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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.
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.
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.
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.
African Union Conflict and Governance Support Programme (AUCG)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
AUCG will work to strengthen the conflict prevention, conflict management and governance capabilities of the African Union (AU). In doing so, it will help tackle emerging threats to the UK and Africa earlier and before they result in violent conflict. Emphasis will be put on strengthening the AU’s early warning, analysis and early response capacity and capability, including the AU’s ability to effectively mediate in situations before or during conflict. AUCG will also support the AU’s ability to effectively monitor elections across the African continent, helping to promote open societies and create a more democratic world, and will increase women’s meaningful participation in political and peace processes.
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.
Bangladesh Climate and Environment Programme (BCEP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To help deliver a more climate resilient, less carbon intensive and cleaner Bangladesh. The programme will help tackle adaptation, energy, environmental management and climate governance challenges at national and local level, in communities across Bangladesh.
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.
Open Society Enabling Fund (OSEF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Open Societies Enabling Fund is aimed at supporting and bolstering active contributions of civil society groups in defending Indonesia’s open society with the particular context of 2024 national and local elections amidst the trend of shrinking civic space, increased prosecution of human rights defenders, and further entrenchment of minority rights.
Strengthening Global Architecture for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
SEAH is an abuse of the power imbalances which exist in the delivery of humanitarian, development and peace work. Failing to safeguard against SEAH will increase the likelihood that people are harmed, undermine the integrity and effectiveness of all ODA, and damage trust in FCDO and our partners. FCDO aims to improve efforts to protect against SEAH at global, local and victim-survivor level. This programme covers our global work and will provide targeted resources over five years to: 1) Scale up, pilot and implement PSEAH global tools, cross sector initiatives and approaches; 2) Support PSEAH coordination and multistakeholder dialogue to address common challenges and to improve collective action; 3) Seek the PSEAH tools and ‘global public goods’ of the future through research and pilots to address critical gaps in evidence on what works to prevent and respond to SEAH in different contexts.
International Programme (ODA and non-ODA) in support of the BHC Apia Business and Country Plan
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will enable a range of activities to support the delivery of the Samoa Business and Country Plan objectives. Projects may support any of the 3 main BCP objectives: economic resilience, security, and values. A proportion of the non-ODA element of this programme will focus on working with the media and government institutions to boost perceptions of UK activity in Samoa in line with the UK’s Pacific Strategy.
Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP Phase 3)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce poverty, hunger and vulnerability by providing 133,000 of the poorest households (approximately 798,000 people) in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands with cash transfers and up to an additional 750,000 households (approximately 4,500,000 people) during drought emergencies. In addition, this final phase of the programme will ensure a transition of the Hunger Safety Net Programme to full Government of Kenya ownership and financing to guarantee the sustainability of the programme after a UK exit. The programme aims to graduate targeted HSNP households out of poverty and improve the nutrition status of pregnant mothers and children below 1,000 days of age.
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