Call for Papers and Presenters! East and Southern Africa Regional Symposium on Male and Child Adolescent Survivors of GBV: Service Delivery and Prevention Perspectives

Members of the Regional GBV Working Group for East and Southern Africa are pleased to share that we will be hosting a regional Symposium on Male Child and Adolescent Survivors of Gender-Based Violence with a focus on Service Delivery and Prevention.  

The event is being co-hosted by the following member organizations: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, UNHCR, Plan International, Population Council, Canadian Grains Bank and ECPAT International.

This Symposium will bring together practitioners/GBV frontline workers, researchers, academicians and policy makers who are leading, researching, engaging with and/or implementing programmes relevant to the thematic focus of the symposium. The event will feature key note speakers/experts from various organizations working on related thematic areas. 

DATE: Tuesday 26th September 2023.

TIME: From 9:00am-5:00pm East Africa time.

MODE OF DELIVERY: The Symposium will be virtual through an online platform. English will be the main language of engagement with potential for concurrent translation in French and/or Arabic.

INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE SPEAKERS: 

Please contact Christine Apio: chapio@unfpa.org; George Odwe: godwe@popcouncil.org OR Camilla Jones: annualmeeting2023@alliancecpha.org should you have any further question or need of clarification.

Please submit your proposal by Friday 18th August, outlining what you plan to share in your 15–20-minute session, and how and how you meet the following criteria. Please use no more than 2 pages in 11 pt font. 

Below are the criteria that shall be used by the selection committee to review, vet and select proposed presentations.

• Relevance to the meeting theme / sub-themes / additional interesting themes.
• Usefulness: GBV and Child Protection actors and wider humanitarian and development actors can benefit from the gap in knowledge that the session addresses.
• Clarity and presentation: The proposal clearly describes key messages and outcomes of the session are clearly described.
• Desirable: The proposal clearly articulates challenges and lessons learned that are frank and insightful and provide relevant learnings.
• Interactiveness: The proposal clearly describes the methodologies to make the session engaging and/or interactive.
• The proposal mentions the target audience and how to reach out to them.  
• Desirable: The proposal includes/provides a strong example from a women-led, youth-led or national / local organisations.

Find more information in the Concept Note below!