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The GBV Prevention Network is a dynamic group of activists & practitioners committed to preventing GBV in the Horn, East & Southern Africa. #EndVAWG #PreventVAWG #VAWG #EndViolence #GBV #Feminist

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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‼️We are back with Session 3 of our "Embodying our Activism" virtual series to discuss the politics of (dis) embodiment. ‼️ Join us tomorrow for a brave space to share and reflect.🌸 Register for Session 3 via link in bio or here: bit.ly/4fByXZ1 #VirtualSeries #Webinar #EndGBV #PreventVAWG
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🌿Building each other also means supporting each other. 🌼Believing survivors of violence. 🌼Holding violent systems accountable. 🌼Standing with women and girls everywhere. #Solidarity #PreventViolence #EndGBV #BelieveSurvivors
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔗 Read the full framework here: nawi.africa/written-reso...
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Nawi Afrifem Collective
Our name is the Nawi Afrifem Collective. Most who know us, call us Nawi. Nawi is the name of the last known survivor of the N'Nonmiton who died in 1979 at over 100 years old. The N'Nonmiton were a mat...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@thenawicollective.bsky.social's recent publication, Between the Cloud and the Commons: A Pan-African Feminist Framework on the Gig and Platform Economy breaks down how digital economies reproduce old patriarchal and colonial structures under new algorithmic wrappers.
nawi.africa
Nawi Afrifem Collective
Our name is the Nawi Afrifem Collective. Most who know us, call us Nawi. Nawi is the name of the last known survivor of the N'Nonmiton who died in 1979 at over 100 years old. The N'Nonmiton were a mat...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gig platforms sold us the dream of “becoming your own boss” & “flexible hours” But who actually bears the cost when the app shuts down or safety is compromised? Read @thenawicollective.bsky.social's Between the Cloud and the Commons: A Pan-African Feminist Framework on the Gig and Platform Economy
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#September #JessicaHorn #PreventViolence #EndVAWG
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we look forward to the new month (in a few hours), we want to affirm everyone who speaks up against violence and injustice wherever they see/hear about it. Your voice matters. Your work counts. Together, we can, and will end violence against women and girls, everywhere. #Quote
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🗓️ Apply by: 11 October, 2026 📍 Location: [Hybrid / Remote] 🔗 Apply here: careers.womankind.org.uk/jobs/8414558... #FeministJobs #WomensRights #HumanRightsDefenders #ProgrammeManager #PreventGBV
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Programme Manager: Strengthening Activists and Defenders (STAND) - Womankind
ABOUT OUR ORGANISATION Womankind Worldwide is a global women's rights organisation working in partnership with women's rights movements and organisations to transform the lives of women and girls. ...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✨Are you trained or have experience in feminist approaches to MEL, programme management and grantmaking? ✨Do you have experience managing multi-country, donor-funded programmes or consortia throughout the project cycle?
careers.womankind.org.uk
Programme Manager: Strengthening Activists and Defenders (STAND) - Womankind
ABOUT OUR ORGANISATION Womankind Worldwide is a global women's rights organisation working in partnership with women's rights movements and organisations to transform the lives of women and girls. ...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📢Feminist Job Alert: @womankindworldwide.bsky.social is hiring a Programme Manager: Strengthening Activists and Defenders (STAND)! ✨Are you passionate about supporting feminist movements and protecting activists on the frontlines? 📢
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We stand in solidarity with everyone in South Africa to say that Enough is Enough. #StopFemicide #EndVAW #StandWithWomen #RenewOurPower #GBVPreventionNetwork
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌿Our action and advocacy kits for #16DaysOfActivism can be used in several ways. How do you use your copy? ‼️Also note that we have open applications for our 2026 version. 🔗Kindly click the link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sBwrBTJGbM #16Days #ActionandAdvocacyKits #PreventGBV #EndVAWG
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
✨What are you passionate about changing? #EndVAWG #PreventGBV #EndGBV #WangariMaathai
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌿A big part of our work as activists is to undo, and unlearn and bravely create new ways of being, doing and living with one another. ✅Societal norms that are harmful can end. ✅Climate justice can be achieved. ✅Violence against women and girls can end. ✨What are you passionate about changing?
