Gender Equality Projects
SDG 5: Gender Equality Projects
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SWIM Safe Women in Migration. Strengthen GBV protection for migrant and asylum seeker women
Objectives
• General objective:
-to contribute to the protection of women/girls migrant and asylum seeker victims and at risks of GBV in five countries
• Specific objectives:
• To build capacity of the professionals working in the services to protect and support victims of GBV and apply legislation
• To sensitize and inform women/girls migrant and asylum seeker, victims or at risk of violence, on the access to justice and support
• To design a referral mechanism to enable prompt support to GBV migrant and asylum seekers
Activities
• Implementing capacity building and toolkit for the staff working with women asylum seekers and migrants
• Set up of Information & Access to GBV support services
• Engagement of migrant associations and CSOs to become Focal point
Call to action to diplomatic missions and private sector to stand for protection for women/girls migrant/asylum seekers against GBV
• EU round table with European stakeholder
• National Adaptation of EU Gender Sensitive Reception Condition Charter designing the national referral mechanism to report GBV cases in the reception system
Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• 552 professionals working in the reception system
Objectives
• General objective: to contribute to the protection of women/girls migrant and asylum seeker victims and at risks of GBV in five countries
• Specific objectives:
• To build capacity of the professionals working in the services to protect and support victims of GBV and apply legislation
• To sensitize and inform women/girls migrant and asylum seeker, victims or at risk of violence, on the access to justice and support
• To design a referral mechanism to enable prompt support to GBV migrant and asylum seekers
Activities
• Implementing capacity building and toolkit for the staff working with women asylum seekers and migrants
• Set up of Information & Access to GBV support services
• Engagement of migrant associations and CSOs to become Focal point
Call to action to diplomatic missions and private sector to stand for protection for women/girls migrant/asylum seekers against GBV
• EU round table with European stakeholder
• National Adaptation of EU Gender Sensitive Reception Condition Charter designing the national referral mechanism to report GBV cases in the reception system
Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• 552 professionals working in the reception system
• 300 women/girls migrant and asylum seekers at risk or victims of violence
• 11925 migrant associations
• 120 representatives from diplomatic missions/private sector
• 315 local/national/European authorities
Expected results
• Skills of professionals working in reception and emergency centres improved
• Awareness and access to justice and support system of women/girls at risk or victims of
• GBV increased
• Referral mechanism to ensure prompt access to justice and support for women/girls migrant and asylum seekers victims and at risk of GBV built
Type and number of outputs to be produced
• 1 Sustainability Plan,
• 1 Survey report,
• 2 toolkit for professionals and beneficiaries,
• 7.600 IEC materials,
• 36 training cycle for professionals and beneficiaries,
• 25 workshop for migrants associations,
• 25 letters of commitment from migrants associations,
• 1 EU Charter
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Empowering Women and childrEn in the migrant population to take ACTion against sexual and gender-based violence
810498. Empowering Women and childrEn in the migrant population to take ACTion against sexual and gender-based violence.
REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017. €494765,23 (BE, FR)
PROJECT ABSTRACT – 810498 –WE ACT
Objective:
The overall aim is to combat and prevent sexual and gender-based violence(SGBV)facing child & women migrants and refugees in EU countries (Belgium, France Italy, Croatia & Bulgaria).
The project will result in established/improved protocols, enhanced capacities, and women & children migrants and refugees being informed of their rights and accessing support as SGBVsurvivors. Women & children, incl. unaccompanied minors -UAMs face or are at high risk of SGBV, yet they lack support and are unaware of their rights. Moreover, language/cultural barriers, lack of coordination & capacities, fear of reprisals and apathy of professionals to survivors prevent SGBV detection/reporting.
• To address these issues, the specific aims are:
• Enhance coordination b/w all staff in the reception systems to identify children &women migrants and refugees facing SGBV and integrate them into national systems for SGBV survivors;
• Build capacity of professionals to provide child&womenmigrants and refugees facing SGBV support (medical, psychological, protection) using multi-disciplinary approaches;
• Empower child&womenmigrants&refugeesat risk of SGBV to access support services.
Activities
The activities include coordinating stakeholders & adjusting protocols, study visits, training professionals&culturalmediators inSGBVrelevant themes and outreach towomen&children in the migrant population to address SGBV.
The direct beneficiaries are
• 4075 women&childmigrants/refugees,
• 255 professionals/service providers+100NGOrepresentatives,
• 120 cultural mediators,
• and 170MdM personnel and volunteers.
Indirect beneficiaries are
• 50.000 child&womenmigrants,
• 200 authorities,
• 500 NGOs,
• 50.000 citizens.
