This conference is about SHARING and LEARNING!

We would like to encourage you to share your experiences and learn from others.

As we progress towards the conference, there will be many stories of human interest, much reflection about your programmes, lessons learnt and best practices that may not be capture in the abstracts that you will submit.  Also, we are aware that not all conference abstracts submitted will possibly be able to be presented given the time limitations of the 3-day conference.  Despite these constraints want to hear your stories, your successes and your reflections. 

This conference  aims to facilitate the development of synergistic relationships between policy makers, researchers, activists and practitioners from Government, academia and civil society in the East, Central and Southern African region.  through facilitating information exchange, sharing experiences and innovative approaches, developing consensus on current gaps and research needs while strengthening practice/service delivery strategies. 

For these goals to be met, there is a need to ensure that the widest possible range of experiences, successes, lessons, best practices and reflections are shared across to these groups of people. 

We invite you to submit your stories to experiences@svconference2008.org.  They will be peer reviewed and as many as possible posted on the website. 

• Date
• Names of authors and institutional affiliations
• Country on which the story is based
• The primary area of work – Sexual Violence Prevention, Service delivery, Rehabilitation or Cross-cutting issues and support services
• The title
• Indicate what you think the story portrays
  • Experiences
  • Reflections
• The story must be NO MORE THAN 3 PAGES written in 1.5 spacing and a font of 11 or more.