Natasha Horsfield
Natasha is a Technical Specialist in SDDirect’s Gender-based Violence portfolio, where she provides technical and research expertise, including as a researcher on the Ending Violence against Women an
Gender-Based Violence
Our role on GBV prevention and response
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.
Further Resources on GBV Prevention and Response
Learning lessons from Toose: a global webinar on the SAFE Programme’s IPV model, 10 December 2024
To mark this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the SAFE Programme held a webinar to share learning from its Toose model on the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV). During the event the SAFE team’s Netty Musanhu and Hind M’hamdi gave this presentation on the programme and Toose IPV model, as well as the key learning and adaptations made during implementation.
Supporting organisations at the frontline of caring for child survivors
During these 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Social Development Direct (SDDirect) colleagues Clare Hollowell and Hanna Smit are focusing on child survivors of sexual abuse, by facilitating a training on the new Caring for Child Survivors guidelines, jointly organised by UNICEF and UNHCR.
From Beijing and beyond: Now is the time to accelerate our commitment to feminist principles in humanitarian action
We must remember that feminist principles and approaches are not mere theory. They include practical strategies for shaping more effective and just humanitarian responses. At the heart of this work is leadership of affected communities, especially leadership that is by women, for women, and with women.
Annotated Bibliography: Review of Technical Resources on Honor-Based Abuse in the Middle East and North Africa Region
This annotated bibliography provides an overview of relevant literature and resources on Honor-Based Abuse (HBA) within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and among communities from MENA living in the diaspora. Intended to support the development of training materials for first-line responders, especially police officers who may engage with survivors of HBA in MENA, the bibliography focuses primarily on training tools and programmatic guidance on responding to cases of HBA.
THEORY OF CHANGE FOR THE SUPPORTING SURVIVORS OF SEAH (S2S) PROGRAMME
This document is an overview of the theory of change
S2S Key message 4
This document is a poster used to communicate the S2S services within communities.
S2S Key message 3
This document is a poster used to communicate the S2S services within communities.
Meet the GBV Team
As Co-Director of the Technical Team, Kate provides strategic and operational leadership across SDDirect’s gender equality and social inclusion portfolios, with particular oversight for Gender Based…
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Natasha is a Technical Specialist in SDDirect’s Gender-based Violence portfolio, where she provides technical and research expertise, including as a researcher on the Ending Violence…
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Tina provides technical advice and leadership to SDDirect's work in the field of Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention. She helps to ensure that the work of in-house staff and consultants is…
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Erika provides technical advice and leadership to SDDirect’s work on gender-based violence (GBV). She has over twenty years of experience of working to prevent and respond to violence in a…
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Jo Feather is Associate Director and Principal Consultant in the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Portfolio. She has been working in gender and social development…
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Amanda provides technical advice and leadership to SDDirect's work in the field of Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response as part of SDDirect’s GBV Portfolio team. She is the Country Co-…
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Clare joined SDDirect as a Principal Consultant in the Gender-Based Violence team, with a specialism in GBV in Emergencies. She has a wealth of experience in NGOs, consultancy, donor governments and…
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Gemma Ferguson is a Principal Consultant in the GBV team. She brings two decades of experience working at the intersection of media and social development, with a special focus on gender, social…
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Joanne leads SDDirect’s Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Emergencies work. She is a senior member of the GBV portfolio and Director of the GBV AoR Helpdesk: a research and advice service for…
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Lusungu provides technical advice and leadership to SDDirect's work in the field of Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention as part of SDDirect’s GBV Portfolio team. She is the Country Co-Lead for SDD…
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Maria is part of the Gender-based Violence (GBV) team at SDDirect. She is a social inclusion and gender equality professional with strong feminist values, specialising in violence against women and…
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Naomi is a Senior Technical Specialist with experience conducting research, managing projects, engaging in policy, advocacy and influencing, and providing technical assistance. She works with a range…
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Veronica Ahlenback is a Technical Specialist in SDDirect’s Gender-based Violence portfolio. She is particularly interested in Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) approaches in GBV focused…
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With a background in humanitarianism and social development, Hanna provides technical and research expertise to SDDirect’s Gender-Based Violence and Safeguarding portfolios. As the GBV AoR…
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