Overview
Research in gender-based violence (GBV) carries profound ethical, safeguarding and power-related risks and safety considerations. When conducted without careful contextualisation, self-reflexivity and trust, it risks reinforcing harm, extractivism and mistrust.
This training aims to equip researchers, practitioners and organisations to design and conduct ethically robust, self-reflexive and trust-based research on GBV in partnership with community stakeholders, drawing on IDVRM’s internationally recognised Project dldl/ድልድል Model®. Grounded in decolonial research principles and tested across diverse cultural, religious and migration contexts, this model can strengthen participants’ capacity to embed safeguarding and Do No Harm principles into research design, implementation and data analysis, develop context-sensitive safeguarding and risk protocols, foster accountable cross-cultural collaboration and navigate productively power inequalities, positionality bias and ethical dilemmas in complex environments.
Our unique value: The course aims to improve organisational practices by promoting and integrating research processes that are ethically robust, non-extractive, and contextually resonant with the conditions of the communities involved.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and apply globally rigorous but also contextually embedded ethical and safeguarding standards in GBV research.
- Develop ethical, safeguarding and risk protocols that protect researchers, participants, researchers and communities from harm, while reducing extractivist research practices.
- Embed survivor-centred and culturally appropriate practices in research design and implementation.
- Recognise and navigate ethical dilemmas, power imbalances and contextual risks in fieldwork.
- (Optional add-on) Develop or refine internal ethics review processes in line with IDVRM’s standards of research integrity, ethics and safeguarding.
Who It’s For
- Monitoring and evaluation specialists working in GBV research and programmes
- Research teams within organisations responding to GBV
- ‘By and for’ and community-based organisations responding to GBV or VAWG
- Local authority research and strategy teams
- Charities and NGOs conducting needs assessments or community research
- Individual researchers, academics and practitioners Individual researchers, academics and practitioners
The course is particularly beneficial for organisations working in cross-cultural, religious, low-income and vulnerable communities, including conflict-affected, post-conflict, displacement and migration contexts.
Format
Delivered as 3-hour online module or 1-day in-person workshop
Example format: 2 x 1.5-hour interactive online modules
Includes case studies, applied exercises and
facilitated discussion
Certificate of completion issued by IDVRM
Price: Half day £400 | Full day £800
T&Cs:
All courses are charged at £200 per 90 minutes, which includes preparation time, trainer fee and internal administrative costs (but please note that this is subject to change based on market competitiveness, internal costs and trainer availability). We recommend that courses should have a duration of at least 3 hours to achieve in-depth analysis, interactivity and learning outcomes.
Courses are delivered online by the IDVRM team and affiliated specialists. The specific trainer/group of trainers can be agreed with the client at the time of curating our services.
All courses are online and limited to 15 participants. It is possible to expand participation and course duration, but this will be reflected in the price to capture additional time of preparation, number of trainers and training duration.
Courses can be delivered in person, but in that case, clients must provide a venue and reasonable travel and accommodation arrangements for the trainer(s). If delivering the course requires international travel, the cost must be covered by the client and sufficient time must be allowed for travel arrangements to be made.
Low-income and charity clients: In line with our decolonial mission, we offer special discounts for charities and organisations working at the grassroots level who are under-funded and work in low-income environments. Please contact us to discuss the possibilities.
