Venue: Hall 5/ 6

Opening and Welcome: Claudia Garcia-Moreno, SVRI Founder and Forum Chair  

Short Play : Kim Blanché Adonis

The SVRI Forum plenary recordings, including the opening performance by Kim Blanche Adonis, discuss topics such as violence against women and children. We encourage viewers to engage with care and prioritise their well-being while watching.

Facilitator: Emma Fulu, Founder, The Equality Institute

Panellists:

Tarana Burke, Founder and Chief Vision Officer, me too.

  Kolbassia Haoussou MBE, Survivor Leadership and Influencing Director, Freedom from Torture

  Jac sm Kee, Co-founder and Cartographer, Numun Fund

1.1. VAW/IPV Prevention Programmes
Venue: Hall 5/6
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Avni Amin, World Health Organization

• A pilot randomised controlled trial of the co-developed Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus (SSCF+) intervention: mixed methods outcomes for young (18-30 years) South Africans
  Andrew Gibbs, Laura Washington, Smanga Mkhwanazi, Sivuyile Khaula, Esnat Chirwa, Nwabisa Shai, Smantha Willan, Rochelle Burgess, Neha Batura, Rachel Jewkes, Jenevieve Mannell 

• Decolonising VAW interventions in the Pacific: Findings from a participatory community-led intervention to reduce violence against women in Samoa as part of the EVE Project
  Papali’i Ene Isaaki, Fa’afetai Alisi-Fesili, Hattie Lowe, Jenevieve Mannell 

• Addressing harmful social and gender norms in humanitarian settings: Engaging faith leaders and communities
  Uwezo Baghuma Lele 

• Main evaluation results of the Rethinking Power programme in Haiti
  Maureen Murphy, Mary Ellsberg, Emanuela Paul, Sara Siebert, Jean Prosper Elie, Angela Bourassa 

• Midline findings and lessons learned from adapting Indashyikirwa to Aleppo, Syria
  Verena Bruno, Veronica Ahlenback, Julienne Corboz, Erin Stern, Joanne Creighton, Huda Kaakeh 

1.2. Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children 
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Iain Drennan, We Protect Global Alliance

• Mental health outcomes of adult survivors of online sexual abuse and exploitation of children
  Adesty Dulawan, Lucila Bance 

• “I know what to do when being ‘bothered’ online”, How children take charge and call for agency-promoting measures to protect them from online sexual violence
  Eva Notté 

• Safety online from sexual exploitation: Children’s messages to the public, parents and policy-makers
  Jean Elphick, Eva Notté 

• Parental perspectives on navigating digital perils: Strategies, challenges, and the potential for digital interventions in ensuring online child safety
  Shallen Lusinga, Hlengiwe Sacolo, Jamie Lachman, Zamakhanya Makhanya, Khanyisile Brukwe, Juliet Stromin, Maria Ambrosio, Anne Schley, Stephen Khama, Seema Vyas, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Francisco Calderon

1.3. Schools and Higher Education Institutions 
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Jane Ndungu, University of Exeter

• Sexual misconduct among high school students in Vietnam
  Kim-Tu Thi Tran, Ruschelle Leone, Kevin Swartout, Minh Tran, Oanh Trinh, Kathryn Yount 

• Embedding violence prevention in existing religious and education systems: Initial learning from formative research in the Safe Schools Study in Zimbabwe
  Emily Eldred, Ellen Turner, Camilla Fabbri, Amiya Bhatia, Michelle Lokot, Tendai Nhenga, Charles Nherera, Progress Nangati, Ratidzai Moyo, Dorcas Mgugu, Robert Nyakuwa, Sarah Rank, Sister Annah Theresa Nyadombo, Karen Devries 

• Navigating silence and barriers: Understanding the impact of family collectivism, cultural complexities, and microaggressions on API student survivors’ experiences of sexual violence and harassment
  Jianchao Lai, Eunhee Park, Jenny Lee, Grace Nguyen, Sabrina Dou, Allison Massey, Madi Logan, Jennifer Wagman 

• Between a rock and hard place? The toxic interface of online and in-person intimate partner violence against female college students in Tanzania
  Gerry Mshana, Diana Aloyce, Nerissa Tilouche, Heidi Stockl, Ana Maria Buller 

1.4. VAW/VAC: Multi-sectoral Responses 
Venue: Hall 8.2
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Begoña Castro Vázquez, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

• Shifting norms on violence against women: Potential of women’s collectives in leading community level response (See accompanying short video)
  Shubha Bhattacharya, Madhuparna Das Joshi, Anamika Priyadarshini 

• Health system readiness to address domestic violence: Development and evaluation of an outreach centre intervention in central Nepal
  Satya Shrestha, Poonam Rishal, Manuela Colombini, Sandi Dheensa, Gene Feder 

• Multisectoral efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in South Asia
  Mirai Maruo, Erisha Suwal 

• Adopting a survivor-centered approach to workplace gender-based violence in lucrative sectors: Lessons learned from USAID’s Engendering Industries
  Hayley Samu, Khumo Mokhethi

• Comparing health systems readiness for integrating domestic violence services in Brazil, occupied Palestinian Territories, Nepal and Sri Lanka
  Manuela Colombini, Satya Shrestha, Stephanie Pereira, Beatriz

1.5. Conflict, Displacement and Humanitarian Settings
Venue: Hall 8.3
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Stella Muthuri, Population Council

• Documenting conflict-related sexual violence and associated attacks on health in Ethiopia: Presenting results from mixed-methods research
  Organization for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa, Lindsey Green, Thomas McHale, Ranit Mishori, Rose McKeon Olson, Payal Shah 

