Gender-Based Violence

Our role on GBV prevention and response

An image of women's hands palm-faced down touching fingertips in a circular position. 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.

GBV Resource Library

Our library of resources on GBV prevention and response contains over 300 documents including guidance notes, programming tools, research and practice-based learning from previous and current programmes.

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If you would like to hear more about our work on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), please reach out to Tina Musuya, Head of the GBV Portfolio, tina.musuya@sddirect.org.uk.

Further Resources on GBV Prevention and Response

Spotlight Initiative Learning Centre

What Works Evidence Hub

Malawi Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention and Response

The Malawi Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Prevention Programme was funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and delivered by Coffey in consortium with Social Development Direct and Plan International.

The Programme’s objective was to reduce the prevalence of violence against women and girls and improve the justice system for women and girls living with violence in Malawi. Its aim was to achieve the following Outcomes:

Learning Brief on Femicide in Emergencies

This report provides a practical overview of femicide in fragile and emergency settings, and the implications for GBViE practitioners. This document articulates how femicide is defined and conceptualized, provides a concise overview of different forms of femicide, and offers practical programmatic recommendations in terms of GBV prevention and response and advocacy.

Query 75 - Violence Against LGBT People

An overview of evience on violence against LGBT people (including global statistics, impact, and overlaps with violence against women and girls), existing global initatives to tackle anti-LGBT violence, and known donor programmatic approaches.

Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence Digest, January 2015

Quarterly newsletter reviewing the latest research, evidence, policy and news on violence against women and girls.

Why Addressing Gender Inequality and Gender-Based Violence Matters to the UK's Work on Peace and Stability in Africa

A learning brief produced by the Violence Against Women and Girls Helpdesk, which discusses the relationship between gender inequality, gender-based violence (GBV) and conflict, security and stability. This brief finds that addressing gender inequality and GBV "could make an important contribution to peace and stability in Africa - a region with some of the worst indicators on both".

Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls Through Economic Development and Women’s Economic Empowerment Programmes

This 2 part guidance note is part of a series of UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) guidance notes on violence against women and girls (VAWG). It aims to provide practical advice and tips to support FCDO advisors and programme managers and other UK government departments to support the development of a theory of change for integrated economic development and VAWG programming.

What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls: Evidence Reviews

This paper is the second in a series of four evidence reviews that were produced by What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls (What Works).

We Want to Learn About Good Love: Findings from a Qualitative Study Assessing the Links Between Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Violence Against Women and Girls

This report finds that comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) – including learning about relationships, gender and gender-based violence(GBV), sex, sexuality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) – can be viewed "not only as part of a quality education, but also as part of a holistic approach to preventing violence against women and girls". The report utilises global evidence on CSE interventions, including primary and secondary research in Cambodia and Uganda.

The potential for COVID-19 to increase violence against a women and girls

Since its outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has infected hundreds of thousands of people across the world. We at SDDirect care deeply about the disproportionate effect the pandemic is likely to have on the lives of women and girls, and the potential for COVID-19 to increase their vulnerability to acts of violence.

Empowering adolescent girls in the COVID-19 context

Adolescence is a time of great opportunity and significant risk, especially for girls. It is a time of rapid physical and cognitive development where girls want to experience more independence and freedom. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic has put huge restrictions on and barriers to girls’ development.

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Meet the GBV Team

Kate Bishop

Co- Director, Technical 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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Tina Musuya

Head of Gender-Based Violence Portfolio

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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Dr Erika McAslan Fraser

Associate Director, Technical Team

Erika provides technical advice and leadership to SDDirect’s work on gender-based violence (GBV). She has over twenty years of experience of working on social development. Erika has produced…

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Jo Feather

Associate Director, Technical Team

Jo Feather is a Principal Consultant in the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Portfolio. She has been working in gender and social development for over 20 years specifically on violence against women and…

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Amanda Bangura

Principal Consultant

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 Hollowell

Principal Consultant for GBV in Emergencies (GBViE)

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

Principal Consultant

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 Creighton

Principal Consultant in Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies & GBViE Lead

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 Kalanga

Principal Consultant

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 Vlahakis

Head of Governance and Inclusive Societies Portfolio

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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Hanna Smit

Senior Technical Specialist in Gender-Based Violence and Safeguarding

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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Naomi Clugston

Senior Technical Specialist in Governance and Inclusive Societies and Gender-Based Violence

Naomi is a Technical Specialist who works across our Governance and Inclusive Societies and Gender-based Violence portfolios. She primarily focuses on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), women’s…

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Veronica Ahlenback

Senior Technical Specialist

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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Gender-Based Violence

Our role on GBV prevention and response

GBV Resource Library

Further Resources on GBV Prevention and Response

Meet the GBV Team

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