Blog Disrupting power hierarchies in convening spaces: What could go right and how can conveners and funders enable it? In this blog post, Dinnah Nabwire from the African Women’s Development Fund reflects on the access and visibility that African women leaders should have in global spaces like the SVRI Forum. Nabwire… November 7, 2024
Blog Beyond the methodology: The possibilities and pitfalls of intellectual property and open source in the context of gender-transformative social norms change Think back to your journey as a student, mulling through lengthy textbooks. How did it feel reading the textbook quietly on your own? How did that experience differ while reading… October 16, 2024
Blog Webinar Explained: Launch of the TFGBV Shared Research Agenda The Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) Shared Research Agenda was officially launched during an online webinar on 19 September 2024 and is now available in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. The… October 11, 2024
Blog Voices from the Field: Enhancing Nepal’s Research Ecosystem for Impact What skills, resources, or support do researchers in Nepal need to enhance their research? What challenges do researchers and practitioners in Nepal face when trying to work together and apply… October 11, 2024
Blog Program innovations in VAWG prevention: Making the Case for Mind-Body Approaches Setting the Context At Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) we have spent the last eight years deepening our understanding of how trauma is held in our bodies and growing… October 8, 2024
Blog Rapes, unsafe abortions, preventable deaths: How many more injustices will it take for reform in Malawi? Trigger warning: this blog contains discussion of rape and sexual violence. In February 2024, Malawi’s Daily Times published an article about the death of a 16-year-old girl. The details reported… August 29, 2024
Blog Webinar Explained: Effective Coordinated Interventions to Prevent or Respond to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Violence Against Children (VAC) Efforts to address intimate partner violence (IPV) and violence against children (VAC) often remain fragmented, despite a growing body of evidence that documents and acknowledges the intersections across these forms… July 22, 2024
Blog Webinar Explained: The Art of Writing Effective Research Abstracts and Conducting Reviews of the Literature, by Prof. Rachel Jewkes On June 13, 2024, the SVRI hosted a webinar featuring Professor Rachel Jewkes, Executive Scientist for Research Strategy at the SAMRC and a founding member of the SVRI. The session… June 19, 2024
Blog How organisations should deal with child protection: what the evidence covers and what it says In most sectors, some well-intentioned interventions will succeed in making things better; some have little or no effect; and some may make things worse. Clearly children deserve better than adults… May 9, 2024
Blog #SVRIFieldBuilders: Leading the Way in Evidence Building and Knowledge Sharing As 2024 gains momentum, and we prepare for the rapidly approaching SVRI Forum, we have been reflecting on the highlights of the last year in terms of evidence building and… April 11, 2024