Solutions

These case studies spotlight the solutions featured in our evidence review and practice-based knowledge guidance framework. They highlight what works to prevent and respond to childhood sexual violence in low- and middle-income countries. 

This is not a comprehensive list of solutions. New case studies are added monthly.

Practice-based knowledge

Brave Movement

A global, survivor-led movement defining accountability and assessing government action on childhood sexual violence.

  • Global

Practice-based knowledge

Chile Red de Sobrevivientes

Red de Sobrevivientes de Abuso Sexual Eclesiástico de Chile

In Chile, survivors of clergy sexual abuse used practice-based knowledge grounded in lived expertise to document systemic patterns of childhood sexual violence within the Catholic Church.

  • Chile

Practice-based knowledge

SASA Raising Voices

SASA! Together

A community mobilisation approach to prevent violence against women by transforming power imbalances between women and men.

  • Uganda

Practice-based knowledge

Butterfly mailbox

Butterfly Mailboxes

Survivor-led  practice-based knowledge drove the creation of a confidential disclosure mechanism for children. Designed to overcome the barriers children face in reporting abuse it has now expanded nationally and internationally.

  • France

Practice-based knowledge

LDHR Syria

Lawyers and Doctors for Human Rights

Patterns of sexual slavery and undocumented harm against children in detention in Syria was successfully revealed through medical documentation, legal investigation, and psychosocial practice insight.

  • Syria

Evidence-based solution

End School Related Gender Based Violence Program Sierra Leone

End School-Related Gender-Based Violence program

Preventing school-related gender-based violence through life skills training for students and capacity building for teachers and school leaders in 200 schools in the Kenema and Kono districts, Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone

Practice-based knowledge

Safer adults

Safe(r) Adults

Knowing the signs of childhood sexual violence is not enough to ensure action. Safe(r) Adults built on years of practice-based knowledge into a 12-week program for readiness through experiential learning, emotional skills, and relational confidence.

  • Global

Practice-based knowledge

Oficina de Defensoría de los Derechos de la Infancia A.C.

Oficina de Defensoría de los Derechos de la Infancia (ODI)

ODI has built a robust body of practice-based knowledge, drawing national attention to hidden patterns of harm in schools, and exposing systemic failures in school-based childhood sexual violence.

  • Mexico

Practice-based knowledge

Kuwaza project

KUWAZA III

The KUWAZA III project in Zanzibar shows how prevention strategies can be strengthened when informed by practitioners, religious leaders, and communities. Practice-based knowledge from frontline work and faith-linked settings shaped a prevention toolkit that helped families and communities protect children.

  • Zanzibar, Tanzania

Evidence-based solution

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Mi Sol

Improving knowledge and skills for preventing sexual violence among 5th-grade students, parents and caregivers, and strengthened emotional expression, body awareness, and self-esteem in children.

  • Perú

Evidence-based solution

Safe Schools for Teens, The Philippines

Safe Schools for Teens

Improving knowledge and behaviors related to identifying, disclosing and reporting child sexual abuse among teachers and students, and using mindfulness techniques to improve emotional regulation to prevent peer dating violence.

  • Republic of the Philippines

Evidence-based solution

HappyToto Digital Game

A mobile-based digital game designed to provide culturally sensitive childhood sexual abuse prevention education for children aged 3 to 5 in Tanzania.

  • Tanzania
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