2025 | UNFPA

Since the publication of the foundational 2021 Making All Spaces Safe report, UNFPA has spearheaded the UN movement to define and address TFGBV, moving the global discourse from awareness to systemic action. Key achievements in 2025 include: 

• In 2025, UNFPA held its Third Global Symposium on TF GBV, under the theme “Intersectional Challenges and Collective Action in a Shifting Digital Age”. This multi-sectoral forum, including member states, private sector tech entities, and feminist technologists aims to harmonize global policy and discourse and is now replicated in several regions (Latin America, Asia Pacific, Africa).
• UNFPA has served as a Lead Coordinator on the Steering Committee and co-manages the Advisory Group for the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse since 2022. As the only multilateral, intergovernmental platform dedicated to TFGBV, it unites 16 member states with civil society to drive innovative solutions and coordinate high-level advocacy across global forums like the G7, AI Summit and CSW.
• UNFPA has participated in the Interagency working group on Gender in the Digital Coalition (GiDC), as well as in the UCL Tech Abuse Conference and RightsCon.
• UNFPA made major progress in 2025 in developing and establishing the Global Response Hub - a platform connecting frontline service providers with cybersecurity and security experts.
• In 2025, UNFPA rolled out the Global Training Package for Frontline Responders - a 13-module package with slide decks, facilitator guides and handouts aimed to equip health, social service, law enforcement, justice officials, educators and other non-specialised sectors with strengthened skills and tools to respond to TFGBV cases. The package has been rolled out to 406 GBV service providers and actors across seven regions and countries, including Arab States, Asia-Pacific, Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia. Participants from three countries (Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Madagascar) implementing the Women at the Centre programme attended the initial global piloting of the package.   
• The MASS programme is supporting Benin and Kenya to revise existing GBV SOPs to integrate TFGBV, and will inform the development of a global Guidance on integrating TFGBV into case management systems under Women at the Centre (WAC), drawing on lessons learned from WAC countries. TFGBV knowledge and skills have been included in the national GBV case management curriculum in Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Indonesia, and Madagascar. The definition has been introduced in Zimbabwe’s curriculum. The WAC programme will additionally develop a global GBV case management curriculum as well as a standard set of global GBV case management forms inclusive of people with disabilities and LGBTIQ+ survivors in 2026 where key competencies on TFGBV will be included.
• UNFPA has engaged a consultant to develop a roadmap for integrating TFGBV into the GBVIMS, which will complement other work in the WAC programme in integrating disability and LGBTIQA+ considerations.
• WAC and MASS countries have established national level Community of Practices (CoPs) where TFGBV is a topic of discussion and technical assistance and tools are provided to support quality case management involving TFGBV, inclusive of marginalized groups.
• Through the WAC programme, the Zimbabwe Country Office is developing the ‘MobiSAFAIDS App’ to enhance the efficiency of GBV referrals. The application is designed to improve survivors' access to critical GBV services by facilitating two-way communication with service providers. The roll-out is scheduled for 2026.
• Following the 2024 global launch of the Safety Showcase: Reimage Gender in Tech with partners FCDO, eSafety, Numun Fund and UNFPA, this initiative continues to spotlight safe, ethical technology designed with gender equality and survivor experiences from inception.
• Under EmpowerED, UNFPA is integrating digital literacy, online safety and healthy relationships into CSE curricula across 10 countries, as well as developing a Digital Redirection Programme for gendered SRHR disinformation, a platform/tool that will divert adolescents from misleading content that reinforces harmful gender norms about masculinity, femininity, relationships, and sexuality to vetted CSE resources.
• UNFPA promoted rights-based law and policy frameworks that are survivor-centred and prioritise platform accountability.In partnership with Derechos Digitales, UNFPA released Guiding principles for law and policy reform to address Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence: Towards a system of accountability at the end of 2025. These principles are based on a comparative analysis of eight global jurisdictions, predominantly from the Global South. UNFPA and UN Women, facilitated by Equality Now, are consolidating two similar documents set to be released in 2026, as well as exploring CSW opportunities.
• UNFPA launched "TFGBV: Considerations Across the Lifecourse" in 2025 with UNICEF and Save the Children, mapping how harm manifests from childhood through older age, emphasizing the need for a life-course approach that reflects the distinct needs of children, adolescents and adults.
• UNFPA supported the development of a global conceptual framework with Save the Children (published in 2025) based on participatory workshops with 219 children across five countries to understand the online-offline continuum of violence.
• Upcoming research includes a Feminist AI Learning Series with briefs designed to equip GBV practitioners with the tools to engage in AI discourse and advocate for Feminist AI governance, as well as the intersection of TFGBV with Extended Reality (XR).
• Since the production of a discussion paper around measurement in 2023, UNFPA has supported several country offices such as Bangladesh and Vanuatu to integrate TFGBV into VAW Prevalence Surveys.
• Together with WHO and UNWOMEN, UNFPA is developing a Guidance note on Measuring Technology-facilitated Violence against Women including a repository of TF-VAW data collection practices and methods.
• Together with WHO and UN Women, UNFPA is a convener of the Global Expert Group meeting on a statistical framework for measuring TFVAW and is currently involved in the development of a TFVAW statistical framework that builds on country-level surveys and small-scale in-depth research.
• Building on pilot programming, UNFPA is currently developing a global measurement framework for TFGBV programming indicators.
• UNFPA ASRO led the regional Training of Trainers (ToT) on TFGBV in Cairo, bringing together 34 participants from 15 countries[1] across multiple sectors. The training significantly increased technical knowledge (from 43% to 84%) and strengthened capacities to respond to GBV across health, psychosocial, legal, and case management services. Building on this progress, the training is cascaded across the region by trained focal points, with replication already initiated in Somalia and Morocco in 2025. Beyond individual capacity gains, the training established a strong foundation for scaling up responses to TFGBV in the region.
• UNFPA ASRO, in partnership with UN Women and UNHCR, led the call for action, Jointly LAS on TFGBV, during the 16 Days of Activism, securing political commitment from LAS to advance coordinated prevention and response measures.

[1] Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, GCC (Oman and Bahrain), Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Libya, Yemen