STRIVE partners, projects, processes and places in visual form.
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STRIVE and SASA! at the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2013
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a global policy making body and functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
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Social Norms Meeting
Social norms theory is garnering increasing attention. What is it? And how might it strengthen interventions and research? To learn about and apply this approach, STRIVE gathered a group of partners and colleagues for three days, 28 to 30 January 2013, at a rather grand (but subsidised) lodge in Windsor Park, outside London. Find information and references on social norms theory from the meeting here.
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STRIVE at AIDS 2012
For STRIVE's official launch, Professor Helen Rees of WRHI engaged in chat-show style with Professor Shalini Bharat (Tata Institute of Social Sciences), Busani Ngcaweni (Office of the Deputy President, South Africa) and Dr Marijke Wijnroks (Netherlands Ambassador for SRHR and HIV/AIDS).
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Parivartan - changing gender norms through sport
Coaches serve as more than just instructors in sports techniques. Because of their position they are often seen by boys as role models. In the Parivartan programme in Mumbai, India, cricket coaches model gender-equitable attitudes and behaviours and communicate positive messages to young male athletes about masculinity and respect for women.
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STRIVE Governance meeting in Mwanza, Tanzania
STRIVE partners, the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) and the Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit (MITU), hosted the consortium's first face-to-face governance meeting in Mwanza. A number of collaborations, seeded here, have gone on to flourish. The group had the opportunity to visit projects in the area around Mwanza, where NIMR and MITU have conducted longitudinal studies for over two decades.
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STRIVE Annual Meeting 2012
STRIVE partners gathered in London in January 2012, sharing experiences and shaping plans.
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STRIVE India site visits
STRIVE partners in India hosted a team from the London School for meetings and site visits. After hosting a presentation on violence research by Lori Heise at their Bangalore offices, the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT) took visitors from London and Delhi to rural Karnataka to meet with sex-worker CBOs and adolescent girls in life-skills classes. The group then travelled to Mumbai to meet teams working with the International Centre for Research on Women (Asia Regional office) on sports-based gender coaching for boys and a school-based gender equality programme.
