Participant-Driven Events
Participant driven events are independent from the Forum programme. They allow partners to devote more time to a specific topic, project, or initiative.
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Hosted by: Oak Foundation, Sexual Violence Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Description: We are excited to invite you to a donor breakfast session hosted by Oak Foundation, in collaboration with the SVRI and the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This special event will highlight the transformative power of cutting-edge research in safeguarding children and adolescents from sexual violence.
Join us for an inspiring morning where you will:
- Gain Insights: Our expert panelists will provide a comprehensive overview of the global state of childhood sexual violence research and the key priorities identified by the field.
- Explore Innovations: Dive into the groundbreaking work of Prevention Global, a pioneering research initiative focused on scalable interventions for child sexual abuse perpetration prevention.
- Discover Gamechangers: Learn about the emerging innovations needed to catalyse a strong research ecosystem for the prevention of childhood sexual violence.
Please note that this is a closed event.
Hosted by: The Social Norms and Agency Learning Collaborative
Description: This event will bring together participants across sectors and regions to share approaches to understand the relationship between social norms and intimate partner violence, unpack change pathways and assess the effectiveness of social norms shifting interventions. Researchers and practitioners will share their experiences with different types of social norms measurement approaches, followed by small group discussions to further explore what has worked well, what challenges they have faced and recommendations for advancing measurement.
Please note that this is a closed event.
Hosted by: World Bank, ESF Implementation Support Unit, OPCS Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network, Columbia University
Description: Sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in and around schools affect millions of children worldwide. School violence has an estimated lifetime economic cost of $11 trillion globally, and severely impacts children’s physical, social, and mental wellbeing, as well as their educational and economic potential. The World Bank, as the largest education financier in the Global South, is uniquely positioned to address SEA in schools and to ensure that the projects it finances do not harm children. This panel discussion brings together diverse stakeholders from civil society, government, and the World Bank operation teams to reflect on good practices and lessons learned from WB-supported education projects in the DRC, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; and from the implementation of Raising Voices’ Whole School approaches with the Ministry of Education in Uganda. Panelists will propose a path forward and opportunities to build national capacity, improve accountability, center action on community knowledge, and strengthen partnerships to create safer school environments for all children.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebelUgGIFkzCmaHBX75-cUByjyE2JajboIMbiGCmp647ScHA/viewform
Hosted by: Women’s Refugee Commission
Description: From 2021 to 2024, the Women’s Refugee Commission, in partnership with Reproductive Health Uganda, Makerere University School of Public Health, Profamilia, and Universidad de los Andes implemented and evaluated a program model that engaged community health workers (CHWs) to deliver community-based GBV prevention and response programming in refugee settings in Uganda and Colombia, with a particular focus on facilitating access to care for survivors of sexual violence.
In this event, WRC and partners will share key evaluation findings and lessons learned from program implementation, and convene stakeholders with experience delivering GBV prevention and response services in humanitarian settings to share experiences, discuss challenges, and identify opportunities to advance innovative, community-based approaches to deliver GBV services and improve the availability and accessibility of care for sexual violence survivors in humanitarian settings.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://forms.gle/DrV68hMg6SzGJche8
Hosted by: UNFPA
Description: There is a growing body of evidence that climate change and GBV are linked. Climate change can exacerbate existing forms of GBV or create new ones, such as intimate partner violence, sexual assault, early marriage and trafficking. It is often challenging to translate the existing evidence into actionable steps for emergency preparedness and response. The main objective of this side event is to share ideas, experiences and promising practices on how to adapt existing GBViE preparedness and response frameworks to respond to the impacts of climate change. What should we do differently and what tools should we have in place to support this objective?
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://forms.gle/fnqHEjQQDVBJ2S9B6
Hosted by: Prevention Collaborative
Description: This interactive session will examine funding practices that enable and constrain effective violence prevention programming. Drawing on survey findings, case-studies, and conversations with partners, we’ll discuss the constraints that limit our ability to design and implement effective programmes, and promising practices for the future.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates. Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T7UNFiPuGi-CzYjmK6UNA-6niFfKj7QT2qdxlGtj_tk/edit.
