Welcome to Section 0: Welcome and overview!

Mathew Amollo, Technical Advisor, Evaluations, AfriChild Centre

Amiya Bhatia, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford

Welcome to LearnVACS! In this video, Mathew and Amiya introduce you to the course and to the team who created the course.

The aim of this course is to support researchers, practitioners, advocates and policymakers to contextualize, analyze, interpret and use the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS). We hope the course will enrich and support a global community of practice to analyze data on violence against children to inform programming and policy.

How to take the course

Watch all the sections or select the ones more relevant to you
Request to download VACS data and documentation. Data is freely available after you create an account
Give us feedback; we provide links to the feedback forms at the end of each session!

Stay informed

Together for Girls - a newsletter ‌to join a growing, global community dedicated to ending violence against children and adolescents.
Net-VAC - a network of early career violence researchers who are interested in exploring how school, household, neighbourhood and community contexts shape experiences of and use of violence as children grow up.
AfriChild – stay in touch with events and updates from the AfriChild Centre.
SVRI – a growing network on research on violence against women and violence against children including researchers, practitioners, donors, activists, and policy makers across the globe. SVRI has a regular newsletter you can sign up for.

Sensitive content

This site contains sensitive content that includes references to sexual violence. Here are some resources for self and collective care as you take this course and learn about violence against children:

Brave Movement, Practicing Self-Care, 2024
Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) provides multiple resources on Wellness, Self and Collective Care and a self-guided course Dare to Care: Wellness, self and collective care for those working in the VAW and VAC fields

Meet the course team

The course was created by researchers in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention in the University of Oxford, AfriChild Uganda, the Child Protection Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Aga Khan University and Together for Girls.

We thank the SDG Impact grant at the University of Oxford for supporting the development of this course.

AfriChild

Timothy Opobo, Executive Director, AfriChild Centre
Mathew Amollo, Technical Advisor, Evaluations, AfriChild Centre
Clare Bangirana, Director, Research and Knowledge Development, AfriChild Centre
Clinton Tumanye, Communications Officer, AfriChild
Pamela Ahereza, Communications Assistant, AfriChild

Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford

Amiya Bhatia, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
Anja Zinke-Allmang, Research Manager, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford

Child Protection Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Jodie Pearlman, Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr. Charles Opondo, Associate Professor of Medical Statistics and Co-Director of the Clinical Trials Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Karen Devries, Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Aga Khan University