Project Overview
Transform Digital Spaces (Transform) is a three-year USAID funded global pilot initiative, which supports practical approaches to preventing, mitigating, and responding to Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence (TFGBV), with a focus on addressing violence experienced by women in politics and public life(WIPPL).
Transform will strengthen individuals’ resilience to TFGBV, institutions’ capacity and commitment to decreasing its prevalence, and equity-focused social norms related to gender and digital citizenship to reduce the negative impact of TFGBV on the lived experience of women in all their diversity, particularly those in politics and public life, LGBTQI+ individuals, and marginalized communities. The program is being piloted in three countries: Kenya, Georgia, and Guatemala.
Transform is an Associate Award (AA) carried out under the Civil Society and Media-Strengthened Together and Advancing in New Directions (CSM-STAND) Leader with Associates Award (LWA).CSM-STAND is a five-year, USAID funded implemented by Pact as the holder of the leader award and IREX as implementing lead.
COVAW has been subgranted by IREX to implement the project in three counties in Kenya, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. The project seeks to enhance protection and justice for survivors of TFGBV through improved systemic responses, increased awareness, skilled law enforcement officers, advanced technology solutions to detect and address TFGBV, and accessible and affordable legal services to survivors of TFGBV.
COVAW specific project objectives include:
- Strengthened systemic response and enforcement to hold perpetrators of online sexual violence accountable.
- Increased awareness and knowledge of WIPPL on reporting of TFGBV cases.
- Equip law enforcement officers with adequate skills and knowledge to effectively admit, investigate and prosecute TFGBV cases
- Assist technology companies in Kenya to better detect and filter online violence despite language barriers.
- Provide affordable legal services, especially for young, grassroots, and marginalized women with intersecting identities.
