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09:00 – 17:00          SVRI Forum 2024 Workshops

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19:00 – 21:00          Welcome Event

Venue: CTICC II, Hall 5/6

Celebrating and reconnecting after 2 years – welcome to Forum 2024!

09:00 – 10:30          Plenary I: Opening

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

Facilitator: Emma Fulu, The Equality Institute

Short play: Kim Blanche Adonis

Panellists:

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

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

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

10:30 – 11:00          Pause and Connect

11:00 – 12:30          Parallel Session I

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
    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 male-dominated sectors: Lessons learned from USAID’s Engendering Industries
    Hayley Samu, Khumo Mokhethi, Wola Joseph 
  • 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 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 
  • 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
    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
    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 

12:30 – 15:00          Nourish and Network

Venue: Exhibition Hall

13:00 – 14:00          Poster Session I

Venue: Ground Floor

Please see the SVRI Forum 2024 Poster Programme HERE.

15:00 – 16:30          Parallel Session II

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
    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 
  • Adaptación a la modalidad híbrida de un programa presencial de compromiso paterno y prevención de la violencia: Lecciones del Programa P 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
    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?
    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. 

16:30 – 17:00          Pause and Connect

17:00 – 18:30          Parallel Session III

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

Chair: Natsnet Ghebrebrhan, Raising Voices

  • 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: Joni van de Sand, 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: Ruchira Naved, icddr,b

  • 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
    Siyabulela Eric Mgolozeli, Sinegugu Evidence Duma 
  • Reported barriers from survivors accessing care, sharing experiences from MSF OCA SV/IPV programs 2022-2023
    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 

09:00 – 10:30          Plenary II: Scale Up

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

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 

10:30 – 11:00          Pause and Connect

11:00 – 12:30          Parallel Session IV

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 
  • 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 the US and Nigeria: Findings and lessons learned
    Elizabeth Reed, Omowumi Okedare, Olufunmilayo Fawole, Mobolaji M. Salawu, Susan M. Kiene, Rebecca Lundgren, Elizabeth Frost, Desaree Renaud, Guadalupe X Ayala, Ning Tang, Craig McIntosh, Alexandra Minnis 
  • 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 
  • 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 

12:30 – 15:00          Nourish and Network

Venue: Exhibition Hall

Poster Session II

Venue: Ground Floor

Please see the SVRI Forum 2024 Poster Programme HERE.

15:00 – 16:30          Parallel Session V

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
    Stephanie Miedema, Laura Chiang, Anita Raj, Rebecka Lundgren, Greta Massetti, Francis Annor 
  • Child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) perpetration: Developing survey tools
    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
    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, South African Medical Research Council

  • 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 

16:30 – 17:00          Pause and Connect

17:00 – 18:30          Parallel Session VI: Four-Minute Presentations

FMP session 6.1: Advancing the science: Methods and measures 
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Tirhani Manganyi,  Gender-Based Violence Response Fund and Sonia Rastogi, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • The Irish Sexual Violence Survey – the choices to be made to conduct high-quality research and ensure the connection between statistics and proactive policy-making
    Keith McSweeney, Helen McGrath
  • Online misogyny against female candidates in the 2022 Brazilian elections: A threat to women’s political representation?
    Luise Koch, Janina Steinert
  • Strengthening interpretation and use of violence against women data for evidence-based policy and interventions. Making the case using survey data from the Pacific region
    Henrica A.F.M. (Henriette) Jansen, Mar Jubero, Alexandra Robinson
  • Operationalising the participation of refugees and internally displaced populations in research on GBV and gender equality: challenges and risks in humanitarian settings
    Michelle Lokot, Erin Hartman, Iram Hashmi, Thurayya Zreik and Caitlin Wake
  • Towards an integrated theory on intimate partner violence
    Heidi Stöckl, Rebecca Brambilla, Shruti Shukla, Selina Hardt, Sarah Meyer
  • Innovative measurement approaches: Using opinion polls and vignettes to generate robust data to measure public opinion/attitude on female genital mutilation
    Dennis Matanda, Francis Obare, Stephen Kizito and Chi-Chi Undie
  • Measuring the Impossible? A practical example of using the new GBV Prevention Evaluation Framework (GBV PEF) to measure GBV prevention in humanitarian contexts
    Zuleyka Piniella, Jessica Lenz
  • Is this feminist in practice? Reflections from the launch of a new Feminist Research Assessment Tool
    Sophie Namy, Elizabeth Louis, Lauren Messina, Joy Watson, Iris Nxumalo-De Smidt, Heather Krause
  • Best practices for Referral pathways in GBV programming: Lessons from scaling up the Becoming one Program in Uganda
    Jackline Namubiru, Victoria Isika, Rachel Lehrer, Christopher Boyer
  • Ethical considerations for working with adolescent co-researchers in violence research: Perceptions of caregivers, educators and adolescents from South African schools
    Nwabisa Shai, Pinky Mahlangu, Mercilene Machisa, Esnat Chirwa, Rachel Jewkes
  • Methodological ambiguities in researching the presence of violence against women in pornography
    Sanja Pavlovic
  • Mapping the gaps: Worldwide availability of robust surveillance data on violence against women and girls
    Jack Cagney, Cory Spencer, Molly Herbert, Mariam Khalil, Alejandra Arrieta, Erin DeGraw, Gabriela Gil, Julia Hon, Erin Mullany, Erin O’Connell, Caroline Stein, Aisha Twalibu, Aiganym Valikhanova, Nicholas Metheny, Luisa Flor, Emmanuela Gakidou
  • Implementing a multi-sectoral approach: Evaluating the effectiveness of response systems to violence against women and girls in Albania
    Rebeca Revenga Becedas, Marinela Sota, Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Rudina Rama, Alban Ylli, Sindi Shahu, Arvina Dibra, Daniel Cobos Muñoz 

