Coordinating efforts to prevent and respond to GBV while protecting survivors around the world.

The VAV Fellowship is an innovative, cross-regional, one-year program that seeks to engage twenty (20) fellows from ten (10) civil-society organizations across two regions, and in up to two different languages (to be determined by the selected fellows). The VAV Fellowship will advance the capacity and global network of community-based organizations combatting gender-based violence. The VAV Fellowship is a project of Vital Voices under Voices Against Violence: The Gender-Based Violence Global Initiative, which seeks to improve protections and access to justice and resources for advocates and survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).

The trainings and cross-regional discussions will be carried out in combination with concurrent small grants of $20,000 – $30,000 USD (the award amount will depend on organizational capacity) for each organization to strengthen their individual and organizational capacity to prevent and respond to gender-based violence. Fellows will have the opportunity to submit a proposal for their grant-funded project once the fellowship is in progress.