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.

Search our library of GBV Resources

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

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.

Adolescent Girls Resource Pack

Evidence and lessons learned on what works for adolescent girls' empowerment. This pack includes briefs on:

Adolescent girls and climate change
Adolescent girls and monitoring and evaluation
Adolescent girls and humanitarian and conflict
Adolescent girls and creating safe spaces.

Reaching Women and Girls Most at Risk of Violence: A practical brief

Evidence on how to reach women and girls particularly at risk of violence.

Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls in Health Programming

Two part guidance note from a DFID guidance note series on violence against women and girls in health programming (VAWG).

Supporting Security and Justice Responses for COVID-19

Guidance for addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG) for security and justice actors during COVID-19 pandemic response.

Serious and Organised Crime and Violence Against Women and Girls

Short factsheet on linkages between serious and organised crime (SOC) and violence against women and girls (VAWG).

Ethiopia: Gender-Based Violence Briefing Note

Briefing note on gender-based violence in Ethiopia.

Morocco: Gender Issues Briefing Note

Briefing note on gender issues in Morocco.

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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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Natasha Horsfield

Technical Specialist

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 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 to prevent and respond to violence in a…

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Jo Feather

Associate Director, Technical Team

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 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

Principal Consultant

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 Clugston

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

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

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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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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