Rape Outcry aspires to running many campaigns at educational institutions throughout South Africa. In order to evaluate these campaigns, proper academic research needs to be conducted alongside the campaign to assess whether or not the campaign interventions utilized are getting through to students or not. A pilot-study was conducted at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth in 2007.
Permission to run the pilot campaign was successfully obtained from the NMMU Research Ethics Committee (Human) as well as various other departments at the university. During the 12 week campaign, a set of new posters were displayed on campus every week and questionnaires handed out to NMMU students to monitor their effectiveness.
In 2007, the REC-H of NMMU gave us permission to conduct the campaign for another two years! Thus, we are currently in the process of printing our posters and obtaining adequate funding for our next campaign. If you want to support our cause, please follow the link to our sponsors' page.
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