FMP session 6.2: Childhood sexual violence; Understanding intersections of VAW/VAC; VAW and VAC prevention and response research and programmes 
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chairs: Loksee Leung, The Equality Institute and Sabine Nkusi, Tearfund

  • A systematic review of the harms associated with Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (OCSEA) experienced by children and adolescents
    Sabrina Page, Ashleigh McFeeters, James Stevenson, Debi Fry
  • Breaking boundaries: Practice-based knowledge framework for preventing childhood sexual violence – a journey towards inclusive prevention strategies
    Arti Mohan, Nicolas Makharashvili, Shailey Hingorani, Manuela Balliet
  • The health effects of sexual violence: Does age of exposure matter?
    Gabriela F. Gil, Cory N. Spencer, Jack Cagney, Luisa S. Flor, Molly Herbert, Mariam Khalil, Caroline Stein, Emmanuela Gakidou
  • From policy to practice: Keeping children safe from sexual exploitation and abuse in World Bank-supported development projects
    Ling San Lau, Hannah Rachel Thompson, Arun Raj Kunwar, Yana Mayevskaya, Monette Zard
  • Collaborating with women with disabilities to improve accessibility and inclusion of gender-based violence services in Uganda
    Diane Kingston
  • Disability inclusion in GBV prevention strategies and interventions: A scoping review
    Sujata Tuladhar, Emma Pearce
  • Is domestic violence during pregnancy a marker for severe domestic violence against women later in life?
    Heidi Stöckl, Jannatul Ferdous Antu, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Ruchira Tabassum
  • Female migrants’ arrival into Addis Ababa: Inflection point for risk
    Annabel Erulkar, Eyasu Hailu Mekonnen
  • The resistance to women’s resistance
    Kimberly Dickman
  • Specialized gender-based violence care and services in Mauritania: a 2018-2023 retrospective study
    Clairanne Bost, Mouhamedou Diagana
  • Associations between Heat and Domestic Violence: Evidence from New Orleans, Louisiana
    Namratha Rao, Edwin Thomas, Arnab Dey, Anita Raj
  • Findings from the development and implementation of a community-based participatory research coalition to address child sexual abuse
    Nicole McKenna, Alicia Mendez, Faith Michaels, Victoria Spera-Ballesteros, Jennifer Gomez, Jacquelynn Duron

FMP session 6.3: Integrating mental health, self-care and collective care in research and practice; Response and prevention programmes focusing on perpetration of VAW and VAC, and men who use violence 
Venue: Hall 8.2

Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Tvisha Nevatia, Raising Voices and Niyati Shah, World Bank Group

