Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Roundtable #1

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The Safe to Learn Regional Roundtable Series aims to support countries that have expressed leadership and vision in ending violence in and through schools by providing a platform for sharing knowledge, expertise, and tools and for informed peer to peer dialogue, to accelerate progress to ensure all girls and boys in all their diversity are safe to learn.

In June 2022, Safe to Learn held the first in a series of roundtables for Sub-Saharan Africa, to discuss the Safe to Learn Call to Action. Countries in the region focused on the call to action’s fifth pillar: the need to generate and use evidence to end violence in and through school. Fifty (50) delegates from the five countries in Africa that have endorsed the Call to Action – Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, and Uganda – joined the event including representatives from Ministries of Education and of Social Affairs (or equivalent), representatives from national and international civil society organizations, the United Nations, academics, and other partners, as well as senior leaders from Namibia. Representatives from regional offices and Headquarters of Safe to Learn members and sister organizations were also present. 

The roundtable, co-convened by the Safe to Learn Secretariat/End Violence Partnership, the CSO Forum to End Violence against Children, the Global Partnership for Education, UNESCO, and UNICEF, was organized in collaboration with the End Violence Lab at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to the outcome document provided here, a supplement is also available, which provides links to key resources to support the implementation of Call to Action priority 5.