Applying a Whole School Approach to prevent School-Related Gender- Based Violence: Lessons from Zimbabwe
School-related gender-based violence remains a pervasive and persistent threat to the rights, ability to learn, safety, physical health and emotional wellbeing of learners across the globe. Putting an end to gender based violence in and around schools requires a whole school approach to shift gender attitudes and beliefs which underpin this violence.
This policy note documents the findings of a pilot project to prevent SRGBV in Zimbabwe, applying the whole school minimum standards. The pilot was aligned to the A Whole School Approach to Prevent School-Related Gender-Based Violence: Minimum Standards and Monitoring Framework, and was implemented in ten schools (five primary and five secondary) across two districts in Zimbabwe.