Gender-Based Violence

Our role on GBV prevention and response

An image of women's hands palm-faced down touching fingertips in a circular position. 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.

GBV Resource Library

Our library of resources on GBV prevention and response contains over 300 documents including guidance notes, programming tools, research and practice-based learning from previous and current programmes.

Search our library of GBV Resources

If you would like to hear more about our work on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), please reach out to Tina Musuya, Head of the GBV Portfolio, tina.musuya@sddirect.org.uk.

Further Resources on GBV Prevention and Response

Spotlight Initiative Learning Centre

What Works Evidence Hub

Query 170 - Report on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Prevalence

Read this helpdesk report on child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.

Guidance for DFID Country Offices in Preventing and Addressing Violence Against Women and Children

Read this guidance for Department for International Development (DFID) country offices in preventing and addressing violence and women and girls, and violence, abuse and exploitation of children.

الموجز التعليمي األول :فهم العنف القائم على النوع االجتماعي الذي تيسره التكنولوجي

تسعى سلسلة التعلم إلى: 1) بناء المعرفة الأساسية حول العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي الذي تيسره التكنولوجيا، و2) تسليط الضوء على الاستراتيجيات الحالية لمنع العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي الذي تيسره التكنولوجيا والاستجابة له، والتي يمكن تكييفها لاستخدامها في البيئات الهشة والمتأثرة بحالات الطوارئ، و3) اقتراح العمل ذي الأولوية الذي يجب أن تقوم به مختلف صاحبات المصلحة للبدء في معالجة المشكل

Resumen de Aprendizaje 1: Comprendiendo la violencia basada en el género facilitada por la tecnología

Esta serie de capacitaciones busca: 1) construir conocimientos básicos acerca de la VbGFT; 2) destacar estrategias existentes para prevenir y responder a la VbGFT, que se puedan adaptar para utilizarlas en contextos de emergencia e inestabilidad; y 3) proponer acciones prioritarias a tomar por diferentes actores involucrados para comenzar a abordar la problemática.