SVRI 2024-2027 SVRI 2024-2027 The contribution is a second phase of cooperation with SVRI Violence Initiative. SVRI runs a global network of researchers in the area of prevention and elimination of gender based violence. Insatsen innebär en andra fas i samarbetet mellan Sida och Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI). 

Stödet är på 32 MSEK för 4 år (2024­2027).

SVRI driver ett globalt nätverk för forskare, givare och andra aktörer som arbetar med mot könsrelaterat våld i låg­ och medelinkomstländer. 

SVRI är en NGO med sekretariat i Sydafrika, global verksamhet och nästan 8000 medlemmar.

SVRI:s centrala verksamhet är att finansiera forskningsprojekt på nationell nivå och att underlätta lärande och nätverkande inom det tematiska området.

De fördelar 8­-10 forskningsanslag till forskare på landnivå i det globala syd årligen och de som beviljas finansiering erhåller också kapacitetsutvecklingsstöd.

SVRI arrangerar vartannat år en global konferens för att bygga och sprida kunskap runt effektiva sätt att förebygga våld. Vision:

SVRIs vision is a world free from violence against women (VAW), a world free from violence against children (VAC) and other forms of violence stemming from gender inequality.

Mission:
To increase and strengthen action-oriented research and its uptake to improve
and expand effective VAW and VAC prevention and response efforts globally.


Objectives:
Building evidence for change, the SVRI:
- Facilitates the co-creation of VAW and VAC research, practice and policy collaborations for evidence building through SVRI grant making.
- Ensures research addresses research gaps identified by the field, for the field.
- Tests new approaches for evidence building for impact at scale.
- Contributes to systematic evidence building with a particular focus on ending child sexual violence in LMICs.

Empowering evidence builders through capacity strengthening, the SVRI:
- Provides bespoke capacity strengthening and mentoring to SVRI Grantees.
- Provides access to online courses, research methods and tools and datasets.
- Models new approaches for capacity strengthening for research and impact at scale.
- Grows the field for research through its SVRI Mentorship Programme.

Creating collective impact through global exchange and partnerships, the SVRI:
- Hosts the bi-annual SVRI Forum: Connect | Learn | Share.
- Hosts and builds the SVRI Knowledge Hub.
- Is trauma informed and is an advocate for self and collective care.
- Fosters SVRI membership.

Influencing and supporting structural change, the SVRI:
- Engages donors and decision-makers on ethical resourcing and evidence-based decision making.
- Promotes Feminist Funding via the SVRIs ethical funding for research in LMICs toolkit.


Aims (expected outcomes):

SVRI aim to:
- Create a cooperative, nurturing field where information and knowledge are shared and individuals and organisations collaborate effectively with each other, including across fields and disciplines.

- Generate and mobilise more resources and ensure they are used effectively for research and evidence-based practice in LMICs.

- Grow rigorous research and innovations, tested by strong research designs for improved GBV response and prevention in LMICs that are replicated and taken to scale.

- Increase the number of LMIC researchers leading impactful and innovative research on VAW and VAC in LMICs.

- Increase the uptake of research findings among programme managers, funders, and policy makers for more impactful funding, policies, and programming in LMICs and beyond.