It’s estimated that by 2025, Spotlight Initiative will have conservatively prevented 21 million women and girls from experiencing gender-based violence and helped nearly one million girls to stay in school. That's because Spotlight Initiative's comprehensive approach to eliminating violence against women and girls can be 70 to 90 per cent more effective than project-based or siloed approaches.

We have been recognized as a High-Impact Initiative of the United Nations because of our strong results and our ability to drive progress across all of the Sustainable Development Goals.

That’s how transformative our work is; ending violence against women and girls also helps the world achieve its goals in development, peace and security, and in humanitarian settings.

Read more in 'Unprecedented: A Pathway for Ending Violence against Women and Girls'.