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SVRI: Invitation to join the Working Group 1 (Evidence Building)

SVRI invites researchers, activists, leaders, and organizations in the fields of religions, spiritualities, faith communities, and the intersectional area of gender and religion to join a working group aimed at promoting research and evidence building for policy recommendation addressing gender-based violence in ...

Ending Gender-Based Violence by 2030: Reflections from Listening Dialogues in Zambia and Malawi

Ending Gender-Based Violence by 2030: Reflections from Listening Dialogues in Zambia and Malawi Reverend Mary Zulu-Mwiche Speak One Voice International - Zambia / United Church of Zambia University Introduction The JLI Southern Africa Hub conducted a series of six Listening Dialogues in Zambia and Malawi between ...

Wanted: resources for the development and validation of a Religion & VAWG scale

JLI and The Unit for Religion and Development Research (URDR) are seeking resources from researchers and practitioners that can help in the development and validation of a Religion & Violence against women and girls (VAWG) scale. If you have any survey questions or modules, measurement tools or scales that ...

JLI/SVRI Faith and GBV Hub Leadership Council

The JLI /SVRI Faith and GBV Hub Leadership Council is made up of members that work within the faith and violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) fields and represent different perspectives, experiences, constituencies, and geographical diversity. The Leadership Council provides guidance on ...

An Interview with Kirsten Laursen Muth (JLI), Lizle Loots and Morma Moremi (SVRI) about the new Faith & GBV Hub

To celebrate the launch of the new iteration of the joint JLI/SVRI Faith & Gender Based Violence (GBV) Hub this month, we sat down with Kirsten Laursen Muth from JLI, as well as Lizle Loots (Partnerships and Forums Officer) and Morma Moremi (Administration & Knowledge Manager) from SVRI to ask them more ...

New SVRI/JLI Faith and GBV Hub

Dear GBV hub members, We hope that during the turbulent time we find ourselves, you and your families are safe and well. We are emailing to share with you a proposed change to the GBV Hub. After 5 years since its inception, building on the momentum and achievements of its members, and as recommended in the ...

JLI-PaRD SDG 3 Work-stream Survey

The Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities is a knowledge partner with the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development/PaRD workstreams to conduct research on partnerships/collaboration between religious/faith actors, NGOs, governmental, and inter-governmental agencies on ...

University of Leeds Call for Contributors: The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society

Editors: Emma Tomalin and Caroline Starkey The University of Leeds is looking for contributors to a new and exciting handbook on the topic of Religion, Gender and Society. Underpinning the volume, is an awareness that it is impossible for scholars, activists and policy makers to understand and explain ...

SEREDA (Sexual and Gender-base violence in the refugee crisis: from displacement to arrival) research opportunity

SEREDA (Sexual and Gender-based violence in the refugee crisis: from displacement to arrival) is a major new international research initiative led by University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research Into Superdiversity (IRiS) in partnership with Bilkent University, Uppsala University and University of Melbourne. ...

Religion is blamed for violence against women. We are Christian and Muslim leaders who fight it – Together.

From JLI Board Members: Episcopal Relief & Development, President & CEO, Rob Radtke and Islamic Relief USA, President, Anwar Khan Opinion in Newsweek Read about religious leaders role in ending sexual and gender-based violence "Despite the #MeToo movement, sexual and gender-based violence is ...

Request for Proposals: SVRI and WBG 2019 Development Marketplace Award for Innovation in the Prevention and Response to GBV

The SVRI and the World Bank Group are requesting proposals for innovative research and interventions or related activities that will contribute to the prevention of and improved response to gender-based violence in low and middle income countries. This year the call for proposals also includes a specific window ...

Action research project on sexual rights and faith- ACFID

The co-convenors of the Sexual Rights in Development Community of Practice (CoP), established under the aegis of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) would like to invite the JLI Network to take part in their collaboration. ACFID is the peak body for international development bodies in ...
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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.