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apply for the 16 Days of Activism Hard Copy Kit and join us in turning collective power into collective action. Thank you for your continued partnership. 📅Applications close on 2nd October 2026 at ⏰11:59 PM EAT. 🔗Apply now: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sBwrBTJGbM
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This #16Days of Activism, we renew our power by coming together, strengthening our collective action, and building momentum to prevent violence against women and girls. Our power grows when we organize, act together, and sustain the movements working towards a world free from violence.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#Feminist #Activist #Opportunity 📢‼️Call for Applications‼️ We are so pleased to announce the call for applications for the #16DaysOfActivism 2026 Advocacy and Action Hard Copy Kits under the regional theme: Renewing Our Power: Collective Action to Prevent VAW🌿. forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sBwrBTJGbM
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"When I witness the resilience of women all over the world, rising above the most difficult situations, I am reminded that I can never give up." - Zawadi Nyong’o #Solidarity #Movement #EndVAWG #EndGBV
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
✨Our gentle weekend reminder, as we all work to create a just future for all, to prioritize rest in our current realities and in our dreaming and work for a just future. 🌿 #EndVAWG #Rest #CollectiveCare #PreventGBV
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
✨Through honest conversations, reflection, and collective practice, we will create space to better understand our emotional experiences, explore what our emotions may be telling us, and consider ways of expressing and responding to them with greater awareness and care. 🔗Register now: bit.ly/4fDmDrg
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 2: Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The GBV Prevention Network and Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) invite you to participate in our upcoming Embody our Activism session. Please join in comfortable clothes that allow you to mo...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
✨As embodying our activism 4 Part series, this session invites activists, advocates, and changemakers to explore how we experience, navigate, and express strong emotions in our personal lives and activism. 📢Have you registered yet? 🔗Register now: bit.ly/4fDmDrg #EmbodyingOurActivism #EndVAWG
bit.ly
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 2: Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The GBV Prevention Network and Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) invite you to participate in our upcoming Embody our Activism session. Please join in comfortable clothes that allow you to mo...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📢 Have you registered yet? bit.ly/4fDmDrg (‼️Session is tomorrow‼️) 📢Tomorrow at 11 AM EAT, join us at the GBV Prevention Network and HaRT for our #VirtualSession on Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions #PreventVAWG #PreventGBV
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here’s how movements can prioritize collective care in the face of backlash: urgentactionfund.org/2025/12/04/k... #Wellbeing #Activists #Backlash #CollectivePowerl #Safety
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🔊Repost from @urgentactionfund.bsky.social Movements are more powerful and sustainable when they have access to resources to tend to activists’ emotional, mental, physical, digital, and spiritual well-being and safety;
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Join us at the GBV Prevention Network and HaRT as we connect, learn, and grow together, building greater capacity to hold our emotions while strengthening our activism from within. Register here: bit.ly/4fDmDrg (❗or via our link in bio❗) #PreventVAWG #PreventGBV #EmbodyingOurActivism #EndVAWG
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 2: Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The GBV Prevention Network and Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) invite you to participate in our upcoming Embody our Activism session. Please join in comfortable clothes that allow you to mo...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
✨Through honest conversations, reflection, and collective practice, we will create space to better understand our emotional experiences, explore what our emotions may be telling us, and consider ways of expressing and responding to them with greater awareness and care.
bit.ly
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 2: Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The GBV Prevention Network and Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) invite you to participate in our upcoming Embody our Activism session. Please join in comfortable clothes that allow you to mo...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔊This Thursday, at 11, live on #Zoom we bring you Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions ✨As part of the embodying our activism series, this session invites activists, advocates & changemakers to explore how we experience, navigate, and express strong emotions in our personal lives & activism.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🌿How do you apply it in your day-to-day life as a feminist activist? #AfricanFeministCharter #EndVAWG #PreventGBV #PreventVAWG
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🌿20 years since the development of the African Feminist Charter... It serves as a guide for African feminist organizing and organizational practice. 🌿How does it impact you in your work as a feminist activist and violence prevention practitioner?
