Skip to main content

Gender-Based Violence

Prevention and Response

 

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.  

A group of women's hands touching at the fingertips in a circle.

Graphic of an outline of three woman with two women in dark blue and one in light blue.

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. 

Woman holding up a sign at a protest stating "Put a stop to this violence".

Our GBV prevention & response work 

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. 

Our areas of expertise

 

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.

ҐЕНДЕРНО ЗУМОВЛЕНЕ НАСИЛЬСТВО В УКРАЇНІ

The GBV AoR Helpdesk by special request of the AoR and GBV Sub-cluster in Ukraine conducted a secondary data review of existing secondary data on GBV in Ukraine (pre- and post-war).  This aims to inform GBV prevention and response interventions and complement existing analyses and reports. This version has been translated into Ukrainian. 

Financements Humanitaires Destinés à des Organisations et Groupes de Femmes au Niveau National/Local

Les femmes du monde entier vivent des expériences différentes de celles des hommes, façonnées par des normes qui perpétuent l’inégalité des genres. À son tour, cette inégalité des genres favorise les multiples formes de violence auxquelles les femmes et les jeunes filles sont exposées tout au long de leur vie. Dans les contextes humanitaires, certains types de violence à l’égard des femmes et des jeunes filles (VFF), également connus sous le nom de violences basées sur le genre ou VBG) peuvent augmenter.

Financiación Humanitaria para Organizaciones y Grupos de Mujeres Nacionales/Locales

Las mujeres de todo el mundo han vivido experiencias que son diferentes a las de los hombres, informadas por normas que perpetúan la desigualdad de género. Esta desigualdad de género, a su vez, sustenta las múltiples formas de violencia a las que las mujeres y las niñas están expuestas a lo largo de su vida. En contextos humanitarios, ciertos tipos de violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas, (también denominada Violencia basada en el Género, o VG) pueden aumentar.

التمويل اإلنساني للمنظمات والجمعات النسائية الوطنية / المحلية

تعيش النساء في جميع أنحاء العالم تجارب مختلفة عن الرجال، في ظل معايير ترسخ عدم المساواة الجندرية. حيث يؤدي هذا التفاوت بدوره إلى تعزيز أشكال متعددة من العنف الذي ت تعرض له النساء والفتيات طيلة حياتهن. في األوضاع اإلنسانية، يمكن أن تزداد بعض أشكال العنف بالعنف القائم على النوع االجتماعي(.

Tina Musuya

Photo of Tina Musuya

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 evidence-based, draws on practice-based knowledge and is of a high quality.

Joint evaluation of the UN Joint Programme on Aids on preventing and responding to violence against women and girls

Assessing the Joint Programme's accountability to end Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and address the bi-directional nature of VAWG and HIV (where VAWG can be an indirect/direct factor for increased HIV risk, and HIV status and disclosure can lead to violence).

Subscribe to Gender-Based Violence