Tackling VAWG in times of conflict: responding to youth voices from South Sudan

我们的项目旨在提供基于证据的方案建议，以促进南苏丹流离失所的年轻妇女和女孩(10岁至24岁，这是联合国定义的“青年”的上限)实现可持续的复原力。该项目将由一个非常有经验的团队推动和实施，其中包括学者、非政府组织工作人员和发展管理专业人员。我们将专门关注暴力侵害青年妇女和女孩的经历。这项研究将侧重于了解年轻与影响年轻妇女和女孩对暴力的复原力和总体福祉的一系列脆弱性之间的交集。研究过程将使特殊的背景脆弱性能够在最初阶段出现，但我们预测重点将放在一系列因素上，包括性别歧视、断断续续地获得教育和培训、生计、种族主义、文化冲突以及普遍缺乏青年决策权。我们知道，女孩和年轻妇女在冲突时期和冲突造成的流离失所后非常容易受到伤害，然而，在如何设计和实施保护性方案方面，缺乏通过以女孩为中心的办法了解这些易受伤害的情况。这项研究打算在采取这种方法时开发创新的新方法，坚持伦理和保障实践。我们将采取创新的混合方法，将艺术遗产技术与定量和定性调查和采访工具相结合。这将深入了解不同类别的女孩和年轻妇女如何理解和回应她们在流离失所后的危险处境，并将帮助我们同步参与者的声音，为未来提供有意义的信息。我们的项目将有四条线索，这些线索没有严格的时间顺序。线索1：南苏丹流离失所和南苏丹和乌干达人道主义干预的范围研究。这将绘制志愿人员特设工作组领域的相关方案，特别侧重于南苏丹的年轻人。作为这项工作的一部分，该工作组将进行一项详细的系统审查，重点是收集全球证据，说明解决对年轻妇女和女孩的暴力行为的有效办法。在范围研究的基础上，我们将选择一系列已完成的方案并进行项目后评估，以确定哪些方案效果良好，以及在建立对基于性别的暴力的可持续复原力和防止这种暴力方面的关键挑战是什么。这一部分将采用定性和定量相结合的方法。第三部分：专题学习，特别是以艺术为基础的研究方法。我们的主题学习将从艺术和人文领域采取创新的方法组合，旨在捕捉脆弱性的经验。作为一个团队，我们已经设计和使用了这种方法，事实证明，这些方法在敏感情况下很有效，包括南苏丹和其他国家。根据第1、2和3部分的调查结果，我们将在选定的背景下与年轻人合作，设计和实施针对流离失所的年轻妇女和女孩的暴力行为的新干预措施。这将由我们的国际合作计划推动，这是一个经验丰富的国际非政府组织。这项干预很可能在项目结束后继续进行，将受到密切监测，以最大限度地吸取进一步的教训。

Our project aims to deliver evidenced-based programme recommendations to facilitate the achievement of sustainable resilience among displaced young women and girls in South Sudan (10 to age 24, which is the upper limit of the UN definition of 'youth'). The project will be driven and implemented by an extremely experienced team including academics, NGO staff and development management professionals.We will concentrate specifically on the experiences of violence against young women and girls. The research will focus on understanding the intersections between young age and a range of vulnerabilities influencing young women and girls' resilience to violence and general wellbeing. The research process will enable the particular contextual vulnerabilities to emerge during the initial phases, but we predict a focus on a range of factors including cross-cutting issues of gender discrimination, intermittent access to education and training, livelihoods, racism, cultural conflicts and a general lack of youth decision making power. We know that girls and young women are highly vulnerable at times of conflict and post displacement caused by conflict however understanding these vulerabilities through a girl centred approach is lacking in how protective programming is designed and implemtented. This research then intends to develop innovative new methodologies in taking such an approach adhering to ethics and safeguarding practice. We will take an innovative mixed-methods approach, combining art heritage techniques with quantitative and qualitative surveys and interview tools. This will offer a depth of insight into the ways in which varied categories of girls and young women understand and respond to their precarious positions post-displacement, and will help us to synchronise our participants' voices to provide meaningful messages for the future.Our project will have four strands, which are not strictly chronological.Strand 1: Scoping study of South Sudanese displacement and humanitarian interventions in South Sudan and Uganda. This will map relevant programming in the VAWG field, specifically focused on South Sudanese young people. As a part of this work, the strand will implement a detailed Systematic Review focused on drawing out the global evidence on what works to tackle violence against young women and girls.Strand 2: Evaluative learning processes to be implemented. Based on the scoping study we will select a range of completed programmes and conduct post-project evaluations to determine what has worked well, and what the key challenges have been in terms of building sustainable resilience to gender based violence and preventing this violence. Qualitative and quantitative methods will be used for this strand.Strand 3: Thematic learning, drawing specifically on arts-based research methods. Our thematic learning will take an innovative mix of approaches from within the arts and humanities designed to capture experiences of vulnerabilities. As a team we have already designed and used such approaches which have proven to work well in sensitive contexts, including South Sudan and other countries.Strand 4: Design and pilot of new interventions. Based on the findings of strands 1, 2 and 3 we will work with young people in a selected context to design and implement a new intervention to target violence against displaced young women and girls. This will be driven by our Co-I Plan International, a hugely experienced international NGO. The intervention, which is likely to continue past project end, will be monitored closely to maximise further lesson learning.