SVRI Forum 2026 Learning Series: Climate Change & Preventing Gender-Based Violence
On 04 March 2026 (11am SAST) SVRI hosted this session, supported by the Australian Volunteers Program, to explore how climate-related shocks, displacement, economic stress, and environmental change intersect with risks of violence against women and violence against children. Drawing on research, regional experience, and practice-based learnings, this webinar shares emerging evidence and practical approaches for strengthening prevention and response in climate-affected contexts. Speakers featured were Naomi Clugston, Senior researcher on the Ending VAWC Helpdesk and Josephine Kamisya, Executive Director of the Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention Uganda.
See the full report on Gender-Based Violence: Overcoming an Unseen Barrier to Effective Climate Action here. Available in Arabic, Spanish, Indonesian, and Lao.
Power in Practice: Drawing lessons from Spotlight Initiative’s Approach to Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting for Grassroots Accountability
On 15 December 2025 (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.
From 15 December 2025 to 16 February 2026, an ongoing Q&A was made avaliable in the SHINE discussion here. The key findings from that colloborative discussion can be seen in the image below.
