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.
If you are planning to apply for the SVRI Research Grant 2026, watch this informative online session designed to support new applicants in preparing strong, ethical, and competitive proposals.
This powerful and deeply moving webinar brought together global voices to spotlight the urgent need to end sexual violence in education settings. Co-hosted by the SVRI and UNGEI, the session explored how schools – spaces meant to nurture and protect – can become sites of harm, and more importantly, how they can be transformed into places of safety, healing, and equality.
On 20 May 2025, we introduced the new 2025 SVRI Research Grant recipients. These outstanding researchers and practitioners from around the world have been selected for their innovative and impactful projects focused on preventing and responding to violence against women and violence against children.
The Faith & GBV CoP hosted a webinar on 30 April 2025 at 3pm SAST to examine how policymakers and faith leaders engage with religion in addressing gender-based violence, how they navigate questions of legitimacy, and how their knowledge and authority are both recognized and challenged within religious and policy frameworks.
SVRI hosted a four-month webinar series on the learnings from the SVRI Forum 2024, providing 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.
On 11 April 2025, the SVRI launched a self-paced online course focused on participatory approaches to childhood sexual violence research. During the launch webinar, attendees received an exclusive preview of the course modules and had the opportunity to pose their questions to the course development team, which included participatory research experts from the partner organisations.
Our aim for these sessions is to hold space for our community and we wouldn’t be able to do this work without our co-sponsors: the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Raising Voices, the Accelerator to Prevent GBV…
This webinar featured a panel of women contributors from Working Group 2 of the SVRI Faith & GBV Community of Practice (CoP). Each panelist had personal childhood experiences of violence or abuse that were shaped by faith settings and actors…
SVRI, in collaboration with Together for Girls, WeProtect Global Alliance, Safe Futures Hub, and the Brave Movement, has facilitated an 18-month co-creation process to identify research priorities for child sexual violence (CSV) over the next 5-10 years. This initiative draws…
