FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: SCHOOL-RELATED GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE.

Of those and policies reinforce harmful social norms, perpetuate the who experienced sexual violence, up to 40% of boys and 20% status quo and fail to protect girls and boys from different of girls reported experiencing it at school (Center for Global forms of SRGBV - for example, policies and laws that do not Development, 2023). [...] Reporting, monitoring and accountability MS 1: School principals, teachers, student councils and MS 1: Students have safe and confidential spaces to report parents work together to develop a whole school approach experiences of SRGBV to prevent and respond to SRGBV MS 2: Reporting mechanisms are linked to support systems MS 2: Local entities such as women’s organizations, the police, the judiciary. [...] Incident response MS 1: Key definitions of the different forms of SRGBV are outlined in the code MS 1: Child-centered procedures are in place for responding to the different needs of girls and boys who experience MS 2: The code provides an unambiguous, zero- tolerance SRGBV stance on SRGBV MS 2: Establish referral links with local child protection MS 3: The code emphasizes conduct promoting a posi. [...] Safe and secure physical environments in and MS 1: Teachers have the capacity to identify, respond to, and around schools prevent SRGBV MS 1: Sanitary facilities are safe and secure MS 2: School structures promote women’s leadership and MS 2: Classroom architecture and design is gender- support teachers who experience violence responsive MS 3: Teachers have the skills to use positive and gender- M. [...] Parent engagement MS 2: Student leadership is centralized and girls and boys MS 1: Parents are involved with school in keeping learners equally represented safe MS 3: Healthy peer relationships are promoted and student MS 2: Parents use positive parenting and disciplinary awareness and attitudes about gender norms and SRGBV techniques improve Together we can dismantle harmful social norms and end.