Feminist civil society organisations have played, and are playing, a fundamental and varied role in advancing gender equality in global health. Despite this, there is insufficient understanding and acknowledgement of what meaningful engagement and collaboration looks like between public health actors and feminist civil society organisations. There are examples of what successful partnerships look like and there are transferable lessons that can be taken away from these experiences. For example, the case of violence against women and girls.

Guest speakers:

• Jessica Horn, Independent Consultant
• Avni Amin, Department of Reproductive Health and Research on Violence against Women, World Health Organization
• Lori Michau, Co-founder and Co-Director, Raising Voices, Uganda

Related links:

Michau, L., Horn, J., Bank, A., Dutt, M., & Zimmerman, C. (2015). Prevention of violence against women and girls: Lessons from practice Lancet, 385(9978), pp.1672–1684. S0140-6736(14)61797-9

Raising Voices and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. (2020). Learning together: A guide for feminist practice in violence against women and girls research collaborations. Kampala, Uganda and Pretoria, South Africa.

Jewkes, R., Willan, S., Heise, L., Washington, L., Shai, N., Kerr-Wilson, A. and Christofides, N. (2020). Effective design and implementation elements in interventions to prevent violence against women and girls.  What works to prevent VAWG? Global Programme Synthesis Product Series. South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria.