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.

Opportunity: Programme Manager - Gender Transformative Education

 

The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative is a global partnership for gender equality in and through education. Our mandate is to catalyze and galvanize action locally, nationally, regionally and global for girls’ education and gender equality in education. The UNGEI Secretariat is governed by UNICEF policies of employment. We strive to uphold feminist and anti-racist principles in how we work and offer flexible work arrangements.

Under the overall guidance and direction of the Senior Adviser Education UNGEI Secretariat and with a dotted line reporting to the Chief of Education at UNICEF Innocenti, the Gender-Transformative Education Manager will be responsible for progressing new approaches to challenge and address harmful gender socialization of children through the education eco-system and to progress women empowerment in education, particularly school leadership positions. 

 

Applications close on the 20^th of August 2023

Opportunity: Decolonizing M&E and Research: Practical guidance from a feminist approach course

 

This virtual workshop will help development and humanitarian practitioners integrate decolonizing principles and practices into their research activities, including project analyses, monitoring and evaluation, assessments and evaluations. The workshop is interactive and participatory. The training is four days for three hours a day. All participants will receive a detailed manual with key terms and templates.

This course take place virtually starting from the 25^th of August, 2023.

Opportunity: Lead Technical Specialist, Practice-Based Knowledge, CSV Hub 

The Hub is seeking a Lead Technical Specialist, Practice-Based Knowledge to be hosted by SVRI. This role will concentrate on formulating a framework that integrates practice-based knowledge with scientific research, elucidating the strengths and limitations of practice-based knowledge in preventing CSEA, and advocating for the inclusion of diverse perspectives in evidence generation. The Child Sexual Violence Solutions Hub (the Hub) is a dynamic, practitioner-centered platform to build, transform and mobilize knowledge to end childhood sexual violence globally. Led by a group of well-known and respected partners in the field - the Hub’s goal is to ensure that solutions and evidence for childhood sexual violence include the voices of practitioners and activists. Applications close on the 31st of August.

Save the Date: SAPPIN Families Indaba 2023

 

The South African Parenting Programme Implementers network (SAPPIN) will be hosting its second Families Indaba! This year's Indaba follows on the success of the inaugural Indaba in 2022, which had foregrounded the importance of the family and family support as the center for sustainable change in this country. The Indaba aims to draw attention to the collaboration and innovation of the network as a whole. SAPPIN looks forward to seeing you there!

 

Save the date for the next SAPPIN Indaba happening on the 25^th and 26^th of October, 2023.

Report: End Violence Against Children 2022 Annual Report

 

The End Violence Annual Report highlights encouraging momentum in all of the Partnership’s priority initiatives, including Pathfinding, Safe Online, End Corporal Punishment and Positive Parenting - and wide-ranging support for the End Violence movement, including from the 775 member organisations of the Partnership. With its community of diverse partners, grantees and donors, the Partnership continued raising awareness, stimulating new leadership commitments, improving and sharing evidence on what works, promoting policy action, and investing in scalable solutions. As we reach the mid-point to the 2030 Agenda, the End Violence Partnership has catalysed a movement unified by the goal of safe, secure and nurturing childhoods for all. The report unpacks the great strides taken by End Violence during 2022.