All: About the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys
How can we keep kids safe with only $0.09 of U.S. foreign assistance budgeted towards child wellbeing?
To ensure the continued leadership and influence of the U.S. in the prevention of and response to violence against children globally, we are requesting at least $10million in funding to support VACS directed by CDC to meet the demand across a more comprehensive geographic range of implementation relevant to U.S. foreign assistance priorities.
- 26th September 2024
How a decade of data is leading solutions to keep children safe
Change is possible, and violence is preventable. By implementing evidence-based policies and targeted interventions we can end violence against children.
- 19th April 2024
"Safe to learn" essay collection: The role data and research play in ending violence in schools
The “Safe to learn” initiative published a collection of essays that examine and tackle the causes of different forms of violence in and around schools. This essay is authored by Dr. Daniela Ligiero, Executive Director & CEO of Together for Girls.
- 30th June 2022
Gender norms, education, and violence against girls and women: Lessons from Côte d’Ivoire
For decades, advocates and researchers have stressed the need to collect more data on both violence against children and violence against women and have pushed to make sure data is disaggregated by sex, age and geography.
- 27th September 2021
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Building the evidence base: AidData’s deep-dive analysis of Zambian school-related gender-based violence
High-quality, disaggregated data on school-related gender-based violence is essential to help drive effective policies and programs for prevention and response.
- 21st September 2021
Pioneering the prevention of violence against children in Uganda
In 2015, Uganda’s commitment to implementing the Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS) was motivated by limited pre-existing nationwide data on the prevalence and magnitude of violence against children.
- 26th July 2021
Data-driven advocacy for safe and gender equitable schools
“Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts” was the 2021 conference theme for the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). CIES is dedicated to increasing understanding of educational issues, trends, and policies through comparative, intercultural, and international perspectives.
- 21st May 2021
Top 10 things you should know about the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS)
Ashleigh Howard — a global health epidemiologist with expertise in violence and HIV — shares her top 10 things you should know about the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys.
- 24th October 2019
A look back at the first Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) in Eswatini
Launched in 2007, the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys in Eswatini was the first of its kind and a prototype for surveys to come, focused on sexual, physical, and emotional violence against girls and young women.
- 7th October 2019
Ringing in a new decade with the New York Stock Exchange opening bell
Together for Girls rang the the New York Stock Exchange opening bell on September 16, to celebrate a decade of partnership.
- 16th September 2019
Lessons learned from the Together for Girls Partnership in Tanzania
Together for Girls released a new case study highlighting groundbreaking country-led action to end violence against children and youth from a decade of the partnership’s collective work in Tanzania.
- 18th July 2019
Strength in numbers: Working together to end violence against children and women
On September 21, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) launched an historic global, multi-year initiative focused on eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) – the Spotlight Initiative.
- 22nd December 2017