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Lost Souls, White Bowls: Documenting Vietnamese femicide through research, film and participatory ceramic art
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
This project will show how social scientists, documentary filmmakers, artists and activists can collaborate to address intimate partner femicide in Vietnam. Together the project will produce world-class research, documentary film and interactive installation art (employing traditional Vietnamese ceramics). Project aims are to improve intimate partner femicide reporting and inspire Vietnamese audiences to reflect on gender-based violence and act to end it. Vietnam will directly benefit from this proposal, as it has a strong commitment to gender equity and against violence of women, in line with its socialist ideology. Vietnam has signed relevant UN treaties and resolutions on gender equity and gender-based violence (GBV) and recognises GBV as an ideological and economic concern.
Using arts-based approaches to tackle gender-based and racialised violence in the context of crises and extractivism in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
This project brings together researchers from Northumbria University (UK), Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), and the Mujeres de Asfalto Collective (a Black feminist community arts organisation based in Esmeraldas), alongside project partners from across Esmeraldas who are committed to tackling GBV (Union Nacional de Mujeres del Ecuador; Miradas Negras; AMATIF; GAD Timbire; Manglar), and Roots and Wings non-profit design agency (UK). Working with an existing cohort of Black/Afro women peer researchers, the project will develop nuanced understandings of GBV from a Black feminist perspective, using participatory mapping, body mapping, and photovoice. Eliminating GBV is essential for enhancing the life chances of Black/Afro women and girls, and for equitable economic development in Esmeraldas. The proposed research represents an urgent contribution to women's empowerment and anti-racism initiatives, supporting Ecuador's efforts towards achieving the SDGs.
Hitting the ground: an international arts-led transdisciplinary partnership to address GBV in food systems through a body/story/environment approach
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
"This project will facilitate a new policy, research and practice agenda to address GBV and contribute to building food systems that are safe, dignifying and empowering. The project focuses on women workers who occupy precarious positions within the food system, particularly, but not limited to, the Global South. They will establish an arts-led international and transdisciplinary research partnership to co-create an innovative new methodology - ‘body/story/environment’ - to increase understanding and prevention of GBV in food systems from women’s intersectional and embodied perspectives. The countries Colombia and Nigeria will directly benefit from this proposal and are the countries on the 2023 DAC list, which is a list valid for 3 years and thus confirming ODA eligibility for the duration of the research. The proposal is directly and primarily relevant to the development challenges of both countries. While explicit evidence linked GBV to food systems is lacking globally, the team’s contextual knowledge supports the importance of addressing violence in these areas.
Decentering ableism in gender based violence (GBV) research using co-creative arts-based approaches
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
This project will research GBV against PWD in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) in South Africa (SA) using survivor and disabilities-centred methods. SA was selected as it has one of the highest levels of GBV outside war zones, and KZN-province is where this violence is most endemic. GBV affecting PWD in SA is particularly acute due to racial injustice, deepened inequality, and marginalisation, all exacerbated by COVID-19.
Infertility and Assisted Reproduction as violent experiences for Women in Bangladesh: Arts-based Intervention to Address GBV (Arts for I-ARTs)
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
This project aims to redefine the understanding of what constitutes violence in the cultural context of Bangladesh and frame it within the domain of reproductive justice. Given the deep social and cultural silence around this topic, the project is timely and needed. It proposes evidence-based, culturally sensitive art interventions co-developed with women who have experienced infertility and undergone ART treatment. The interventions will include art therapy, theatre performances, documentary films, and art exhibitions utilizing the products of art therapy and media narratives of ARTs to capture the (un)intentional GBV perpetuation. Bangladesh is in the DAC list of ODA Recipients document as a ‘least developed country’ and will directly benefit through our research. The main development challenges for Bangladesh are sustaining positive economic growth and accelerating poverty reduction.
