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 tip sheet outlines key practices for integrating Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) activities for women and girls into Women and Girls Safe Space (WGSS), including age specific programming, materials and supplies, supportive facilities and key resources.
Gender-based violence (GBV) awareness campaigns are important because they contribute to heightening awareness of GBV as a violation of human rights that affects society as a whole. This tip sheet details the different types of GBV awareness campaigns, and what to consider when planning, implementing and monitoring them.
As the international aid sector continues to make progress towards full realisation of the commitments made during the Safeguarding Summit in 2018, Official Development Assistance (ODA) organisations have made well-intentioned efforts to improve the prevention, mitigation and response to sexual exploitation abuse and harassment (SEAH)[1]. However, SEAH remains a scourge in the ODA sector[2].
An overview of the effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic on gender-based violence in Malawi, and key recommendations for policy decision-makers to ensure safe reporting and support services for survivors.
Examining the high rates of gender-based violence in Malawi, contextualizing to the most common environments survivors are found in during these acts of violence. There a key recommendations found throughout this brief that are suggested to help develop an end to gender-based violence in the region.
This document is an overview of the Moyo Olemekezeka economic empowerment initiative under the Tithetse Nkhanza (TN) Programme. It refers to model used to bring success to the project and speaks to the processes used during the implementation of the initiative.
This document outlines the adaptations made to the advocacy strategy set within the Tithetse Nkhanza (TN)/Malawi Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Prevention and Response Programme during the COVID-19 global pandemic. It also outlines how changes were impacted due to the change of political context during this time.
This document is a guideline for individuals or organizations, specifically within duty-bearing positions and working with survivors of gender-based violence. It is meant as a resource for these groups to consider strategies and actions in favor of advocacy while performing their duties. This includes an improvement in responsiveness and creating a survivors-based approach, as well as creating cohesiveness across organizations working on preventing and responding to violence against women and girls (VAWG).
This document provides an outline of the Survivors Support Fund (SSF), aimed to provide a small pot of resources to gender-based violence survivors. Its aim is to provide context to operating partners in order to implement survivor-based approaches when working with survivors who opt into the fund. It is therefore a guideline for all parties involved.
This learning brief examines adaptation within the SASA! Together Approach within the larger Tithetse Nkhanza (TN)/Malawi Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Prevention and Response Programme. It will discuss the positive steps made within the initiative and reflect on the adaptations made, as well as any recommendations.
