The ‘What Works to Prevent Violence - Impact at Scale’ Programme is a seven-year initiative funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on prevention of violence against women and girls, focused on learning about how to take small-scale evidence-based approaches to scale.
“Safe to Learn” is a global initiative dedicated to ending violence against children in and through schools. Ending violence in and through schools refers to two aspects of ending violence.
Urgent political and financial commitments are needed to implement and expand proven approaches to prevent, mitigate and respond to violence against children in, around, and through schools.
This diagnostic tool is designed to inform country-level collective dialogue amongst Safe to Learn partners and with national counterparts. Its overall objective is to support children’s right to education and to protection from violence.
This brief argues that despite knowing the huge scale and wide-reaching impacts of SRGBV, as well as many examples of what works to end it, not enough is being done politically to end violence in schools, and to recognise and address the gendered drivers and dimensions of violence.
Corporal punishment, or violent forms of discipline, is a common practice at schools in many countries, administered by teachers and other staff.
This collection of essays published by Safe to Learn, with the support of GPE and other partners, looks at solutions to help stop and prevent violence experienced by children in and around schools.
In 2020, a diagnostic tool was developed by Safe to Learn partners to track countries’ progress toward achieving the objectives of the Safe to Learn Call to Action at the national, district and school-level and establish a baseline from which to measure progress.
COVID 19 has heightened a pre-existing child’s right crisis.
Across the world, COVID-19 and resulting isolation measures have taken more than 1.5 billion children out of the classroom.