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。该项目将由一个由学者、非政府组织工作人员和发展管理专业人员组成的经验丰富的团队推动和实施。我们将特别关注针对年轻妇女和女孩的暴力经历。该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。研究过程将使特定的背景脆弱性在初始阶段出现，但我们预计将关注一系列因素，包括性别歧视、间歇性获得教育和培训、生计、种族主义、文化冲突和普遍缺乏青年决策权的跨领域问题。我们知道，女孩和年轻妇女在冲突期间和冲突造成的流离失所后非常脆弱，但在如何设计和实施保护性规划方面，缺乏通过以女孩为中心的方法来理解这些脆弱性。然后，本研究打算开发创新的新方法，采取这种方法，坚持道德和保障实践。我们将采用一种创新的混合方法，将艺术遗产技术与定量和定性调查和访谈工具相结合。这将深入了解不同类别的女孩和年轻女性如何理解和应对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。我们的项目将有四个部分，并不是严格按时间顺序排列的。板块1：南苏丹流离失所和人道主义干预南苏丹和乌干达的范围研究。这将绘制妇女和妇女工作组领域的相关方案，特别以南苏丹年轻人为重点。作为这项工作的一部分，该部门将实施一项详细的系统审查，重点是就如何有效解决针对年轻妇女和女童的暴力问题收集全球证据。第二部分：要实施的评估性学习过程。在范围界定研究的基础上，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预防这种暴力方面面临的主要挑战。定性和定量方法将用于这条链。领域3：专题学习，特别借鉴基于艺术的研究方法。我们的专题学习将采用艺术和人文学科内部的创新方法组合，旨在捕捉脆弱性的经验。作为一个团队，我们已经设计并使用了这些方法，这些方法已被证明在包括南苏丹和其他国家在内的敏感环境中效果良好。第四部分：新干预措施的设计和试点。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，设计和实施一项新的干预措施，以消除针对流离失所的年轻妇女和女孩的暴力行为。这将由我们的Co-I Plan International，一个经验丰富的国际非政府组织推动。干预措施可能会在项目结束后继续进行，将受到密切监测，以最大限度地进一步吸取教训。

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.