We’re a global Community of Practice for collaboration, research, and advocacy to prevent and better respond to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

Up to 58% of women are affected by Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (UN Women).

Our community is diverse including stakeholders from the research, practice, funding, tech, academic, and NGO and government sectors and from multiple regions and backgrounds, committed to better understanding and addressing the fast-evolving and increasing challenges presented by Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence.

In 2023, SVRI launched the TFGBV COP to complement and support the development of research priorities for the field. The research priority setting process was an 18-month initiative, led by SVRI in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications, UN Women, and the Global Partnership to End Online Abuse and Harassment. The result was the TFGBV Shared Research Agenda –  a set of research questions identified as priorities by the field through a transparent, methodologically sound, comprehensive, and inclusive process. Through the agenda, we are excited to help the field align on best practices, opportunities, and advocacy around the five key domains:

Nature, Prevalence and Impact 

Responses

Prevention

Populations

Measures and Methodologies

Knowledge Exchange

Host quarterly events to share ideas and findings & maintain shared resources.

Coordinate Impact

Proactively support members engaged in advocacy related to TFGBV research, funding & practice

Build Networks & Opportunities

Facilitate connections across members that spark opportunities or amplify each other’s voice & work.

UN Women and SVRI’s TFGBV Community of Practice have organised the TFGBV Policy Dialogues Series aimed at highlighting solutions and strengthening multistakeholder coordination and advocacy to prevent and respond to TFGBV. 

Through a series of thematic conversations, actors from the gender-based violence and digital rights fields will come together to unpack key issues and challenges related to TFGBV, and identify priority areas for research, programming, and advocacy, building on the TFGBV Shared Research Agenda and other global efforts.

The sessions start in June and go until November, leading to the 2025 UNiTE campaign and 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. This includes:

• Staying aligned with global standards and commitments on TFGBV (12 June 2025) – Read the blog
• Actioning global standards and commitments on TFGBV at national level (17 July 2025) – Read the blog
• Mitigating online violence against women human rights defenders (14 August 2025) – Read the blog
• Engaging the manosphere in efforts to prevent TFGBV (18 September 2025) – Read the blog or watch the recording
• Safety by design, online content moderation & community management (16 October 2025) – Read the blog
• Mitigating the risks posed by Generative AI on TFGBV (13 November 2025) – Read the blog

To learn more about the TFGBV Policy Dialogue series, read the concept note, and stay tuned for updates on panellists and registration details through SVRI’s social media channels or by joining the CoP.

TFGBV is any act that is committed, assisted, aggravated, or amplified by the use of information and communication technology or other digital tools, that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological, social, political, or economic harm, or other infringements of rights and freedoms.

(UN Women, 2023, Technology Facilitated Violence against Women – Report of the Foundational Meeting of the Expert Group).

Ale De Filippo
Behavioral Systems Expert & GBV Practitioner

Khwezi Magwaza
Content Strategist & Digital Creative