The outputs/WP are:
• WP2 (5 SGBVfinding reports, 9 protocols, 24 coordination meetings);
• WP3 (10 study trips, 160 professionals/service providers trained, 120 cultural mediators trained, 1 training handbook);
• WP4 (80workshops, 9 peer support presentations, 20 fieldwork reports).
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Migrant and refugee child-friendly support services in cases of sexual and gender-based violence
809952. Migrant and refugee child-friendly support services in cases of sexual and gender-based violence.
REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017.
Project Title: Migrant and refugee child-friendly support services in cases of sexual and gender-based violence.
Objectives:
To contribute to the development and sustainability of inclusive support services in cases of GBS against girls by Empowering migrant/refugee women as cultural advisors;
Build the capacity of professionals to communicate and address their needs and their families';
Support & promote
intersectional, cross-country cooperation;
Raise awareness about the problem, its consequences and on the provision of support.
Activities:
• Desk research on country specificities ofGVBin relation to migrant/refugee girls.
• FGs migrant women
• White paper on the provision of support services.
• Cultural Advisorcurriculum
• Capacity building programme
• Evaluationroundtables
• Open-source learning platform.
• ToTsmanual.
• ToTsworkshop.
• Cultural advisor workshops.
• Capacity building for professionals
• BASEevaluation
• Transnational cooperation meetings
• Protocols of cooperation with stakeholders
• Lobbyingmeetings
• Disseminationguidelines
• Code ofEthics
• Online platform
• National dissemination events
• Dissemination&Communication reports
• Transnational Conference
Target groups:
Migrant/refugee women (x200); Support service prof (x240); Authorities (x24); General public (x8000); Migrant/refugee girls victims of GBV in all partner countries.
Expected results :
• Inclusive support services and procedures
• Increasedknowledgeandcapacityonmigrant/refugee child-friendly support procedures
• Cooperation & transfer of knowledge in relation to support mechanisms in cases of GBV against migrant/refugee girls
• Empowered migrant/refugee girl victims, women, communities, better informed about GBV and support mechanisms.
Outputs:
White paper 1;
Cultural advisor curriculum 1;
Capacity Building programme 1;
Learning Platform 1;
Online platform 1;
ToT Manual 1;
BASE evaluation 1;
Protocol of Cooperation 1;
Intangible:
FGs Migrant women 16,
FGs stakeholders 16;
Round-table 16;
Transnational Cooperation meeting 2;
ToTs 1;
Cultural advisor workshops 8;
Capacity building workshops 8;
National events 24;
lobbying meetings 16;
Transnational conference 1.
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Preventing SGBV against migrants and strengthening support to victims
GBV-AG-2017.
Project Title: Preventing SGBV against migrants and strengthening support to victims
Coordinator:
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION, Belgium
The PROTECT project will contribute to the coordination and/or adaptation of support services for sexual and gender-based violence to include refugees and migrants (children, women, LGBTQI persons, young men and boys).
Objectives:
• Strengthen and adapt existing national support services for SGBV to coordinate better and include refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers
• Build capacity for professionals who work with/for refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers to identify and address the needs of (potential) victims of SGBV more effectively
• Empower and inform refugees, migrant communities and asylum-seekers of SGBV and its prevention through a regional awareness-raising campaign.
The project will work with State authorities, first responders and service providers as well as refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers.
