SDDirect is a prominent global leader in gender-based violence (GBV) programming, policy, and research, anchored in feminist principles. We partner with diverse groups and stakeholders, offering technical support, training, and accompaniment throughout programme and investment lifecycles.
We recognise the importance of integrating gender-based violence prevention and response across other aspects of our work as an accelerator for achieving gender equality.
1/3 women and girls endure physical or sexual violence, with heightened risk for those facing discrimination based on factors like poverty, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and HIV status.
Violence against women and girls is a significant human rights and public health issue rooted in power imbalances. Its costs, both social and economic, are immense, lasting generations.
Prevention is possible through an intersectional, evidence-based, and practice-oriented approach addressing the underlying causes.
Prevention and response: Holistic programming to end VAWG in various settings with an emphasis on primary prevention accompanied by response.
GBV in emergencies: GBV prevention and response in humanitarian programming with a focus on policy, guidance, capacity strengthening and research and evaluation.
School related GBV: Prevention and response in education spaces, with a focus on gendered and intersectional analysis.
Violence against LGBTQI+ communities: Prevention and response with a focus on intersectional analysis, research and evaluation.
Technology facilitated GBV: Prevention and response with a focus on policy, guidance, capacity strengthening and research and evaluation.
We envision a world free from all forms of gender-based violence, where all women, girls and gender diverse people can realise their rights and exercise choice and agency.
Helpdesk services; programme leadership; technical assistance, accompaniment and training; knowledge products and guidance material; policy and programme guidance; specialist research, monitoring and evaluation on GBV.
We take a feminist intersectional approach to our work on GBV, recognising how gender inequality intersects with other systems of oppression, discrimination and structural inequalities, including (but not limited to) those related to race, ethnicity, class, cast, homo and transphobia, ableism, ageism, nationality, immigration status, refugee and asylum seeker status, and health status.
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.
This first learning brief builds on basic knowledge about technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV). It provides a definition and overview of TFGBV behaviours, looks at prevalence and how TFGBV is manifesting in emergency contexts, and the impacts it has on women and girls.
This report identifies a range of funding opportunities for national and local women's rights organizations to help prevent and respond to gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE).
Cette bibliographie annotée compile des ressources en français pour les interventions en matière de violence basée sur le genre (VBG) en situation d'urgence. Ce document comprend à la fois des documents de niveau global qui ont été traduits de la langue dans laquelle ils ont été initialement produits (principalement l'anglais) vers le français, ainsi que des ressources régionales et nationales sur la VBG produites dans des pays francophones.
This annotated bibliography compiles French-language resources for gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) interventions. This document includes both global-level documents that have been translated from the language in which they were initially produced (primarily English) into French, as well as regional and country-level GBV resources produced in Francophone countries.
The VAWG Helpdesk closed in July 2020. We are now running a new helpdesk Ending Violence against Women and Children Helpdesk which is part of the What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls programme.
This annotated bibliography provides information on global gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) technical resources that have been translated into Spanish. It also provides a review of regional and country-level GBV resources that were produced in Latin America and the Caribbean. This bibliography is intended to facilitate the access of Spanish-speaking GBV practitioners to guidance, knowledge, and tools in Spanish that will support them to implement GBV prevention and response programs.
Esta bibliografía comentada provee información sobre recursos técnicos globales sobre Violencia Basada en Género (VBG) en Emergencias que han sido traducidos al español. También proporciona una revisión de los recursos de VBG a nivel regional y nacional que se han producido en América Latina y el Caribe (LAC)1. En estos países, los principales idiomas de trabajo de las/os trabajadoras/es de primera línea son el español (la mayor parte de América Latina) y el inglés (la mayor parte del Caribe).
This literature review is part of a series of knowledge products produced by the GBV AoR Helpdesk which aim to support the mitigation of GBV risks faced by women and girls’ refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. This review informs the development of a practical guidance resource for private hosts and a key recommendations brief . This paper focuses on identifying promising practice from shelter, hosting and alternative care guidance and procedures that mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) risks.
This recommendations document is part of a series of knowledge products produced by the GBV AoR Helpdesk which aim to support the mitigation of GBV risks faced by women and girls’ refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. The key recommendations contained in this document aim to inform coordination efforts with 1) refugee-hosting States, 2) GBV specialist refugee response agencies and organizations, and service providers, and 3) non-GBV specialists in other sectors to ensure that refugee women and girls’ risk of GBV is consistently and systematically mitigated.
This practical guidance for private accommodation hosts is part of a series of knowledge products produced by the GBV AoR Helpdesk which aim to support the mitigation of GBV risks faced by women and girls’ refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. It contains guidance and tips for private accommodation hosts that will help them to mitigate GBV risks for Ukrainian refugee women and girls staying in their accommodation. The paper outlines the GBV risks faced by Ukrainian women and girls and practical DOs and DON’Ts for their hosts to apply which help to mitigate these risks.
