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GBV Prevention in Southern Africa: Lesotho to join the Social Innovation Lab
By: PfP
Date: 23/02/2024

The Social Innovation Lab has been launched in Lesotho. Now the initiative counts five southern African countries, all engaged in finding out new solutions to address GBV prevention in the region.

The Social Innovation Lab: exploring new ways for GBV Prevention in Southern Africa
By: PfP
Date: 12/09/2023

On Tuesday 12 September, the regional programme Partnerships for Prevention of Gender-based Violence in Southern Africa (PfP) kicked off the Social Innovation Lab initiative.

Germany and Lesotho digitalising GBV Prevention - a successful partnership at CSW67 in New York
By: PfP
Date: 15/03/2023

As the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) met in New York's UN Headquarters to discuss last year’s progress on gender equality, PfP and the Ministry of Gender of Lesotho joined other global players with a side event titiled “Digital solutions to prevent gender-based violence in Lesotho”. Together, they presented the initiative Nokaneng, a result of a successful well-established partnership.

The regional programme PfP-II sponsors the SVRI Forum 2022
By: PfP
Date: 14/12/2022

The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (#SVRI) Forum 2022 is the most important global conference on innovation, practice and research on violence against women and violence against children in low- and middle-income countries, which was held this year in Cancun, Mexico from 19-23 September. PfP was there as active participant and sponsor.

Femicide: understanding the most extreme form of violence against women and girls
By: PfP
Date: 17/02/2020

The murder of a woman (or girl) because she is a female. That’s how the World Health Organization (WHO) defines femicide, although it acknowledges that “broader definitions include any killings of women or girls”. 

Women’s rights in Africa: where are we?
By: PfP
Date: 14/02/2020

The rate of violence against women is particularly high in Africa, with nearly half of the continent’s countries reporting a prevalence of more than 40%, according to the United Nations’ The World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics.

A snapshot of the two-day Regional Conference
By: PfP
Date: 17/12/2019

There is good evidence on what works to prevent violence against women and girls, and the time has come to turn this evidence into action, delegates heard at the Regional Conference on the Prevention of Violence against Women and Girls in Southern Africa.

Press release: No more women should die: Nkoana-Mashabane
By: PfP
Date: 10/12/2019

Patriarchy is at the core of gender-based violence, but collaboration can reset its course to keep women and girls safe in South Africa

Press release: It’s possible to halve the incidence of gender-based violence
By: PfP
Date: 04/12/2019

More than 200 delegates gather in Johannesburg at multi-stakeholder conference aimed at stopping violence against women and girls
 

Meet Keynote speaker Dr Christine Brendel
By: PfP
Date: 03/12/2019

For more than 20 years Dr Christine Brendel has researched violence against women and girls. From this she has designed an implementable process that organisations, from small businesses to countries, can use to ensure everyone works together to oppose gender-based violence.

Press release: The end of gender-based violence is in sight
By: PfP
Date: 03/12/2019

There is an end in sight to violence against women and girls. It’s an end that demands collective effort and partnership.

Meet Keynote speaker Prof Rachel Jewkes
By: PfP
Date: 02/12/2019

Violence against women and girls is the most prevalent form of violence worldwide. It is also preventable, and Professor Rachel Jewkes has been working on just that.

We know what works to curb violence against women and girls...
By: PfP
Date: 28/11/2019

We know that what lies at the core of preventing violence against women and girls is changing the attitudes, behaviours, and cultural and traditional practices that perpetuate this most widespread form of violence.

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