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
- "Losing our imagination is a symptom of trauma. Reclaiming the right to dream the future, is a revolutionary decolonising activity" Adrienne Maree Brown @raising-voices.bsky.social @thesvri.bsky.social @prevention-collaborative.org #FierceImagination #VAWPrevention #EnvisioningTheFuture
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
- Without judgement we lean in to understand what this means to us, the work and our communities - a driving force isn't good or bad. "We only want to give birth to new worlds" Coumba Toure 2/3
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The future of the VAW Prevention eco -system is as open as the history that has evolved into the present moment. We acknowledge the scale of change that has already happened, and is still ahead, we interrogate the driving forces - social, technological, economic, ecological and political. 1/3
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
✨Our hope for the next two days is that we discover new ways of thinking about and approaching both old and emerging challenges, draw strength, and inspiration from the richness of our community and deepen the bonds that connect us. #PreventGBV #EndViolence #FeministConvening
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every moment is an organizing opportunity" - Dolores Huerta. 🌟Day 1 of the Gloval Convening to envision the #future of #VAWPrevention is underway @prevention-collaborative.org @thesvri.bsky.social
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🏵🌸Envisioning the Futute of VAW Prevention: A Global Convening happening on 2-3 September in Nairobi.🏵🌸 A global gathering to reflect on the current challenges in VAW prevention, and how we can collectively re-imagine and prepare for the Future. @prevention-collaborative.org @thesvri.bsky.social
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🌿Check out this resource from @UrgentActionFund that “shares the experiences of more than 100 activists from around the world regarding the sustainability of their activism.” 🪻Access it here: urgentactionfund.org/publication/... #Activist #Feminist #FrontlineWorker #PreventGBV
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What’s the Point of Revolution if We Can’t Dance? – Urgent Action Fund
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🌻Sending warmth, gentleness and healing to everyone, especially activists, frontline workers and organizers. Thank you for believing in and sustaining our collective hopes for a liberated future.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Join us on 10th Sept 11 - 12:30 PM EAT at the GBV Prevention Network and HaRT as we connect, learn, and grow together, building greater capacity to hold our emotions while strengthening our activism from within. Registration: bit.ly/4fDmDrg #Webinar #EmotionalWellbeing #PreventGBV #PreventVAWG
bit.ly
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 2: Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The GBV Prevention Network and Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) invite you to participate in our upcoming Embody our Activism session. Please join in comfortable clothes that allow you to mo...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🌾Through honest conversations, reflection, and collective practice, we will create space to better understand our emotional experiences, explore what our emotions may be telling us, and consider ways of expressing and responding to them with greater awareness and care.
bit.ly
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 2: Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The GBV Prevention Network and Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) invite you to participate in our upcoming Embody our Activism session. Please join in comfortable clothes that allow you to mo...
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🌻Navigating and Expressing Strong Emotions 🪻As part of the Embodying Our Activism 4-Part series, this session invites activists, advocates, and changemakers to explore how we experience, navigate, and express strong emotions in our personal lives and activism.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🌻How do you, as an individual and a collective, manage inter-personal relationships and power? #Feminist #GBVnet #PreventVAWG #Feminism
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Feminist practice does not only apply for external actions. It also applies for our internal organizing, work and politics. 🌻How is your organization building better feminist practice in your work? 🌻How are your internal and personal politics and mindsets changing?
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We encourage applications from qualified consultants and firms with relevant expertise. 💜 #HiringAlert #FeministJobs #ConsultancyOpportunity
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
- and the broader ecosystem of women’s rights actors across the six countries. 📅 Apply here: airtable.com/appHNyMhgTH7... SIHA Network is a regional feminist network working across the Greater Horn of Africa to advance women's rights, equality, protection, and leadership.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This consultancy will generate country-specific and regional evidence on violence against women, and analyse the protection environment for Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs). It will also examine available services and referral pathways, legal and policy frameworks, funding landscapes,-
airtable.com
Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Repost from @sihanetwork.bsky.social 📢Deadline extended to 8th September📢 SIHA Network is looking for a research firm, consortium, or team of consultants to conduct a VAW/CAW Situation Analysis and Ecosystem Mapping across Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A gentle consent reminder for your everyday life. Consent is key in all your relationships (platonic, work, communal and romantic etc). #Consent #PreventVAWG #EndRapeCulture #Relationships
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🌿Sometimes the response that feels like “too much” is actually a protection strategy that once made sense.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🌿The goal isn't to never feel activated, afraid, angry or overwhelmed. 🌿It is developing the capacity to move through different states and return to a sense of connection and safety. 🌿Your nervous system isn't trying to make your life difficult. It's trying to keep you safe.
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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
❤️💛We will share more nuggets from our Webinar. Please stay tuned for more virtual spaces for unlearning and relearning about our wellbeing, collectives and movements.❤️💛 #Regulation #wellbeing #PreventVAWG #Activists
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