Webinars
Beyond the Screen: Protecting Children from Exploitation and Abuse in Online and Offline Spaces
This event brings together experts from child protection, academia, and technology to examine the links between offline and online child…
Gender-Based Violence & HIV — Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Possibilities for Action
This seminar aims to highlight the urgent need for action and collaboration in tackling gender-based violence and its implications for…
Healing and Empowerment Webinar: A Path to Recovery and Resilience for those working in GBV
This webinar offers a blend of practical healing techniques, expert insights, and resilience-building strategies tailored for survivors, researchers, and practitioners…
Virtual Symposium on Innovative Research in Gender-Based Violence
This event will feature expert presentations, interactive discussions, and opportunities for knowledge exchange between researchers and practitioners, inspiring practical applications…
Decolonising Evidence? Practical Approaches to Faith and GBV Prevention
This roundtable discussion focused on critically exploring evidence-building within the context of faith and religion engagement in gender-based violence (GBV)…
Media and Communications at the SVRI Forum 2024
On 2 October 2024, SVRI, in partnership with Ladbury Communications, hosted a webinar on media and communications at the SVRI…
Wellness and Care at the SVRI Forum 2024
In the demanding fields of research and activism, maintaining both mental and physical wellness is essential. Work in the field,…
Launch of the TFGBV Shared Research Agenda
To help the field address key knowledge gaps that hamper the delivery of effective response and prevention programmes to end…
Launch of the SVRI Faith & GBV CoP
On 18 September 2024, we hosted a webinar introducing the SVRI Faith and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Community of Practice (CoP)…
Interventions that Prevent or Respond to Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children
On 3 July 2024, UNICEF, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative…
The Art of Writing Effective Research Abstracts and Conducting Reviews of the Literature
A well-written, succinct, and powerful research abstract can be a game changer in getting your research application noticed. Similarly, a…
Awards Ceremony 2024 SVRI Research Grant: Meet the Winners
On 19 April 2024, the SVRI hosted a webinar to announce and celebrate the winners of the SVRI Research Grant…
Workshops
Preventing and responding to VAWG in LAC: Lessons learned across the globe. 5-7 December 2016, Panama
This event provided a unique space, bringing together several UN agencies, government officials, civil society organizations, global researchers and other…
Scaling up interventions that work to prevent violence against women in East & Southern Africa: Opportunities, challenges and way forward
This workshop by UNFPA in partnership with the SVRI gathered researchers, policy makers, members of the parliament and donors to identify promising and effective practices from…
Healthy childhoods can prevent violence, 3 November 2014, Pretoria, South Africa
How is it that, despite of the enormous resources expended on the criminal justice system in South Africa, violence is…
SVRI Workshop: Building the evidence base in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
This workshop was the first offering of technical assistance on building evidence for primary prevention of sexual and gender based…
SVRI in Hawaii: XVIII ISPCAN International Congress 2010, 26 – 29 September 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii
The SVRI was present at the XVIII ISPCAN International Congress, “One World, One Family, Many Cultures” in Honolulu, Hawaii, 26 –…
SVRI Oak Foundation research seminar: Parenting, gender socialisation and the prevention of child abuse and neglect in low- and middle-income countries, 23 September 2010, London, UK
The harmful effects of child abuse and neglect on child development are increasingly understood as important for prevention of child…
Prostitution / sex work in South Africa: Developing a research agenda, 14 – 15 April 2010, Pretoria, South Africa
In South Africa prostitution / sex work is stigmatised and illegal, and prostitutes / sex workers are a particularly marginalised…
SVRI & Partner Events at GFHR Forum 2009 Havana Cuba, 16-18 November 2009, Havana, Cuba
With funding from UNFPA funnelled through Ipas, the SVRI and Ipas participated in the annual conference of the Global Forum…
Promoting and strengthening research skills/networks on sexual violence, New Delhi, India, 24-28 September 2007
This workshop aimed to strengthen research capacity among SVRI members to develop evidence based, locally relevant research agendas in the area…
