Learning Events

On December 15th (3pm SAST), Spotlight Initiative and SVRI – in partnership with the Australian Volunteers Program – hosted a webinar to reflect on the learnings from the Spotlight Initiative’s participatory monitoring, evaluation and reporting approach for community accountability. Spotlight Initiative is the world’s largest global, multilateral effort aimed at ending all forms of violence against women and girls. Over the last 6 years, they have established comprehensive programming across 25 countries and 5 regions and are scaling up for greater reach. As part of this work, Spotlight has developed ways of doing monitoring, evaluation and reporting that centre the experiences, knowledge, and leadership of those most affected. This webinar shared practical tools and lessons on how to design monitoring and learning processes that are feminist in approach, support shared decision-making and strengthen accountability to communities. ISL interpretation included.

To join the ongoing Q&A see the SHINE discussion here

On 20 November (15:00 – 16:00 SAST), the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) and the Gender Violence Research and Collaboration Network (GVRCN) co-hosted an abstract writing workshop, to support early career researchers and practitioners preparing submissions for the upcoming Forum. Whether you are writing a research-based, programme-focused, or practice-based abstract, this interactive session helps guide you through technical requirements, review criteria, and best practices. Peer reviewers shared their expert advice on what makes an abstract stand out, exploring examples across different submission types to help strengthen your abstract writing skills and gain confidence in the submission process.