Solutions Index

“Building Safe Futures: Solutions to end childhood sexual violence" is a comprehensive evidence review highlighting what works to prevent and respond to childhood sexual violence in low- and middle-income countries. These case studies spotlight the solutions featured in the evidence review. 

Knowledge Type

Age

Gender

INSPIRE Pillar

Classification

Location

Interventions

Evidence-based solution

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HappyToto Digital Game, Tanzania, 2020

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

  • Tanzania
  • Needs more evidence

Evidence-based solution

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Creating Opportunities through Mentorship, Parental Involvement, and Safe Spaces (COMPASS), Ethiopia, 2015

The COMPASS program was implemented in conflict-affected communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, refugee camps on the Sudan/Ethiopia border, and displaced populations in northwest Pakistan to address the drivers of violence against adolescent girls in humanitarian settings.

  • Ethiopia
  • Pakistan
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Conflicting

Evidence-based solution

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“I Have the Right to Feel Safe,” Ecuador, 2016–2017

“I Have the Right to Feel Safe” is a 10-week school-based program aimed at preventing childhood sexual violence by increasing awareness and teaching self-defense techniques.

  • Ecuador
  • Effective

Evidence-based solution

Screening for Sexual Violence Against Children

A pilot screening program to address the unmet need to connect children who experience sexual violence with response services.

  • Kenya
  • Needs more evidence

Evidence-based solution

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Ujana Salama

A comprehensive social protection package for youth combining economic support with additional training on livelihoods and SRH/HIV, mentoring and productive grants, and linkages to adolescent-friendly SRH/HIV services.

  • Tanzania
  • Promising

Evidence-based solution

Empowering Communities to Protect Children project

The Empowering Communities to Protect Children project aimed to prevent all forms of violence against children, including sexual violence, and to strengthen support and response services for children in two sub-counties in Kitgum District, Uganda.

  • Uganda
  • Promising

Evidence-based solution

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Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA)

"Edutainment" to shift beliefs on harmful gender norms and change behavior to prevent age-disparate transactional sex among hard-to-reach populations.

  • Tanzania
  • Needs more evidence

Evidence-based solution

Empowerment and Livelihood of Adolescents (ELA)

ELA is a youth empowerment program offering safe spaces and mentor-led, community-supported programming. Through a combination of education and economic empowerment, young girls gain the knowledge and tools to overcome barriers and reach their full potential.

  • Uganda
  • Effective

Evidence-based solution

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Victim-Friendly Courts

Victim-Friendly Courts have specialized legal infrastructures and protocols designed to reduce secondary victimization and improve access to justice for all victims and survivors of sexual violence, especially children.

  • Zimbabwe
  • Prudent

Evidence-based solution

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DeafKidz Defenders

The DeafKidz Defenders program uses a play-based EdTech resource with thematic minigames and scenarios to increase children’s ability to recognize and respond to online and offline abuse.

  • South Africa
  • Pakistan
  • Prudent

Evidence-based solution

Model national response

WeProtect Global Alliance Model National Response

The WPGA Model National Response framework equips countries with practical, multi-sectoral strategies to end child sexual exploitation and abuse online.

  • Global
  • Prudent

Evidence-based solution

Parentapp

Parenting for Lifelong Health ‘ParentApp Teen’ Program

ParentApp Teen is a cost-effective digital intervention designed to empower caregivers with positive parenting strategies to prevent and respond to violence against children.

  • Tanzania
  • Effective
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