Tavrow Paula, Maderas Nicole M, Evelia Humphries, Kathambi Glory, Obbuyi Albert
Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Dr. S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Dr. S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
BMC Glob Public Health. 2025 May 15;3(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s44263-025-00165-7.
Sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a widespread and under-reported international human rights violation. It is more pernicious than other forms of societal violence because it stigmatizes and marginalizes people. Efforts to address SGBV at African universities have been limited and not comprehensive. Like other campuses, Moi University in Kenya has a serious problem of sexual misconduct. With support from a Kenyan nongovernmental organization and an American university, Moi University launched a pilot project, End Violence on Campus (EVOC), to test a comprehensive and low-cost intervention which was mainly student-led. Activities included establishing an EVOC Club to prevent SGBV, setting up support services, surveying second-year students, and holding student-staff policy dialogues. Although the EVOC Club won a university award and achieved gender equality in membership, the project had numerous challenges. Key lessons learned were as follows: (1) Student organizations need structured tools and support; (2) offering active bystander training and warnings to incoming students are essential; (3) while male students were the main perpetrators, food-insecure students are the most vulnerable to harassment from adults, such as lecturers; (4) monitoring via extensive annual surveys was cumbersome; and (5) achieving lasting change in survivor services required oversight and integration into existing structures. These lessons and other best practices informed the development of the Reduce-to-End Violence on Campus (REVOC) Multimedia Toolkit for use at universities in Kenya and elsewhere. The toolkit, a free downloadable resource, provides a step-by-step framework for SGBV project implementation that includes short videos, training curricula, and brief survey instruments.
性暴力和基于性别的暴力（SGBV）是一种普遍存在但报告不足的国际人权侵犯行为。它比其他形式的社会暴力更具危害性，因为它会给人们带来耻辱并使其边缘化。非洲各大学在应对SGBV方面的努力有限且不够全面。与其他校园一样，肯尼亚的莫伊大学存在严重的性行为不端问题。在肯尼亚一个非政府组织和一所美国大学的支持下，莫伊大学启动了一个试点项目“校园终结暴力”（EVOC），以测试一种主要由学生主导的全面且低成本的干预措施。活动包括成立一个EVOC俱乐部以预防SGBV、设立支持服务、对二年级学生进行调查以及举行学生与教职员工的政策对话。尽管EVOC俱乐部获得了学校奖项并在成员构成上实现了性别平等，但该项目仍面临诸多挑战。汲取的主要经验教训如下：（1）学生组织需要结构化的工具和支持；（2）为新生提供积极的旁观者培训和警示至关重要；（3）虽然男学生是主要肇事者，但粮食无保障的学生最容易受到成年人（如讲师）的骚扰；（4）通过广泛的年度调查进行监测很繁琐；（5）要在幸存者服务方面实现持久改变，需要监督并将其纳入现有架构。这些经验教训和其他最佳实践为开发“校园减少到终结暴力”（REVOC）多媒体工具包提供了参考，该工具包供肯尼亚及其他地方的大学使用。该工具包是一个可免费下载的资源，为SGBV项目实施提供了一个循序渐进的框架，其中包括短视频、培训课程和简短的调查工具。
