Webinars
Power in Practice: Drawing lessons from Spotlight Initiative’s Approach to Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting for Grassroots Accountability
Join us on 15 December 3pm SAST, for a webinar that will share practical tools and lessons on how to design monitoring and learning processes that are feminist in approach, support shared decision-making and strengthen accountability to communities.
Prevention & Response Interventions for Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: A Systematic Review and Evidence Gap Map
On 4 December 2025 (3pm-4pm SAST) we unpacked new findings from a systematic review and evidence gap map led by Emory University on what works to prevent and respond to TFGBV.
Launch of Evidence Gap Map on School-based GBV Prevention Programmes
The new Evidence Gap Map on school-based GBV prevention programmes, led by Stellenbosch University from South Africa, was launched on 25 November (3pm-4pm SAST), bringing together findings from over 50 studies across 50 countries, including 15 in Southern Africa.
Unearthing What We Know: Identifying and Collecting PBK
On 20 November (4pm–5pm SAST), the SVRI Faith & GBV CoP hosted their second session in the PBK, Faith & VAWG Series. This session addressed how to find and recognise PBK, and what different methods exist for gathering PBK. Hear from Lejla Ramovic and Mūmbi Kīgūtha.
Forum 2026 Abstract Writing Workshop
On 20 November (3pm-4pm SAST), SVRI and the Gender Violence Research and Collaboration Network (GVRCN) co-hosted an abstract writing workshop, to support early career researchers and practitioners preparing submissions for the upcoming Forum. This interactive session helps guide you through technical requirements, review criteria, and best practices.
Faith and Transforming Intergenerational Cycles of Violence
On 18 November (15:00 – 16:00 SAST), the SVRI Faith and GBV CoP Working Group on Faith and Violence against Children hosted a webinar exploring intergenerational cycles of violence and their gendered impacts on women and children.
Moments of Faith and Courage: Stories from the Faith and GBV CoP
The SVRI Faith and GBV CoP Working Group on Faith and Violence against Children hosted a virtual storytelling event, held on November 11 (15:00 – 16:00 SAST), to explore how faith intersects with efforts to prevent or respond to GBV. Hear from Laurelle Mbaradza, Uweze Lele Baghuma and Nejat Mehdi.
Why Does Practice-Based Knowledge Matter to Faith Responses to VAWG?
The SVRI Faith & GBV CoP hosted the first session in the PBK, Faith & VAWG Series. This interactive discussion, held on 15 October (15:00–16:00 SAST), explored why practice-based knowledge was essential to faith-rooted responses to violence against women and girls.
SVRI Faith & GBV CoP Networking Event
On 14 October 2025, from 16:00 to 17:00 SAST, the SVRI Faith & GBV CoP hosted a Networking Event. This virtual gathering provided a space for members to connect, share insights, and explore opportunities for collaboration. Presenters introduced their organisations and work, followed by an open discussion with all participants.
SVRI Forum 2026 Launch Webinar
On 2 October 2025, the SVRI hosted a virtual launch for the upcoming SVRI Forum 2026, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand (5–9 October 2026). The event, co-funded by the Australian Volunteers Program, introduced the Forum’s co-hosting partners and highlighted why the Forum remains a vital space for advancing efforts to end violence against women and children.
Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education Institutions: Evidence, Gaps, and Future Directions
On 29 September 2025, from 3–4pm SAST, we hosted a webinar to discuss the main findings of our multi-method research project on gender-based violence in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across Africa and the Middle East. Participants explored the current evidence, identified gaps, and reflected on future directions for prevention and response.
Faith & GBV CoP Webinar – Looking Back, Moving Forward: One year into the SVRI Faith & GBV CoP
In this closing session on 5 August 2025 of the Faith & GBV Community of Practice, each of the Working Groups reflected on their journey over the past year—highlighting key activities, insights, and outputs.
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…