Hosted by: COFEM, The Accelerator for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Prevention
Description: Effective gender-based violence (GBV) prevention work requires sustained political commitment and investment from donors and national governments, to catalyse transformative change across regions and countries. The GBV prevention field has generated evidence of what works to prevent violence at household, community, local and national levels. These strategies have demonstrated consistent reductions in GBV, what is missing are the resources and effective policies to implement at scale.
This event will dive into recent research findings from the flagship What Counts Report that explores the current state of GBV prevention commitments and funding towards women and girls. After briefly spotlighting key findings and the latest funding landscape trends, we’ll work together to explore practical approaches for advocating collectively for better funding and policies to prevent GBV.
Together we’ll explore case studies, tools and shared messages that can support collective advocacy to mobilise more and better resources for the prevention of GBV.
Please note that this is a closed event.
Hosted by: UN Women (Regional Office for the Asia Pacific, Regional Office for East and Southern Africa and EVAW Section), The Equality Institute
Description: In recent decades, as the evidence base on what works to prevent VAWG has continued to expand, there is growing recognition that national, coordinated, whole-of-government strategies can yield profound and sustained impact. This event will bring together representatives from the Asia-Pacific and East and Southern Africa regions to showcase evidence-based policy practices related to National Action Plans (NAPs) for VAWG prevention. The session will emphasize the importance of whole-of-government strategies and share guidance from the ‘Together for Prevention’ Handbook. This cross-regional exchange will focus on practical solutions and challenges in NAP development and implementation. This event is for government representatives, CSO, donors, development partners, and other ending VAWG practitioners working on prevention strategies who want to learn more on the NAPs for the prevention and connect with other policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and identify opportunities for future cross-country collaboration.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates. Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/5DHedyPqWU
Hosted by: University of Bedfordshire, University of Central Lancashire UK
Description: Hosted by the ‘Learning Together’ and Our Voices projects, this event explores how we can safely and ethically engage children and young people in child sexual violence (CSV) research. It is open to both those who have experience of engaging – or supporting the engagement of – children and young people in CSV research and those newer to the field who want to learn more.
We will think through some of the tensions and challenges of engaging children and young people in CSV research, and share learning as to what can help mitigate these. We will share project resources designed to support safe and meaningful engagement, including a young person’s guide for researchers, a guide to trauma-informed CSV research and a comic exploring different perspectives on participatory CSV initiatives. Participants will also be able to share links to resources that they have used or created and meet with others with similar interests.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/involving-children-and-young-people-in-csv-research-tickets-959431554607?aff=oddtdtcreator
Hosted by: What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale
Description: A networking event to share the early lessons on the practical processes of taking pilot prevention projects to scale ethically and accountably, and an opportunity to meet the global What Works programme team and grantee partners.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://forms.gle/r5Wy74zrX9YeQkhR7
Hosted by: Promotion de la Familie Paysanne (PFP), John Hopkins University
Description: Promotion de la Famille Paysanne (PFP) in Eastern DRC will lead a discussion on their adaption and implementation of Indashyikirwa, an evidence-based couples’ intervention to prevent partner violence, to Hika for the DRC context. PFP, the local implementation team, will present key adaptions within the couples’ group-based curriculum, including integrating economic empowerment and child well-being into the program. PFP team will discuss key learning in implementation, including training and mentoring local facilitators of the couples’ group-based curriculum. The discussion will also present finding from the process evaluation that focused on both facilitators and participant (husband/wife) and their experience and perception of acceptability and comprehension of HIKA curriculum content for rural DRC. The PFP team will provide important information and answer questions on the adaption and implementation of evidence-based violence prevention programs that will be useful for practitioners and researchers working in violence prevention.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://forms.gle/jc7LP16CjypFD6jn6
Hosted by: The Baobab Research Programme Consortium (Population Council, Inc.; Population Council, Kenya; African Population and Health Research Center)
Description: The event introduces an Africa-based, African-led collaboration working to change the narrative about the possibilities for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) research in refugee settings. Come join us to learn about the Baobab journey so far!
