On December 15th (3pm SAST), Spotlight Initiative and SVRI – in partnership with the Australian Volunteers Program – hosted a webinar to reflect on the learnings from the Spotlight Initiative’s participatory monitoring, evaluation and reporting approach for community accountability. Spotlight Initiative is the world’s largest global, multilateral effort aimed at ending all forms of violence against women and girls. Over the last 6 years, they have established comprehensive programming across 25 countries and 5 regions and are scaling up for greater reach. As part of this work, Spotlight has developed ways of doing monitoring, evaluation and reporting that centre the experiences, knowledge, and leadership of those most affected. This webinar shared 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. ISL interpretation included.
To join the ongoing Q&A see the SHINE discussion here
Panellists
Briana T. Yerbury
With over seven years of experience in international development and the UN system, Briana T. Yerbury leads streamlining participatory approaches across the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting work of the Spotlight Initiative. Through inclusive approaches, she recently helped coordinate the revision of the Initiative’s Global Results Framework. This process builds on lessons from its first five years of implementation to strengthen collective learning and accountability and to better capture change at the country, regional, and global levels. Briana contributes to the Initiative across global and country reporting processes and builds connections and communities of practice with other entities and partners.
Samu Ngwenya-Tshuma
Shamah Bulangis
Co-founder of the Visayas LBTQ Network, Shamah Bulangis is a queer feminist and advocate for adolescent and gender rights, co-founding the Visayas LBTQ Network. She supports the ASEAN LBQ Womxn’s Network and engages in initiatives to improve gender equality in education. Shamah has pioneered peer education programs to combat violence against women in Northeastern Mindanao.
Grace Nayiga is a Practicing Advocate of the High Court of Uganda, currently leading social justice advocates as Executive Director at UGANET. She also serves as a General Secretary PCAU and LASPNET BODs. As a Health and Human Rights Advocate of over 10 years, Grace is passionate about social justice for Women, PLHIVs, Persons living with Disabilities, KVPs and Palliative Care patients. She is a trained Trial Advocacy Facilitator with Justice Advocacy Africa. Grace currently leads a team of social justice advocates to deliver UGANET’s mandate on promoting Social Justice in the context of HIV, Health and Gender. More importantly, Grace is a mother to three beautiful girls, one of whom is differently abled.