Webinars
Launch Webinar: Meet the Winners of the 2025 SVRI Research Grant
Join us for the Launch of the 2025 SVRI Research Grant Winners as we introduce the new 2025 grantee cohort from all over the world and their groundbreaking research projects focused on preventing and responding to violence against women and violence against children.
Exploring Legitimacy in Addressing GBV: Conversations Between Faith Actors and Policymakers
Join the Faith & GBV CoP on 30 April 2025 at 3pm SAST to examine how policymakers and faith leaders engage with religion in addressing GBV, how they navigate questions of legitimacy, and how their knowledge and authority are both recognized and challenged within religious and policy frameworks.
Voices from SVRI Forum 2024: Strengthening the Field Through Shared Learning
Join us for this four-month webinar series on the learnings of the SVRI Forum 2024, offering a platform for presenters to revisit their work, reflect on emerging developments since the Forum, and engage in thoughtful, interactive discussions with a global audience.
Launch Webinar: Online Course on Participatory Approaches for Childhood Sexual Violence Research
Join us for the launch of this free, self-directed, online course that aims to introduce you to participatory approaches to childhood sexual violence research while ensuring meaningful and ethical engagement of children and youth.
Collective Care Webinar Series: From Compassion Fatigue to Holding Space for Each Other
Our aim for these sessions is to hold space for our community and we wouldn’t be able to do this…
How to Engage Faith Actors in Survivor-Led Ways: Learning From and With Survivors of Child Violence
This webinar featured a panel of women contributors from Working Group 2 of the SVRI Faith & GBV Community of…
Launch of the Shared CSV Research Agenda
SVRI, in collaboration with Together for Girls, WeProtect Global Alliance, Safe Futures Hub, and the Brave Movement, has facilitated an…
Launching Bold Solutions to End Childhood Sexual Violence
Stopping global childhood sexual violence (CSV) requires bold action and the implementation of effective solutions. This online event hosted by To…
Beyond the Screen: Protecting Children from Exploitation and Abuse in Online and Offline Spaces
This event brought together leading experts in child protection, academia, and technology to explore the connections between offline and online…
Gender-Based Violence & HIV — Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Possibilities for Action
This seminar highlighted the urgent need for action and collaboration in addressing gender-based violence and its implications for HIV prevention…
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 featured expert presentations, interactive discussions, and opportunities for knowledge exchange between researchers and practitioners, inspiring practical applications of…
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…
