Dear VPF Friends, 

Welcome to the Violence Prevention Forum newsletter. On a bi-weekly basis we will be sharing job, funding and training opportunities, details for webinars relevant to violence and its prevention, and links to new research and guidelines. We hope you find this a useful resource.

Request for proposals: The SVRI Research Grant 2024 – Knowledge for action to end violence against women and violence against children

The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) is inviting applications for innovative research and interventions that will contribute to the prevention and response of violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality in low and middle-income countries. For more information on the grant.Closing date: 6 July 2023.

Job Opportunity: Director Position at The Seven Passes Initiative 

The Seven Passes Initiative is a community-based organisation stationed in Touwsranten, 26km from George. The initiative is looking for a highly motivated and visionary individual to fill the full day position of Director.  The starting date of the position will be the 1^st  September 2023. Applications close on the  19^th of July 2023.

Call for Inputs: Legislative Policy Proposals – Minimum Unit Pricing & Uniform Alcohol Trading Time Parameters for the Western Cape Province

The Western Cape provincial government (WCG) has identified the reduction of alcohol-related harms as one of its key interventions that will contribute to the strategic priorities of well-being and safety, while ensuring it is targeted to limit its impact on the economy. This is in line with the World Health Organization’s Alcohol Best-Buys which aims to reduce and restrict the availability of alcohol to reduce alcohol-related harms and benefit society as a whole.

As a priority issue, the WCG has identified the evidence-based policy proposals of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) in the sale of alcohol and uniform alcohol trading time parameters in the province as strategies to reduce alcohol-related harms.

The WCG requests stakeholders to consider the two identified interventions and provide input and comments by no later than 31 July 2023.

Opportunity:  Postdoctoral Fellowship at CoE-Human Development  

The DSI-NRF Centre for Excellence in Human Development seeks to appoint THREE full-time postdoctoral researchers to work with Professor Shane Norris and Dr Asanda Mtintsilana as part of the Postdoctoral Accelerator Programme. This programme fellowship aims to develop postdocs to senior researcher level within 2 years. All fellowships will involve mentoring, academic writing, project planning/implementation, data analyses and career strategy formulation. The successful candidates will work closely with Professor Shane Norris and Dr Asanda Mtintsilana as programme mentors. The closing date is the 31^st of July 2023.

Study Analysis: ‘Falling short: Addressing The Climate Finance Gap For Children

On 22nd June 2023, members of the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI) coalition released a new climate finance analysis.

Titled ‘Falling short: Addressing The Climate Finance Gap For Children’, the study analyses how ‘child responsive’ projects funded by key multilateral climate funds are – over a 17 year period. The report concludes that children are being failed by climate funding commitments, despite bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.  The full study can be found below.