GBV Prevention in Southern Africa: Lesotho to join the Social Innovation Lab

By: PfP

Date: 23/02/2024

On January 16th to 18th, GIZ regional programme Partnerships for Prevention of Gender-Based-Violence in Southern Africa (PfP) launched the first workshop of the Social Innovation Lab initiative in Lesotho. A team of stakeholders representing a diverse range of civil society organizations, public and private actors joined the sessions which aimed at kick-starting the process of developing innovative approaches to primary Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention at national and regional level. In global comparison, the southern African region experiences some of the highest rates of GBV, especially Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).

The Social Innovation Lab is a unique platform to bring together change agents from all over Southern Africa in a long-term collaboration process to develop innovative GBV prevention approaches. The participants’ professional background cover policymaking, activism, education, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Their diverse perspectives and expertise are the resource needed to fuel exchange and to generate out-of-the-box solutions to GBV preventions in their own country and in the region as a whole.

The Social innovation Lab, launched in September 2023, already saw the enthusiastic engagement of GBV experts from all over the region, specifically South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe. This first workshop in Maseru served to integrate Lesotho in this innovative regional process, laying the foundations for collaborative research co-designing, and testing of new GBV prevention solutions with the other countries. Given the relevance of this issue in the country, the event was covered by the national TV channel LNBS news.

Here you can watch the news coverage (min 07:55). Link redirects you to an external page.

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GBV Prevention in Southern Africa: Lesotho to join the Social Innovation Lab

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