Scaling-up violence prevention in schools across the Global South
Schools are ideal sites for delivering violence prevention projects, but can this approach reach enough children?
Schools offer a valuable space for children to learn and adopt pro-social behaviours that can help prevent violence. Because children gather in schools, these facilities are ideal for the scale-up of violence prevention interventions.
Education and life skills initiatives are one of the seven evidence-based strategies that the INSPIRE package encourages countries to adopt to end violence against children. Implementers and evaluators from Uganda and India will share their experiences of delivering and scaling-up interventions in schools.
This online seminar is jointly hosted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the INSPIRE Working Group.
Moderator: Jody van der Heyde, INSPIRE Working Group Global Coordinator, ISS
Panellists:
- Hope Wambi, Technical Advisor, Violence Against Children Prevention team, Raising Voices, Uganda
- Nayana Chowdhury, Senior Director, Head of Programmes, Co-lead of Strategic Partnership & Scale-up, Breakthrough India
- Dr Patricia Watson, Chief Director, Social Inclusion and Partnerships in Education, Department of Basic Education, South Africa
