{"id":14598,"date":"2021-09-20T19:55:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/?p=14598"},"modified":"2021-09-23T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:07:30","slug":"decentering-the-colonial-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/decentering-the-colonial-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the generation of evidence for prevention of Violence Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14599\" src=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1906\" height=\"1072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-image.png 1906w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-image-450x253.png 450w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-image-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-image-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-image-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1906px) 100vw, 1906px\" \/>Decentring the colonial gaze: conversation on inclusive knowledge and evidence for Violence against Women Prevention in Africa<\/h3>\n<p>On September 09, 2021, the African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF), Raising Voices and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) unveiled an <a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-EVIDENCE-GUIDE.pdf\">Introductory guide<\/a> (also <a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAW-Guide-2021-FRE-.pdf\">available in French<\/a>) for the creation of prevention knowledge and evidence for African women&#8217;s rights organisations in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svri.org\/decolonised-and-inclusive-webinar\">webinar<\/a> themed <em>Decolonised and Inclusive: Reflections on the generation of VAW prevention evidence for African Women\u2019s Rights Organisations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Guide is an extension of the <a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/VAWPrimer.RaisingVoices.AWDF_.English.FINAL_.aug2019.pdf\">Violence Against Women (VAW) Prevention Primer<\/a> (also <a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRIMER-FR.pdf\">available in French<\/a>) produced by Rasing Voices and AWDF in 2019, providing an in-depth look into approaches to generating knowledge and evidence on the prevention of violence against women. It seeks to deconstruct the traditional framing on ownership of knowledge and evidence and prioritises methodologies and processes that centre the voices, needs and expertise of African women and women&#8217;s rights organisations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Post-Webinar-Article.pdf\">Edna Ninsiima and AWDF&#8217;s Dinnah Nabwire reflect on the webinar and on issues arising from the discussions,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Post-Webinar-Article.pdf\">in this article.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Decentring the colonial gaze: conversation on inclusive knowledge and evidence for Violence against Women Prevention in Africa On September 09, 2021, the African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF), Raising Voices and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) unveiled an Introductory guide (also available in French) for the creation of prevention knowledge and evidence for African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-blog-group"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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