📢 Calling researchers working on child health, protection, violence & child rights issues! ⭐️NEW COURSE USING VACS DATA TO IMPROVE VIOLENCE PREVENTION!!⭐️ 👉Apply before 12th April: bit.ly/3JY2z2V #ViolenceIsPreventable #EndViolenceAgainstChildren

🤝🏽 Together for Girls & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have launched a 🆕 online course designed for early career researchers working in #ChildHealth, rights, violence & protection. Participants will learn how to use VACS data & communicate findings. Deadline: 12 April 👉🏾 bit.ly/3G8aQyQ

1⃣ more week to apply for this 🔥 course on VAC "data action" taught by superstars Amiya Bhatia Charles Opondo Jodie Pearlman & co --> open to early career folks 🇨🇴🇨🇮🇸🇻🇭🇳🇰🇪🇱🇸🇲🇩🇲🇿🇳🇦 Pls help share! Together for Girls SVRI London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine togetherforgirls.org/en/vacs-data-c…

We know little about how to best collect #VAC measures in schools Systematic rev of 14 studies shows large variation depending on modality of data collection 👇🏾 Clare Tanton Amiya Bhatia Jodie Pearlman & Devries in BMC h/t SVRI bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Day one of our new course on the VACS with Together for Girls. Lucky to be co-teaching with Charles Opondo and to work with Constanza G Begona Fernandez Jodie Pearlman to bring this to life. Looking forward to learning from our incredible participants!

Gain the skills to conduct & commission technically rigorous & ethical research on various forms of violence against women through London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's short course. Running 6 - 10 November, in London & online. Apply now ✍️ bit.ly/3PCSlbA #VAWG #EndViolence

🚨WEBINAR | From data to action: a course on analyzing & using the VACS for researchers & advocates. Join us to learn how the next generation of child health researchers is using the VACS to help create a safer 🌎for children. Register👇 bit.ly/VACS-course-we…

🚨NEW SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED | From data to action: a course on analyzing & using the VACS for researchers & advocates. Join us to learn how the next generation of child health researchers is using the VACS to help create a safer 🌎for children. Register👇

Reviewing 14 studies on school-related gender-based violence, Center for Global Development experts find: 📋 Reported violence rates differ by survey method 🗣 Anonymous surveys may boost disclosure 📊 The prevalence of violence may be underestimated Read on for details ⬇ bit.ly/47cqMLw

🚀TODAY! | From data to action: a course on analyzing & using the VACS for researchers & advocates. Join us to learn how the next generation of child health researchers uses the VACS to help create a safer 🌍for children. Register 👉bit.ly/405Priq #16DaysOfActivism

💡“Being able to analyse VACS data and generate new evidence based on it meant that I could go back to policymakers and share with them what we'd learned about children’s experiences of violence.” Read this 🆕 blog about the lessons from our VACS course👇 bit.ly/44U0lKI

Learn more about our new course with Together for Girls on using the VACS for program and policy action and read some of the wonderful reflections from our first cohort of participants! bit.ly/44U0lKI

“Inclusive pedagogy is key to shift the power hierarchies that have traditionally determined who gets to ask research questions & who only gets to answer them.” Learn about how pedagogy can ensure researchers' access to data on violence against children👉bit.ly/3xweXUu

We wrote with Together for Girls about the importance of inclusive pedagogy in using data and evidence on violence against children: bit.ly/3xweXUu. Our lessons on the importance of pedagogy in shaping the future of evidence generation to support violence prevention a🧵

Today in the The AfriChild Centre media studio. We are making a free course on the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys. Mathew introduces Section 1 which covers the history of the VACS and lessons from the Uganda VACS.

Excited to share that The AfriChild Centre is collaborating with University of Oxford, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Together for Girls to develop a toolkit for researchers using Violence Against Children Survey data in various contexts. The toolkit will be launched