Our global Gender-Based Violence (GBV) team provides strategic technical support to actors across the GBV ecosystem from donors to community-level women-led organisations. We are a multi-disciplinary team delivering programme design and implementation support, advocacy, research reports, MEL and helpdesk services.
Our team aspires to apply our feminist principles in all our work and to support sustained and transformative change. We partner with diverse stakeholders and we take an intersectional approach to our work on GBV prevention and response across development and humanitarian contexts.
Our work includes primary prevention programming, community-level response to GBV and SEAH, school-related GBV, GBV in Emergencies, Technology-Facilitated GBV, Violence against LGBTQI+ communities, and GBV in Climate and Economic programming.
Read more about our current work or search our extensive GBV Resource Library below.
Analysis of practice-based data from the Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe. Report analyses date from March to May 2020, during the Covid-19 Crisis in Zimbabwe.
Erika provides technical advice and leadership to SDDirect’s work on gender-based violence (GBV).
Jo Feather is a Principal Consultant in the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Portfolio.
Veronica Ahlenback is a Technical Specialist in SDDirect’s Gender-based Violence portfolio.
Naomi is a Technical Specialist who works across our Governance and Inclusive Societies and Gender-based Violence portfolios.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and CDC Group Plc jointly commissioned SDDirect to develop guidance for the private sector on addressing gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH). The Good Practice Note (GPN) provides the private sector with guidance on identifying, mitigating and remedying GBVH risks. It will serve as a comprehensive resource for two main audiences: investors and companies. The GPN provides practical guidance on how to better prevent and respond to GBVH.
