Voices from SVRI Forum 2024: Webinar Series

Voices from SVRI Forum 2024: Webinar Series

Voices from SVRI Forum 2024: Strengthening the Field Through Shared Learning

 

In October 2024, the SVRI Forum in Cape Town brought together researchers, practitioners, activists, donors, survivors and policymakers to share groundbreaking findings, innovative interventions, and policy insights on violence against women, violence against children, and intersecting issues.

To keep this momentum going between Forums, SVRI has partnered with the Australian Volunteers Program (AVP) to host a global webinar series. This series offered an opportunity to dive deeper into key Forum themes, strengthen knowledge exchange, and build global connections as we look ahead to SVRI Forum 2026 in Thailand.

See the SVRI Forum 2024 Conference Report here.

🎥 Watch the Recordings and Explore Resources

Below you’ll find recordings, speaker materials, and recommended readings from each session in the series. Whether you attended live or are catching up later, we invite you to explore, share, and continue the conversation.

Webinar 1: Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence

Session 1.1: TFGBV and Young People

This session explored the lived realities of TFGBV among children, adolescents, and young adults. Hear from researchers and practitioners working in Thailand, Nepal, and the Philippines as they unpack issues of online harm, help-seeking, and innovative tools for prevention.

Speakers:

  • Elizabeth Dartnall, SVRI
  • Rangsima Deesawade, Evident
  • Adesty Dulawan, consultant Clinical Supervisor of World Hope International and Clinical Psychologist at St. Luke’s Medical Center in the Philippines
  • Tulasha Khadka, ChildSafeNet
  • Ayesha Mago, SVRI (Moderator)

 

Session 1.2: Political and Structural Dimensions of TFGBV

This discussion examined how legal systems, social norms, digital platforms, and global policy structures shape both the risks and responses to TFGBV. Drawing from research across Mexico, Ethiopia, the US, and global UN policy processes, this session brought forward critical strategies for structural change and accountability.

Speakers:

  • Elizabeth Dartnall, SVRI
  • Felicity Mulford, Centre for Information Reslience
  • Marcela Oropa, Red de Defensoras Digitales del movimiento Ley Olimpia
  • Alexandra Robinson, UNFPA
  • Yeliz Osman, UN Women
  • Ayesha Mago, SVRI (Moderator)

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Webinar 2: Economic Empowerment

Session 2.1: Building safer futures – Evolving approaches to economic empowerment

Explore how economic empowerment programmes are transforming relationships and reducing violence, from mobile tech for adolescent girls to group-based financial initiatives.

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Session 2.2: Building safer futures – Co-creating empowerment across contexts

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Webinar 3: Intimate Partner Violence

Session 3.1: Integrated Approaches to IPV and VAC

In this session, leading researchers explored how data-driven insights, community-engaged interventions and survivor-centered perspectives can be brought together to interrupt cycles of violence in the home.

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Moderated by Priti Prabhughate, SVRI

Session 3.2: Intimate Partner Violence Methods and Measures

This session highlighted advances in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) measurement, exploring how to ensure valid, reliable, and context-sensitive tools for assessing violence and evaluating intervention impact across diverse settings.

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Moderated by Nicolas Makharashvili, Safe Futures Hub: Solutions to End Childhood Sexual Violence

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Webinar 4: Climate Change and VAW/VAC

4. Climate Change and VAW/VAC

In this session, we turned our focus to Climate Change and VAW/VAC. We heard insights from research from Samoa, Southern Africa, Colombia, Nigeria & the Philippines which highlighted how climate shocks like droughts, floods, and resource conflict, exacerbate risks of VAW and VAC.

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Panellists:

Jenevieve Mannell, University College London Institute for Global Health
Bothaina Eltigani, Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford
Lora Forsythe, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

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