In 2023, education and gender experts from South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia and Malawi met to exchange ideas on how to end school-related gender-based violence.
In 2025 they met again to discuss their progress: Zambia had finalised and disseminated Child Safeguarding Guidelines for the Education Sector; Uganda had implemented initiatives from policy alignment to training and learner empowerment; South Sudan drove interventions forward despite armed conflict and climate shocks; and Malawi had developed standards for a National Safe Schools Framework.