  • Fostering psychological safety and collective care through organizational practices
    Ha Thi Khanh Tran, Rachel Stalnaker Coley, Daniel Meranze Levitt
  • Still killing a mockingbird – Adverse childhood experiences of Roma individuals living in informal settlements in Serbia
    Oliver Tošković, Milica Pejović Milovančević, Svetlana Pavlović, Jelena Vasić
  • The role of perceived stigma as a moderator in the relationship between intimate partner violence and depression
    Negussie Deyessa, Abraraw Tadesse, Zehara Kassie, Ruth Peters, Dirk Essink, Brittney Mengistu
  • Bin-Alin Hakbiit Malu (Sisters Empowering Each Other): Supporting feminist activists in Timor-Leste through investing in safe spaces and collective care
  • Maria Veronika N.M da Costa, Elizabeth Adams, Xian Warner, Sidalia Do Rego
  • Co-developing a combined mental health and sexual violence prevention intervention for lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) womxn students in South Africa
    Carrie Brooke-Sumner, Mercilene Machisa, Ntotleng Mabena, Kristin Dunkle, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Rachel Jewkes, Sinegugu Duma, Nelisiwe Khuzwayo, Managa Pillay, Esnat Chirwa, Pinky Mahlangu
  • Victims and survivors as researchers of violence. What do we know?
    Sahla Aroussi, Tvisha Nevatia, Elisabeth Dartnall, Lizle Loots
  • Embody our activism: Participatory workshops to explore the body as a path to prioritise wellbeing for Ugandan activists
    Joyce Christine Nakiwala, Lillian Nalwoga, Sylvia Namakula, Agnes Grace Nabachwa, Prisca Atite, Hanifa Nakito, Immaculate Musuya, Catherine Carlson, Sophie Namy
  • Nurturing resilience: A self-care guide for health workers assisting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in the post-conflict setting of Tigray, Ethiopia
    Kokob Gebru Kidanu, Anna Zatorska, Samrawit Assefa
  • Exploring Healing for LGBT Youth across Botswana through storytelling and art
    Dumiso Gatsha
  • What DOESN’T work: A male engagement failure report; lessons from Mozambique
    Ariana Simões de Almeida, Teemar Kidane
  • Domestic violence and abuse among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: Evaluation of an intervention in a sexual health clinic setting (HERMES)
    Loraine Bacchus, Ana Maria Buller, Giulia Ferrari, Alexandra Bleile, Gene S. Feder, Petra J. Brzank
  • Women perpetrating intimate male-partner murders in South Africa
    Asiphe Ketelo, Nwabisa Shai, Shibe Mhlongo, Mercilene Machisa, Naeemah Abrahams, Richard Matzopoulos
  • Enhancing gender-based violence support and response through health facility engagement via training them on strategies to track and provide comprehensive package: FHI360 EpiC Liberia experience
    Cytirus Kerbay K.
  • Enhancing sexual and reproductive health services to address gender-based violence: A practice-based study in Flower Corner, Save the Children in Cox’s Bazar
    Tanjida Yesmin Basanti, Jannatul Ferdous
  • Impacts of couple’s curriculum on reducing intimate partner violence (IPV)- insights from a randomised control trial (RCT) in Syria
    Melodie Al Daccache

FMP session 6.4: VAW and VAC prevention and response research and programmes 
Venue: Hall 8.3

Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chairs: Ida Pettersson, SIDA and Prabu Deepan, Tearfund

  • Caregiver experiences with a digital parenting intervention to prevent violence against children in Tanzania: Implications for digital parenting interventions
    Joyce Wamoyi
  • Optimisation of engagement in an offline first app for parents of adolescents to reduce sexual violence in Tanzania
    Roselinde Janowski, Lucie Cluver, Joyce Wamoyi, Mwita Wambura, David Stern, Lily Clements, Abigail Ornellas, Lauren Baerecke, Nicole Chetty, Jonathan Klapwijk, Laetitia Christine, Ateamate Mukabana, Esmee te Winkel, Anna Booij, G.J Melendez-Torres, Yulia Shenderovich
  • Impact of domestic violence against women and violence against children in the community on physical domestic violence against children: An analysis of longitudinal data (2001-2020)
    Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Jannatul Ferdous Antu, Kausar Parvin, Shirin Ziaei
  • Community-led VAW and VAC prevention: Engaging Guatemalan Indigenous parents
    Haydee Lemus, Myra Betron
  • Experts-by-experience: Queer, transgender and Hijra refugees as CRSV knowledge producers in humanitarian settings
    Sarah Nandi
  • Economic agency and gender-based violence among women domestic workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Baseline findings
    Anaise Williams, Jean Lee, Maurizio Bussolo, Preksha Jain, S Anukriti
  • Using faith in social and behaviour change interventions: evidence from a mixed-methods endline evaluation in Liberia
    Elisabet Le Roux, Julienne Corboz, Ernest Cajuste
  • WCLAC will present its efforts to develop the Palestinian national referral system for women victims of GBV with overview of the process of its adoption
    Amal Abusrour, Faten Nabhan
  • Mentoring: An effective capacity building approach to strengthening systems and practices of national civil society organisations on SEAH in Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Sudan
    Oluchi Ihedoro, Oge Chukwudozie
  • Expanding reach and accessibility to serve low-literate communities and build digital literacy: Lessons from visual GBV Pocket Guide adaptations in Honduras, Mali and South Sudan
    Samson Lugala, Erin Patrick, Dina Hanania, Vandana Sharma, Elysia Larson, Jennifer Scott
  • Edutainment to prevent violence against women and children 
    Amber Peterman
  • Drawing from South African women’s lived realities to understand and develop IPV-related stigma, shame and self-blame measures – experiences from Fediša Modikologo Formative Research
    Samantha Willan, Mercilene Machisa, Venice Mbowane, Charntal Paile, Pinky Mahlangu, Desiree Pass, Rachel Jewkes
  • The house of the Brazilian woman: An interdisciplinary community-based participatory action research program in a public one-stop center to support survivors of violence
    Marcos Signorelli, Rozeli Vicelli, Raíza da Rocha, Maryana Arantes, Jainy Rosa, Jackeline de Almeida Souza, Sandra Marques Prado, Dabney P. Evans
  • Enhancing local capacities to provide integrated SRHR and SGBV services to survivors of violence in Ethiopia
    Philipos Petros Gile

