tfn Tech For Us Forum Series: Tech Innovations Addressing SGBV

​Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) continues to be a pervasive issue in Kenya and globally, affecting women, girls, and vulnerable groups across both physical and digital spaces. The rise of technology has created new opportunities; but also new forms of violence. Online harassment, digital surveillance, doxing, non-consensual image sharing, and misinformation disproportionately target women and gender minorities, limiting their freedom of expression, participation, and safety in digital environments.

​Despite growing awareness, there is a disconnect between tech innovation and survivor-centered programming. Many promising digital solutions remain underfunded, fragmented, or disconnected from the realities of SGBV service providers and survivors. Civil society organizations often lack the capacity or access to evaluate, implement, or co-design technological tools suited to their contexts; from a privacy, security and safety by default framework.

​There is an urgent need to bring together the tech ecosystem, SGBV experts, policymakers and government security agencies to identify scalable innovations, strengthen cross-sector collaboration, and ensure that emerging digital solutions center ethics, inclusion, and survivor safety.