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Registration link to follow shortly
Hosted by: El hilo de Ariadne
Description: Advances in technology and widespread access to the internet have made accessing pornography easier than ever. It is critical to examine the role that this exposure plays on the well-being of people of all ages and genders. Pornography consumption has been empirically linked to adverse beliefs (rape myth acceptance, hostile attitudes toward women) and risky sexual behaviors, like strangulation. Mainstream pornography eroticizes gender inequality, positioning gender-based violence as a normative sexual script. This session looks to the future of risk reduction in modern digital pornography’s technological landscape. The session provides participants with a safe space to critically analyze the linkages between pornography and sexual violence. Jennifer A. Johnson (Virginia Tech) and Maree Crabbe (It’s Time We Talked) will lead a discussion on how pornography exposure increases risk of sexual violence, proving participants with tools to expand nuanced discourse around the impact of mainstream pornography on children, teens, and adults.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eroticising-violence-why-we-need-to-talk-about-mainstream-pornography-tickets-964453274707?aff=oddtdtcreator
Wednesday 23 October 2024
Hosted by: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Description: Private Breakfast Event for Wellspring Grantees.
Please note that this is a closed event.
Hosted by: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Description:
Womanity and the Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California, San Diego, invite you to an engaging workshop designed for activists, practitioners, donors, and researchers passionate about feminist scale and power-balanced partnerships.
What to expect:
- Research Insights:
We will share learnings from a groundbreaking study that examined power dynamics among funders, programme designers, and implementers.
Explore case studies from around the world, including:
- Program H (Lebanon)
- Take Back the Tech Campaign (Mexico)
- Safetipin (South Africa)
- Legal Promoters Training and Community Care Model (Cape Verde)
- Transforming Masculinities (Nigeria)
- Expert Discussions:
- Discover how the study’s findings align with experiences from practitioners, researchers, and donors working in the Global South.
- Learn best practices for fostering effective South-South collaborations.
- Interactive Activities:
- Dynamic exercises designed to spark conversation and reflection.
- Co-creation of resources for building values-based partnerships that accelerate decolonising efforts in the VAWG field.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-scale-shifting-power-through-equity-centred-action-tickets-932780751337
Hosted by: ECPAT International, Women’s Refugee Commission, Equimundo, Family for Every Child, Save the Children International, Physicians for Human Rights, All Survivors Project
Description: The event will be hosted by the newly established Global Alliance on the Protection of Boys from Sexual Violence (GAPB) through its international and local members, presenting the GAPB Global Manifesto on the Protection of Boys from Sexual Violence. Through the interactive session, participants will delve into how constructions of masculinity affect boys’ behaviours, particularly sexuality, and how to engage with issues related to harmful sexual behaviours, with a specific focus on the work of civil society organisations in the South African setting and the online world. Participants will also be able to explore outcome-oriented resources for the protection of boys from sexual violence across different settings, including contexts of migration and displacement, and the specific vulnerabilities affecting children with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and characteristics (SOGIESC).
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://forms.gle/UgAfw5tMjQfWLhnQ6
Hosted by: World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA)
Description: Join us at the SVRI 2024 Conference for an enlightening presentation by the World YWCA on its Young Women’s Feminist Consultation Methodology (FCM). Discover how this innovative grassroots approach, implemented through the World YWCA-led Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) Initiative, reshapes SGBV research norms globally. Through engaging young women as primary researchers, the FCM ensures their voices are heard and valued, empowering them to drive meaningful change in their communities. Learn how this approach addresses gaps in legal protection frameworks, societal norms, and civil society advocacy while promoting social norms change and young women’s leadership. Join us to explore evidence and practice-based learning and be inspired to contribute to more effective prevention and response strategies against violence. Join us in redefining SGBV research norms and boundaries!
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://forms.gle/gm3icEcYE5S2oMWSA
Hosted by: The Womanity Foundation
Description: Womanity and the Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California, San Diego, invite you to an engaging workshop designed for activists, practitioners, donors, and researchers passionate about feminist scale and power-balanced partnerships.
Research Insights: We will share learnings from a groundbreaking study that examined power dynamics among funders, programme designers, and implementers.
Explore case studies from around the world, including:
- Program H (Lebanon)
- Take Back the Tech Campaign (Mexico)
- Safetipin (South Africa)
- Legal Promoters Training and Community Care Model (Cape Verde)
- Transforming Masculinities (Nigeria)
Expert Discussions:
- Discover how the study’s findings align with experiences from practitioners, researchers, and donors working in the Global South.
- Learn best practices for fostering effective South-South collaborations.
