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In Malawi, nearly half of all girls are married before their eighteenth birthday — child marriage rates are among the highest in the world. Spotlight Initiative in Malawi recognised that schools alone could not solve this problem, but identified them as a key stakeholder in prevention and response.  The programme was designed to be deliberately multi-layered. The Safe Schools intervention reached over 212,000 adolescent learners, teaching them how to detect and report sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices. This led to the identification of 941 cases of child marriage with…

All Spotlight Initiative programmes adopt a comprehensive theory of change and work across multiple outcome areas at once. The approach taken by Spotlight Initiative Mozambique was as follows:

To support legislation and policies to end VAWG, Spotlight Initiative worked with the Government of Mozambique to reinforce legislation and policies and develop multiple legal and policy instruments. These instruments included the Multi-sectoral Mechanism for Prevention, Reporting, Referral and Response to Violence Against Children at Schools, the Gender Strategy for the Public Administration (2020-2024…

In the Pacific Island of Vanuatu, Spotlight Initiative partnered with relevant government ministries and stakeholders to address critical gaps in young people’s knowledge about sexual and reproductive health. Working closely with the Vanuatu Ministry of Education and Training’s Curriculum Development Unit, Spotlight Initiative helped to develop and revise the curricula on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and Family Life Education (FLE) to meet international standards. The updated curriculum (available in both English and French) has nine components that focus on human rights, sexual…