Could We? Should We? Build a GBV Prevention Movement

This publication shares reflections by the Gender Based Violence (GBV) Prevention Network, a network of over 260 organisations and individuals across Africa, about the possibilities and challenges of building a GBV prevention movement. The publication explains that during a November 2008 meeting, members of the network met and discussed the development of a GBV prevention movement and the importance of having a feminist approach to GBV prevention. The GBV Prevention Network was tasked to focus their energies in 2009 on movement building and this publication is one of the products that arose out of that task.

The publication discusses the following topics:

• Beginning the dialogue: What is a movement?
• Who makes a movement?
• Unpacking the ‘Personal is Political’
• How does one become politicised?
• Hot debate: Is there a GBV prevention movement in the Horn, East, and Southern Africa?
• Who is or should be in the GBV prevention movement?
• How can the GBV Prevention Network foster a movement in the region?
• Let's get moving!