Interactive Activities:
- Dynamic exercises designed to spark conversation and reflection.
- Co-creation of resources for building values-based partnerships that accelerate decolonising efforts in the VAWG field.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Registration link to follow shortly
Hosted by: Fraym
Description: Join an interactive workshop with the Fraym team demonstrating the Gender Norms Data Engine (GNDE), a platform for high-frequency sub-national data from Kenya and Nigeria. Learn to use the Data Engine for planning, designing, and monitoring programs, as well as curating media campaigns and advocacy messages. Participants will collaborate with Fraym to create tailored workflows.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: https://fraym.io/svri-forum-2024?utm_source=neetu&utm_medium=referral+&utm_campaign=svri-forum-2024&utm_content=referral+
Hosted by: Prevention Collaborative
Description: Harmful alcohol use is recognized as an important risk factor for IPV and VAC, yet efforts to address it as part of comprehensive violence prevention work have been limited. Informed by a new evidence review and expert consultations, this interactive session will focus on generating a range of strategies across the socio-ecological model to include alcohol reduction more effectively in prevention.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://forms.gle/untKs6Eg23TpAv8M7
Hosted by: The Freedom Fund
Description: Globally, 7 million children are employed as domestic workers in private households. Separated from their families, they face high levels of verbal, physical and sexual violence while working in dangerous conditions.
In this session, the Freedom Fund (freedomfund.org) will host a panel of leading child rights experts from Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, and Nigeria to discuss the findings and actions from large-scale research. Based on surveys and interviews with over 6,000 child domestic workers and employers across the four countries, these studies offer unprecedented insights into the daily experiences of child domestic workers, the violence they face, their complex relationships with families and employers, and their aspirations for the future.
All SVRI Forum participants are welcome to this open event, where lunch will be provided. Join us to examine this critical issue and advocate for greater actions to protect the rights of child domestic workers.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://behind_closed_doors.eventbrite.com/
Hosted by: Coalition for Good Schools, What Works: Impact at Scale, Safe to Learn, UNESCO
Description: Panel discussion on leveraging education and school-based interventions to prevent and respond to violence against children and gender-based violence in all its forms. It will explore education settings as a platform for scaling effective violence prevention interventions and the multiple positive outcomes of absence of violence on learning.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://forms.gle/G5mW9NbGXHfsX3JK7
Hosted by: CDC South Africa, Gender and Health Research Unit, SAMRC
Description: The South African adaptation of the GBV QA tool features streamlined assessments for faster use & emphasizes disability, LGBTQI+, and youth friendly services. Grab a copy, grab lunch, and see digital access options. We’ll share our tools, our adaptation processes, and discuss ideas for improving GBV response services in both SA and other settings.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Registration link to follow shortly
Hosted by: Sexual Violence Research Initiative
Description: In this meeting, SVRI grantees and donors will meet to understand various projects, impact of research funded by SVRI and exchange ideas to strengthen grant making and impact of grants.
Please note that this is a closed event.
Hosted by: Lutheran World Federation, Episcopal Relief and Development, Tear Fund, ALARM, International Justice Mission, World Vision
Description: Are you in search of tangible ways to bolster survivor-centered interventions? Would you like to learn more about doing so from the full spectrum of prevention to response and access to justice? Join this conversation showcasing comprehensive approaches to supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Members of the Faith Actors’ Consortium engaged in Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (FACE) will share their work at the individual, couple, community, and system levels to provide insights into various aspects of survivor support, from addressing harmful gender norms to improving the quality of services and navigating complex justice systems. The discussion aims to spark future conversations and action within the full spectrum of survivor support initiatives in both programming and research. FACE is comprised of World Vision, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Episcopal Relief & Development, Tearfund, International Justice Mission (IJM), and African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries (ALARM).
