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Organisations and donors wishing to enable and strengthen women’s movements can play a role by supporting convenings, events and networking for knowledge exchange and coalition building. For example, this might involve establishing a community of practice, where members of women’s movements, activists and allies can share their experiences and learn from each other. It could also involve hosting meetings in a central location and supporting the cost of attending these meetings.
It is important to recognise the different challenges for organisations to attend these meetings. For example…
Women’s movements are incredibly diverse, and not all contexts are conducive to movement building. Before starting to support women’s movements, VAWG programmes should first analyse the local context – the risks, advantages and possible tensions within movements, including around the issue of violence against women and girls. This careful preparation is key to ensuring that programmes support collective collaboration between organisations and movements, rather than unintentionally exacerbating any divisions. In contexts where there is a strong rollback against women’s rights, it is also…
Private sector organisations are often very adept at media and communications. Encourage and support them to engage with media and use communication tools and information technology to raise public awareness about VAWG as an unacceptable social situation and economic issue. The engagement of non-traditional actors like private sector companies can be key to change opinions, attitudes, perceptions and ideas as well as to equip community members, such as vulnerable young people including girls, women, parents, educators, and employers, with skills to take appropriate individual and collective…
Safe spaces for girls can be shared with women, and can exist online as well:
Women and Girls Safe Spaces: These spaces support women and girls to develop strategies and assertive skills to negotiate and challenge harmful practices that fuel sexual and gender-based violence. They can learn how to challenge social norms, including child marriage, and about their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Read more about women and girls' safe spaces
Online safe spaces: Mobile service delivery can be designed to support a range of different age groups and topics, including girl-specific…
Globally, international organisations and national governments have committed to evidence-based policymaking and programming as a principle to guide the allocation of resources. However, the collection of robust data and evidence on the drivers, patterns and impacts of complex social issues such as violence against women and girls (VAWG) is challenging. Nonetheless, over the last two decades, a growing evidence base has supported increased funding for ending VAWG as well as vital learning on how to design and implement effective programmes in different contexts and for different groups.
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Women’s organisations and movements have played a vital role in progress towards ending VAWG – including through years of advocacy for better laws, policies and funding to address violence as well as frontline work in communities to raise awareness about VAWG and provide essential services and support to women and girl survivors. In spite of recent improvements in financing mechanisms for women’s organisations, there is still a need to provide greater financial and technical resources to sustain and expand their critical work.
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VAWG response programmes focus on providing survivors with services to address their immediate and longer-term needs with a view to supporting their physical and emotional recovery and reducing negative effects on them and those they care for and about. Largely due to the work of frontline women’s organisations, we have learned a lot about the types of services that women and girls survivors want and need and how to provide these services in accessible, appropriate and timely way to diverse women and girls in different circumstances globally.
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VAWG prevention programmes work to stop violence before it starts or reduce the frequency and severity of further violence where it has already occurred. Given the widespread prevalence of violence against women and girls (VAWG) globally, and the limited number of survivors who speak out and seek support, prevention is an essential complement to VAWG response work. We now have rigorous evidence to demonstrate that VAWG is preventable and there are a number of prevention strategies that have resulted in substantial reductions in the levels of VAWG after a few years of implementation.
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National laws and policies provide a vital framework for the recognition, protection and enforcement of women and children’s rights in line with international and regional agreements. In the last three decades, numerous countries have passed legislation to criminalise VAWG and stipulate rights to services for survivors.
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Use the questions to asses which stage you are at in the journey. Each question is aligned to pages within this site.
How is the national environment for VAWG programming?
Who are the key actors who can support change and what are their…
Working to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) requires multiple stakeholders to work together effectively to address the drivers of VAWG, provide support and services to VAWG survivors, and create an enabling environment for sustainable change.
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Use the questions to asses which stage you are at in the journey. Each question is aligned to pages within this site.
Why and how to develop multi-stakeholder partnerships
How will you work with the national government?
How will you work with the women's movement?
Who will implement the…