All: Top 10 things you should know about the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS)

Zanzibar Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) fact sheet 2024

An overview of the data found in Zanzibar's 2024 Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report.

Tanzania Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) fact sheet 2024

An overview of the data found in Tanzania's 2024 Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report.

Tanzania Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report 2024

Explore the data in Tanzania's Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report.

VACS safeguarding and ethical guidelines

Research on violence against children and youth poses critical ethical challenges, particularly when directly engaging them as research participants. Implementing strong ethical protections that prioritize participant safety, privacy, and confidentiality helps minimize risks like retaliatory violence and ensures participants' well-being.

Protecting Africa’s children from extreme risk: a runway of sustainability for PEPFAR programmes

There is now an opportunity for a transformational partnership between the USA and Africa, to accelerate domestic government co-financing, private-sector investments, and charitable foundations. A 5-year progressive runway of transition can occur through continued authorisation of PEPFAR programmes, which can lead to the end of AIDS for children and families, an historic achievement.

Exploring children’s formal help-seeking behaviour for violence in Zimbabwe: analysis of national survey and routine service provider data

Cross-time comparison of adverse childhood experience patterns among Kenyan youth: Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys, 2010 and 2019

The power of Data to Action: Country experiences and lessons following Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys

This resource provides evidence that VACS data and associated processes contribute to meaningful policy change and action to end violence against children and adolescents and gender-based violence.

Interactive summary: Stakeholder report 2019-2021

Together for Girls (TfG) is a global partnership working to end violence against children and adolescents, particularly sexual violence against girls. This is a digital summary of our 2019-2021 stakeholder report.

Mozambique Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report 2022 (data collection 2019)

Explore the data in Mozambique's Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report.

Mozambique Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) fact sheet 2022 (data collection 2019)

An overview of data found in Mozambique's Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report.

Namibia: School-related gender-based violence fact sheet

Data on school-related gender-based violence in Namibia.