Our global Gender-Based Violence (GBV) team provides strategic technical support to actors across the GBV ecosystem from donors to community-level women-led organisations. We are a multi-disciplinary team delivering programme design and implementation support, advocacy, research reports, MEL and helpdesk services.
Our team aspires to apply our feminist principles in all our work and to support sustained and transformative change. We partner with diverse stakeholders and we take an intersectional approach to our work on GBV prevention and response across development and humanitarian contexts.
Our work includes primary prevention programming, community-level response to GBV and SEAH, school-related GBV, GBV in Emergencies, Technology-Facilitated GBV, Violence against LGBTQI+ communities, and GBV in Climate and Economic programming.
Read more about our current work or search our extensive GBV Resource Library below.
This brief presents a synthesis of a feminist leadership capacity strengthening initiative provided to support Women‑Led Organisation (WLO) partners in South Sudan from December 2024 to June 2025, as part of The Gender-Based Violence Prevention South Sudan (GBVPSS) Programme.
This guidance was originally developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with support from multiple agencies, during which GBV case management rapidly transitioned to remote modalities to reduce social contact and limit transmission of infection.
This Global Caring for Child Survivors Supervisory Support Coaching Manual has been developed to strengthen supervisory practice by providing structured guidance, practical tools, and standardized approaches to coaching and support for supervisors of caseworkers managing cases of child survivors of sexual abuse.
By Joanne Creighton, SDDirect’s GBV in Emergencies Lead
By Danielle Cornish-Spencer, Head of Technical Services
Flora is a Technical Analyst for the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) portfolio, with experience in research, technical assistance, policy analysis and multi-stakeholder engagement.
This annual report summarises the activity of the GBV AoR Helpdesk for the year 2024, including the type of queries the Helpdesk has responded to and the regions it has supported.
This learning brief introduces climate and disaster risk reduction (DRR) actors to the importance of addressing the connections between GBV and climate change to facilitate more effective and comprehensive climate action in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins with an overview of evidence of how climate change, manifested through both sudden onset disasters (e.g., cyclones, floods) and slow-onset events (e.g. drought) can lead to increased risks of GBV for women and girls, and how, in turn, this creates barriers to climate resilience.
This annotated bibliography provides short summaries of guidance, tools, research and other types of available materials that can support gender-based violence (GBV) actors to design and implement disability inclusive and participatory programs.
