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How Can We End Violence Against Women and Girls? What We Need and What We Know

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Featuring

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women

Stefano Manservisi, Director-General, International Cooperation and Development, European Commission

Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi and former Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development

Mayra Buvinic, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

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Rajesh Mirchandani, Vice President of Communications and Policy Outreach, Center for Global Development

One in three women around the world has experienced violence in their lifetime. It is the single most common form of violence in the world, but also one of the least analysed and discussed. Evidence shows that fighting violence against women not only addresses horrendous human rights violations and the negative impact on women’s lives and health, but also contributes to countries’ and societies’ sustainable economic, political and social development.

The EU and UN recently launched the Spotlight Initiative, including an initial allocation of Euro 500 million (more than half a billion US dollars) to fight violence against women and girls. How can the impact of this Fund be optimized? What does research and first-hand experience on the ground tell us about what works? And how can it inform policy and political dialogue aimed at eliminating violence against women and girls in all its forms, now and in future?

 

Using Technology to Combat GBV – New Innovations, New Opportunities

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On June 29, 2017 the Gender-Based Violence Task Force of USAID’s Interagency Gender Working Group hosted an event focused on innovative technology solutions to GBV.

Panelists for the event included ElsaMarie D’Silva founder of the SafeCity crowd-mapping foundation and recent recipient of the Global Leadership Award by Vital Voices; Dr. Ranit Mishori, a physician and head of the Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Global Health Initiatives; and Jennifer Curran, an M&E technical specialist at MEASURE Evaluation.

The panelists shared lessons and challenges they have experienced in implementing mobile-based technologies to combat and report instances of GBV. Data from SafeCity’s crowd-mapping of street harassment allow women more agency and mobility in their cities and led to municipal services addressing infrastructure issues that perpetuated an environment of harassment. The second presentation highlighted the design and implementation of mobile-based GBV referral system piloted in Botswana, and the third described an app called “mJustice” to be used by frontline health workers to forensically and clinically document sexual violence and that is about to be launched in DRC.

This event, supported by USAID through the PACE and Advancing Partners & Communities projects, brought together nearly 50 participants from the Washington, DC area and 28 participants online.

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