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Youth leadership to end school-related gender-based violence

Young people don’t just want to be sources for data sets or people who need protection. We also deserve agency over our own data and experience and want to be an active part of global efforts to end SRGBV.

  • 24th September 2024
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Empowered and protected: how schools must support children to prevent SRGBV

Schools have a responsibility to empower students to prevent school-related gender-based violence.

  • 22nd January 2024
Why education has to start with keeping children safe
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Why education has to start with keeping children safe

It is not enough for children to attend school. We must also ensure they are safe doing so. Violence prevention and response should be integrated into education policy and programming to ensure safe schools for all students.

  • 11th January 2024
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Transformative solutions to end school-related gender based violence must centre survivors

Through collective advocacy messaging and political recommendations on the intersections of gender and violence, we can influence the political stakeholders who can enable efforts to end gender-based violence in, around and through schools.

  • 6th July 2023
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International Day of Education 2023: Prioritizing safe, quality education for every child

While school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is prevalent, it is also preventable, and there are evidence-based solutions that show that teachers and school personnel can be significant changemakers when they take active roles in preventing, addressing, and responding to violence.

  • 1st January 2023
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Panel speakers from left to right: Alicia Herbert OBE, Yasmine Sherif, Suresh Chhetry, Nadine Tunasi, Hon. David Sengeh, Josephine Kamara
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“For survivors, with survivors”: Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference 2022

Together for Girls and partners held a session highlighting the power of education to prevent conflict-related sexual violence.

  • 9th December 2022
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"Safe to learn" essay collection: The role data and research play in ending violence in schools

The “Safe to learn” initiative published a collection of essays that examine and tackle the causes of different forms of violence in and around schools. This essay is authored by Dr. Daniela Ligiero, Executive Director & CEO of Together for Girls.

  • 30th June 2022
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World Education Day 2022: Changing course, transforming education

To mark World Education Day this year, we spoke to Yona Nestel of Plan International and Olanike Timipa-Uge of Teenage Network to learn more about the impact of COVID-19 on girls’ access to education.

  • 24th January 2022
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Back to school: COVID-19 and the opportunity to build safer learning environments

We have conducted secondary analyses of the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS) to understand the prevalence, consequences, and gender-specific experiences of violence in and around schools.

  • 25th October 2021
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Gender norms, education, and violence against girls and women: Lessons from Côte d’Ivoire

For decades, advocates and researchers have stressed the need to collect more data on both violence against children and violence against women and have pushed to make sure data is disaggregated by sex, age and geography.

  • 27th September 2021
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Building the evidence base: AidData’s deep-dive analysis of Zambian school-related gender-based violence

High-quality, disaggregated data on school-related gender-based violence is essential to help drive effective policies and programs for prevention and response.

  • 21st September 2021
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Join us at the Global Education Summit 2021

The Global Education Summit: Financing GPE 2021-2025 will be a key moment for the global community to come together and support quality education for all children.

  • 27th July 2021
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