• Sustainable Development Goal :5 - Gender Equality
• Gender Equality Marker :Gender Transformative (GEM 3)
• Testing Country :Zambia
• Testing Period :10 months
• Amount :$163,140

The testing project brings together post-secondary students and Elders from Lusaka, Zambia and First Nations, Metis and Inuit youth and Elders from Canada. They are engaged in a community-led discussion and storytelling initiative around gender-based violence (GBV), through a perspective that is both global and local. This empowers people, particularly youth, to examine their own cultural contexts and builds confidence in solutions that are informed by and rooted in Indigenous and traditional knowledge and culture.

Participants are creating, recording and distributing 6 digital stories (podcasts and/ or short videos) on GBV-related themes over a 10-month period.

The digital stories created will be shared widely among Nyapachuma’s networks with Lusaka-based post-secondary institutions as well as with VIDEA’s engaged networks with Indigenous communities across Canada.

Ultimately, the testing project aims to promote understanding and awareness about the root causes of GBV and encourage others speak out against GBV in their families, peer groups, workplaces and academic institutions.