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfviYRHV-NML2YUoEglOo8aUp9IVlTzQBJHLSVlXQo-LbHUg/viewform
Hosted by: Safe Futures Hub: Solutions to End Childhood Sexual Violence, Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), Together For Girls, WeProtect Global Alliance
Description: Safe Futures Hub, co-led by the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, Together for Girls, and the WeProtect Global Alliance, invites you to the launch of our comprehensive evidence review on preventing sexual violence against children. The report, titled “Building Safe Futures: Solutions to End Childhood Sexual Violence,” highlights the most effective strategies and interventions that have demonstrated measurable success. Additionally, you’ll learn more about our ongoing efforts to redefine, build, and mobilize knowledge to end childhood sexual violence (CSV) as we bring together key experts, advocates, and stakeholders. Our event will feature a series of presentations, including insights on the role of Practice-Based Knowledge in preventing CSV, alongside participant-driven discussions and interactive sessions. Attendees will gain valuable insights into proven approaches, network with like-minded professionals, and contribute to a collaborative effort to create safer futures for children worldwide.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://forms.office.com/r/gA9KvkxPRK
Thursday 24 October 2024
Hosted by: UNFPA
Description: The nexus between protracted humanitarian crises and development settings presents unique challenges for providing GBV response services. The side event aims to 1) Highlight the specific approaches that can be used in humanitarian-development nexus contexts and the respective challenges and opportunities; 2) Foster dialogue among stakeholders to strengthen GBV response services across the nexus, and 3) Showcase promising practices and innovative approaches to GBV response across the nexus.
The side event will include a panel discussion featuring experts from different organizations and a moderated Q&A session with the audience.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://forms.gle/ap5Pgrye4z9ENsjH8
Hosted by: UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
Description: The purpose of this side event at SVRI Forum 2024, is to bring to the forum the vital concept of organizational resilience, particularly via CSOs and WROs that are at the forefront of the battle to end violence against women and girls (VAW/G). In an era marked by intersecting global crises, this event aims to reflect on the practical knowledge surrounding the capacity of these organizations to not only endure, but to adapt and thrive. This event, hosted by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, seeks to a) present the findings of a first-of-its-kind global dialogue on organizational resilience in multiple languages on the definition and key characteristics of the concept, and b) bring together donors, policymakers, practitioners and researchers in the EVAW/G community, around the nine key recommendations from the study that serve as a call to action to invest in the organizational resilience of WROs / CSOs.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdc3WnDmmVdMUQdxZS5AvzmKeyRTtYtEVFIEX8_gSk3uAH0EA/viewform
Hosted by: NUMUN Fund, Breakthrough, MenEngage Alliance and SVRI
Description: An intentional open space to talk about narrative pieces of online space: what’s happening, what different forces are boosting it, what do we do? One of the focus areas of interrogation would be the urgent need to develop more robust analysis of and responses to digital sexual and gender-based violence and men’s involvement in the manosphere, including strategies for building alternative online spaces for young men in particular, which can support them in rejecting the misogynistic messaging that surrounds them online. The objective is to strengthen understanding of the technological contexts in which gender transformative work with men and boys is operating, and the challenges and opportunities created by technological change.
Invite only event.
Hosted by: LSHTM
Description: During this workshop, we will share findings and recommendations from a research study conducted by the Gender Violence and Health Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Our study, conducted between 2023 and 2024, involved a scoping review of the literature, as well as interviews and focus group discussions with over 70 individuals from different regions in the world engaged in research, programming, funding, and advocacy on violence against women and girls. The aim was to explore perceptions and experiences of colonisation and decolonisation within the field. We will present our initial findings and recommendations and invite your feedback and insights on how these resonate with your own experiences. Your input will be invaluable in refining our understanding and recommendations.
Breakfast will be provided.
We have limited space for participants, so sign up now and we will let you know if your attendance is confirmed.
Sign up here: https://DecolonisingVAWGfeedbackworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk
Hosted by: InterAction, ICRC, Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Description: In 2021, InterAction and 12 international organizations launched a new GBV Prevention Evaluation Framework (GBV PEF) with the intent of helping humanitarians better analyze, design, monitor, and evaluate GBV prevention outcomes. The GBV PEF introduces new outcome-oriented M&E methodologies for measuring GBV prevention. Currently, the GBV PEF is being used by at least 27 local and international organizations across 12 contexts including Colombia, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Myanmar, Somalia, and South Sudan, among others. This discussion will showcase several of the methods within the GBV PEF but then turn to the individuals of organizations, including local organizations, to discuss how they have operationalized the use of the GBV PEF in a variety of contexts. Join us for this interactive lunch session to learn more about the GBV PEF and how you can use it within your organization’s programs. Space is limited.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link https://www.research.net/r/W6FJDZX
Hosted by: Freedom Fund and Innovations for Poverty Actions (IPA)
Description: Randomised control trials (RCTs) are often hailed as the “gold standard” for examining the causal impact of programs. When properly designed and conducted, RCTs can credibly estimate a program’s impact. However, not every question can be answered using an RCT; it is just one of several tools available to estimate and understand a program’s impact.
