This IGWG GBV Task Force event brought together IGWG members and those who use GBV-related information to explore the FP insight platform—a knowledge management tool that can help gender experts and practitioners find and share GBV response and prevention knowledge and resources to a broader audience of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) and gender professionals.Read More
Gender-based Violence
Young and Married: Understanding the Experiences and Needs of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Bangladesh, Mauritania, Nepal, and Tanzania
Understanding the complexities around how girls and young women exercise their power within or outside marriage is essential to better understand how to support girls and young women. This report aims to do just that and to more fully recognize the experiences and needs of girls and young women who are already married. This report highlights the struggles, including a high risk of violence and negative traditional gender roles, these girls and young women are facing while attempting to find a better situation for themselves, and offers recommendations for policy and programming.Read More
To End School-Related Gender-Based Violence, We Must Progress Gender Equality
This blog asserts that in order to end school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), advocates must dismantle the culture of violence and raise girls and boys to be equal so classrooms can be safe environments for children to learn and thrive. Additionally, those working in SRGBV prevention should operate within existing legal frameworks, center survivors, and address the toxic notions of masculinity and power.Read More
Exploring the Links Between Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), also called online violence, cyber violence, and digital violence, includes all forms of GBV committed using ICTs, including mobile phones, smartphones, the internet, social media, or other digital platforms or tools. The misuse of technology can have devastating consequences for women and girls’ safety, health, and rights when it is used to intimidate, harass, exploit, abuse, stalk, threaten and blackmail. To mitigate misuse of and capitalize on the potential that digital technology offers for accelerating universal access to SRH services, it is critical that SRH practitioners, services, and programs understand and address TFGBV.Read More
Gender Transformative Approaches for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation
This technical note provides an overview of gender transformative approaches to ending female genital mutilation (FGM) including program strategies, reference tools and resources, and case studies based on recommendations from the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Program on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation: Accelerating Change, as well as UNICEF’s experience in implementing programs addressing FGM.Read More
Health Equity in Practice: Why Anti-Racism Is an Integral Part of Sexual Violence Prevention
This webinar recording highlights the reasons why anti-racism is an integral part of sexual violence prevention. The webinar is the second in a five-part web conference series that explored how the promotion of health equity translates into real-world prevention strategies and organizational policy by building the toolkits of practitioners and their organizations and offering explicit examples of people putting health equity concepts into practice. Read More
