Awardees
2018-2019 Awardees
Resistance and Empowerment: Assessing the Feasibility of a Sexual Assault Resistance Program
SOUTH AFRICA
This project will assess the acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of the Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act (EAAA) sexual assault education and resistance program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Study investigators will conduct qualitative research with student and support staff on South African Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) college campuses to assess their experiences with the EAAA intervention and to develop links with colleagues under taking similar work in the region to share tools, methods, approaches, and learning. Key products of this study will include refinement of the EAAA training manual, policy brief on acceptability of EAAA for college students in South Africa, and building of regional knowledge on campus-based gender -based violence prevention efforts through linkages between similar projects in the region and globally.
THE TEAM
MERCILENE MACHISA
Principal Investigator
SAMRC and WITS
PINKY MAHLANGU
Co-Investigator
SAMRC / WITS University
ELIZABETH DARTNALL
SAMRC
MANAGA PILLAY
Co-Investigator
Higher Education & Training, Wellness & Development Centre
RACHEL JEWKES
Co-Investigator
SAMRC / WITS University