Join The Freedom Fund, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and other leading researchers and funders in the anti-human trafficking movement for a debate on this topic. The event will examine RCTs used to reduce violence against children and women in Brazil, Haiti, and Uganda. Through interactive and candid discussions, we will explore the suitability of RCTs for evaluating complex interventions and consider alternative experimental and quasi-experimental methods. Join us for this important conversation to broaden the range of methods for measuring transformative social change and help advance the field of anti-violence research.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://using-RCTs-to-evaluate-anti-violence-efforts.eventbrite.com
Hosted by: UNICEF
Description: With support from the USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, and in partnership with Tsunagu, UNICEF has led a project over the last two years to capture learning on the entry points that have proven most successful in institutionalizing GBV risk mitigation, both within various agencies as well as interagency mechanisms. Emerging from this project are a series of deep dive and thematic case studies as well as a resource package that aims to help practitioners looking to make GBV risk mitigation a more consistent and self-sustaining feature of their organizations’, sectors’ and/or clusters’ work. This session will provide a forum for exchange where UNICEF can share learning and tools from this project and brainstorm together how to take this work forward.
Please note that this is a closed event.
Hosted by: The Womanity Foundation; Center on Gender Equity and Health; University of California, San Diego
Description: Often, those working on adaptation stay focused on their key partners and projects and are unaware of or disconnected from processes, thought, resources and practice of others also working to adapt violence against women and children prevention programming. This siloed working means we miss out on learning from and sharing with others which could make our adaptation work stronger and propel the body of knowledge and practice for adaptation forward. Community building and collaboration among organizations and funders committed to adaptation is essential to strengthening adaptation efforts. This small, invite-only event hosted by Womanity Foundation and the Center on Gender Equity and Health will bring a curated, diverse group of colleagues working on adaptation together to build relationships, share information and resources, discuss opportunities and challenges and encourage future connection and collaboration.
Please note that this is a closed event.
Hosted by: Community of Practice on Tech-facilitated GBV
Description: This is an open space for all SVRI attendees working on Tech-Facilitated GBV to connect, exchange ideas and lessons from their work, engage in meaningful conversation about trends and promising strategies, and learn about the SVRI-supported Tech-Facilitated GBV Community of Practice.
Guest speakers from Chayn and SVRI, among others, will kick-start the conversation with insights from collaborations with the tech sector and research priorities for the field.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAXFZE4qwc4hBVxm1AUs0ZBFvLd_t2jfke1nQQbePArMV-sA/viewform
Hosted by: IDRC & SVRI
Description: Gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education institutions (HEIs) is a key driver of the underrepresentation of women in universities. Yet evidence has only recently been emerging on the role of policies and prevention interventions to support behavioural, normative and institutional change in low- and middle-income countries. This event is part of a wider process of establishing a research agenda on GBV in higher education. It will focus on the role of evidence in driving policies and programmes on GBV in HEIs, highlighting knowledge gaps and exploring modalities to support a large-scale research agenda on this topic. The event will include presentations on recent research on GBV in HEIs and a panel discussion with leading scholars, funders and policymakers invested in this area of work. The event will be co-managed and sponsored by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the SVRI.
For more information contact – julienne@svri.org
Please note that this is a closed event.
Friday 25 October 2024
Hosted by: University of California, San Diego
Description: Join us for an exclusive briefing on ARCHES, a scalable clinic and community-based approach to address gender-based violence (GBV). We’ll review the evidence from ARCHES trials across multiple settings and multiple global regions demonstrating the effectiveness of the model in reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) and supporting women’s reproductive agency and then discuss potential next steps for expansion and implementation at scale.
Invitation only.
Hosted by: UNFPA
Description: Violence against women remains a globally pervasive human rights violation. One in three women worldwide will experience physical and/or sexual violence at the hands of men at some point in their lives, making women and girls the most vulnerable members of society. It is imperative to ensure the localization of the NSP so that South Africa can truly be free of GBVF. Harnessing the role of the private sector, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), donors, Academia (Researchers), Government including resources and innovation is one the key mechanisms in accelerating the response against GBVF, by cutting across socio-economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries.
