagement and intelligence | — | — |
Address root causes; disrupt dangerous attitudes; stop harmful behaviours escalating
Challenge harmful beliefs, misogyny and behaviours that enable abuse
Drive behaviour change across society through sustained awareness activity
Performance framework includes attitudes towards women, misogyny and harmful behaviour
Enable concerns and harmful behaviour to be identified before escalation
Create environments where abuse is not tolerated and harmful behaviour can be challenged
Improve data so policing can understand VAWG and act effectively
Use robust data to identify patterns and understand where harm is occurring
Use intelligence to support earlier, better-targeted action
Use better intelligence to support effective resource allocation
Improve visibility of VAWG that may otherwise remain hidden
Use technology and policing approaches directly against perpetrators
Support effective enforcement against perpetrators
Enable victims/survivors to reach police, healthcare, professionals and specialist support services
Enable victims/survivors to report or disclose to appropriate services
Provide tailored specialist support enabling victims to cope, recover and live safe, independent lives
Provide the practical, therapeutic and specialist services described in the Strategy
Action across government, public services, business, civil society, communities and individuals
Enable organisations to contribute collectively while maintaining their own responsibilities and relationship with communities
Combine national direction and campaigns with locally relevant delivery
Bring different parts of society into a coordinated response
Engage communities, workplaces and wider society in long-term change
Support coordinated action without removing local accountability and identity
Track prevention indicators including attitudes towards women, misogyny and harmful behaviour
Use evidence and evaluation to improve interventions
Use data and evidence to support action
Operational police process: Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment
Present the same intelligence in the context needed by different decision-makers
Translate intelligence into operationally relevant choices
Assess what changed after an intervention and feed learning into future activity
Connect engagement, intelligence, action and evaluation