FMP session 6.5: VAW and VAC prevention and response research and programmes 
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid

Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chairs: Claudia Lopes, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Carol Ajema, JHPIEGO

  • Signing safe futures: Addressing the challenge of sexual violence against deaf children
    Steve Crump, Debra Clelland
  • Poland/Health systems strengthening for CMR-IPV: Operationalising the humanitarian-nexus approach
    Melanie Hyde, Aleksandra Kusek
  • Understanding the core functions and differences between Women and Girls Safe Spaces and One-Stop Centers
    Joanne Creighton
  • A feminist, innovative approach to capacity strengthening for VAW/VAC prevention programming
    Binita Shrestha, Dominique Maidment, Kathy Durand
  • Prevalence and experience of non-partner sexual violence among in-school adolescent girls in low-income communities in Southwestern Nigeria
    Mobolaji M. Salawu, Omowumi O. Okedare, Elizabeth Frost, Susan Kiene, Rebecka Lundgren, Elizabeth Reed, Olufunmilayo I. Fawole
  • Assessing implementation of an intervention to address intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion at scale in Kenya – the role of provider-facing technology
    Jasmine Uysal, Erin Pearson, Jamie Menzel, Chi-Chi Undie, George Odwe, Jane Namwebya, Wilson Liambila, Rebecka Lundgren, Jay Silverman
  • Identifying factors affecting the Gender-Based Violence service delivery– healthcare service providers, partners, and communities’ perception during the Central Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami crisis response
    Dwi Yunanto Hermawan, Heny Widyaningrum, Rajrattan Lokhande
  • If not punishment, then what? Re-thinking reliance on punitive approaches to addressing gender-based violence
    Feminist Faultlines group, Umba Zalira, Aarushi Mahajan, Susana Fried, Nana Abuelsoud, Nadia Rasidi
  • The role of social workers in research studies on violence against women and children, South Africa
    Nicola Christofides, Motlalepule Nathane-Taulela, HB Franchino-Olsen, Nataly Woollett, Pfumelani Segodi, Franziska Meinck
  • What works to change social norms that sustain child marriage in low- and middle-income countries: An ecological analysis
    Karen Snow
  • Exploring sexual harassment in low-wage work in Uganda: women and girls’ experiences, socio-cultural influences, and men’s dichotomous responses
    Nambusi Kyegombe, Rehema Nagawa, Christine Ayanga, Joseph Katongole, Joyce Wamoyi, Meghna Ranganathan, Heidi Stöckl, Cathy Zimmerman, Ana Maria Buller, Moureen Wagubi, Jovia Mercy Namuyiga, Abdul Ssewanyana, Shinah Atuhaire
  • Family structure differentials and child maltreatment prevalences in Ugandan families: Baseline analysis of the parenting for respectability cluster randomized trial
    Godfrey Siu, Onesmus Kamacooko, Jamie Lachman, Carolyn Namutebi, Betty Okot, Joy Martin Omello
  • Addressing gaps in sexual violence services among refugee adolescents in Adjumani, Uganda
    Katherine Gambir, Lydia Kabwijamu, Christine Nalwadda, Barbara Kirunda, Ronald Ssenyonga

FMP session 6.6: VAW and VAC prevention and response research and programmes
Venue: Nerina/Protea

Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Elizabeth Dartnall, SVRI

  • Addressing SGBV: The role of data and data-driven advocacy capacity building
    Coretta Maame Panyin Jonah, Aarushi Khanna, Dennis Njung’e, Anjali Shenoi, Tity Agbahey, Cecilia Garcia
  • Exposing forensic challenges in rape cases: Pakistan’s criminal justice dilemma
    Maliha Zia, Haya Zahid
  • Expanding the evidence base on GBV in higher education institutions in LMICs: A systematic review of the literature in Africa and the Middle East
    Julienne Corboz, Priti Prabhughate, Elizabeth Dartnall, Mark Tomlinson
  • Understanding and responding to gender-based violence risks in forced displacement: Insights from World Bank and UNHCR research and operations
    Diana Jimena Arango, Constanze Quosh, Manuel Contreras Urbina, Jeni Klugman, Giselle Marie Bello
  • Date-rape drug detection and drink-spiking prevention: Assessing current methods and proposing new solutions
    Jiwon Park, Taehoon Kim, Namjoon Cho
  • Characterization of sexual violence victimization: An analysis of clinical records from selected health units in Maputo City, Mozambique
    Center for Collaboration in Health, Maria dos Prazeres Nhavane Macumbe, Raquel Cossa, Laison Daniel, Brigida Mavie, Vanda Zitha, Suzana Sumbane, Hermenegilda Marcelino, Nogar Uateca, Reginalda Cumbane, Della Correia
  • Trajectories of women affected by sexual violence in Belo Horizonte’s health services, Brazil 
    Isabella Vitral Pinto, Hugo André da Rocha, Ana Pereira dos Santos, Kate Rocha Lacerda, Janete Gonçalves Evangelista, Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Daniel Cobos Munoz, Paula Dias Bevilacqua
  • ‘We need a proven process for impact’: Development of a ‘saturation’ model for primary prevention of violence against women in Victoria, Australia
    Lara Fergus, Laura Wood, Stephanie Lusby, Serina McDuff, Kate O’Brien, Anita Trezona, Kellie Horton, Emily Maguire, Innocent Mwatsiya, Desiree Bensley, Lisha Murphy, Melinda McPherson, Sam Adams-Akyurek and Monique Keel
  • Envisioning vulnerability and safety otherwise: Artivist knowledge on gender-based violence in Mexico
    Mora Fernández, Eréndira Derbez, Harriet Gray, Phoebe Martin
  • Design of an integrated information system for gender-based violence in Chile
    Diana Jimena Arango, Anita Peña Saavedra, Macarena Andrade, Manuel Contreras Urbina, Giselle Marie Bello
  • Reimagining a gender transformative Husbands’ School program through human centered design co-creation and collaboration to increase women’s agency in Niger
    Clara Alemann, Jennifer Gayles, Brian Heilman, Cristin Marona, Shamsi Kazimbaya, Hidayatou Mohamadou, Angela Odichi, Courtney McLarnon, Emma Woks, Rachida Moussa 
  • Engaging with practitioners to develop guidelines for effective referral relationships between health facilities and domestic violence services
    Lisa Vetten, Kirsten Thomson
  • Learning from practice: Developing region-wide guidance to ensure coordinated and integrated social work services to prevent and respond to VAW-VAC
    Melissa Alvarado, Ozlem Hangul, Rachel Harvey, Christina Torsein, Sujata Tuladhar
  • Creating a safe environment for girls to learn and thrive: Development of a safeguarding policy to mitigate school related sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria
    Grace Awawu Saba
  • Strengthening evidence-informed Comprehensive Sexuality Education within religious seminaries in Pakistan
    Hafza Hira Amjad, Miriam Khalil

19:00 – 21:00          SVRI Forum 2024 Gala Dinner

Venue: Hall 5/6

09:00 – 10:30          Plenary III: Intersections and Interventions

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

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  

10:30 – 11:00          Pause and Connect

11:00 – 12:30          Parallel Session VII

7.1. Cash Transfers EE & BCC – Prevention
Venue: Hall 5/6
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Erin Kenny, UN Spotlight Initiative

  • MAISHA-Youth!: Gender equity and empowerment to prevent violence among adolescents and young adults in Tanzania
    Flora Madaha, Lindsey Reif, Alexandra Cordeiro, Sheila Harvey, Shelley Lees, Saidi Kapiga, Jennifer Downs, Joyce Wamoyi 
  • Cost-effectiveness of men engagement in women empowerment: Economic evaluation of a life-skills and cash-transfers intervention to empower women and improve their mental health in Pakistan
    Idrees Samral, Nasim Zahid Shah, Karim Punjwani, Noor Husaini, Ali Tazeen Saeed, Rozina Karmaliani, Giulia Ferrari
  • “Cash plus” and intimate partner violence: Exploring the benefits of group delivery in Ethiopia
    Ana Maria Buller, Marjorie Pichon, Melissa Hidrobo, Michael Mulford, Tseday Amare, Wastina Sintayehu, Seifu Tadesse, Meghna Ranganathan 
  • Factors associated with domestic violence against women at different stages of life: Findings from a 19-year longitudinal dataset from the MINIMat trial in rural Bangladesh
    Shirin Ziaei, Jannatul Ferdous Antu, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kausar Parvin, Ruchira Tabassum Naved 
  • Reducing intimate partner violence through interventions embedded in large scale social protection programs: Operational lessons and preliminary impact evaluation results
    Rachael Pierotti

7.2. Online Responses
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Yu Yu, UNFPA

  • A safer digital world, one chat at a time
    Gerda Binder, Caroline Masboungi 
  • Leveraging AI to catalyze equitable response to gender-based violence: A case study from a volunteer network on psychological and judicial support for survivors in Brazil
    Enrica Duncan, Ana El Kadri, Gabriela Silva, Grazi Carvalho, Vivi Dias 
  • Harnessing digital solutions to increase access to redress for GBV survivors – The Sauti Plus Ecosystem
    Mark Chris Kayizzi, Patience Nalukenge 
  • Effectiveness of the myPlan Teen app, a digital healthy relationship and safety planning intervention with adolescent ages 15-17 years
    Nancy Glass, Nancy Perrin 
  • Enhancing the health system response to GBV: Merging behavioral science and computational modeling to improve GBV policy and implementation in Guatemala
    Emiliano Diaz Del Valle, Floriza Gennari, Stephen Wendel, Alexandra de Filippo 

7.3. Co-Creating Interventions – Children and Youth 
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Laxman Belbase, MenEngage Alliance

