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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.
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Opportunity: DSI-NRF Postgraduate Bursaries 2025
The DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development facilitates the awarding of bursaries in response to proposals that fall into the thematic areas of the Centre. The CoE-HUMAN awards bursaries to deserving Master’s and Doctoral students and Post-Doctoral Fellows. Grant holders on PCS or FCS funding may receive supplementary funding from another private-sector source, another South African government source, the NRF supervisor’s running expenses (SARChI, CoEs, etc.) or any other source (e.g. Merit Awards), provided that the total funding received from the NRF and the other source(s) does not exceed institutional maximum limit for the respective levels of study. The award of bursaries is governed by the Ministerial Guidelines for Improving Equity in the Distribution of DSI-NRF Bursaries and Fellowships (2013).
Deadline for all applications is the 26th of March 2024.
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Call for special collection submissions: What future for Gender Equality?
This special collection invites research-based articles, as well as shorter interventions to provoke, debate or outline policy and practice, exploring the contemporary challenges besetting global progress towards a more equal world for everyone - whatever their gendered definition of themselves. We seek well-constructed critique, but also, and importantly, agenda setting new ideas that engage with the interrelations between gender and other global social challenges at all levels. The journal is particularly keen to encourage genuinely inter and trans-disciplinary collaborations.
The abstract submission deadline is the 1st of April 2024.
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Advocacy: End Corporal Punishment advocacy package
With six years until 2030 and the end of the SDG timeframe, 2024 is a critical year for keeping the promise to end violence against children in SDG target 16.2. Ending corporal punishment is fundamental to ending violence against children. Governments have committed to ending violence against children by 2030, but corporal punishment continues to harm vast numbers of children worldwide. We know what works and we have six years to #EndCorporalPunishment. Add your voice in the call for urgent action to end corporal punishment of children on International day to #EndCorporalPinishment on the 30th of April, 2024. Children deserve and need non-violent childhoods now!
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Resource: Western Cape Violence Prevention Forum Meeting Report
The Western Cape Violence Prevention Forum (WC VPF) is a provincial multistakeholder platform that has been meeting twice a year since 2021 to share knowledge and practice and enable stronger partnerships between violence prevention practitioners across sectors. The meeting was attended by 36 leaders from different sectors, including government, civil society, research and business. There had been tragic incidents in the province since the Forum’s last meeting on 4 May 2023, involving a taxi stay-away that affected commuters, communities and families.
Although the dust had settled by September, the impact of the stay- away on communities, institutions and individuals remained. The taxi stay-away demonstrated how the apartheid legacy, coupled with current leadership challenges and persistent economic exclusion, continued to undermine South Africa’s development and efforts to build an inclusive and peaceful society.The WC VPF meeting focused on deepening the forum’s collective actions that could be taken to help prevent violence in the future.
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Connect: SVRI Forum 2024 exhibition stands
Elevate and showcase your work to a global community by applying for an exhibition stand at the SVRI Forum 2024. The SVRI Forum exhibition hall is where delegates come together to network and provides the perfect platform to share your work with a broader, international audience. A great opportunity to cultivate existing relationships and form new ones. The Forum website and conference app also have dedicated pages for exhibitors enabling you to connect with those unable to visit your stand in person. All exhibitors will be provided with one full conference registration providing access to all sessions.
The forum will take place from the 21 – 25 October 2024 in Cape Town
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Resource: INSPIRE - Seven strategies for ending violence against children - exploring uptake, use and impact
Levels of violence against children remain high worldwide. A focused commitment in the child protection sector and from health and development agencies worldwide has delivered impressive baseline metrics on the scope of and trends around violence against children. Alongside this data, agreement around global guidelines—
INSPIRE: Seven strategies for Ending Violence Against Children—and a host of related practice, learning and advocacy products has ensured a steady supply of knowledge to the field. A call for reflecting on how to balance the supply and demand of INSPIRE knowledge for the field is forwarded. This review of progress made, and the challenges ahead, is timely as INSPIRE undergoes revisions just short of the 2030 SDG deadline.
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