RFP/SGBV/2506/42 Conduct a Pilot Research on SGBV among University Youth in SL

UNDP seeks to strengthen justice sector response to addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women, girls, and gender minorities, through its project titled “Ensuring Justice for Victim-Survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Sri Lanka”. The project envisions empowering women, girls, and gender minorities, including victim survivors of SGBV. It facilitates them to access justice, and demand better service delivery. Also, the project works on capacitating the institutions to deliver services through a whole-of-sector approach.

Under the prevention pillar of this project, the project aims to do targeted awareness programmes with specific vulnerable groups with the aim of deterring offenders and spreading awareness on the rights and entitlements of victims/survivors of SGBV. To this end, this intervention seeks to engage in a discourse with university students on the structural and systemic nature of such violence. There is a lack of actionable data and qualitative information about/status of SGBV experiences by young populations – particularly those at risk due to being in spaces where SGBV is prevalent or due to sexual orientation, identity or preference – from having safe spaces to share their experiences, voice their concerns or find empathetic mechanisms to receive support. Similarly, there is a lack of understanding about the systemic and structural nature of gender norms, attitudes, practices and behaviour by service providers and institutions which become barriers to creating a conducive environment for SGBV prevention and pathways to justice claims. The selections of university spaces for this intervention allows for accessing youth populations from ethno-religious, socio-economic, geographically diverse groups can be found in a controlled environment and safe space. 

  Objective;

This intervention seeks to address the prevalence and systemic silencing of SGBV through a pilot study that explores the experiences of university-age youth, with a particular focus on the barriers to justice and service delivery for survivors. The following are the specific objectives of this intervention: 

Objective 1: To conduct a research study on the prevalence of SGBV among university students and identify the structural barriers and socio-cultural challenges in creating safer spaces for victim-survivors

Objective 2: To engage university-age youth groups in creating awareness of the SGBV landscape through exhibitions and facilitated discussions based on the oral histories of women’s experiences with SGBV

Objective 3: To capacitate a minimum of 75 university students (25 per university), particularly in social work, public health, law, and psychology, with the tools to effectively engage in SGBV prevention, enhance service delivery, and create safer spaces for justice.

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