Addressing Addressing Gender-Based Violence: What Works? Where? For Whom?

1. Addressing Addressing Gender-Based Violence:What Works? Where? For Whom? A seminar jointly-presented by Sub Saharan Advisory Panel (SSAP) & Tearfund Wales International Development SummitThursday 2nd May 2019

2. UK-AfricaYoung Women’s Leadership & Empowerment Movement A Young Women's Leadership and Empowerment Movement Wales Scotland England Tanzania Uganda Somaliland

3. Approaches: Addressing GBV as a Human Rights Violation Women’s and Girls’ Rights Somaliland Wales Scotland

4. Strategic Goals • RECLAIM Womens’ and Girls’ Rights Enable young women and girls to effectively CLAIM and EXERCISE their rights and freedoms (My Rights My Freedom) • NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN ACTIVISTS Developing their leadership capacity to INFLUENCE and SHAPE decisions about their rights, increase their voices and strengthen their collective action to be free from gender based violence. • Building bridges THINKING GLOBALLY & ACTING LOCALLY African Young Women (Diaspora UK & Africa) TOGETHER address GBV as a common problem

5. Approaches to Counter GBV: A Young Women's Leadership and Empowerment Movement Research: Evidence- Informed Training: Up-Skilling Young-Women mentored Engagement

6. Approaches to Counter GBV: Young-Women mentored Engagement COMPARING FOCUS SOMALILAND Focus: Addressing Harmful Social Norms sustaining Nation-wide Anti –FGM Campaign 21 Community Champions for Social Change SCOTLAND Focus: Addressing UNEQUAL Power Relations Engaging with Black Feminist Literature and Entrepreneurial skills (Structural IMPEDIMENTS & BIAS) WALES (& Beyond) DIVERSE Engagement Entry Points: Art, Research Journalism,

7. Approaches to Counter GBV: Research Evidence: Comparison AFRICA HARMFUL Social Norms sustaining Gender INEQUALITY UK & AFRICA UNEQUAL Power Relations Structural IMPEDIMENTS & BIAS Young-Women mentored Engagement

8. Approaches to Counter GBV: Young-Women mentored Engagement COMPARATIVE PROGRESS SOMALILAND Focus: Addressing Harmful Social Norms sustaining Nation-wide Anti –FGM Campaign 21 Community Champions for Social Change SCOTLAND Focus: Addressing UNEQUAL Power Relations Engaging with Black Feminist Literature and Entrepreneurial skills (Structural IMPEDIMENTS & BIAS) WALES (& Beyond) DIVERSE Engagement Entry Points: Art, Research Journalism,

9. Project Outcomes (PLAN, ENGAGE, DELIVER) • Strategic Engagement: Networking, Move into positions of leadership. • Skilful Activism: Project life cycle (design, develop and deliver) • Event Facilitation: workshops and trainings for other young women and girls. • Total Fellows: 0ver 250 young women in 6 countries • Main Entry Point: activities (Local community gestation for Policy Engagement)

10. My Rights My Freedom

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12. Tearfund’s Approach to Gender Equality Page Number Footnote info here Footnote info here

13. Tearfund: SGBV principles • Survivor-centric approach: Our policy, programme design and implementation shaped by and committed to the experiences of survivors and their well-being. • Transforming harmful gender norms - promoting gender equality within faith framework • Community mobilization process: Structured and layered intervention models, and community owned and led. • Focus areas: Survivor movement building; Faith leaders and communities; Gender Justice; FGM/C and Child-marriages. • Inter-faith approach where needed and appropriate.

15. Our Approaches

16. What are we doing? • Survivor movements • Safe spaces for survivors and psychosocial support through peer-groups • Engaging men and boys for Gender Justice • Engaging and Mobilizing faith leaders and communities • Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting/and Early Child Marriage

17. “My life was destroyed because of what happened to me. I feel only pain, anger, depression and loneliness.” (Colombia)

19. Our approach: Journey to Healing • Focused on survivors of sexual violence, including of FGM/C, and those living with HIV and AIDS too. • Working with survivors to provide peer-based support • Building a movement of survivors to shape policy and practice at all levels • Engaging with church leadership and communities make churches safe spaces, free of stigma, shame and blame, and building support and accompaniment for survivors.

21. Transforming harmful gender norms ‘…the man must then slap her to show her the way.’ (Liberia)

23. Transforming Masculinities • Engaging faith leaders and communities to frame gender equality within a faith worldview • Aim of changing behaviour and also challenging harmful norms, and reinforcing positive gender norms and role models. • A community mobilization process, based on faith communities. • 6-weeks of facilitated dialogues within communities, with focus on diffusion. • Accountable practices because of power, privilege and impunity - men and faith leaders

24. Standard Transforming Masculinities Process

25. Standard Community Dialogues topics

26. Transforming Masculinities - Adaptations • Family Planning in projects funded by USAID in DRC, and John Templeton Foundation in Nigeria with Christian and Muslim communities • Full Islamic context adaptation, including scriptures from the Qur’an. • Women’s Economic Empowerment adaptations in Central African Republic through UK Aid Match funding. • FGM/C in West Africa - engaging men and faith leaders

27. TOOLS Manuals, briefs and resources can be found at: www.tearfund.org/sexualviolence Hand in Hand: Bible studies as a sermon guide or for use in small group discussions Family Planning reflections – Additional module for community dialogues TM manual – for faith leaders workshops and to train Gender Champions Community Dialogues - facilitator’s handbook for GCs to lead community dialogues

28. INTERVENTION • ENGAGEMENT 75 Faith Leaders; 30 Gender Champions; 15 Community Action Groups (225, 50:50 men:women) • TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT VAWG root causes and theology; gender equality; support to survivors; basics counselling and mediation • COMMUNITY LED ACTIONS role models; information sharing; community dialogues; survivors support • MONITORING & MENTORING www.tearfund.org/sexualviolence

29. What is data showing? The above data is from the endline quantitative study of the DFID funded What Works project in DRC.

30. “Gender equality sends us straight to the Bible, because God created man and woman in His image and the two of them are therefore the same and are equal. If the husband deems himself higher than the woman, in that case, it is already violence. Because everyone is equal.” Male Gender Champion

31. Challenges • Long term work to change social norms • Recognition of challenges in engaging men and predominantly male faith structures – need for accountable practices • Addressing staff and organizational biases

32. Key Takeaways • Survivor-centric: listening exercises, shaping project and policy • Address power dynamics and gender inequality as root causes of violence • Engage men and boys and recognise women and men shape ideals of femininity and masculinity • Engage with people who influence and shape norms and beliefs - can be faith or other community leadership

33. Thank you, questions?