Activities:
• Regular interagency working group and multidisciplinary stakeholder meetings at national and regionallevels
• Develop/review SOPs or Guidelines on SGBVin the context of migration
• Develop and facilitate capacity-building tools and trainings for professionals on SGBV in the context ofmigration
• Develop a regional SGBVinformation campaign strategy
• Develop and disseminate informational materials and organize information sessions on SGBVfor refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers
Expected results:
• All stakeholders are actively engaged in facilitating unhindered access to support for refugee and migrant (potential) victims of SGBV
• Strengthened capacity of professionals to respond more effectively to SGBV in the context of migration
• Increased awareness of SGBV in the context of migration among refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers
Deliverables:
• Needs assessment mapping exercise per country
• 8 SOPs or guidelines developed/reviewed/contributed to
• Capacity building tools and train the trainer manual developed and piloted
• 129 capacity building trainings held
• 13.200 information packages distributed
• 232 information sessions held
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Building Relationships through Innovative Development of Gender Based Violence Awareness
Project Title:
Building Relationships through Innovative Development of Gender Based Violence Awareness inEurope
Overall objective: To strengthen the statutory response to GBV affecting children &youth on the move in EUcountries
Specific objectives:
• To enhance availability of accurate data on GBV against children & youth on the move;
• To develop knowledge and capacities of care professionals to raise awareness, identify & address specific forms of GBV among children & youth on the move;
• To support & promote multi-agency collaboration & learning on GBV against children & youth on the move through regional community of practice;
• To empower children & youth on the move to build positive relationships, awareness & understanding of GBV & support them to report, prevent, mitigate & address it
Activities
• Data collection;
• Capacity building of professionals & youth through blended learning;
• Regional community of practice through online platform for professionals;
• Awareness-raising campaigns on GBV by children & youth Beneficiaries
o 118 professionals trained;
o 1000 professionals benefit from online learning;
o 60 youth facilitators trained;
• 1000 children &youth on the move;
• 7000 professionals sensitized
Results
• Data on GBV amongst children & youth on the move collected, disseminated & used to inform practical interventions
• Care professionals are able to raise awareness, identify & address GBV due to improved knowledge, attitudes, capacity & practice
• Regional community of practice on GBV amongst children & youth on the move strengthened through increased cooperation & learning between care professionals & greater coordination, sharing & access to resources offered through online platform
• Children & youth on the move have increased awareness & understanding of GBV & are empowered to keep themselves and their peers safe & lead awareness-raising campaigns
Deliverables
• 1 data methodology & tool,
• 1 ToT & workshop,
• training manual,
• e-learning course,
• 1 ToT roll out/country,
• 4 events,
• 120 sessions w/ children,
• 20 campaigns,
• 1 platform with 1000 items,
• thematic package,
• 6 newsletters/webinars,
• 12 case discussions
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Working Along with Key Experts (WAKE)
JUST/2014/SPOB/AG/VICT
1. Objectives
The project aims overall to improve the real, day to day situation of victims of crime to the greatest extent possible and to reduce their discrimination experiences in Cyprus. The specific objectives are the identification of the training needs of the professionals of the relevant government authorities (Ministry of Justice and Public Order, Health, Labour and Social Insurance and Education and Culture) and other practitioners coming into contact with victims of violence and crime and to improve their capabilities through trainings so as to operate in a more respectful, impartial and professional manner. Fostering the exchange of good practices on identification and screening processes of victims and their needs is another objective to be obtained through the proposed project, inaddition to sustaining a network and good working relationships between the involved actors.
2. Activities
The project activities will begin by undertaking desk and field research so as to establish the current situation and system in Cyprus, when dealing with victims of violence and crime. Thereafter, a training seminar for the trainers on issues interlinked with access to justice for victims will be organized and training material will be formulated, including issues linked with victims of domestic violence, victims of sexual abuse, immigrants and trafficking victims etc. Furthermore, the partnership will organize workshops and case studies tailored to the needs identified through the survey, which will be delivered from local experts. The creation of Guidelines and the design of an application for screening victims will be facilitated through the exchange of good practices, while communication material for disseminating the project progress and results will be formulated and social media engagement will be pursued.
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
Although the Victims themselves are the “indirect” target group, the partnership feels is very important to refer to them first, since through the amelioration in the provision of services and the coordination and training of the relevant professionals, effective access to justice for all Victims will be ensured. Furthermore, through the introduction of a more respectful, sensitive and impartial approach on behalf of the first points of contact, the level of support and protection given to victims will be enhanced and safeguarded by the Government. Approximately 9000 victims of crime will benefit from the projects’ results. The direct target group benefiting from the project are key government professionals and other practitioners (200 people) likely to come into contact with victims: a) police officials; b) healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, psychologists etc.); c) social services officers; d) educators and; e) legal servants dealing with these cases; f) NGOs or other organizations dealing with relevant issues.
4. Expected results
The project aims to achieve the following results: the quality of services provided on behalf of government institutions and professionals when dealing with victims of violence and crime to be improved; the education and knowledge of practitioners in the field to be enhanced; access to justice and information provided to all victims to be ensured and safeguarded better by the authorities; to strengthen inter-services cooperation between all relevant Ministries and to exchange good practices that will help in shaping more Victim support based system in Cyprus.
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced
The partnership aims to produce high quality outputs including a Final Report, a Quality Assurance Plan, a training Needs Analysis Report for the professionals coming in contact with victims, training material on various forms of violence and crime (45 chapters) and on how to deal with victims while safeguarding their needs and rights, Guidelines and application for screening the victims, a Dissemination Plan, a Website, communication material and events (3000 project leaflets, 9000 services informative leaflet, 4 press releases, 2 press conferences, 2 banners, 50 posters.