  • A peer research approach to co-creating interventions to prevent violence against adolescent girls in Samoa
    Talaimanu Peneueta, Hattie Lowe
  • Creating a comic to convey the complexities involved in securing participation rights for young survivors of childhood sexual violence
    Claire Cody, Claire Soares 
  • Leveraging community involvement and girls’ agency to prevent and respond to childhood sexual violence in resource constrained settings: Evidence from Uganda
    Clare Bangirana, Maria Ndibalekera, Annabelle Nakabiri Ssebakijje, Jude Omondi, Fiona Nakityo, Linda Kairaba, Timothy Opobo 
  • Co-creating accompanying systems to improve adolescent girls’ and women’s access to services in a refugee camp context
    Maha Al-Saudi, Alina Potts, Loujine Fattal, Mathilde Belli, Jessie Weber 

7.4. Conflict and Humanitarian Settings: Prevention 
Venue: Hall 8.2
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair:  Rahinatu Adamu Hussaini, Save the Children

  • Gender transformation with at-risk youth within South Sudan peacebuilding programs
    Emily Ausebel, Angella Agado, James Walla 
  • Sensemaking identifies interventions to prevent sexual exploitation and human trafficking: Mixed-methods analysis of violence against women and children in the Venezuelan refugee and migrant crisis
    Sofia Friesen, Julianna Deutscher, Susan Bartels, Luissa Vahedi, Sydney Johnson, Monica Noriega, Maria Marisol 
  • Is community-based sexual violence response and prevention effective, safe, and acceptable among refugee communities in Uganda and forced migrant communities in Colombia?
    Katherine Gambir, Angela Maria Guarin Aristizabal, Maria Cecilia Dedios, Lydia Kabwijamu, Ronald Ssenyonga, Christine Nalwadda, Barbara Kirunda, Ariana Catalina Torres Garcia 
  • Measuring the effectiveness of GBV risk mitigation interventions within nutrition programming in South Sudan
    Christine Heckman, Khamisa Ayoub, Amanya Jacob Kasio Iboyi,  Stella Guwoly Henry, Gloria Buga, Christine Pour Jurel, Dimple Save, Mesfin Gose Beko, Katie Robinette, Peter Chege, Jane N. Kieru, Mary W. Gitahi, Sarah Meyer, Neema Mosha, Sinéad Murray, Brendan Ross 

7.5. Traditional Harmful Practices 
Venue: Hall 8.3
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Sunita Caminha, UN Women

  • Empowering women collectives to shift social norms at scale: Preventing child, early, and forced marriages in rural India
    Sudipta Mondal, Sushmita Mukherjee, Amy Sunseri, Dennis Mello 
  • Exploring the role of men in child marriage decision-making in rural Upper Egypt: A qualitative study
    Reham Khaled Mohamed Abou El Fadl Ibrahim, Salma Abou Hussein, Nahla Abdel Tawab, Sally Radwan 
  • Study on the sustainability of public declarations of abandonment of female genital mutilation in Mali
    Caroline Muller, Nana Mouneissa Touré 
  • Breaking barriers that drive child early and forced marriage (CEFM) and promoting early adoption of family planning (FP) among adolescents in Nigeria: Understanding what works
    Masturah Baba 
  • Unlocking the secrets: Uncovering the forces behind adolescent child marriage in Indonesia – preliminary results from a qualitative study 
    Kartika Anggun Dimar Setio, Jerico Pardosi, Kristen Beek, Rita Damayanti, Husna Razee 

7.6. VAW & VAC Intersections  
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Alessandra Guedes, UNICEF

  • Intimate partner violence, violence against children and maternal regret—The role of motherhood in domestic violence in Cape Town, South Africa
    Emma Backe 
  • Characterizing typologies of overlapping IPV & VAC in the home: Findings from partner and parent-child dyads in DRC, Ethiopia, and South Africa 
    Khudejha Asghar, Nicola Christofides, Kathryn Falb, Franziska Meinck 
  • Examining the intersections of IPV exposure, IPV perpetration, VAC, depression and substance use: A latent class analysis of young fathers in Uganda
    Huilin Li, Dennis Nabembezi, Symon Wandiembe, Joshua Jeong, Rebecka Lundgren, Deogratias Yiga, Kathryn M. Barker 
  • The effects of childhood exposure to violence on experiences of intimate partner victimisation and perpetration in young adulthood: a cohort study in Uganda
    Daniel J Carter, Amiya Bhatia, Elizabeth Allen, Louise Knight, Anja Zinke-Allmang, Janet Nakuti, Angel Mirembe, Aggrey Akim, Lydia Atuhaire, Helen A Weiss, Janet Seeley, Simone Datzberger, Sophie Namy, Tvisha Nevatia, Jenny Parkes, Dipak Naker, Karen Devries 

7.7. Dialogic Session: Interventions for Men Who Use Violence   
Venue: Nerina/Protea
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Kalliopi Mingeirou, UN Women

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.

