Tearfund UK and HEAL Africa awarded DFID Innovation Grant: What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls

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An international collaboration on evidence for faith actors’ activities, contributions, and challenges to achieving humanitarian and development goals. Founded in 2012, JLI came together with a single shared conviction: there is an urgent need to build our collective understanding, through evidence, of faith actors in humanitarianism and development.

Tearfund UK and their partner HEAL Africa in the DRC have just been awarded one of the Innovation Grants from the DFID-funded “What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls” global research and innovation programme. This programme will address important evidence gaps on the impact of faith groups in preventing sexual violence, in order to build a robust evidence base that is so vital for effective replication and scale up across the wider community of practice, to make a difference on a global scale.

The DFID What Works programme will support 18 projects, in 16 countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East in hopes to reach over 5.3 million people. Tearfund, working with HEAL Africa, aims to engage and equip faith leaders in 20 communities in Orientale Province, DRC, to speak out against VAWG and act as catalysts to address root causes and risk factors within their local communities and in national coalition. This project brings together academic research, international resources, and local experience and capacities. It is a chance to support change from within the heart of these conflict-affected communities.

JLI-SGBV Hub members will have the opportunity to shape and reflect on the monitoring & evaluation processes including the final review by commenting on conversations that will be held in the Hub forum. The lead consultant involved from the JLI-SGBV community will be Lisa Le Roux from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Any questions about the programme or how SGBV Hub Members can contribute may be directed to SGBV Hub Co-Chairs Veena O’Sullivan and Lizle Loots.