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 with stories that highlight solutions and collectiv
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, girls gain the confidence and tools to build inde
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 healthier relationships and safer environments both on
Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
A Vision to Zero: ending child sexual violence
To Zero is an initiative launched in 2023 to speed up progress in ending childhood sexual violence, by working with sector leaders, practitioners, and survivors to envision a better future.
Child sexual abuse is preventable. This fact drives our commitment to end child sexual abuse online and offline. Our partners are survivors, change makers, and researchers working to accelerate action at the community, national, and global levels. There is growing public desire to do more, and we have the knowledge and solutions needed to create a world where all children can thrive.
Our grant-making focuses on bringing together: powerful data and solutions; strong accountability mechanisms; and vibrant leaders, organisations, and movements. We support strategic initiatives and new ideas that build capacity and talent over the long term. To support our partners, we have divided our grant-making into six priority funding areas which overlap and are connected to each other. We strive to work together as a team across these six areas of funding.
Where we fund While we do not have priority countries across the programme, we prioritise some geographies based on where we see the most opportunity. For example, our grant-making under safe digital environments is concentrated in the UK, EU, and USA, while most of grant-making under justice for survivors is currently focused in the Americas.
What we fund
Generating evidence for solutions that work
We support efforts that generate evidence to understand the nature of the problem and the most effective and scalable solutions for different contexts. Preventing child sexual abuse requires multiple strategies that are locally informed, designed, and tested before being scaled up to reach as many children, families, and communities as possible.
Building healthy relationships and supporting families
We support efforts that build healthy relationships, and work with men and boys as leaders and role models. Our grant-making focuses on adolescence and transition to fatherhood, two life course moments where men and boys’ relationships change.
Creating a digital world designed with the safety of children in mind
We support efforts that prioritise the safety and wellbeing of children online. Our grant-making focuses on making technology safe by design and removing child sexual abuse material from digital platforms. Privacy and child safety can co-exist. This is why we support organisations that develop solutions respecting children’s and survivors’ rights to dignity, privacy, and justice. We also support our grantees to share best practices to achieve their goals.
Safeguarding child elite athletes to protect them from harm
We support safeguarding efforts that ensure child elite athletes can safely participate in sports. Our grants also support organisations led by survivors and their allies. Sports must be a safe and enjoyable space for everyone.
Creating environments where survivors feel empowered to come forward
We support efforts that create supportive environments that allow survivors to access justice by eliminating legal barriers and improving practices through research and evidence. We believe that bringing justice to survivors can deter child sexual abuse.
Building a world where survivors and allies are central in preventing child sexual abuse
We support efforts that increase the capacity of survivor-led groups and their allies to share their stories. Including the voices of survivors is crucial to build urgency around preventing child sexual abuse. We support the work of survivor-led groups and their allies across all of our priority funding areas.
Discover our partner stories
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
To Zero is an initiative launched in 2023 to speed up progress in ending childhood sexual violence, by working with sector leaders, practitioners, and survivors to envision a better future….
Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
Raising awareness to empower children in Eastern Europe
Empower Children Foundation provides emergency support to children in Eastern Europe, helps teachers and professionals know how to respond, and runs campaigns to raise public awareness….
Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme/Partner story
Scoring goals for healthy futures
Oak Foundation partner Grassroot Soccer leverages the universal appeal of soccer to reach adolescents, helping them build healthy relationships and more….
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/.
Watch our latest video
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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