Our global Gender-Based Violence (GBV) team provides strategic technical support to actors across the GBV ecosystem from donors to community-level women-led organisations. We are a multi-disciplinary team delivering programme design and implementation support, advocacy, research reports, MEL and helpdesk services.
Our team aspires to apply our feminist principles in all our work and to support sustained and transformative change. We partner with diverse stakeholders and we take an intersectional approach to our work on GBV prevention and response across development and humanitarian contexts.
Our work includes primary prevention programming, community-level response to GBV and SEAH, school-related GBV, GBV in Emergencies, Technology-Facilitated GBV, Violence against LGBTQI+ communities, and GBV in Climate and Economic programming.
Read more about our current work or search our extensive GBV Resource Library below.
Natasha is a Technical Specialist in SDDirect’s Gender-based Violence portfolio, where she provides technical and research expertise, including as a researcher on the Ending Violence against Women an
To mark this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the SAFE Programme held a webinar to share learning from its Toose model on the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV). During the event the SAFE team’s Netty Musanhu and Hind M’hamdi gave this presentation on the programme and Toose IPV model, as well as the key learning and adaptations made during implementation.
During these 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Social Development Direct (SDDirect) colleagues Clare Hollowell and Hanna Smit are focusing on child survivors of sexual abuse, by facilitating a training on the new Caring for Child Survivors guidelines, jointly organised by UNICEF and UNHCR.
We must remember that feminist principles and approaches are not mere theory. They include practical strategies for shaping more effective and just humanitarian responses. At the heart of this work is leadership of affected communities, especially leadership that is by women, for women, and with women.
This annotated bibliography provides an overview of relevant literature and resources on Honor-Based Abuse (HBA) within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and among communities from MENA living in the diaspora. Intended to support the development of training materials for first-line responders, especially police officers who may engage with survivors of HBA in MENA, the bibliography focuses primarily on training tools and programmatic guidance on responding to cases of HBA.
This document is an overview of the theory of change
This document is a poster used to communicate the S2S services within communities.
This document is a poster used to communicate the S2S services within communities.
