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End Violence Against Children (EVAC Fund)
UK - Home Office
The UK Home Office recognises the moral and operational imperative to support the global fight against online child sexual exploitation (CSE). As such, the Home Office has committed £40 million towards the UNICEF hosted End Violence Against Children Fund (EVAC) to support activities intending to build international capacity to tackle online CSE. The EVAC's strategy for supporting international action aligned to the WePROTECT Global Alliance's (WPGA) strategy for national action. The WePROTECT Global Alliance combines expertise from industry, law enforcement, government and civil society to determine the capabilities required at country level to effectively respond to the threat of online CSE. Projects funded by the EVAC fund must demonstrate how they support the implementation of the WPGA's Model National Response.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Local Action to End Gender-Based Violence
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This Programme will enable Civil Society Organisations, especially Women's Rights Organisations, Women-led Movements and those representing the most marginalised groups, to play a central role in delivering survivor-centred and demand-driven initiatives to prevent and respond to Gender Based Violence.
Human Rights Thematic Programming
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve human rights and provide better access across the world through strengthening institutions and grassroots organisations.
South Africa Demographic Dividend Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Promotion of positive demographic trends for inclusive growth across Africa by harnessing South Africa’s enabling policy environment for sexual reproductive health and rights, women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Somalia Security and Justice Programme II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Somalia Security and Justice Programme aims to promote more affordable, accountable, able and acceptable policing and justice systems in targeted areas that provide a visible security presence and facilitate the peaceful resolution of disputes with lessons from these informing the development of the federal architecture
ASEAN-UK Women Peace and Security Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The ASEAN-UK Women Peace and Security (WPS) Programme works with ASEAN to advance and strengthen the WPS agenda, including promoting women’s participation in conflict prevention, resolution and recovery, preventing violence against women and promoting social cohesion in the region.
Somalia Monitoring Programme Phase 3
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Somalia Monitoring Programme Phase 3 aims to generate and promote use of better evidence and statistics to define, deliver and adjust FCDO programmes in Somalia. It is designed to ensure that British Embassy Mogadishu (BEM), Somali officials and the international community have access to the evidence and statistics needed to ensure programmes and policies are targeted, effective and adaptive; and that risks are identified and managed. SMP 3 involves two key components: the first is Third-Party Monitoring and Learning (TPML) of UK (FCDO) programming in the field, to ensure that our activities deliver expected outcomes, and Campaign Goals in the Somalia Country Plan. The second is support to the Somali National Statistics System to collect, analyse, and use key data enabling the authorities to better target policies and systems that deliver development outcomes.
Women Peace and Security (WPS) National Action Plan (NAP) and Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Delivery Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
‘This programme covers activity to deliver progress against UK commitments and priorities across the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agendas. This includes activity supporting implementation of the UK’s WPS National Action Plan through driving women’s meaningful participation in conflict prevention and resolution efforts, and activity across the CAAC agenda to protect children from the six grave violations.
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