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Spotlight Initiative has provided a range of mobile and remote services across contexts. As a result of Covid-19, it increased the number of remote services provided across its programming, applying lessons learned from across contexts to strengthen delivery and innovation. Key approaches and learning include:
Provide support through mobile clinics offering multiple services to all women and girls. Spotlight Initiative programmes have funded clinics open to all women and girls, not only survivors, in Mozambique, Niger, Haiti and Belize. These have offered coordinated sexual and reproductive…
Spotlight Initiative takes a coordinated approach to supporting the reintegration of survivors, recognising the need for multiple, complementary interventions. Key approaches and learning include:
Addressing economic, social and psychological needs: For example, as happened in Malawi, Spotlight Initiative ensured that livelihood and financial support programmes are complemented by the establishment of survivor support groups and advocacy efforts within the communities to which survivors are returning or joining.
Working with community members and survivors through the establishment of…
Spotlight Initiative has prioritised the provision of mental health and psychosocial support in both its prevention and response work. Key approaches and learning include:
Producing technical guidance on how to mainstream MHPSS into programme and service design and delivery. This seeks to apply the latest evidence and learning on MHPSS into prevention work, as well as quality response services.
Ensuring MHPSS needs assessments inform capacity building and programming. By conducting a needs assessment, the information collected can provide a profound understanding of the struggles with…
The Spotlight Initiative takes a multi-sectoral approach to establishing safe spaces, to ensure that survivors - and other women and girls - accessing these spaces have access to a variety of services including financial aid, legal aid, economic empowerment opportunities, sexual and reproductive health information, psychosocial support and counselling, and opportunities to develop skills to challenge harmful gender norms safely.
The Spotlight Initiative builds safe spaces in collaboration with communities and service providers, especially health and justice services. Part of these efforts…
Spotlight Initiative has ensured access to justice programmes that reflect holistic definitions of justice, informed by the experiences of survivors and communities. For example, in addition to supporting survivors to access and navigate both formal and informal legal systems, they have also supported communities to establish reparative memorials in honour of those killed through crimes of GBV. See case study below. Other key approaches and learning include:
Supporting justice sector leaders and decision-makers to understand the seriousness and impacts of GBV. For example, programmes have…
Spotlight Initiative recognises that effective training and resourcing is essential to ensure that police units are well equipped to respond to crimes of VAWG with a survivor-centred approach. Key approaches and learning from Spotlight Initiative programmes working with the police include:
Train police officers to prevent and respond effectively and sensitively to VAWG: For example, in the Marshall Islands, Spotlight Initiative trained police officers in survivor-centred approaches. See case study below.
Invest in Women and Children’s protection units within police forces to ensure there…
Spotlight Initiative recognises that survivors of violence often require a range of health services, including medical treatment, psychosocial support, and reproductive health care. Its programmes aim to ensure that survivors have access to comprehensive and integrated health services that address their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Key approaches and learning include:
Providing high-quality clinical care for survivors of violence, including emergency medical treatment, treatment of injuries, and post-assault care. This has also involved training healthcare providers to offer…
Spotlight Initiative collaborates with partners to establish and strengthen One Stop Centres, which allow a multi-sectoral and holistic approach to VAWG response. By 2023, Spotlight Initiative had provided more than 650,000 women and girl survivors with essential services - of these, more than 450,000 were served by One Stop Centres.
Key approaches and learning have included:
Strengthening and scaling up existing one stop centres: In Nigeria, Spotlight Initiative scaled up one-stop centres already in operation. One-stop centres in the states of Sokoto and Lagos provide housing services…
Spotlight Initiative recognises that addressing VAWG requires collaboration across various sectors and service providers, government agencies, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders involved in GBV response. Referral mechanisms are an essential component of this approach as they ensure that survivors receive holistic support.
Spotlight Initiative invests in building the capacity of service providers, including healthcare workers, CSOs, social workers, legal professionals, and law enforcement personnel. This training helps them better understand GBV issues, improve their…
Spotlight Initiative programmes have worked to understand and address the specific barriers that diverse groups of women and girls might face in accessing services. Key approaches and learnings include:
Providing survivor support funds. Spotlight Initiative is committed to supporting survivors without the financial means to access services, by establishing and distributing funds. In Malawi, they did this through the establishment of community funds.
Mobile service provision for survivors in hard-to-reach areas. Spotlight Initiative also supports survivors in remote locations with mobile…