This panel will explore perpetration programmes and prevention interventions – as a field, we all want perpetrators (or men who use violence) to stop their violence and be held to account.

Panellists:

  • Rinko Kinoshita, UNFPA / University of the Western Cape (PhD)
  • Patrick O’Leary, Griffith University
  • Mar Jubero and Alexandra Robinson, UNFPA

12:30 – 15:00          Nourish and Network

Venue: Exhibition Hall

13:00 – 14:00          Poster Session III

Venue: Ground Floor

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15:00 – 16:30          Parallel Session VIII

8.1.  Integration and Health 
Venue: Hall 5/6
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Manuel Contreras-Urbina, World Bank Group

  • Leveraging PrEP product rollout to improve gender-based violence response in Zambia
    Chileshe Bwalya, Florence Mulenga, Edward Oladele, Giuliana Morales, Morgan Garcia, Featherstone Mangunje, Mwiya Mutandi, Mercy Katoka 
  • Testing the integration of gender-based violence screening and response in routine  health services in Nigeria
    Myra Betron, Emily Bryce, Chioma Oduenyi, Sylverius Obafemi, Samaila Yusuf, Nneka Chijioke-Dikeocha, Bello Kabir, Emeka Ifemenam, Adamu Umar 
  • Expanding access to post- sexual violence clinical care among women and girls in Njombe, Tanzania
    Enock Lugaila, Abubakar Rehani, Oscar Kapande, Godfrey Mwanakulya, Beatrice Christian, Bakari Bakari, Denis Mzaga, Marina Njelekela, Zahra Nensi, Jackline Kalimunda, Neway Fida 
  • Gender-based violence identification and support among clients that are non-adherent to antiretroviral treatment at CDC/PEPFAR supported HIV clinics in Central America
    Rosa Elena Morales, Cristine Gutierrez, Meagan Cain, Janell Wright 
  • Missed opportunities in the health sector to respond to violence against women
    Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Isabella Vitral Pinto, Rudina Rama, Rebeca Revenga Becedas, Ana Pereira dos Santos, Alban Ylli, Joan Muela, Paula Dias Bevilacqua, Daniel Cobos Munoz 

8.2. Mental Health in Conflict 
Venue: Hall 7
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Hugo van der Merwe, Global Survivors Fund

  • Women’s collectives in humanitarian settings: The role of social support
    Ilana Seff, Melissa Meinhart, Alli Gillespie, Amna Abu Zohair, Jackie Sofia, Jessica Lee, Racheal Atuheire, Diah Tricesaria, Isabel Dunn, Catherine Poulton, Lindsay Stark 
  • Preliminary impact and potential pathways for reducing depression and domestic violence among young women using a multi-component family intervention
    Shuvam Sharma, Sabitri Sapkota, Sajama Nepali, Jene Shrestha, Rekha Khatri, Bibhav Acharya,Lubha Raj Neupane, Kripa Sigdel, Pragya Rimal, Srijana Shrestha
  • Suffering, strength, acknowledgement and support – a study of the long-term impact of war-rape in Kosovo
    Kirsten Wienberg, Barbara Umrath 
  • Addressing intimate partner violence among pregnant women and girls through an empowerment counselling intervention in a refugee camp in Tanzania
    Bathsheba Mahenge, Caroline Mbambe, Eva Machange, Farida Juma, Beatrice Bernard, Marcella Sulley, Camilla Fabbri, Sarah Cornish-Spencer, Ronaldo Silva, Melissa Meinhart, Avni Amin
  • Co-occurrence of witnessing intimate partner violence against women and experiencing violence in childhood in refugee settlements in Uganda
    George Odwe, Stella Muthuri, Francis Onyango, Peter Kisaakye, Gloria Seruwagi, Yohannes Wado, Caroline Kabiru, Chi-Chi Undie 

8.3. Understanding Violence against Adolescents 
Venue: Hall 8.1
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair:  Abigail Erikson, UN Trust Fund to End VAW

  • Forms of Sexual Harassment among young people aged 15 -29 in Nairobi Kenya
    Grace Ngare, Mercy Kamau, Regina Mwatha, Anaise Williams, Shannon Wood, Judy Ngina, Peter Gichangi, Mary Thiong’o, Michele Decker 
  • GET 4 Youth: Creating a supportive environment and reducing gender-based violence for very young adolescents
    Kara Hunersen, Jordana Baron, Olivia Carlson, Eka Purni, Joanna Skinner 
  • If you dare turn him down, he would then beat you for every slight mistake you do”: Insights from Ugandan schoolgirls on teacher sexual violence
    Jenny Parkes, Amiya Bhatia, Simone Datzberger, Rehema Nagawa, Dipak Naker, Karen Devries 
  • Pathways to adolescent well-being: Integrating an evidence based couples violence prevention program and economic empowerment with parents and adolescents in rural DRC
    Mitima Mpanano Remy, Nancy Glass 
  • ‘Opening up conversations’: Improving the prevention and early identification of disabled children and young people at risk of exploitation
    Anita Franklin, Jo Greenaway, Louise Bradley, Sarah Goff 

