Context
In Brazil, technology-facilitated gender-based violence disproportionately affects girls and women—especially in a context where digital access is rapidly expanding. Despite the urgent need for digital literacy and online safety, educators often lack the tools to address these issues in schools.
To help change that, Serenas was invited by the Secretariat for Social Communication of the Presidency of Brazil to develop a course designed to empower teachers with knowledge and strategies to protect girls in digital spaces.
Our work
That’s how “Escolas ON, Violências OFF” Education for Girls’ Online Safety was born—a course created for public school teachers across the country.
Serenas led the content development, implementation, and launch of this online course, which includes written materials and video lessons with accessibility features.
With a total workload of 20 hours, the course is structured in five modules that combine theoretical and practical content on technology-facilitated gender-based violence. It is freely available on the Brazilian National School of Public Administration’s (ENAP) e-learning platform, the Virtual School of Government (EVG).
Impact
government leaders, technical teams, and civil society representatives attended the pre-launch event and became ambassadors of the course.
people enrolled in the course from all Brazilian states and seven other countries.
media stories covered the initiative, including features on federal government outlets, TV Senado, and TV Cultura.
Led by
Serenas
Institutional support
Ministério das Mulheres
Secretaria de Comunicação Social da Presidência da República
Hosted by
Escola Nacional de Administração Pública
Funding
Embaixada do Reino Unido no Brasil
Related Materials
Serenas Team
The full project team is listed in the project credits on the ENAP platform.
Amanda Sadalla
Isabella Santiago
Jade Lopes
Bruna Latrofe
Marjana Borges
Valéria Rezende
Project Partners
Jéssica Tarigo Flores (Designer)
Livia Merlim (Consultora Especialista em VBG)
Mariana Valente (Consultora Especialista em TFGBV)
Thais Galvão (Consultora em Design Instrucional)
Maria Inclusiva (Acessibilidade)
Agência EDN (Audiovisual)