• Stigmatization of women affected by intimate partner violence and war-related violence in north and south Wollo, Ethiopia
  Ruth Peters, Zehara Kassie, Abraraw Tadesse, Dirk Essink, Jacqueline Broerse, Negussie Deyessa 

• The intersecting stigmatisation and discrimination experienced by trafficked survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and children born of war in Nigeria and Iraq
  Dashakti Reddy

• A framework for understanding cooking fuel type and IPV against women based on a liquid-propane gas intervention in the Rohingya refugee camp
  Laura H Kwong, Aloka Talukder, Tasmiah Khan, Sabahun Salam, Tayeba Chowdhury, Md. Nuruzzaman, Samiha Uddin, Mohammad Saeed Munim, Christopher LeBoa, Nuhu Amin, Mohammad Alamgir, Nazrin Akter, Mahbubur Rahman, Stephen P Luby, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Md. Mahfuz Al Mamun

• Understanding barriers to accessing GBV services for migrant and refugee survivors in transit, and establishing cross-border care approaches: Examples from Central America and Ukraine
  Ana Aguilera, Diana Jimena Arango, Constanze Quosh, Manuel Contreras Urbina, Valentina Duque, Kathryn McCallister, Mohammed Ghafour, Carlos Muñoz Burgos, Lorena Levano Gavidia, Giselle Marie Bello 

1.6. Understanding Violence against Women 
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Tesmerelna Atsbeha, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

• Gender differences in the health impacts of intimate partner violence at the population level
  Janet Fanslow, Brooklyn Mellar, Pauline Gulliver, Vanessa Selak, Tracey McIntosh 

• Dynamics of changing determinants of intimate partner violence in India: Evidence National Family Health Survey- 2005-06 to 2019-21 (kindly contact the author for a copy of the presentation)
  Suresh Jungari 

• Tracing back the steps. Using life histories of intimate partner femicide perpetrators to identify prevention points
  Martín Hernán Di Marco, Dabney P. Evans 

• Using sensemaking methodology to measure violence against women and children in complex humanitarian emergencies: A trauma-informed mixed-methods approach
  Julianna Deutscher, Sofia Friesen, Susan Bartels, Luissa Vahedi, Sydney Johnson, Monica Noriega, Maria Marisol, Gabriela Gonzalez 

1.7. Intimate Partner Violence – Measures 
Venue: Nerina/Protea
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Lori Heise, Prevention Collaborative

• Measuring intergenerational cycling of violence: Measures development for South African women’s reports of witnessing IPV in childhood from the Fediša Modikologo formative research
  Rachel Jewkes, Naeemah Abrahams, Jani Nothling, Leane Ramsoomar, Samantha Willan, Mercilene Machisa, Venice Mbowane, Asiphe Ketelo, Maureen Mtimkulu, Esnat Chirwa, Shibe Mhlongo, Charntel Paile, Des Pass, Sinqobile Mngadi, Zama Khosa, Tholsie Gounden, Thobeka Majola, Nataly Woollett, Nicola Christofides, Laura Washington 

• Construction of indicators and implications for intimate partner violence measurement: Analysis of longitudinal data from Tanzania
  Sarah Meyer, Neema Mosha, Gerry Mshana, Saidi Kapiga, Heidi Stockl 

• Couple’s report men’s perpetration and women’s experience of IPV: An analysis of discordant reporting in Rwanda and Senegal (please contact the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Anjalee Kohli, Bryan Shaw, Christina Yantis, Lameck Habumugisha, Jean Lambert Sebareze, Erin DeGraw 

• Using sub-national GBV data to respond to local needs: Development and application of a framework to synthesize and triangulate sub-national data on gender-based violence
  Kristin Diemer, Jessica Gardner, James Lang, Jess Letch 

• Are commonly used scales measuring intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration valid tools for intervention impact assessment?
  Cari Jo Clark, Irina Bergenfeld, Abbie Shervinskie, Erin R. Johnson, Yuk Fai Cheong, Nadine J Kaslow, Kathryn M Yount 

Venue: Exhibition Hall

Venue: Ground Floor

Please see the SVRI Forum 2024 Poster Programme HERE.

2.1. Perpetration
Venue: Hall 5/6
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Pinky Mahlangu, South African Medical Research Council

• Understanding non-perpetration among Ugandan males with former childhood violence victimization (please contact the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Laura Chiang, Viani Picchetti, Greta Massetti, Ashleigh Howard, Rose Apondi, George Aluzimbi 

• Masculinités, normes de genre et perpétration des violences sexuelles envers les femmes au Burkina Faso
  Nathalie Sawadogo 

• Caribbean model for masculinities and criminal violence: An approach to eliminating violence against women and girls
  Tricia Basdeo-Gobin, Shalinee Bahadur 

• Understanding men’s perpetration of intimate partner violence in communities affected by armed conflict: Augmenting evidence for intervention
  Christine Bourey, Rashelle Musci, Judith Bass, Nancy Glass, Amani Matabaro, Jocelyn Kelly 

2.2. Mobile Approaches – Parenting
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Yeva Avakyan, Save the Children

• Enhancing parental engagement and preventing violence against children: Insights from implementing a hybrid chatbot-led parenting intervention in South Africa
  Zamakhanya Makhanya, Hlengiwe Sacolo-Gwebu, Shallen Lusinga, Maria Ambrosio, Juliet Stromin, Khanyisile Brukwe, Seema Vyas, Anne Schley, Stephen Khama, Francisco Calderon, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Jamie Lachman 

• Lessons from a parenting programme to reduce violence against women and violence against children
  Natalie Davidson, Catherine L. Ward 

• Preventing violence against children and intimate partner violence using a digital parenting intervention: A pre-post study of the ParentText chatbot in Jamaica and South Africa
  Moa Schafer, Jamie M. Lachman, Paula Zinser, Francisco Calderon, Qing Han, Chiara Facciola, Lily Clements, Frances Gardner, Genevieve Haupt Ronnie, Ross Sheil 

