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About the course

Enhance your knowledge and abilities in GBViE prevention programming relevant to the context of the Middle East and North Africa. Get to know UNICEF’s Approach to GBViE Prevention. Develop your knowledge, skills and abilities in developing interventions for the prevention of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence and Child Marriage. Discover emerging prevention interventions.


Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe UNICEF’s approach to GBViE prevention.
  • Identify and implement preparedness actions UNICEF country offices can undertake with partners to support design and testing of interventions to prevent:
    • Intimate Partner Violence,
    • Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls, and
    • Child Marriage.
  • Describe emerging approaches to GBV prevention.

Audience

UNICEF staff and partners

Length

This course should take about 45 minutes to complete.  

Methodology

This course teaches participants UNICEF’s approach and emerging approaches to developing prevention programming for some types of GBV – including Sexual Violence (SV), Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Child Marriage (CM). Each topic in the course opens with an introductory slide. The contents that follow contain ‘how-to’s, foundational principles and good practices that lead to effective GBV prevention programming. Participants stay engaged by interacting with information-rich note cards and flip cards. Consider questions that stimulate critical thinking along the way. Discover the determinants of effective programming, consider programme stakeholders and learn the steps involved in preparing prevention programming related to these forms of GBV. Explore examples of programming during ongoing response and early recovery.

The course ends with a ten-question multiple choice quiz. Participants who score 80 per cent or higher receive a certificate of completion. Participants are asked to complete a learner course evaluation.


This course is part of the Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies learning playlist. This is the 11th course in the suggested sequence, although you may complete courses in any order you wish.

Structure

This course is structured into the following topics:

    1.     Introduction to GBV Prevention

    2.     Principles and Practices

    3.     Steps in GBV Prevention Programming

    4.     Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

    5.     Prevention of Sexual Violence

    6.     Prevention of Child Marriage

    7.     Emerging Prevention Interventions

    8.     Completion Quiz

    9.     Summary

Contact details

Content issues and question: Sunita Joergensen (sjoergensen@unicef.org), Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Programme Section, Amman.

For technical issues, please contact the Agora Team at this support request form.