Evidence-Based and Culturally Resonant Solutions to Domestic Violence
Specialising in developing and strengthening community-led, culturally resonant and faith-sensitive responses to domestic violence.
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How we will use the funds
We are raising fund to support the activities of the Institute that aim to further our mission. We promote culturally resonant and faith-informed approaches to domestic violence by strengthening the capacity of community-based domestic violence and abuse (DVA) service providers to deliver and scale out robust and impactful interventions in the UK and internationally. Our planned activities include:
Deliver a series of workshops with VAWG and DVA ‘by and for’ sector organisations to inform UK practice standards and promote more inclusive policy frameworks.
Develop our specialised trainings on cultural and religious sensitivity, localisation and contextualisation and explore digitised learning approaches for organisational capacity building.
Pilot our research translation accelerator initiative for VAWG and DVA organisations to strengthen their capacity in evidence communication and practice standards-setting.
Support IDVRM in Action: Evidence-Based and Culturally Resonant Solutions to Domestic Violence
We are fundraising to support the activities of the Institute of Domestic Violence, Religion & Migration (IDVRM), a recently UK-registered non-profit enterprise that specialises in developing and strengthening community-led, culturally resonant and faith-sensitive responses to domestic violence.
We are a collective of diverse and highly specialised researchers, practitioners and community members with lived experience of domestic violence, migration and social inequalities. We are personally dedicated to decolonising knowledge and structural systems that neglect the needs of racial, ethnic and religious minorities in the UK and internationally.
The Problem We Address: A Silent Epidemic Amplified by Inequalities
Domestic violence, or violence perpetrated by intimate partners and family relatives, affects millions of people around the world. In England and Wales alone, in 2023-2024, 1.61 million women and 712,000 men were victims of domestic abuse (ONS, 2024).
Domestic violence is a global crisis, but for survivors in ethnic minority, religious and migrant communities, finding culturally resonant and effective support is often a struggle. Existing services frequently fail to account for the cultural, religious and migration factors that affect experiences of domestic abuse and help-seeking options. This oversight is significant: in 2020, 280 million people were international migrants, with Europe and Asia hosting roughly 61% of this population (IOM, 2024) and about 85.6% of the world’s population adhered to a religious tradition (Statista, 2025).
Structural and funding inequalities perpetuate knowledge and information asymmetries that hinder culturally resonant and community-led responses. At IDVRM, these are the voices we aim to amplify and the gap we aim to fill: by being a bridge between policy, practice and lived experience and by supporting grassroots service providers to build capacity and research-based approaches to scalable and sustainable impact.
Our Founder’s Story in her own words
”After spending five years in academia leading impact-oriented research on gender abuses and domestic violence, I set up IDVRM to work directly with service providers and communities on the ground. My dedication to this work is deeply personal: I was born in Moldova but was raised by immigrant parents in financially insecure conditions in Greece, where I experienced the stresses of migration and domestic violence first-hand and witnessed the impact of structural inequalities.
Over the past 15 years, I have combined lived experience with novel and rigorous interdisciplinary scholarship in local communities from Senegal to Ethiopia to the UK—including serving as a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and leading the ~£1.8 million Project dldl/ድልድል at SOAS, University of London—to diversify and equalise responses to domestic violence across wealthy and less wealthy communities and societies and to highlight a critical reality: without contextual understanding, we cannot effectively support survivors from religious, ethnic minority and migrant communities.
IDVRM was founded to bridge this gap to promote the Project dldl/ድልድል Model of co-creating evidence-based, culturally resonant and faith-sensitive solutions with communities, free from bureaucratic barriers, ensuring that interventions are informed both by robust research and communities’ own lived experience.”
Be Part of our Decolonial Effort!
Your support enables us to challenge dominant paradigms, address structural inequalities and help more community-based organisations continue to provide culturally resonant and faith-sensitive, vital support to those most often overlooked. Join IDVRM in building a world where survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their background, can find the support they need to exit abusive situations and thrive.
