Gender Links is undertaking a 2025/26 Lesotho Violence Against Women (VAW) study, an EU-funded follow-up to the 2013 Lesotho VAW baseline study.

This is the second follow-up study after one done in Botswana, which follow baseline studies carried out in those two countries as well as in Mauritius, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles and in the South African provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, which focused on the extent, causes, effects and costs of, and responses to, gender-based violence.

The studies are conducted to support the Southern African Gender Protocol’s goal of ending GBV by 2030 and inform national strategies and action plans. The Voice and Choice Barometer has a chapter that tracks the extent, causes and effects of, and responses to, GBV across the SADC region. Gender Links has carried out a mapping exercise commissioned by the National Prosecution Authority and UNICEF on promising violence prevention models in South Africa at individual, family, community and societal levels.