The first South-South Institute met in Kampala, Uganda, in April 2013. It brought together survivors, practitioners, academics, students and policy makers, many of them survivors themselves, to focus on conflict-related sexual violence.

It followed the collaboration set up in 2012 between Refugee Law Project (RLP), based at Makerere University in Kampala, and organisations and individuals from New Zealand and Cambodia who worked with male survivors of sexual violence.