You’re Invited! Enhancing early reading and literacy skills through digital parenting interventions

Join the Global Parenting Initiative for an insightful webinar exploring how digital parenting interventions enhance early reading and literacy skills. Opportunities to read and learn at home are critical to improving children’s literacy skills, yet millions of children and their families still lack access to books and supportive programmes to assist with making learning easy.

This webinar, in celebration of World Literacy Day, will explore results from an early pilot study of the Early Family Math app in Kenya, led by INNODEMS and supported by the Lego Foundation. Presenters will also explore how digital parenting interventions like ParentApp for Kids in Tanzania can impact children’s literacy as well as parent-child engagement.

This webinar will take place via Zoom on the 19^th of September, 2024.

Opportunity: Consultancy - SGBV Prevention: Capacity Assessment and Tools Adaptation

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) advocates a human rights-based, client-centred, ‘do-no-harm’ approach to providing healthcare and supporting all survivors affected by Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) and is dedicated to scaling up work at the community level, including humanitarian contexts, to prevent SGBV and respond to the needs of all survivors.

IPPF is seeking to hire a consultant to support Member Associations (MAs) to implement SGBV prevention work which reflects best practice across the humanitarian-development nexus. Specifically, IPPF aims to 1) map existing MA capacities, programme models, and resources to conduct SGBV prevention at country level, and 2) provide revised/adapted guidance and tools for better engaging into those functions of SGBV programming.

The closing date is the 19^th of September 2024

Resource: SVRI Forum 2024 Full Programme

It is with excitement we announce the SVRI Forum 2024 full programme is now available online. Explore the full programme on the website and find out what is happening in the world of research and practice on violence against women, violence against children and violence driven by gender inequality. Browse the programme freely either in English, Spanish or French.

The SVRI Forum will take placed from the 21^st to the 25^th of October at the CTICC in Cape Town.

Call for Papers: Journal of Inclusive Public Policy (JIPP)

We are reaching out to invite contributions to the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Inclusive Public Policy (JIPP), due for publication at the end of January 2025. The JIPP is committed to fostering a deeper understanding and discussion on policies that promote inclusivity and diversity across all sectors of public life. This journal serves as a platform for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to share insights, research findings, and innovative approaches to tackling social inequalities and enhancing public policy inclusivity.

The submission deadline is 31 October, 2024 for sufficient peer-review. For queries or expressions of interest please contact Nicole Jo Bergsteedt .

Call for papers - Family violence prevention

The BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to their Collection on family violence prevention. Submissions are welcomed from local, state, national and global contexts. Family violence, including intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse, and other forms of domestic violence, causes profound physical, emotional, and psychological harm, affecting individuals, families, and communities worldwide. The BMV Public Health Collection seeks to advance the understanding and prevention of family violence through evidence-based research, interventions, policies, and practices. 

The submission deadline is the 25^th of May 2025.