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USING EVIDENCE GAP MAPS TO SHARE AND BUILD KNOWLEDGE AROUND

SRGBV

Karla Giuliano Sarr; Gwendolyn Heaner, ECCN CIES 2017

March 6, 2017 USAID ECCN

Overview

• Introduction to ECCN

• What are evidence gap maps?

• What are features of gap maps?

• What do the gap maps tell us about SRGBV?

• Next steps

USAID ECCN

What is ECCN?

• Education in Crisis and Conflict Network (ECCN)

• Community of practice (USAID education staff, IPs, others)

• Promote knowledge generation and sharing among

practitioners, policy makers and researchers

• USAID Education Strategy – Goal 3: Improved equitable access

to education in crisis and conflict affected environments

• Complement to existing networks (INEE)

• 5 year initiative of USAID

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USAID ECCN

ECCN Priority Areas

Make Learning

Safer

Improving EiCC

Programming

Understand and Strive for Equity

Strengthen Local

Institutions

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USAID ECCN

What are evidence gap maps?

Developed by International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)

• Explore the findings and quality of the existing evidence on a

topic, and to facilitate evidence-based decision making

• Provides a graphical display of areas with strong, weak or non-

existent evidence

• Help us to know “what works”

• Helpful to researchers and donors – inform strategic

approach for commissioning and conducting research

• Include impact evaluations and systematic reviews

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For ECCN…

• Created 2 gap maps related to Safer Learning Environments (SLE)

• Internal threats (SRGBV)

• External threats (gang violence, education under attack)

• Environmental threats

• Focus on relationship between interventions and outcomes – do

not suggest causality

• Context-specificity of crisis and conflict environments

• Library

• Audience: practitioners

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Criteria for selection of studies

• Primary research (meta-evaluations of primary research)

on overcoming threats to SLE

• Academic journals

• Implementer/donor/ research organization database

• Google scholar

• Community of practice

• References of existing studies

• Focus: developing countries

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What do gap maps tell us about

SRGBV? Frame of analysis for Internal Threats related to SRGBV: a distinct type of threat that

exists only within a school and as a result of peer-to-peer and teacher-to-student

dynamics, all of which are ultimately linked to gender

Recognizes one part of more broad understanding of what constitutes SRGBV:

– Includes physical, sexual, or psychological violence or abuse that is based on gendered

stereotypes or that targets students on the basis of their sex, sexuality, or gender identities. The

underlying intent of this violence is to reinforce gender roles and perpetuate gender inequalities.

It includes rape, unwanted sexual touching, unwanted sexual comments, corporal punishment,

bullying, and verbal harassment. Unequal power relations between adults and children and

males and females contribute to this violence, which can take place in the school, on school

grounds, going to and from school, or in school dormitories and may be perpetrated by

teachers, students, school personnel or community members. Both girls and boys can be

victims, as well as perpetrators. SRGBV results in sexual, physical, or psychological harm to girls

and boys. (USAID 2014)

What are features of gap maps?

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Features (cont.)



FUTURE WORK FOR MAPPING EVIDENCE

• Expand the universe and add more resources

• Continue to develop gap maps

• Publicize existing research – grey literature

• Practical knowledge / creating pathways for sharing

• Help!! – Share your resources!

• Growing, living resource

• Repository

• Community of Practice

• Join! www.eccnetwork.net


THANK YOU

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