Purpose of the event – Bridging the Gap: Advancing Multi-Sectoral responses to GBV through translating Policies into Effective Practices in South Africa
To convene a substantive discussion focusing on innovative ways to bridge the gap between policy and practice in responding to GBVF and the specific role of the private sector, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), donors, Academia (Researchers), Government in this multi-sectoral social responsibility.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaKfnIOb7IwJo23_eMCqWIgmi1V7FSbvW0iXZc9KU2XBHglA/viewform
Hosted by: University of California, San Diego
Description: This participant-driven session will offer participants an opportunity to engage with ARCHES as a solution for addressing GBV and supporting women’s reproductive rights and agency. After a brief review of the evidence, the session will focus on bringing together a diverse group of global stakeholders to collaboratively build an agenda for implementation research and bringing this approach to scale. Sonia Rastogi, Senior Program Officer for Gender Integration at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will moderate the discussion.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arches-supporting-womens-reproductive-agency-and-reducing-gbv-tickets-995663776157?aff=oddtdtcreator
Hosted by: Urgent Action Fund-Africa; International Rescue Committee
Description: This session aims to cultivate i-depth dialogue and facilitate a robust conversation on the role funding partners play in fostering transformative philanthropy for GBV prevention and response. The discussions we hope to have, and prospective recommendations will hinge on the experiences of bilateral, private philanthropy, feminist funds and INGOs working on resourcing GBV prevention and response. With the latter we hope to reflect the power and potential of well-resourced womn’s rights organisations.
Open to SVRI Forum 2024 Delegates: Please register by using this link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=QFs8mA78MUKDQc7KlCQHiYiT0F6cBBFApiXIyHCgS51UMTgxVjRLWkNFQTRJMjROTkNZSElZREVPRyQlQCN0PWcu
Hosted by: Brands on a Mission
Description: Brands on a Mission is excited to host a dynamic two-part side event, dedicated to exploring innovative approaches to tackling GBV, and leveraging technology to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) narratives across Africa. The first session, ‘Harnessing the Power of Multi-Sector Collaboration to Dismantle GBV in South Africa’ will bring together leading private sector companies and multi-sector conveners to examine innovative partnerships and the untapped potential of the private sector in addressing GBV in South Africa. The second session, ‘African Voices: Shaping a New SRHR Narrative through Technology’ will spotlight influential African voices from civil society, the tech industry and influencer and digital media sector, who are leveraging novel technologies and approaches to drive and elevate conversations around sensitive SRHR topics. Together, these sessions will cultivate a platform for exchanging innovative ideas and shaping new pathways for advocacy and multi-sectoral action to advance SRHR across Africa.
Closed event, currently by invitation only. Stay tuned to Brands on a Mission’s LinkedIn for any updates on event access.
Hosted by: Fòs Feminista – International Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Description: This event will foster a multi-country dialogue aimed at deepening our collective understanding of what it means to work with men and boys on GBV prevention from a feminist approach. This will entail learning how different organisations have applied a feminist approach to the work with men and boys across different rural and urban contexts in Africa and Latin America, engaging in discussions centred on practitioners’ experiences, bringing out the challenges and lessons learnt from navigating deep patriarchal norms and practices. With opportunities to critically reflect, ideate effective strategies and learn from each other to advance gender transformative programming.
The session will be co-led by several partners who are working to promote healthy/non-violent masculinities through a feminist lens and is coordinated by Fòs Feminista, Equimundo and MenEngage. The session will involve poster presentations of the various initiatives, open mic discussions to facilitate learning and experience sharing from the participants.
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Hosted by: CARE
Description: Join us for “Voices for Safety in GBViE and Tech,” a collaborative forum to contribute to the development of inter-agency GBV in Emergencies Digital Minimum Standards. Led by CARE and the global inter-agency GBViE community, this event is open to all– we welcome grassroots advocates, technology developers, and GBV/humanitarian practitioners to discuss best practices, challenges, and opportunities in creating safe digital GBViE tools for women and girls in hard-to-reach areas.