8.4. Global and National 
Venue: Hall 8.2
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: James Lang, Asian Development Bank

  • Decade of data: Leveraging 10 years of service-based data to inform effective gender-based violence services
    Kristy Crabtree, Megan O’Brien 
  • Global trends in physical IPV against women and attitudes toward wife-beating, 1999-2023
    Irina Bergenfeld, Vince Nguyen, Katjana Wiederkehr, Cari Jo Clark, Robin Richardson, Alexandria R Hadd 
  • Estimating resource requirements for GBV response: The need for a context-sensitive, feminist and decolonial approach
    Nata Duvury, Mar Jubero, Jurguita Bukauskaite, José Henríquez Leiva 
  • From the ground up: Vanuatu’s innovative approach to measuring violence
    Tatavola Matas, Sharon Frank, Juliet Hunt 
  • Bottom-up implementation of Tanzania’s National Plan of Action to end violence against women and children: Connecting individual and structural change
    Adam Madhani, Novatus Urassa, Philbert Mashingia, Flora Longinus, Joseph Peniel, Salvata Kalanga, Nickson Lutenda, Flora Madaha, Mark Marchant, Saidi Kapiga 

8.5. Safeguarding
Venue: Hall 8.3
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Melissa Alvarado, UN Women

  • Piloting reparative justice and redress for survivors of safeguarding in complex humanitarian context of South Sudan
    Richard Oneka, Susan Njoki Wambui, Gibson Atovura, Christine Winny 
  • Intersections and divergences between SEAH and GBV: Practice-based lessons from case handling
    Amanda Bangura, Lusungu Kalanga, Thandizo Chakachadza
  • Safeguarding beyond emergency settings: A framework for preventing sexual exploitation, abuse, and other harm against program participants in development contexts
    Kim Dixon, Belmiro Sousa
  • Empowered Aid: Using participatory action research and implementation science to mitigate risks of sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian aid distributions
    Alina Potts, Loujine Fattal, Hope Harriet, Nigusu Zelelke, Mathilde Belli, Jessie Weber, Amal Hassan, Andrea Koris 

8.6.  VAC Methods and Measures 
Venue: Daisy/Freesia/Orchid
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Franziska Meinck, University of Edinburgh

  • Which factors impact participant distress among adolescents during and after violence-focused surveys? Evidence from a study in India
    Janina Isabel Steinert, Shruti Shukla, Rucha Vasumati Satish 
  • Differential reporting of childhood sexual abuse: a comparison of data collection methods in 28 low- and middle-income country settings
    Jack Cagney, Nicholas Metheny, Emmanuela Gakidou 
  • Democratising child sexual violence research through YPAR: Lessons from facilitating peer research with young “survivors” in Albania
    Mariana Meshi, Silvie Bovarnick, Small Steps Research Collaboration Young Researchers
  • Learning from the experts: Young people’s perspectives on the wellbeing impacts of experiencing sexual abuse during adolescence and navigating others’ responses to this
    Helen Beckett, Camille Warrington, Debra Allnock, Claire Soares  
  • Social norms in dating and relationship violence research: Testing new and adapted measures and exploring their relationships to violence outcomes
    Rebecca Meiksin, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Nambusi Kyegombe, Anjalee Kohli, Chris Bonell 

8.7. Reproductive Violence Markers 
Venue: Nerina/Protea
Translation available: English, Spanish, French

Chair: Anne Gathumbi, International Rescue Committee

  • Improving reproductive autonomy through ARCHES intervention in humanitarian setting
    Dipika Paul, Erin Pearson, Anika Tarannum, Jamie Menzel, Misang Prue Marma, Jay Silverman, Sayed Rubayet 
  • Lessons from adaptation of a clinical intervention to address reproductive coercion and violence across five countries
    Rebecka Lundgren, Seri Wendoh, Khudejha Asgar, Jay Silverman, Erin Pearson, Courtney Mclarnon, Jasmine Uysal 
  • Obstructions to girls’ and young women’s reproductive autonomy: Lessons in contraception, bleeding, violence, and agency from qualitative research with girls, young women, and family planning clinic providers in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
    Erin Hartman, Ana Maria Buller, Florence Thungu, Wilkister Ombidi, Eunice Asala, George Odwe, Cicely Marston 
  • Addressing reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence at scale: RCT results for ARCHES as adapted for national scaling in Kenya
    Jay Silverman, Erin Pearson, Jasmen Uysal, Jamie Menzel, George Odwe, Wilson Liambila, Jane Namwebya, Chi-Chi Undie 

16:30 – 17:00          Pause and Connect

17:00 – 18:00          Plenary III: Closing

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

Facilitator: Claudia Garcia-Moreno, SVRI Forum 2024 Chair

  • Prize-giving
  • Closing reflections and thanks – Elizabeth Dartnall
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  • Closing artist / entertainment 

 

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