Violence in schools in Africa: prevalence, impacts, and potential solutions
Preventing violence in and around school is a moral imperative. It is also essential to reap the benefits from education and ensure children’s well-being.
Preventing violence in and around school is a moral imperative. It is also essential to reap the benefits from education and ensure children’s well-being.
This resource provides age-appropriate learning activities on important themes and concepts relating to the prevention of GBV and promotion of respectful relationships. It presents two key tools for teachers.
This guide for the facilitator takes training participants (teachers) through the Journeys Activity Handbook for Teachers and School Staff. Journeys uses an empathetic approach to inspire change towards creating positive and supportive schools that are free from violence in any form.
This brief highlights research that examines the unique experience of adolescent girls by specifically exploring the types of gender-based violence and the drivers of this violence affecting this group within the context of South Sudan, where women and girls experience high levels of gender inequ
Activity Handbook geared towards school community members on building a positive school climate and preventing school-related gender-based violence. The Handbook provides an opportunity to directly involve community members in achieving this goal.
Activity Handbook geared towards teacher patrons to work with primary-age students on building a positive school climate and preventing school-related gender-based violence. It supports primary school teams for pupils called the Uganda Kids Unite or ‘UKU’ program.
The objective of the Journeys Activity Handbook for Teachers and School Staff is to mobilise school staff to take deliberate steps to increase, foster and promote a safe and caring school that is free from violence.
The United Nations Office of Drug Control (UNODC) published ‘International Standards on Drug Use Prevention’ in 2013. The standards were developed through a systematic assessment of the international evidence on prevention and they provide a summary of the available scientific evidence.
The study’s objective is the systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies of alcohol use among young people (age 15–24 years) in eastern Africa to estimate prevalence of alcohol use and determine the extent of use of standardised screening questionnaires in alcohol studies.
The programme Prevent violence in schools focuses on enabling and supporting learners to take action to prevent violence in their own schools. Programme materials include two publications: Prevent violence in schools. Learners taking action. Learner book, and Prevent violence in schools.