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The None in Three project was delivered in India by IDEALISTS Consulting (building on an earlier partnership with the ISDI School of Design and Innovation), Mumbai. The research focuses on the theme of gender bias and how this influences and enables gender-based violence.

The project is completed, but due to COVID-19, game trials in schools were not possible. We are seeking further funding to evaluate the game before making it and the curriculum/facilitator’s guide publicly available – watch this space.

Our goals

To understand the issue

Our research helps us to understand the ways in which gender-based violence is perpetuated through gender bias.

To develop an intervention

We have produced an authentic, interactive computer game, informed by our research, that can identify and eventually change gender bias in young people to help curb gender-based violence.

To have a lasting impact

We have worked with local and national organisations to influence policy and the curriculum. We hope our computer game and teaching materials will be widely adopted, enabling as many young people as possible to benefit from our research.

Our research

Gender bias as an enabler of gender violence

Our research evidence suggests that at the core of gender-based violence is gender bias, as people are socialised from a young age into believing inequality of genders. Gender bias helps facilitate different forms of gender-based violence, and it requires our attention now. We need to create awareness around this issue among young people while they are still forming their attitudes and opinions. In this way we stand a chance of preventing gender bias from becoming ingrained, and protecting future generations from the suffering caused by gender-based violence, which so many experience now as part of their everyday lives.

What?

The None in Three model uses a mixed methods research approach:

We conduct interviews with women survivors of domestic violence, and focus groups with men who believe in inequality of genders and have anti-female bias.
We also conduct large surveys with up to 10,000 young people in schools and other institutions to understand their exposure and attitudes to gender-based violence.
The outcomes from the interviews, focus groups and the large survey will inform the development of an interactive educative game for young people to play.
A teaching resource pack will accompany the game, to ensure players have sufficient time to reflect on the issues and debate the characters’ attitudes and behaviours.
Finally, we use further anonymous surveys to evaluate the impact on young people of the game and associated learning and give benchmarks against which any change delivered by game-play can be measured.

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How?

We work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to understand the important work they do.
We engage with women who are affected by gender-based violence.
We also work closely with schools and with young people, some of whom will act as consultants helping us to develop a realistic and dynamic computer game.

References

Barker, G., Contreras, J.M., Heilman, B., Singh, A.K., Verma, R.K., and Nascimento, M. (2012). Evolving Men: Initial Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES). Washington, D.C.: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Promundo. From https://www.icrw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Evolving-Men-Initial-Results-from-the-International-Men-and-Gender-Equality-Survey-IMAGES-1.pdf

US Aid, Kiawah Trust, Piramal Foundation, Dasra. (2015). Ladies and Gentle Men. Boys and men in India need a new meaning for masculine. From https://www.dasra.org/resource/engaging-men-and-boys-in-women-s-development

Thomson Reuters Foundation. (2018). The world’s most dangerous countries for women. From http://poll2018.trust.org/