If you would like to submit a question, you can do so by using the website chat feature below, via Facebook Messenger or by using the #JaslikaGBVWebinar hashtag on Twitter. You may also watch the livestream directly on YouTube. You will need an active Gmail email address in order to interact with the YouTube chat feature.
Our team of moderators will monitor all platforms and curate your questions for the Q&A session at the end of the webinar.
When asking a question or commenting, please indicate where you are from (e.g. Sheila from Botswana).
Please review our livestream chat guidelines below.
Event Speakers
Jaslika has convened an international panel of experts to discuss why crisis situations, and pandemics in particular, aggravate gender-based violence, as well as its impacts on children and women.
About
As more and more countries enforce lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19, the rates of sexual and gender-based violence around the world seem to be increasing. Jaslika has convened an international panel of experts to discuss why crisis situations, and pandemics in particular, aggravate gender-based violence, as well as its impacts on children and women. They will also identify good practices in various countries, capacity gaps, needs, and strategies on how to mitigate the impacts.
The four-member panel will include Berhan Taye, a senior policy analyst at Access Now; Dr. Changu Mannathoko, the country managing partner at Joint Minds Consult in Botswana; Justice Martha Koome, a judge in the Kenyan Court of Appeal and the Chair of the National Council on the Administration of Justice (NCAJ) Special Task Force on Children Matters; and Megan O’Donnell, the assistant director of the gender programme and a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development in Washington D.C. The webinar will be moderated by Jaslika’s director, Dr. Sheila P. Wamahiu, a leading expert in education and child rights in East Africa.
This webinar is interactive, so the audience will be able to write-in their questions to the panel members regarding this topic.
Objectives
Reflection on the impact of GBV especially on women and children in times of crisis
Learning on good practices, capacity gaps, needs and strategies on how to mitigate the impacts
Programme
Presentations by key speakers followed by Q&A session.
Livestream Chat Guidelines
While everybody that registers for Jaslika’s live webinar on Gender-Based Violence in Situations of Crisis will be able to watch the live stream on YouTube, only audience members with google email accounts (e.g. jaslika@gmail.com) will be able to ask questions in the YouTube live chat.
Everybody that registered for the webinar will receive a link that will direct them to the live stream on YouTube. Those with google email accounts will have to be logged in in order to participate in the chat. The chat box will appear on the right side of your screen.
For those viewing the webinar on the Jaslika website, you may submit a question or query using the Facebook Messenger bubble available on the website located at the bottom right of the screen. You will need an active Facebook account in order to interact with the plugin. If needed, you may also send a message directly to the Jaslika Consulting Facebook Page.
Twitter users can submit questions and comment by tagging their tweets with the hashtag #JaslikaGBVWebinar.
Our team of moderators will monitor all platforms and curate your questions for the Q&A session at the end of the webinar.
Please note that the livestream is being recorded and selected questions will be read out loud. By joining these webinar sessions, you automatically consent to such recordings. If you do not consent to being recorded, do not pose any questions or comment on the any of the chat platforms.
Here are some guidelines to follow if you choose to use the chat features on any platform:
While we encourage the audience to interact with each other, the primary function of the chat is to facilitate in the understanding of the topic. We therefore urge you to refrain from making comments that do not relate to the topic or to what is being discussed by the panelists.
The chat can also be used to ask technical questions. For example, if you’re having issues with the sound, please feel free to ask about it in the chat. You can also direct your technical questions to hello@jaslika.com. If the problem can realistically be resolved during the course of the webinar, then our team will do what they can to resolve it.
Although questions will be asked after each panelist’s presentation, and then again after all the panelists have spoken, you can still write-in your questions throughout presentations. Your questions will be compiled and passed onto the speakers at question time.
Inappropriate comments will not be tolerated. If you make an inappropriate comment, you will immediately be removed from the chat by our team of moderators. Inappropriate comments include, but are not limited to, personal insults, comments that are tribalist, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist or ableist. Generally speaking, we will not tolerate any comments that blatantly go in the face of Jaslika’s core values of respect and diversity.