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45%
- »In Kenya 45% of women between ages 15 – 49 have experienced either physical or sexual violence
- »One in five Kenyan women (21%) has experienced sexual violence
- »Strangers account for only 6% of GBV in Kenya
- Most violence towards women is committed by an intimate partner
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12%
- »12 % of women in Kenya report first sexual encounter as forced against them
- »Most violence is perpetrated in familial relationships where the perpetrator is known to the victim
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21,341
- »Since 2001, GVRC has supported over 21,341 survivors of GBV, being 56% women, 36% girls, 3% men and 5% boys
- »Most violence is perpetrated in familial relationships where the perpetrator is known to the victim
- »Prevention is the key to ending GBV
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Gender Violence Recovery Centre
The Gender Violence Recovery Centre (gvrc) is a non-profit making, non-partisan; charitable trust of the Nairobi Women’s Hospital (NWH) which is a private institution that specialises in obstetrics and gynaecology services and seeks to provide holistic care to women and their families.
GVRC’s main purpose is to bring back meaning to survivor’s lives and their families. We do this through the provision of free medical treatment and psychosocial support to survivors of gender based violence. The medical support given is the basic treatment for survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV) that includes emotional, physical, sexual and psychological abuse.
Rationale for 1 million father’s campaign
90%
- Over 90% of reported perpetrators are men
- GBV is a cross cutting issue, across race, age, economic, education, gender
- Explicit objective of getting one million men to stand in solidarity with women to end GBV
- Men’s primary role in society is to love, care and protect their families
Gender Based Violence(GBV) — What is it?
Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to either men, women or children including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. While women form the bulk of the statistics men and boys have also suffered GBV in different contexts.