• Paternar: From in-person to digital and hybrid: Learnings from adapting a fatherhood program in Colombia 
  Katherine Pizarro, Melissa Wong Oviedo, Clara Alemann , Rachel Lehrer, Cristina Álvarez, Carlos Cardona Colmenares , Cristhián Torres Pachón

• A hybrid-digital parenting programme to reduce sexual violence against adolescents: Results from a pre-post pilot and RCT in Tanzania
  Lauren Baerecke, Jonathan Klapwijk, Joyce Wamoyi, Lucie Cluver, Anna Booij, Abigail Ornellas, Kija Nyalali, Mwita Wambura, Angelique Nicole Chetty 

2.3. Mental Health Impacts
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Shanaaz Mathews, University of Cape Town

• The trauma recovery rubric: A tool to evaluate where gender-based violence survivors are in their healing journey (kindly contact the authors for a copy of this presentation)
  Laura Sinko, Sachiko Kita, Kleio Koutra, Denise Saint Arnault 

• Improving mental healthcare for adolescent sexual assault survivors in Sierra Leone: Identifying barriers to mental health follow-up and acceptability of an mHealth intervention
  Rose McKeon Olson, Josephine Ndanemah, Anthony Sam, Lydia Pace 

• Therapeutic mechanisms of an arts-informed intervention for pregnant and parenting adolescents experiencing violence in South Africa
  Nataly Woollett, Lele van Eck, Linda Mazibuko, Lauren Ross, Alexandra Khazin, Kirsten Thomson, Shay Slifko, Nicola Christofides, Abigail Hatcher 

• Group-based facilitator-guided mental health intervention to reduce psychological stress related to gender-based violence: A pilot randomised study
  Jani Nothling, Samantha Willan, Esnat Chirwa, Shibe Mhlongo, Rachel Jewkes, Naeemah Abrahams 

• Systematic inclusion of gender based violence in mental health and psychosocial services at primary health care level in emergency contexts
  Anna Rita Ronzoni, Rana Mohammed, Asma Gariba, Nabil Samarji 

2.4. Understanding Violence against Children
Venue: Hall 8.2
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Lucia Quintero, Oak Foundation

• Child sexual violence is preventable, not inevitable: Updates on global prevention efforts
  Elizabeth Letourneau 

• Sexual violence perpetration among young male adolescents in South Africa
  Miriam Hartmann, Abigail Hatcher, Shepherd Mutangabende, Erica Browne, Anna Kagesten, Patience Mungwari, Sarah T. Roberts 

• Magnitude of childhood sexual violence (SV) in refugee settlements among females and males ages 13-24 years in Uganda: Implications for programming
  Peter Kisaakye, George Odwe, Francis Obare, Gloria Seruwagi, Stella Muthuri, Yohannes Wado, Caroline Kabiru, Chi-Chi Undie 

• Characterizing the patterns of sexual violence against children in eastern and southern Africa: A cross-country, latent class analysis of first experiences of childhood sexual violence
  Courtney Leigh Boudreau, Clare Ahabwe Bangirana, Maria Ndibalekera, Mathew Amollo, Timothy Opobo 

• Estimating the lifetime exposure and co-occurrence of physical, psychological and sexual violence against children using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
  Alejandra Arrieta, Caroline Stein, Jack Cagney, Mariam Khalil, Luisa Flor, Emmanuela Gakidou 

2.5. Funding
Venue: Hall 8.3
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Monica Aleman, Ford Foundation

• Is the way we fund activities impacting progress towards ending gendered violence? (Kindly contact the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Lauren Sheppard, Vicki Brown, Kim Robinson, Moosa Alsubhi, Ha Le, Marj Moodie 

• Small and mighty: Insights from the small grants modality of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
  Annie Hedlund, Nancy Sitima 

• Transforming our approaches to decolonising EVAWG funding flows: Illuminating the power of solidarity economies in efforts to transform the African EVAWG funding ecosystem
  Iris Nxumalo-De Smidt, Bongiwe Mahlangu, Elma Ooro, Jennifer Amadi, Lucky Kobugabe 

• The impact of donor governance and practice on efforts to program SGBV prevention interventions at scale: Learning from the DREAMS Partnership and Spotlight Initiative
  Terry McGovern, Clarisa Bencomo, Andrea Koris 

• “When a donor brings in money, it doesn’t just end there.” An assessment of partnerships for adapting and scaling VAWG prevention programs
  Sarah Smith, Marilyn Akinola, Rebecka Lundgren, Laura Somoggi, Valentina Di Felice 

2.6. COVID-19
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Joy Watson, COFEM

• How have COVID-19 related economic shocks exacerbated emotional abuse and neglect during COVID-19 versus pre COVID-19 among adolescents?
  Astha Ramaiya, Eva Muluve, Mengmeng Li, Xiayun Zuo, William Stones, Eric Mafuta, Caroline Moreau, Linnea Zimmerman 

• The role of alcohol on femicide in South Africa: Evidence from the COVID-19 epidemic
  Naeemah Abrahams, Shibe Mhlongo, Esnat Chirwa, Bianca Dekel, Asiphe Ketelo, Leane Ramsoomar, Carl Lombard, Nwabisa Shai, Shanaaz Mathews, Lorna Martin, Rachel Jewkes 

• What research evidence is required post Covid-19? Key messages from a scoping review of research conducted on violence against women during Covid-19
  Maria Lohan, Aoibheann Brennan-Wilson, Avni Amin, Claudia García-Moreno, Ain Qurat Ul, Canan Ozkaya, Allen Thurston, Alison MacKenzie, Susan Lagdon, Patrick Stark 

• Who’s at home with violence? What the Covid-19 lockdown can tell us about the relationship between household composition and gendered violence
  Lisa Vetten, Claudia Lopes, Kailash Bhana 

• Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women during Covid-19: A population-based study
  Franciéle Marabotti Costa Leite, Bruna Venturin 

2.7. Dialogic Session: Building the New Generation of Evidence Builders
Venue: Nerina/Protea
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Chi-Chi Undie, Population Council

Dialogic sessions offer Forum delegates a chance to engage in more in-depth discussions on challenging or complex issues, with the goal of providing actionable recommendations for the field. Under the facilitation and guidance of Chi-Chi, this panel will explore the challenges and opportunities in building the next generation of researchers, academics, and evidence builders.   

