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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

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:

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.

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.

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