Practice-based knowledge
Brave Movement
A global, survivor-led movement defining accountability and assessing government action on childhood sexual violence.
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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.
A global, survivor-led movement defining accountability and assessing government action on childhood sexual violence.
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.
A community mobilisation approach to prevent violence against women by transforming power imbalances between women and men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A mobile-based digital game designed to provide culturally sensitive childhood sexual abuse prevention education for children aged 3 to 5 in Tanzania.