Featured panellists: 

• Emilomo Ogbe, The Global Fund;  

• Tvisha Nevatia, Raising Voices; 

• Sabrina Page, University of Edinburgh. 

3.1. Child Abuse
Venue: Hall 5/6
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Laura Devos, UNGEI

• Unique and shared risk factors for early childhood victimisation and polyvictimisation in a Brazilian birth cohort
  Romina Buffarini, Carolina VN Coll, Michelle D Esposti, Joseph Murray 

• Harmful synergies between childhood sexual abuse and adult mental health challenges: Exploring the missing link in gendered overdose disparities among Indonesian women who inject drugs
  Luissa Vahedi, Claudia Stoicescu 

• “I have learned that nothing is given for free”: A qualitative evaluation of a social norms edutainment intervention broadcast on local radio to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Kigoma, Tanzania
  Marjorie Pichon, Lottie Howard-Merrill, Alice Witt, Revocatus Sono, Veronicah Gimunta, Enrica Hofer, Fatina Kiluvia, Mengi Alfred, Emmanuel Yohanna, Ana Maria Buller 

• Develando dinámicas familiares: Comprendiendo y abordando el incesto en Bolivia / Unveiling family dynamics: Understanding and addressing incest in Bolivia
  Marcela Losantos Velasco, Narayani Rivera, M. Fernanda García, Jazmín Mazó, Jimena Tito 

3.2. TFGBV Research and Interventions
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Emily Esplen, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

• Ley Olimpia: un factor de transformación de los mandatos de género que sostienen la violencia sexual digital en México
  Marcela Hernández Oropa, Itzel Contreras Chavez, Ana Leticia Hernández Vélez, Penélope Isabel Chavarría, Luis Gerardo Ayala Real, Diana Ponce Toledo 

• A framework for technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) aimed at children and adolescents: Preliminary findings to understand and address violence against young people
  Leisha Beardmore, John Zoltner, Connor Roth, Erin Leasure, Liz-Marie Basson, Alexandra Robinson, Rahinatu Hussaini

• Digital resilience: Proactive strategy to counter online gender-based violence among young women and escorts in Kenya
  Josephine Dominic, Peninah Mwangi

• Talking stereotypes: What an unprecedented AI analysis of Jamaican online discussions reveals about gender-based violence
  Ruth Howard, Helen Atkins 

3.3. Fathers, Fatherhood and Parenting
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Bianca Marks, MenEngage Alliance

• Cluster randomised controlled trial of the Parenting for Respectability intervention in Uganda: Main effects and moderators of reductions in violence against women and children
  Seema Vyas, Godfrey Siu, Betty Okot, Joseph Kahwa, Qing Han, Francisco Calderon, Caroline Namutebi, Julie Riddell, Danny Wight, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Jamie Lachman 

• A comparative analysis of fatherhood programs to prevent violence against women and children – Building a theory of change to guide programming in low resource settings
  Anjalee Kohli, Kate Doyle, Jasmine Uysal, Dickens Ojamuge, Emmanuel Karamage, Rebecka Lundgren 

• Understanding drivers of family violence in the context of street life in Kenya: Informing the co-adaptation of a parenting programme that engages street-connected fathers and mothers    
  Kathleen Murphy, Sheila Kirwa, Reuben Kiptui, Frances Gardner, Jamie Lachman, Eve Puffer, Jessica Clark, David Ayuku 

• Enhancing parenting quality and mitigating early signs of violence: Adapting a dialogic book-sharing programme for fathers in South Africa
  Lauren-Jayne van Niekerk, Catherine Ward, Kaathima Ebrahim, Wessel van den Berg, Karen Ross 

• Lessons learned from an intergenerational model that engages fathers and sons to prevent VAW and VAC in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
  Jessica Francar, Cody Ragonese 

3.4. Accessing Care: Barriers and Enablers
Venue: Hall 8.2
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Urvashi Gandhi, SAMYA

• Actionable gaps: Help-seeking behavior among young women experiencing intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya
  Judy Ngina, Shannon Wood, Anaise Williams, Peter Gichangi, Mary Thiong’o, Mercy Kamau, Regina Mwatha, Grace Wamue-Ngare, Michele Decker 

• “I am from the ghetto, I am black, and they think: why bother with her?”- Racism in seeking help experiences for domestic violence in Brazil
  Stephanie Pereira, Lilia Blima Schraiber, Ana Flávia Pires Lucas d’Oliveira 

• Gender beliefs and norms underlying intimate partner violence stigma among women living in Botswana: results of an exploratory factor analysis
  Ari Ho-Foster, Mercilene Tanyaradzwa Machisa, Lorato Ruth Moalusi, Nicola Christofides 

• “I had to explain the situation again and again to her”: An exploration of the healthcare seeking experiences of raped men in South Africa (kindly contact the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Siyabulela Eric Mgolozeli, Sinegugu Evidence Duma 

