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Setting the Stage: A Dialogue on GBV and Youth

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On March 22, 2016, the GBV task force held the first event in an exciting year-long series on Gender-Based Violence and Youth. Over the course of 2016, this USAID Office of Population and Reproductive Health funded learning will feature presentations and discussions focusing on GBV in the context of life course and developmental stages of adolescents with the goal of providing a space for dialogue among child rights advocates and gender-based violence and women’s health and rights advocates. The kick off event explored the prevalence of childhood violence, impacts on reproductive health and well-being, and promising approaches for a way forward.

Featured guest speakers:

Susan Hillis, PhD, Senior Advisor for Global Health in the Office of the Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Rebecka Lundgren, PhD, Director of Research for the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University.

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GBV Task Force Brown Bag: “Impact of a Dating Violence Curriculum among High School Students in Haiti” with Dr. Stacey Gage

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On March 30, 2016 the IGWG Gender-based Violence Task Force hosted a Brown Bag with Stacey Gage, PhD, of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine who presented “Impact of a Dating Violence Curriculum among High School Students in Haiti”.

Anastasia Gage is a Professor in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.  She is the MEASURE Evaluation/Tulane Team Leader.  Her recent research contributions have been on violence against women and girls and adolescent health risk behaviors, with particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti.

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School-Based Interventions to Address Gender-Based Violence Among Youth

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This was the fourth and final event of the GBV and Youth series, on October 19, 2016 led by the GBV Taskforce. Presenters included Ravi Verma, Regional Director of Asia, ICRW provided an update on the Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) project regarding the implementation and evidence gathering around GEMS in Bangladesh, Vietnam and India. Following his presentation he was joined by his colleagues Nandita Bhatla and Pranita Achyut for the Q&A session.

Julie Hanson Swanson, Acting Division Chief of the USAID Education Divison, Bureau of Africa discussed a framework to measure school-related gender-based violence and provided an update on the work of the Global Working Group to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence.

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