Sponsor link http://svri.org/what-we-do/research-support/svri-research-grant-2024

Types of projects that may be supported under this grant include:

• Research projects that are either stand-alone projects or a component of a larger project that will guide efforts to effectively address or prevent VAW (violence against women) and VAC (violence against children).
• Qualitative studies exploring the effectiveness and process of creating change with innovative VAW and VAC prevention interventions, or studying the acceptability, impact, and process of change created by interventions that support and assist survivors of VAW and VAC.
• Projects that aim to address the prevention and response to VAW and VAC together or simultaneously, or through a single intervention with distinct elements.
• Projects that aim to understand how to integrate programming for VAW and/or VAC into other sectoral work and or large infrastructure development programmes.
• Projects that develop innovative methods and tools for VAW and/or VAC research.
• Projects that evaluate how to effectively expand tested interventions for preventing and responding to VAW and VAC.
• Secondary analysis of existing data that provides insights into addressing VAW and VAC more effectively and sustainably.
• Research on violence across diverse populations in situations of vulnerability, including but not limited to persons with disabilities, people living with HIV, older persons, indigenous peoples, LGBTQI+ people, refugees, internally displaced persons, and migrants.
• Projects that enhance our understanding of sexual violence against children or adolescents, including research on interventions to prevent such violence and/or support child and adolescent survivors of such violence.