Materials from an Intervention to Prevent School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Katanga Province, DRC

These communication and training materials were developed by C-Change for an intervention to prevent and mitigate school-related, gender-based violence (SRGBV) and implemented in 31 schools in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). C-Change worked with teachers, administrators, parents, and community members to establish policies and structures to discourage SRGBV. The goal was to equip girls and boys ages 10-14 to resist, avoid, and report incidences of SRGBV and receive supportive services. At the same time, the intervention builds the ability of administrators, teachers, SRGBV focal persons in schools, and parents to identify and discourage SRGBV and intervene, if incidences occur.

The materials that emerged from this intervention (some of which are in French and some of which are in English) include codes of conduct, a life skills curriculum for students and a training curriculum for teachers, comic books for SRGBV youth clubs, findings from qualitative and quantitative research that provided the evidence for the intervention, and translated and adapted versions of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Doorways I and III Safe Schools curricula.