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09:00-12:00 | Scaling Up of (Parenting) Interventions: A Community of Practice Shared Learning Event
Hosted by: Global Parenting Initiative, Global Initiative to Support Parents
Description: If we are to protect all children everywhere from abuse and neglect, interventions need to be taken to scale. This is not a straightforward process, and in scaling there is the potential risk of interventions not being as effective. There are many considerations to scaling a intervention, including programme acceptability, readiness assessments of implementing partners, adaptation of tools and materials, and training, coaching, and accreditation of facilitators, coaches, and trainers.
The Global Parenting Initiative (see https://globalparenting.org/), will host a community of practice event titled Scaling Up of (Parenting) Interventions: A Community of Practice Shared Learning event.
This workshop offers a space for implementers of prevention programmes (whether parenting programmes or others) to come together and share experiences, thoughts, and ideas.
Who should attend: Implementing organisations and anyone interested in learning about the scale-up of programmes and sharing their experiences with fellow implementers.
Theme: Programs and practice that work for preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect across sectors.
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Hosted by: Urgent Action Fund-Africa
Description: In the wake of heightened crises across the continent, this roundtable discussion will be unpacking healing as a framework for liberation from, and transformation of, structures that perpetuate violence against women. The dialogue cultivated from this roundtable will also speak to the resistance strategies WHR and feminist activists across Africa employ to mobilize and organize against various forms of GBV. Our aim is, thus, to answer the layered question:
- Why and how can we center healing in our movement spaces as we fight to eradicate structures of harm?
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Hosted by: Asian Network of Women’s Shelters, The Garden of Hope Foundation
Description: Join us for an insightful exploration of emerging trends in the field of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), ranging from technology-driven abuse to cultural shifts, such as GBV affecting men, the elderly, gender-diverse groups, new management skills of shelters, and other urgent topics across Asia. During this session, we will examine both challenges and effective practices to tackle new forms of GBV in the region. Anticipate engaging discussions with practitioners from the GBV fields, particularly those working within shelters or advocating for resources and policy reform across Asia.
This event is co-organized by the Asian Network of Women’s Shelters (ANWS) and The Garden of Hope Foundation (GOH). ANWS, serves as a regional network under the Global Network of Women’s Shelters (GNWS), founded in 2012 to unite, promote, and strengthen the women’s shelter movement in Asia to end all forms of gender-based violence. GOH functions as the secretariat of ANWS and holds the position of Executive Board Member of GNWS.
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Hosted by:Urgent Action Fund-Africa
Description: This session will surface the different intersecting forms of violence facing WHRDs in the focus countries covered by our Womn’s Human Rights Defenders Registry. Although the registry collects data on the threats, risks and violations faced by African WHRDs in Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Burkina Faso and South Africa, the dialogue will not be exclusionary; instead, it will broadly engage the context of Africa as a whole. Our aim is to answer the questions:
- How do various forms of crises manifest as violence in different contexts
- How are WHRDs resisting violence?
- How can we center healing and collective care in our response to violence?
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Hosted by: South Sudan Ministry of Health and UNICEF
Description: The South Sudan Ministry of Health, UNICEF and other partners will discuss recent developments – both programmatic and research-focused – around the intersections of gender-based violence and nutrition. The event will showcase emerging practices in GBV/Nutrition programming from multiple humanitarian contexts, share findings from an operational study on GBV and nutrition in South Sudan, preview upcoming multi-country research, and introduce new technical guidance.
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Hosted by: National Association of Community Health Workers, Health Resources in Action
Description: In the U.S., Community Health Workers are a predominately female, low-income frontline public health workforce. CHWs have lived experience as survivors of multiple forms of violence and professional experience and roles as service providers to prevent, intervene in, and heal the impacts of structural, community-level, and interpersonal violence.
The National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) invites you to this session. Objectives include:
- Understanding the role, capacity, and leadership of CHWs in the United States as service providers to prevent and address multiple forms of violence (gender-based workplace and community violence and harassment, interpersonal and domestic violence, sexual violence)
- Exploring data, policies and case examples that promote the roles of CHWs to prevent and address multiple forms of violence based on evidence-based research.
- Discuss diverse national contexts with other participants that can mediate or moderate the implementation of CHWs’ professional roles to implement these evidence-based policies and practices.
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