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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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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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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…
Effective VAWG programmes which achieve positive impacts on programme participants, stakeholders and partners depend on good design, high-quality implementation and strong programme governance and management.
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Why invest in programming to end VAWG?
Why and how to adopt a comprehensive approach?
How will you ensure effective interagency working?
What do you need to know to design a programme?
What scope of programme is appropriate?
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School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) affects millions of children, families and communities. It can be defined as acts or threats of sexual, physical or psychological violence occurring in and around schools, perpetrated as a result of gender norms and stereotypes, and enforced by unequal power dynamics. SRGBV violates children’s rights and can compromise a child’s well-being, their physical and emotional health, as well as harming their cognitive and emotional development. Evidence suggests that SRGBV can also have long-term and far-reaching consequences for young people who have…
Gender-responsive budgeting is a strategy to ensure that budgets strive for a fair distribution of resources, including allocating and ring-fencing specific budget lines and adequate resources for gender equality and ending VAWG work. Over 100 countries have started using gender-responsive budgeting, although as of 2023, only 26% have comprehensive systems to track gender-equality allocations in the budget. UN Women has developed guidance on best practice to support gender-responsive budgeting:
Introduce laws mandating gender-responsive budgeting and clear guidelines and tools for…