• Reported barriers from survivors accessing care, sharing experiences from MSF OCA SV/IPV programs 2022-2023 (please contact the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Hanna Reinholdz, Meggy Verputten, Annette de Jong 

3.5. Children and Adolescents in Humanitarian Settings
Venue: Hall 8.3
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Payal Shah, Physicians for Human Right

• Child wellbeing matters: A mixed methods study to assess how child protection case management contributes to the wellbeing of child survivors of violence in humanitarian settings
  Camilla Fabbri, Maria Cecilia Dedios Sanguineti, Monica Gonzalez Gort, Imrana Buba, Crystal Stewart 

• Interventions that prevent and respond to violence against adolescent girls in humanitarian settings: Challenges and solutions
  Nicola Jones, Khadija Mitu, Workneh Yadete, Sarah Alheiwidi, Silvia Guglielmi, Sara Luckenbill 

• Disability, child sexual abuse, and associated health outcomes in refugee settlements in Uganda
  George Odwe, Stella Muthuri, Francis Onyango, Peter Kisaakye, Gloria Seruwagi, Yohannes Wado, Caroline Kabiru, Chi-Chi Undie 

• Risks and challenges for children born of conflict-related sexual violence in LMICs: A rapid evidence assessment
  Kirstin Wagner, Scarlet Vass, Sabine Lee, Toni Smith 

3.6. GBV Responses in Conflict
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: April Pham, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

• Is GBV case management helping survivors? Advancing data interpretation to measure outcomes and improve programming
  Megan O’Brien, Marian Rogers, Kristy Crabtree 

• Leveraging cash assistance in GBV case management for refugees and host communities – lessons learned from Moldova
  Violeta Terguta, Jana Nagnitschenko 

• Piloting Women Lead in Emergencies (WLiE) approach in Ethiopia
  Tsehay Muhie Gizaw

• Rebuilding better in humanitarian response in the context of EVAW
  Lorna Mesina, Erin Stern, Nancy Sitima 

3.7. Under Researched Populations
Venue: Nerina/Protea
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Maryangel Garcia-Ramos, Women Enabled International 

• Addressing gender-based violence during adolescence: Insights from longitudinal research
  Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Jennifer Seager, Workneh Yadete, Sally Youssef, Khadija Mitu, Robha Murha 

• Practice-based learnings from initiatives to address violence against women and girls with disabilities
  Anna Alaszewski, Gaudence Mushimiyimana, Elisabet Le Roux, Selina Palm 

• Vulnerability and risk factors for sexual, physical, and emotional violence against children with disabilities in Uganda: Baseline results from a cluster trial
  Aya Fujita, Jamie Lachman, Carolyn Namutebi, Betty Okot, Joseph Kahwa, Julie Riddell, Danny Wight, Richard Sekiwunga, Francisco Calderon, Frances Gardner, Godfrey Siu 

• Making disability inclusive prevention meaningful: Lessons from SAFE Zimbabwe
  Netty Musanhu 

• No refuge in the streets: Participatory research findings on police violence against children and adolescents in Jinga and Kampala, Uganda
  Amy Elizabeth Ritterbusch, Clare Ahabwe Bangirana, Agatha Kafuko, Apota John Bosco, Ampumuza Doreen, Alex Alinaitwe, Mahesh Mathpati, Ben Cislaghi, Ssembatya Fred, Nabukenya Christine, Kayongo Adam, Mbabazi Kate 

Venue: Hall 5/6

Facilitator: Gary Barker, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice

• Policy levers to prevent intimate partner violence at scale: An overview of the evidence
  Lori Heise, Rachael Pierotti 

• Taking Bandebereho to scale through the Rwandan health system: Lessons learnt and factors enabling success
  Kate Doyle, Emmanuel Karamage, Jean Baptiste Nsengimana, Chantal Muhimpundu, Jean Paul Tuyisingize, Isha Bhatnagar, Shamsi Kazimbaya, Fidèle Rutaysire 

• Evolution of intimate partner violence impacts from cash transfers, food transfers, and behaviour change communication: Mixed-method experimental evidence from an eight-year post-programme follow-up in Bangladesh
  Michelle Lokot, Nasrin Sultana, Melissa Hidrobo, Deboleena Rakshit, Shalini Roy, Meghna Ranganathan 

• Scaling a whole-school violence prevention approach across 1000 schools in  Uganda: Lessons from research and practice
  Aggrey Akim, Hassan Muluusi, Jodie Pearlman, Janet Nakuti, Mathew Amollo, John Bosco Apota, George Malinga Odong, Sam Kagongwe, Timothy Opobo, Elizabeth Allen, Clare Tanton, Tvisha Nevatia, Karen Devries 

4.1. Climate Change
Venue: Hall 5/6
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Diana Arango, World Bank Group

• Global and local evidence of associations between natural hazards due to climate change and violence against women
  Helen Tanielu, Jenevieve Mannell 

• Climate change and violence against women and girls in Kenyan agrarian communities: Insights from Magarini and Ganze, Kilifi County
  Leso Munala, Elizabeth Allen, Anne Ngunjiri, Andrew Frederick 

• Territories of risk and mobilisation: Gender-based violence and climate and environmental change in Colombia, Nigeria and the Philippines
  Lora Forsythe, Diana Castaneda Lopez, Sergio Andrés Coronado, Timothy Salomon, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Lilian Treasure, Glazia Tabanao, Zainab Nuhu 

• Exploring impacts of climate-related weather events on women’s experiences of violence and related adaptation strategies
  Samantha C Winter, Millicent Dzombo, Lena Moraa Obara, Kianna Stamps, Gi Un Shin, Anna Balakrishnan 

• Severe drought increases the risk of violence against adolescents in five southern African countries: Findings from the Violence Against Children Surveys
  Bothaina Eltigani, Roman Hoffman, Lucie Cluver 

