Pathways to prevention: Everyone, let’s get to work!

In this episode, we will hear from civil society organizations (CSOs) on how they empower women to lead and motivate adolescent girls to tackle new challenges to prevent violence against women and girls.
Pathways to prevention: Everyone, let’s get to work!

Pathways to prevention: How to engage faith and spirituality around violence?

Faith based and traditional actors are increasingly recognized as key to preventing violence. They can promote beliefs, norms and practices that can inhibit or enable prevention. In this podcast you will find out more from different types of civil society organizations on how to work effectively together with them.
Pathways to prevention: How to engage faith and spirituality around violence?

Pathways to prevention: Understanding the value of practice-based knowledge

Relying on the voices and practice-based knowledge of many civil society and women’s rights organizations funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) over the years, the 8 episodes introduce and explore the 10 pathways to prevent violence against women and girls that were identified in the Learning from practice series.
Pathways to prevention: Understanding the value of practice-based knowledge

Pathways to prevention: Welcome to pathways to prevention!

Relying on the voices and practice-based knowledge of many civil society and women’s rights organizations funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) over the years, the 8 episodes introduce and explore the 10 pathways to prevent violence against women and girls that were identified in the Learning from practice series.
Pathways to prevention: Welcome to pathways to prevention!

Leadership and political participation

From the local to the global level, women’s leadership and political participation are restricted. Women are underrepresented as voters, as well as in leading positions, whether in elected office, the civil service, the private sector or academia. This occurs despite their proven abilities as leaders and agents of change, and their right to participate equally in democratic governance.

Leadership and political participation

Women, Peace and Security

War, violent conflict, terrorism and violent extremism have differential and devastating consequences for women and girls. In the face of this, women are all over the world are leading movements for peace and to rebuild communities, and there is strong evidence suggesting that women’s participation in peace processes contributes to longer, more resilient peace after conflict. Yet, despite this, women remain largely invisible to, and excluded from, peace processes and negotiations.

Women, Peace and Security

Women’s economic empowerment

Investing in women’s economic empowerment sets a direct path towards gender equality, poverty eradication and inclusive economic growth. Women make enormous contributions to economies, whether in businesses, on farms, as entrepreneurs or employees, or by doing unpaid care work at home.

Women’s economic empowerment

Small and mighty: Violence against women and girls in crisis settings

Podcast that explores what prevention of violence looks like in the context of conflict and emergency? How do small women’s rights organizations react and adapt to emerging threats and aggravating factors of violence? How do they keep responding to women and girls’ needs, despite dire circumstances and limited resources?
Small and mighty: Violence against women and girls in crisis settings
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