Supporting Gender-Based Violence Survivors Pregnant due to Rape
This paper offers practical guidance to gender-based violence (GBV) practitioners on how to support survivors who find themselves pregnant as a result of rape.
Gender-Based Violence
Our role on GBV prevention and response
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.
Further Resources on GBV Prevention and Response
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout and Gender-Based Violence Risks
This paper explores research, evidence and learning from past public health emergencies about gender-based violence (GBV) and gender-related barriers to vaccine access.
Research Brief: Gender-Based Violence and Anticipatory Action
This report provides a brief overview of what an anticipatory action approach is, including how the approach differs from disaster risk reduction and preparedness work, and its relevance to gender-based violence (GBV) practicioners.
Gender-Based Violence and Social Protection Programming in Emergencies
This annotated bibliography points gender-based violence (GBV) practitioners and social protection experts towards resources to improve the delivery of social protection and to reduce GBV in humanitarian emergencies.
Learning Brief 2: Strategies and Action for Preventing and Responding to Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
This second learning brief outlines promising strategies currently being used in different parts of the world to prevent and respond to technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), highlighting some key examples and resources. It also suggests five priority actions GBV practitioners and specialists can take to strengthen response to TFGBV, and five priority actions to enhance TFGBV mitigation and prevention.
Learning Brief 1: Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
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.
Humanitarian Financing for Women's Organizations and Groups
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).
Bibliographie Annotée des Ressources en Français pour les Interventions en Matière de Violence Basée sur le Genre en Situations d’Urgence
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.
Annotated Bibliography of French GBViE Resources (English)
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.
Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Helpdesk
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.
Meet the GBV 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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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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