4.2. Child Sexual Violence Prevention 
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Elizabeth Letourneau, Johns Hopkins University

• Preventing sexual violence against children in Zanzibar: The development of the SVAC prevention toolkit and the Plan2Prevent roadmap to improve SVAC prevention programs
  Leopold Tibyehabwa, Ediphonce Joseph Mchau, Courtney Leigh Boudreau, Felician Luchagula, Bakar Khamis, Fatuma Ahmad, Maureen Kangere 

• Efficacy of Arpan’s Personal Safety Education (PSE) model in reducing personal incidences of child sexual abuse in Mumbai: A comprehensive evaluation study
  Manjeer Mukherjee, Pooja Taparia, Piyali Sen, Priyadarshini Mohanty, Raji Menon Debnath, Bhuvaneswari Sunil

• Resultados de la medición del programa Jugando Seguros: El fútbol como medio para transformar normas de género nocivas y violencia contra niños, niñas y adolescentes
  Daniel Orrego Cabanillas, Wilson Hernández 

• Consultation and trials of improved practices with families, children and teachers to re-enforce actions that address drivers of child sexual abuse: An effective practice-based knowledge methodology
  William Buluba Bamusutte, Susan Kajura, Eric Robert Kamunvi 

• INSPIRE-aligned provision and reduced risk of sexual violence among South African adolescents: Evidence and implications
  Nontokozo Langwenya, Siyanai Zhou, Elona Toska, Lucie Cluver 

4.3. Adolescent App Enabled Programmes
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Sarah Mosely and Cathy Odera, U.S. Agency for International Development

• Effectiveness of an empowerment-based self-defense program among South African girls
  Miriam Hartmann, Erica Browne, Abigail Hatcher, Shepherd Mutangabende, Emma Wallengren, Mziwamadoda Goba, Patience Mungwari, Anna Kågesten, Sarah T. Roberts 

• Girls Invest, a mobile-enabled economic empowerment intervention to reduce intimate partner violence among adolescent females in Nigeria: Findings and lessons learned
  Olufunmilayo Fawole, Omowumi Okedare, Mobolaji M. Salawu, Susan M. Kiene, Rebecca Lundgren, Elizabeth Frost, Elizabeth Reed

• Qualitative evaluation of Girls Invest, a mobile-enabled economic empowerment intervention to reduce intimate partner violence among adolescent girls in Southern California, USA
  Elizabeth Reed, Desaree Renaud, Guadalupe X Ayala, Ning Tang, Craig McIntosh, Alexandra Minnis

• Playing for prevention: Insights from the co-creation of a serious board-game for sexual violence prevention in Brussels, Belgium
  Danielle Fernandes, Gily Coene 

• Comprehensive community approach to child sexual-abuse prevention, safety and wellbeing: A model program that prevents/responds to multiple forms of violence in Western Uganda
  Peter Kusemererwa, Susan Kajura, Eric Robert Kamunvi 

4.4. Movements
Venue: Hall 8.2
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Dinnah Nabwire, African Women’s Development Fund 

• A sharing of stories: The impact of Indigenous feminist movements on preventing violence against women and children in Australia
  Chay Brown, Kayla Glynn-Braun, Emma Fulu 

• Rising from silence to strength: The crucial role of survivor activism in responding to and combating conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV)
  Clarisse Reberteau Gouraud, Prerna Bhagi, Katrien Coppens, Esperande Bigirimana, Grace Acan, Miriame Djangala-Fall, Tatiana Mukanire, Camille Risler, Léa Félicité Kongbo

• Analysis of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement with a focus on the Garden of Hope Foundation’s experience
  Jing-Jang Hsu, Shu-Fen Wang, Christy Cheng, Ingrid Yeh, Duke Huang 

• How violence is intrinsically linked to the spark, and site, of girls’ resistance and the role politicization can play in violence prevention and response efforts
  Jody Myrum, Rosa Bransky, Ramatu Bangura 

• Meaningful engagement of VAWC survivors through local survivor networks and survivor leadership to improve survivor experiences and inform government strategy, learning from practice – Uganda
  Ruth Momanyi, Lilian Ayebale 

4.5. Reproductive Coercion 
Venue: Hall 8.3
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Clara Alemann, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice

• Women’s experience of infertility-related violence in Cameroon and Kenya
  Angela Odiachi, N.I. Emma Woks, Courtney McLarnon, Esther Spindler, Lotus McDougal, Paul Bukuluki, Caroline Deignan 

• Does covert contraceptive use increase women’s risk of abuse? Longitudinal associations between covert contraceptive use, intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion
  Jasmine Uysal, Tarik Benmarhnia, Erin Pearson, Jay Silverman 

• Longitudinal impact of reproductive coercion on contraceptive dynamics across sub-Saharan Africa 
  Shannon Wood, Haley Thomas, Georges Guiella, Rosine Mosso, Peter Gichangi, Simon Peter Sebina Kibira, Frederick Makumbi, Pierre Akilimali, Funmilola OlaOlorun, Elizabeth Omoluabi, Mary Thiong’o, Anaise Williams, Michele Decker

• Experiences of young girls who became pregnant through rape and were denied access to abortion: A qualitative study from Malawi
  Patani Mhango, Medrina Mtende, Effie Chipeta, Godfrey Kangaude, Wina Sangala, Patricia Doherty 

4.6. Justice Responses
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Lillian Artz, University of Cape Town

• The impact of seeking protection orders for severe intimate partner violence on female survivors in South Africa
  Leane Ramsoomar-Hariparsaad, Maureen Moretlo Mtimkulu, Rachel Jewkes 

