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Child sexual abuse is preventable. Yet millions of children continue to experience abuse online and offline. We support organisations around the world working to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation to create a safer world where all children can thrive.
Through six priority funding areas, we support organisations that build evidence, prevent sexual violence among adolescents, create safe digital environments, advance safety in competitive sport, advance justice, and strengthen the field.
Where we fund Most of our grant-making supports efforts in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Across the programme, we focus on where we can make the greatest contribution to preventing child sexual abuse and exploitation.
What we fund
Child sexual abuse remains widespread, yet critical gaps in data and knowledge continue to limit prevention efforts. We support research, measurement, and learning to build evidence on what contributes to abuse, what helps prevent it, and how effective approaches can reach more children. Our grant-making aims to support grantees to build insights that strengthen prevention and help more children grow up safe from sexual abuse.
Harmful sexual behaviour among adolescents is one of the most common forms of sexual harm. Our grant-making supports youth leadership, high-quality and actionable data, healthy relationship programmes, digital safety and platform accountability, and narratives that promote positive ways of relating. Through our grant-making, we envision a world where adolescents have relationships that are free from sexual violence and foster connection, wellbeing, and a positive sense of self.
Digital technologies create new opportunities for children, but they can also expose them to risks such as exploitation and child sexual abuse. We support efforts to advance safety by design, prevent and remove child sexual abuse material, and help ensure children’s safety keeps pace with changes online. Our grant-making aims to help create safer digital spaces where children can safely learn, discover, and thrive.
Competitive sport exposes children to heightened risks of sexual and other abuse due to power imbalances, performance pressures, and cultures that often prioritise reputation over safety. We support leadership of survivors and allies, research into what works to promote safety, organisational change, and collective action to strengthen child safety across sport. Our grant-making aims to help make sport an environment where children are safe.
Too many survivors face barriers to justice, and those responsible are not always held to account. We support survivor-centred approaches to remove barriers and ensure children and survivors are protected under the law. Our grant-making aims to strengthen institutions to better serve children and survivors while helping to prevent future abuse.
Sustained investment, stronger connections, and clear communications can help more prevention work thrive. We support efforts to increase investment in prevention, resource survivor-led organisations, strengthen collaboration and shared learning, and build public understanding through consistent, hope-based narratives. Our grant-making aims to build a stronger, more connected field capable of sustaining long-term change.
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Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
Building positive spaces for young men online
Supporting boys and young men is about helping to create the conditions they need to thrive, and to have better mental health, stronger relationships, and a deeper sense of belonging. Learn what LinkU…
Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
Growing Up Safe: how telling a new story can prevent childhood sexual violence
To Zero, a global initiative that supports the community working to end childhood sexual violence, helps organisations reframe how they talk about child protection by replacing fear-based narratives w…
Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
Empowering adolescent girls in Tanzania
Across Tanzania, the Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund partners with community groups to create safe spaces for girls. Through life‑skills education and practical vocational training,…
Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
Breaking the silence around child sexual abuse
People who have experienced sexual abuse on both sides of the Atlantic are finding ways to start conversations about the issue to get the support they need to heal. Read the article to find out more….
Everyone’s Invited: How shared stories can connect, challenge and heal
Everyone’s Invited helps thousands of young people feel heard, supported, and empowered. By creating safe spaces for sharing and learning in schools and communities, it helps young people build heal…
Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
A Vision to Zero: ending child sexual violence
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Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
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If you or someone you care about is a survivor of child sexual abuse and seeking help, please find support on the BRAVE movement’s global resource page: https://www.bravemovement.org/get-help/.
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To Zero, a global initiative that supports the community working to end childhood sexual violence, helps organisations reframe how they talk about child protection by replacing fear-based narratives with stories that highlight solutions and collective action.
Sexual violence against children is a global pandemic. One in five girls and one in 13 boys experience sexual violence. It happens everywhere, and across all socio-economic groups, with devastating and lifelong consequences for individuals, their families, and society. At Oak Foundation, we believe that sexual violence against children is preventable. In this video, we speak to a range of experts from around the world to find out how. This work falls under Oak’s Prevent Child Sexual Abuse (PCSA) programme. You can find out more about the programme by clicking here.
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