SVRI and The Equality Institute

The GSRA presents the results of two years of evidence informed dialogues and discussion, which has drawn on the wisdom of the crowd, to set research priorities for the next five years for fair, effective and relevant research on violence against women in low and middle-income countries.

The GSRA revealed that the top five research questions for the violence against women prevention field are (highest scoring first):

• What types of interventions can effectively prevent multiple forms of violence and why?
• What types of interventions are most effective for preventing intimate partner violence (including "honour"-based violence) against women facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination (including age, poverty, disability, ethnicity, race, sexuality etc.)?
• How are new feminist social movements (e.g. Me too, Ni una menos etc.) and meninist social movements (Men's Rights Activists (MRAs), incels etc) positively or negatively influencing individual, social and policy perspectives related to the experience and perpetration of violence?
• What intervention works to prevent sexual harassment in institutional settings (in-person or online), including in the workplace and educational settings, and why?
• What are the impacts (including disability-related impacts) of under-researched forms of IPV on women and girls, including emotional and economic IPV, revenge porn and honour-based violence?

For the first time the voices of practitioners, activists, and survivors have sat centred alongside academics and other specialists to set a fair, relevant, and effective research agenda in the field of violence prevention for the next five years.

Through the process, the GSRA sought to:

• Identify evidence gaps
• Assist research planning and fundraising
• Serve as an advocacy tool
• Serve as a monitoring tool
• Guide SVRI grant-making

To identify these research priorities, and ensure the process was fair and transparent, a method called CHNRI was adapted, which considers the views of multiple stakeholders, not just technical experts, with all views treated equally without some voices being more dominant than others. It does this by ‘crowd-sourcing’ multiple opinions on an issue, surpassing the ‘expert’ judgement of one person.

The GSRA reveals that there are still major gaps in the violence against women research field. The GSRA provides funders a framework to increase investment in high-quality and ethical research; researchers should use the GSRA to inform their own research agendas; practitioners should use the agenda as a guide for partnerships with researchers on the evaluation of their interventions; and as a field together, the GSRA serves as a powerful advocacy tool to advocate for more and better research funding that addresses critical research gaps in the field.

• Full report: Global shared research agenda for research on violence against women in low and middle-income countries
• Executive Summary: Global shared research agenda for research on violence against women in low and middle-income countries
• Agenda Mondial de Recherche Partagée: Pour une recherche sur la violence à l’égard des femmes dans les pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire
• Agenda de Investigación Compartida Global: Para la investigación de la violencia contra las mujeres en los países de ingresos bajos y medios