• Roadblocks to ending the two-finger test of survivors during medico-legal evidence collection in rape case: Learnings from Bangladesh
  Nahida Akter, Ruchira Tabassum Naved 

• Criminalisation of adolescent sexuality in India: Advancement of child protection or curtailment of rights?
  Swagata Raha, Shruthi Ramakrishnan 

• Colombia’s ruta única de atención: Limitations and lessons learnt in the government’s response to intimate partner violence
  Courtenay Sprague, Paola Muñoz Gamboa, Judit Senarriaga-Esteve, Abiodun Baiyewu, Javier Armando Pineda Duque 

4.7.Capacity Strengthening / Training of Staff
Venue: Nerina/Protea
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Jean Kemitare, Urgent Action Fund – Africa

• Making a difference, one survivor at a time: The impact of USAID’s first-line support (LIVES) training
  Amelia Peltz, Emily Reitenauer, Allison Schmale, Madiera Dennison Zehnder 

• Pilot community-based GBV first responder training with refugee-led female organization and leaders
  Gahlia Brogneri, Fiona Mendelson, Sara Faust, Kate McCallister, Constanze Quosh 

• Meeting survivors of trafficking where they are: Enhancing person-centered, trauma-informed care skills for frontline responders in Vietnam
  Van Thanh Nguyen, Lan Ngoc Ha, Trang Ha Tran, Hien Thi Nguyen, Daniel Levitt, Duong Thuy Nguyen, James Gilman 

• Improving primary health care response to domestic violence against women in Brazil: the evaluation of a culturally tailored intervention
  Ana Flávia Pires Lucas d’Oliveira, Stephanie Pereira, Loraine Bacchus, Beatriz Diniz Kalichman, Cecilia Guida Vieira Graglia, Janaina Marques de Aguiar, Marina Silva dos Reis, Nayara Portilho Lima, Yuri Nishijima Azeredo, Mariana Fagundes de Almeida Rivera, Heloisa Hanada, Lilia Blima Schraiber 

• Responding to gender-based violence against people with disabilities: Lesson-learned from training program for health service providers in Vietnam
  Tu-Anh Hoang 

Venue: Exhibition Hall

Venue: Ground Floor

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5.1. VAC Measures / National Prevalence Surveys
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Daniela Ligiero – Together for Girls

• Psychometric validation of a novel gender norms measure among youth, Eswatini Violence Against Children and Youth Survey, 2022 (please write to the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Stephanie Miedema, Laura Chiang, Anita Raj, Rebecka Lundgren, Greta Massetti, Francis Annor 

• Child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) perpetration: Developing survey tools (please write to the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Whitney Williams Skowronski, Elizabeth Letourneau, Greta Massetti, Laura Chiang 

• Development of a questionnaire and safeguarding procedure for a national prevalence survey on child abuse and neglect in the UK 
  Franziska Meinck, Julia Rudolph, Anna McCarthy, Claire Monks, Rosana Pacella, Debi Fry 

• Kenya’s journey towards protecting children: A decade of change (2010-2019)
  Lina Digolo, Anne Ngunjiri, Manuela Balliet, Sian Long, Jane Thiomi 

• Developing the Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) Response Plan in the context of Jamaica’s mandatory reporting laws (please write to the authors for a copy of the presentation)
  Denese McFarlane, Whitney Williams Skowronski, Kelly-Ann Gordon-Johnson, Laura Chiang, Marie-Kaye Seya, Viva Thorsen, Deidra Coy, Easton Williams 

5.2. LGBTIQ+
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: KL Dunkle, KL Dunkle Consulting

• An evidence-based brief intervention (WINGS) to reduce GBV and improve access of women from marginalized populations to mainstream GBV and IPV services in Kazakhstan
  Sholpan Primbetova, Assel Terlikbayeva, Elena Rozental, Meruert Nurkatova, Pavel Gulyayev, Valera Gulyaev, Anindita Dasgupta, Louisa Gilbert 

• “We can do it because we are strong people” – developing humanitarian partnerships with displaced and host LGBTQ+ communities in Kenya, Colombia and Ecuador  
  Hester Moore, Joseph Mejia, Pauline Nkatha

• Transgender Women Initiating New Goals for Safety (T-WINGS): Adapting an evidence-based intervention to reduce gender-based violence and increase access to justice for transwomen in Indonesia 
  Claudia Stoicescu, Gabriella Sudewo, Arinta Dea Singgi, Ienes Angela, Carahanna Marianne Schlovenn, Kanzha Vinaa, Kiki Marini Situmorang, Nadira Chairani, Rully Malay  

• Intimate partner violence experienced and perpetrated by lesbian, bisexual, and queer women students on campuses in South Africa
  Pinky Mahlangu, Carrie Brooke-Sumner, Ntlotleng Mabena, Kristin Dunkle, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Rachel Jewkes, Elizabeth Dartnall, Sinegugu Duma, Nelisiwe Khuzwayo, Managa Pillay, Esnat Chirwa, Mercilene Machisa 

5.3. Research Priority Setting
Venue: Hall 8.2
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Blain Teketel, Porticus

• Filling the gaps left by academia – developing a global research agenda on child exploitation
  Kimberley Anderson, Amy Riley Powell 

• Co-designing a domestic, family and sexual violence research agenda: Embedding victim-survivor voices in the priority setting process
  Jane Lloyd, Lula Dembele, Cassandra Dawes, Sarah Jane 

• A collaboratively developed research agenda to end child sexual violence in low- and middle-income countries
  Joan Njagi, Shailey Hingorani, Manuella Balliet-Ahogo, Priti Prabhughate, Nicolas Makharashvili, Elizabeth Dartnall, Tabitha Mpamira 

