More than one third of women worldwide are estimated to have experienced some form of violence in their lifetime. That’s 736 million women. In 2017, the EU and the UN launched the Spotlight Initiative to make a difference.
Six years since its launch, the Spotlight Initiative’s initial phase has been fully implemented in 5 regions through 26 country programmes, 6 regional programmes and 2 programmes with UN Trust Funds. Its success has led to the Initiative being selected as one of the 12 High Impact Initiatives for its impact across all of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Spotlight Initiative’s comprehensive approach to ending violence against women and girls has led to more transformative, sustainable results and important lessons. As Spotlight enters its next phase, the EU continues to support the second phase of Spotlight at both global and country levels, in order to sustain the achievements and knowledge the initiative has built and to scale up efforts against all forms of gender-based violence.
- the EU's international role | international cooperation
- Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (CET)
- Brussels, Belgium
Practical information
- When
- Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (CET)
- Where
- InfoPointBrussels, Belgium
- Languages
- English
- Organisers
- International Partnerships InfoPoint
Description
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, this InfoPoint event has the following objectives:
- to showcase Spotlight Initiative impact and results, based on the Spotlight Initiative Global Final Narrative Progress Report and the Final Evaluation of the Spotlight Initiative, both recently published.
- Highlight the role of women’s rights and other civil society organisations and discuss pathways to strengthen multi-stakeholder partnerships in the fight against gender-based violence.
- to discuss Spotlight’s second phase, its support by the EU through new country programmes, and promising partnerships, such as the recently announced one with the World Bank.
- to present one of the many useful tools to scale up Spotlight Initiative’s impact, the Global Learning Centre, an online resource platform that provides practical and actionable guidance for designing and implementing comprehensive programmes on violence against women and girls in line with the Spotlight Initiative model.
Speakers
- Erica Gerretsen, Director INTPA G, Human Development, Migration, Governance and Peace
- Florence Raes, Director UN Women Brussels office
- Erin Kenny, Deputy Coordinator Spotlight Initiative
- Shamah Bulangis, SI Civil Society Reference Group
- Manuel Contreras Urbina, Global Lead on Gender-Based Violence, World Bank
- Heran Ayele, Capacity Development and Knowledge Management Specialist, SI Secretariat New York
- Amy Bretherton, Spotlight Initiative Secretariat
Language: English
Q&A session languages: English
Registration
Register for onsite participation at the InfoPoint premises
Register for online participation to the Webex meeting (Webex link will be communicated upon registration)
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