Spotlight Initiative 2024-2025 Impact Report launch

Illustrations of four women with hands on each others shoulders
November 4, 2025

Press briefing
When: 6 November 2025
Location: Press Briefing Room, QNCC, Doha
Time: 1.45 p.m. AST 

DOHA, Qatar - Spotlight Initiative, the United Nations (UN) high-impact initiative to end violence against women and girls, will launch its 2024-2025 Impact Report in Doha, Qatar on the sidelines of the Second World Summit for Social Development.

Beyond Progress: Securing Gains to End Violence against Women and Girls highlights some of the Initiative’s key achievements in its second phase, including sustaining progress to end gender-based violence and mobilizing domestic resources in the context of reduced official development assistance.

It will be presented by United Nations Deputy-Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed and Spotlight Initiative Global Coordinator Erin Kenny.

Background

Spotlight Initiative is the United Nations high-impact initiative to end violence against women and girls. Its comprehensive model works to address the root causes of violence through strengthening laws, policies, institutions and data; changing harmful social norms and behaviours; supporting access to quality services for survivors; and strengthening civil society organizations and women’s movements.

Launched in 2017 with more than USD 500 million in seed funding from the European Union, the Initiative represents an unprecedented global effort to invest in gender equality as a precondition and driver for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Initiative is responding to all forms of violence against women and girls, with a particular focus on domestic and family violence, sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, femicide, trafficking in human beings and sexual and economic (labour) exploitation.

The Initiative’s first phase was implemented across more than 25 countries and five regions between 2017 and 2023. A second generation of Spotlight Initiative country programmes are now underway in Ecuador, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia, as well as a new regional programme in Africa.

For more information, please contact:
Koye Adeboye
Head of Communications, Spotlight Initiative
Koye.Adeboye@un.org

 

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