Technical and Learning Support to East Africa Partners Working to End Sexual Violence against Children

ICRW in partnership with Pathfinder International -Tanzania, Action Aid-Tanzania, C -SEMA Uganda. As part of institutional strengthening, ICRW provides technical support on program implementation and monitoring, engagement in policy and advocacy at district, national and regional levels.

Key Engagements in the project include:

• Support in strengthening the program’s design and child sexual abuse prevention intervention components
• Technical assistance to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and learning systems and support implementation
• Technical assistance to strengthen documentation and effective research uptake
• Measure the efficacy of the initiatives in reducing child sexual abuse

Building on ICRW’s research and advocacy on child marriage which contributed to child marriage legislation in several contexts, ICRW Africa, advanced work on child sexual abuse (CSA) in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and Western Uganda.

In 2022, ICRW Africa began providing technical assistance to project partners, including Pathfinder International Tanzania, Action Aid Tanzania, Csema, and Western Uganda Bantwana Program (WUBP), to ensure evidence-based CSA prevention programming.

Recognizing that social norms promote silence on CSA in the project areas, the project partners anticipated that breaking long-held practices would be difficult. Addressing CSA in these settings called for contextually relevant solutions.

Consequently, ICRW Africa conducted a social norm mapping exercise to inform research on the social drivers of CSA in Western Uganda and Zanzibar. The mapping exercise assisted program partners in establishing the conceptual foundation for their work.

ICRW Africa and partners co-designed transformative innovations to address CSA in the project areas, bringing the work closer to the community. We also conducted baseline studies prior to intervention implementation in Western Uganda and Zanzibar to inform the evaluation of CSA solutions and answer the ‘what works’ question in preventing child CSA.

Tanzania

Research: Improving the Prevention of and Response to Sexual Violence against Children (SVAC) in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Endline Evaluation Report for the Implementation of KUWAZA III Project

Research report – Download the KUWAZA III Endline Evaluation Report

Infographic – Download the infographic

Uganda

Research: The Prevention of and Response to Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in Western Uganda

Endline Evaluation Report of the Safe in our Hands (SAFE) Curriculum

Research report – Download the SAFE Program CSA prevention Curriculum research report 

Infographic – Download the infographic