Terre des Hommes Netherlands attends Forum of the Sexual Violence Reserarch Initiative (SVRI), Cape Town, South Africa.
This year, Terre des Hommes Netherlands will have 6 delegates attending the bi-annual Forum of the Sexual Violence Reserarch Initiative (SVRI) in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference will take place from 22-25 October, with a day of pre-conference workshops on the 21st.
Monday
The SVRI Forum is a vibrant, informative and safe space for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, donors, survivors and others to share and learn about new research, developments and innovations. It is the largest abstract driven conference dedicated to research on prevention of and response to violence against women in all their diversity and violence against children.
Terre des Hommes experts Eva Notté, Jean Elphick, Angela Nyamu, Magdalene Wanza, Josephine Akiru, Lilliane Mutuku and Kimberley Anderson will sharing insights from our studies on online safety, child participation in child sexual violence research, and research priority setting.
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On Monday, you can find our Child Participation Lead, Angela Nyamu, facilitating a workshop on child participation in child sexual violence research:
Workshop 11: Engaging Children, Adolescents, Survivors, and Communities in Child Sexual Violence Research through Participatory Approaches: Challenges and Opportunities
Time: 14:00 – 17:00
Venue: Bluebell
Facilitators: Joan Njagi, Sexual Violence Research Initiative; Angela Nyamu, Terre des Hommes Netherlands; Tulasha Khadka, ChildSafeNet
Tuesday
On Tuesday, you can find our Head of REI, Jean Elphick and Senior Technical Advisor, Eva Notté presenting findings from the VOICE report:
1.2. Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children
Venue: Hall 7
- “I know what to do when being ‘bothered’ online”, How children take charge and call for agency-promoting measures to protect them from online sexual violence
Eva Notté - Safety online from sexual exploitation: Children’s messages to the public, parents and policy-makers
Jean Elphick, Eva Notté
Wednesday
On Wednesday you can find our Research Lead, Kimberley Anderson, talking about our Global Research Agenda:
5.3. Research Priority Setting
Venue: Hall 8.2
- Filling the gaps left by academia – developing a global research agenda on child exploitation
Kimberley Anderson, Amy Riley Powell
You will also find MEAL Advisor, Lilliane Mutuku’s posters on Wednesday:
Child online protection: What needs to change? Baseline studies from Cambodia, Nepal, Kenya and the Philippines
Zoe Octavie de Melo, Lilliane Mutuku
Thursday
And on Thursday:
Safety for children and their rights online
Caroline Parmet, Lilliane Mwende Mutuku