Migrants, Queenmothers, and Gender-Based Violence in Ghana
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
"This project is on the prevention of and responses to GBV within migrant communities in Ghana. They will employ narrative methodology to study the help- and justice-seeking behaviours of female Nigerian immigrants in response to two forms of GBV – intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner perpetrated sexual violence. The team will then use applied theatre and educational illustrated stories (comics) to raise awareness of how survivors can access services and justice and how their host community and female traditional leaders – ‘queenmothers’ – can assist them. Ghana and Nigeria will be primary beneficiaries of the outcomes of this project. These interventions are expected to contribute to behavioural change and the strengthening of the capacity of informal institutions in dealing with GBV, and consequently reduce its prevalence. The outcome will also promote poverty reduction (SDG goal 1), good health and well-being (SDG goal 3), gender equality (SDG goal 5), reduced inequalities (SDG goal 10), and finally, promote peaceful societies for sustainable development (SDG goal 16).
Youth wellbeing, healthy relationships and GBV prevention in Tanzania
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
This participatory action research project will work with young people aged 18-25 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to explore the links between emotional wellbeing, relationship quality and perpetration and experience of gender-based violence (GBV). Recent data demonstrates that rates of GBV in Tanzania remain high, including among young people. GBV takes place in the home, in schools, universities, workplaces and the streets, and increasingly online. This research is therefore directly relevant to the challenges faced by Tanzania and the priorities of the current Tanzanian government, as well as the UK’s support to Tanzania. The project will engage directly with young people and practitioners that work with youth and on mental health and GBV, with a view to better understanding the links between these social issues and then designing an intervention to address them.
INIFIRES: Challenging Intimate Partner Violence Among Young People in Formal and Informal Relationships in Uganda
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
"The project will conduct participatory research with key community stakeholders and young people to inform the development of a co-created game-based intervention to tackle IPV among young people in Uganda. This will be achieved by: Determining the prevalence of IPV among young people in formal and informal relationships in conflict-affected and peaceful regions. Examining the potential risk factors for, drivers and facilitators of IPV among young people and ascertaining whether these differ based on the conflict status of the region or the formal/informal status of the relationship. Exploring the impacts of IPV on victims in the different Ugandan contexts . Co-creating, with young people, community partners and IPV researchers, a prosocial gaming intervention for young people and associated media presence, to address and prevent IPV and to encourage help-seeking for those affected. INIFIRES is ODA compliant because it focuses on the empowerment and transformation of the lives of young people in Uganda.
Developing innovative arts-based approaches to prevent gender-based violence through feminist activism among youth in the favelas of Brazil
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
"This project develops an innovative translational arts-based approach to prevent GBV in Brazil and creates engagement and policy pathways that can be scaled-up transnationally. Drawing on established successful international collaborations, it will be conducted in the favelas of Maré in Rio de Janeiro with Redes da Maré (Redes) (a community-based human rights NGO), together with People’s Palace Projects (an arts centre using creativity for transformation - PPP) and Women of the World Foundation (a global movement creating a gender equal world – WOW). Through exploring ways to address and prevent GBV in Brazil, one of the main factors undermining sustainable development is addressed illustrating that this project is directly and primarily relevant to the addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Brazil. More specifically, SDG 5 on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is at the core of this project. It directly addresses target 5.1 ‘End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere’ and Target 5.2 ‘Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres’. The project also addresses SDG 11 on making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, especially in relation to the importance of making public spaces safe for everyone (Indicator 11.7.2)
Envisioning Vulnerability and Safety Otherwise: Artivist knowledge on gender-based violence in Mexico
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
"This project uses participatory, arts-based research methods to build knowledge in collaboration with a diverse collection of artivists working against GBV. We do this in pursuit of two specific but interlocking aims. First, we will produce new insights into the diversity of experiences of GBV, and into everyday resistance strategies. This will include recognition of the specific vulnerabilities that anti-GBV activists experience in Mexico, where their work often puts them at risk of violence. Second, explore artivism’s power to break the mould of dominant ways of thinking about GBV, and to imagine new possibilities for understanding and generating safety outside of the limiting criminal justice frameworks provided by the state. By addressing the limitations of the current state-focused approach in Mexico, this project aims to create new ways of addressing GBV that can be implemented in multiple contexts, and therefore contribute to sustainable development in Mexico.
Developing an Art-Based Public Engagement and Advocacy Model for Transforming Social Norms on Gender-Based Violence in the Andean Region (ARTS-CHANGE)
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
ARTS-CHANGE reviews the existing evidence on gender based violence (GBV), learns from the experiences of the victims across the gender spectrum, co-develops new research, and co-creates art-based interventions to curb GVB and capacitate care and advocacy. By addressing empowerment, social norms, social cohesion, and transforming the lives of local communities and vulnerable populations the project aims to support these four countries in combating GBV not only in the post-COVID-19 and beyond. The project aligns directly with the UNs SDG 3 (ensuring health and well-being for all) and SDG 16 (promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development). Research is focused on four countries - Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia- that are connected via Andean mountains and form the Andean group of countries.
