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“They say anything to women, and nothing happens.” Technology-facilitated gender-based violence perpetrated by male students in higher education spaces in South Africa

26 May, 2026
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products

This study – conducted by researchers at the South African Medical Research Council and the University of Exeter with funding from GIZ – investigates how and why male students in South African higher education spaces perpetrate TFGBV against women peers, focusing on the social and digital dynamics that shape these behaviours. Using interviews with male students, it explores emerging forms of online harm within higher education settings.

Strengthening intergenerational care and safety: Experiences and risk factors for intimate partner violence among adolescent and young mothers in South Africa

26 May, 2026
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products

This study – conducted by researchers at the University of Cape Town – examines the risk and protective factors shaping intimate partner violence (IPV) among adolescent and young mothers who face overlapping vulnerabilities such as early pregnancy, HIV risk, and social disadvantage. It aims to deepen understanding of the complex drivers of IPV in this group to better inform prevention, policy, and support pathways.

Sustaining the Walking School Bus as a community-led school safety intervention

26 May, 2026
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products

This study – conducted by a research team at the Human Science Research Council with funding from GIZ – explores a community-led Walking School Bus model designed to make the journey to school safer for students in high-risk areas of rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It studies what factors supported or constrained the sustainability of the programme, and how caregivers, volunteers, and children perceived the programme’s value in everyday life.

SVRI Annual Report 2025-2026

11 May, 2026
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products

Violence is preventable and solvable. The evidence is clear. It needs to be resourced, built, and used at the scale the problem demands. Our 2025 Annual Report is an account of what SVRI did to meet this need: the funding we generated and the research we supported, the knowledge we built with partners and shared, the communities we convened, and the advocacy we led on why this work matters.

Non-Violent Parenting and Faith: Reclaiming sacred teachings for child dignity, protection, and flourishing

8 May, 2026
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products

This Dialogue Brief, the second in a series co-produced by SVRI's Working Group on Faith & Violence against Children, explores how faith can be a positive resource to foster non-violent parenting, drawing on practice-based insights from participants in the Working Group's 12-week educational course.

Fernando, V., Ekanayake, S., Perera, D., Siritunga, C., Mago, A., & Gevers, A. (2026). SVRI Knowledge Exchange: Co-creating implementation research for IPV prevention. Sexual Violence Research Initiative; Chrysalis; Ministry of Health Sri Lanka.

SVRI Knowledge Exchange: Co-creating Implementation Research for IPV Prevention

13 March, 2026
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products, SVRI Knowledge Exchange

This paper shares early lessons from a South–South collaboration in Sri Lanka between Chrysalis, the Ministry of Health's Family Health Bureau, and SVRI to adapt and pilot an IPV prevention intervention within the national health system, with the aim to contribute lessons to the broader field of implementation research.

Preventing violence early: Evidence from school-based programmes in low and middle-income countries

27 February, 2026
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products, School based programmes

This research brief by a team at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, summarises existing evidence on school-based GBV prevention programmes in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Silence Is Not Protection: The Hidden Crisis of Sexual Violence Against LGBTQI+ Children and Youth

2 February, 2026
Clara Roig
Child Sexual Abuse, Knowledge Products

This paper by N. Makharashvili, Director of the Safe Futures Hub, argues that sexual violence against LGBTQI+ children is both disproportionately prevalent and systematically obscured by stigma, discriminatory laws, institutional failures, and silence.

Advancing the Science of Outcome Measurement in Child Sexual Violence Prevention: Results of a Rapid Review

21 January, 2026
Clara Roig
Child Sexual Abuse, Knowledge Products, Research Methods and Tools

This rapid review synthesises the outcomes and measures used to evaluate interventions addressing child sexual violence (CSV) on prevention and response, mapping the current landscape, highlighting dominant trends and the relative scarcity of measures on victimisation and perpetration.

Global Trends To Prevent And Respond To Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women And Girls - UN Women and SVRI

Global trends to prevent and respond to technology-facilitated violence against women and girls: A compendium of emerging practices

19 December, 2025
Clara Roig
Knowledge Products, TFGBV

This compendium report by UN Women and SVRI summarises the key global trends and emerging practices to prevent and respond to technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV). It is a living document that provides an overview of emerging practices and interventions by different actors, with a focus on governments, civil society organisations, and technology companies.

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