Scaling-up violence prevention in schools across the Global South

2023-08-17

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