Do neighbourhoods matter? Country- cluster- and individual effects on attitudes towards intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
The study will address significant knowledge gaps in our understanding of women's and men's attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPV) at the neighbourhood-level in 54 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Central-, East- and South Asia, the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North- and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Security and Justice Programme 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Security and Justice Programme (SJP) ultimately aims to help to enhance public safety in Nepal and improve people’s trust in a key institution: the police. It will contribute to increased responsiveness of security and justice providers, particularly gender-based violence (GBV) and increased prevention of GBV and wider public safety problems. Understanding and influencing different social and organisational norms will run through the whole programme to address the prevalence of violence against women and girls. The programme also has a particular focus on the organisational development of the Nepal Police, investigation capability, problem-solving community policing and better climate-resilient solar-powered infrastructure for service delivery, notably police women and children service centres (WCSCs).
Partnership for Agile Governance and Climate Engagement (PACE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The PACE is designed to support more accountable and inclusive institutions to respond to Nigeria’s governance and climate change challenges. This is a governance programme, seeking to address the governance challenges that undermine development and perpetuate social exclusion in Nigeria.
Accelerating Action to End Child Marriage Programme Phase 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This will be the UK’s second global, multi-sectoral programme to tackle child marriage and respond to its consequences. This programme will provide £18 million to deliver interventions across high prevalence countries, including fragile and conflict affected states, to prevent child marriages, lower global prevalence rates and support already married girls to have improved life outcomes. The programme will enable girls to take greater control over their lives and bodies. It will contribute to increased access to education for girls, reduced adolescent pregnancy and maternal deaths and a range of broader development outcomes. In addition, the programme will strengthen the international evidence base on what works to prevent child marriage and increase use of this evidence by a range of actors. This will in turn increase the effectiveness and efficiency of wider interventions aiming to end child marriage.
Syria Humanitarian Protection Programme (SHPP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Syria Protection Programme will provide civilians affected by armed conflict with specialised protection services
Building Resilience and an Effective Emergency Refugee Response (BRAER)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will provide emergency life-saving assistance to the large influxes of refugees arriving in Uganda, build resilience among refugees and their host communities to reduce Uganda’s humanitarian burden, and deliver on UK Humanitarian Reform priorities. It will support the UK in its leadership role to develop new approaches to protracted crises and in delivering on the New York Declaration’s Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, with regional and global impact.
Modern Slavery - Supporting Global Action to End Modern Slavery
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To develop new approaches to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking across a range of sectors in high prevalence countries. This programme focuses on thematic priorities of eradicating forced labour in supply chains, tackling the worst forms of child labour, and ending the exploitation of women and girls, and it will support and empower survivors of modern slavery across all these priorities. The programme supports bilateral programmes in high prevalence countries and contributes to multilateral organisations on global policy and advocacy work. The programme will also develop research and evidence on different forms of modern slavery to inform future interventions. This programme contributes toward SDG 8.7 to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
Sudan Independent Monitoring and Analysis Programme (SIMAP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Sudan Independent Monitoring and Analysis Programme supports BE Khartoum (BEK)'s bilateral policy and programme portfolio to improve effectiveness through providing timely and objective information on delivery and contextual developments. The programme works with independent monitoring partners to deploy thematic and contextual experts throughout Sudan to conduct in-person and/or remote monitoring and capacity building activities and deliver three core outcomes: (1) Assurance & Capacity Building: BEK has increased oversight of programme delivery, can better manage risks and better support partners to improve performance. (2) Learning & Innovation: BEK is able to support more innovative policy and programming approaches, shares learning systematically and influences sector approaches in Sudan. (3) Strategy & Analysis: BEK has increased access to relevant, outcome-focused analysis to support strategic decision-making and shape the response of the international community in Sudan.
UK-Jamaica Violence Prevention Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To assist the Government of Jamaica to manage extreme levels of violence to stem gang violence using the public health model.
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