Section 4: Using VACS data for programs, policy & research
4.4 Geospatial patterns of violence against adolescent girls & young women in Namibia
Welcome to Section 4.4 Geospatial patterns of violence against adolescent girls & young women in Namibia!
Tobias Shinyemba, University of Namibia and PhD Candidate at Birkbeck & LSHTM
Tobias takes you through geospatial patterns of sexual violence (SV) experienced by adolescent girls and women (13-24 years) using the VACS in Namibia.
He discusses the geographical distribution of the prevalence of SV, identifying areas of high and low prevalence, and examining how area-level risk factors for SV vary across geographic units using the VACS in Namibia.
Learn more about the Namibia VACS
- Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, Namibia Statistics Agency and International Training and Education Center for Health at the University of Washington. Violence Against Children and Youth in Namibia: Findings from the Violence Against Children and Youth Survey, 2019 (Full Report). Windhoek, Namibia: Government of the Republic of Namibia, 2020.
- Shinyemba, T.W., et al. (2024) Application of geospatial analysis in health research: A systematic review of methodological aspects of studies on violence against children and young people. Child Abuse & Neglect, 151: 106730. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106730
Explore Section 4:
- 4.1 Reporting & communicating data on violence
- 4.2 Violence against children, self-harm, and suicidal behaviors
- 4.3 VACS for advocacy: Child policy in Uganda
- 4.4 Geospatial patterns of violence against adolescent girls & young women in Namibia
- 4.5 VACS informing national policy in Colombia
- 4.6 Strategic application of VACS findings in LVCT Health's programming
- 4.7 Concluding the LearnVACS course!
