International Development Grant
Sexual Violence Prevention in Kenya Somalia and South Sudan
Project Number: CA-3-P005753001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $3,492,773.00
Start Date: March 22, 2018
End Date: July 31, 2019
Duration: 1.4 years
Project Description
This project aims to reduce sexual violence in Kenya Somalia and South Sudan. The goal is to deliver the Empowerment Transformation Training (ETT) Program which is a successful and rigorously tested rape prevention approach that targets female and male youths in schools and community-based organizations. Project activities include: (1) a needs assessment and curriculum development for South Sudan and Somalia; (2) capacity building for training of trainers; (3) monitoring and evaluation; and (4) ETT curriculum delivery to over 25 000 girls and boys and young women and men (ages 10-22) in designated schools community-based organizations churches and mosques.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved effectiveness of programs and their consistent administration to help prevent sexual and gender-based violence and radicalization; and (2) strengthened community response to sexual violence negative gender stereotypes and radicalization in schools camps and other high risk areas.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved include: (1) the successful design of a randomized control trial in Kenya Somalia and South Sudan; (2) to the best of our knowledge this is the first time that sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention methods have undergone a randomized control trial to test their effectiveness to reduce SGBV in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS); (3) a baseline was established for key indicators in Kenya Somalia and South Sudan to help assess the effectiveness of these prevention methods; (4) in South Sudan the partner adapted their school-based training to develop a community-based approach curriculum. This comes as a response to the growing need to prevent SGBV in the community at large; (5) 113 school teachers were trained in Empowerment Transformation Training (ETT) SGBV prevention in South Sudan; (6) 53 595 boys and girls received ETT on SGBV prevention; and (7) over 12 000 of these beneficiaries are voluntarily participating in the multi-county randomized control trial to better inform a broader community of practice about what works to prevent SGBV in FCAS.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Ujamaa Na Watoto WenyaHaki Initiative
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Foreign Affairs and Trade Gs&Cs