• Streamlining evidence building for greater impact on Tech-Facilitated Gender Based Violence 
  Ayesha Mago, Elizabeth Dartnall, Raphaelle Rafin, Juncal Plazaola Castano, Rachel Grant, Tigist Shewarega Hussein, Mark Tomlinson 

• Intersections of violence against children and violence against women: A global research agenda
  Alessandra Guedes, Elizabeth Dartnall, Shanice Eksteen, Claudia García-Moreno, Floriza Gennari, Anik Gevers, Mark Tomlinson 

5.4. TFGBV: Understanding the Issue 
Venue: Hall 8.3
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Alexandra Robinson, UNFPA

• ‘Leaked’ – Understanding and addressing self-generated sexual content involving young people in Thailand
  Rangsima Deesawade, Jennifer Schatz, Mark Kavenagh 

• South African women’s reports of tech-facilitated IPV from the Fediša Modikologo formative research
  Venice Mbowane, Rachel Jewkes, Naeemah Abrahams, Maureen Moretlo Mtimkulu 

• Online intimate partner violence against teens and young people in Nepal
  Anil Raghuvanshi, Tulasha Khadka, Preeti Maharjan 

• Centre for Information Resilience’s approach to TFGBV across landscapes
  Felicity Cole-Morgan Mulford, Francesca Gentile, Nina Jankowicz, Isabella O’Keefe 

• Breaking the silence: The perceptions of stakeholders on the nature and risk factors associated with technology-facilitated GBV
  Mark Kayizzi Christian, Kinda Majary, Isha Bhatnagar, Loes Loning, Emi Michael, Zoe Bonnell 

5.5. Parenting
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Carolina Coll, International Center for Equity in Health

• Adapting and scaling the gender transformative parenting programme through government to reduce family violence in Kenya: Enablers, challenges and lessons
  Beatrice Nyakwaka Ogutu, Moureen Anyango Ochieng 

• Empowering health professionals: New evidence-based WHO tools and guidelines to address and prevent violence against children 
  Berit Kieselbach, Alexander Butchart, Binta Sako 

• Implementing a parenting intervention in a humanitarian context: Key challenges and lessons learned from the Ukraine and Pakistan parenting responses 
  Isang Awah, Roisin Taylor, Sobia Masood, Jamie Lachman, Nicole Baldonado, Dmytro Bereza, Susan Hillis, Lucie Cluver 

• Taking parenting programmes to scale: Findings from the Scale-up of Parenting Evaluations Research Study (SUPER study)
  Genevieve Haupt Ronnie, Tendai Mutembedza, Natalie Davidson, Mukondi Nethavhakone, Hlengiwe Gwebu, Catherine Ward 

• Thula Sana intervention for safe attachment as protective factor to prevent GBV, IVP and VAC: The Uruguayan experience adaptation
  Maria Noel Barcelo, Cristina Pons, Susana Medina, Lucia Vanvelthoven, Cecilia Stapff, Leonel Briozzo 

5.6. Prevention
Venue: Nerina/Protea
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Rachel Jewkes, SA Medical Research Council

• Engaging young men in new narratives around masculinities to prevent GBV in Honduras
  Paola Gonzalez-Rubio, Amelie Moretti, Mariana Borja, Ana Cecilia Campos

• Keeping the essentials in place: Lessons learned from a qualitative study of DREAMS in Northern Uganda
  Diane Gardsbane, Paul Bukuluki 

• Explaining variation in community strategies to address violence against women in an NGO programme in Mumbai, India
  Lu Gram, Sukanya Paradkar, Chatush Singh, Anand Suryavanshi, Beniamino Cislahi, David Osrin, Nayreen Daruwalla 

• The case of SASA Faith! In 6 countries: The impact of faith interventions in the prevention of violence against women
  Laurelle Mbaradza, Elisabet Le Roux, Chimwemwe Chimasula Livata 

• Intentional approaches to diffusion for IPV prevention
  Binita Shrestha, Gemma Ferguson, Cari Jo Clark 

Venue: Hall 5/6

Venue: Hall 5/6

Facilitator: Mary Ellsberg, Global Women’s Institute

• Intimate partner violence victimisation and its association with maternal parenting: findings from the 2015 Pelotas [Brazil] Birth Cohort Study
  Carolina Coll, Romina Buffarini, Aluisio Barros, Joseph Murray 

• Childhood trajectories of physical violence victimisation and subsequent Intimate partner violence in adulthood in South Africa: BT20+ study
  Juliana Kagura, Lilian Muchai, Sara Naicker 

• What facilitates intergenerational violence transmission? Findings from a South African study
  Nataly Woollett, Nicola Christofides, Hannabeth Franchin-Olsen, Mpho Silima, Pamela Maluleke, Kopano Monaisa, Christina Thurston, Khudejha Asghar, Franziska Meinck 

• Effectiveness and value for money of combined interventions to empower girls and address social norms in reducing child marriage in Bangladesh: A cluster randomized controlled trial and cost-effectiveness study
  Sultan Mahmud, Giulia Ferrari, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Golam Rabbani, Kausar Parvin, Sadhvi Kalra, Anne Laterra, Anne Sprinkel, Khadija IT, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
  

• Scaling an ECD and violence prevention intervention in Rwanda
  Theresa Betancourt, Pacifique Uwamahoro, Marie Gaudence Nyirahabimana, Gabriela Phend, Candace Black, Grace Umulisa, Jean Marie Vianney Havugimana, Matias Placencio-Castro, Vincent Sezibera  

Venue: Exhibition Hall

Venue: Ground Floor

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Venue: Hall 5/6
Translation: English, Spanish, French

Facilitator: Claudia Garcia-Moreno, SVRI Forum 2024 Chair

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• Closing reflections and thanks – Elizabeth Dartnall
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• Closing artist / entertainment 

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