Research
The 2025 Lesotho Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Indicators Follow-up Study is a nationally representative survey of GBV prevalence, effects, responses, support, and prevention across all ten districts of Lesotho. It is the second in a series of GBV Indicators Studies conducted by Gender Links Lesotho (GLL), building directly on the 2013 baseline study. GLL conducted the study in partnership with the Lesotho Bureau of Statistics (LBOS) and the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Social Development, funded by the European Union through a grant to GLL.
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. Watch the research video.