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Targeted Early Victim Needs Assessment and Support
JUST/2014/SPOB/AG/VICT
1. Objectives
• To improve knowledge of the optimal normative and implementation framework of the relevant provisions of the Victims’Directive, and develop recommendations for their improvement in Croatia.
• To develop the tools for early and targeted individual assessment of protection and support needs, and referral protocol of collaboration among all relevant agencies and institutions involved with victims of crime.
2. Activities
• Individualised assessment of victims’ protection and support needs: Research on the current state of relevant regulation and institutional practice
• Civil society organisations’ (CSOs) resources for victim support: Fieldwork research to map the current state and future potential
• Conference on individualized victims’ needs assessment
• Development of individualized needs assessment tools
• Development of referral protocols
• Final Conference
• Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• Members of professional groups involved with victim support and protection, 130
• Victims of crime, indirectly
3. Expected results
6. Improved knowledge of the normative framework and practical implementation of the relevant provisions of the Victims’ Directive, and recommendations for their improvement. The existing regulatory and procedural framework for the implementation of the Directive will be reviewed, in view of identifying good practices, and gaps preventing the full implementation of the Directive. EU best practices will be presented at the conference targeting professional groups and decision-makers. Through comprehensive stakeholder consultations, the recommendations for the improvements of the normative and practical improvements of the current system will be compiled. This will feed into the consequent project activities, but will also serve as the input into the policy process,and will, by allowing the evidence-based decision-making, create benefits for all the professional stakeholders groups and decisionmakers involved with the criminal justice system.
7. Development of tools for early and targeted individual assessment of protection and support needs. Here, the questionnaire for first-line professionals will be developed, to assist them in the assessment of the victims’ individual and specific protection needs, it will be peer-reviewed and pilot tested. This will benefit the institutions with the mandate in providing victim services, but will ultimately benefit indirectly, but substantially, the future victims of crime, by facilitating their early access to protection and support, and by setting standards for it.
8. Advocacy and dissemination of project results carried out. The knowledge products developed under the project will be disseminated widely among the key professional groups and decision-makers, by the use of the combined networks of the participating organizations. The final conference of the project will present the results, recommendations, and tools developed for the benefits of early and targeted victim protection and support, in view of their ultimate incorporation in the national policies and instruments in this area. In addition to the direct and indirect benefits to the target groups described above, the project will, through this, assist in the full harmonization of the national practices with the spirit and the letter of the Victims’ Directive
4. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• Desk review of legislation
• Recommendations for the improvement of regulatory framework and practices
• Report on the results of the survey and interviews with CSO representatives
• Conference on national and EU best practice
• Summary report on the feedback of the piloting of the tool
• Modular tool for individualized assessment of victim’s specific protection and support needs
• Protocols for referral of victims to support and protection services
• Recommendations on protocols for referral
• Final conference
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Professionals in child protection
€332.744,59 – 6 MS (CY, IT, UK, BG, SE, SI) - Professionals in child protection – JUST/2014/RCHI/AP/PROF
http://judex.azurewebsites.net/Activities https://judexstudypack.com/
1. Objectives
• To promote Article 12 of the UNCRC and the CoE Convention on the Protection of children Against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, in relation to the right of the child to be heard and involved in decision making, whether at home, in the general life of the community, at school or in individual legal and administrative matters in cases of sexual violence.
• To improve the child’s experience position when entering the judicial system in cases of sexual violence against children.
• To improve the skills of professionals involved in representing children in judicial proceedings through trainings which take into consideration children’s rights, their developmental needs, and social background in countries where the Lanzarote Convention has recently been ratified.
2. Activities
A1.1 Desk research on country-specific judicial procedures in cases of sexual violence against children.
A1.2 Research on the child’s perspective on judicial procedures in cases of sexual violence; A1.3 Focus Groups with Stakeholders.
A1.4 Country reports.
A1.5 Translation of country reports into English.
A1.6 Interactive Good Practices Map (GP Map).
A1.7 Translation of GP Map into partner countries’ languages
A2.1 Review existing training programmes.
A2.2 Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Methodology.
A2.3 Training the trainers event.
A2.4 Pilot testing with experts on childhood issues (child sexual violence issues).
A2.5 Review of the training materials after pilot implementation.
A2.6 Training study pack.
A2.7 Translation of study pack.
A2.8 Implementation of MCM.
A2.9 Evaluation reports
A3.1 National databases of “interested parties”.
A3.2 Transnational Justice & Rights for Children manual.
A3.3 Translation of JRC manual.
A3.4 Promotional material.
A3.5 Electronic Newsletters.
A3.6 Press releases to all local and national media.
A3.7 Project’s web-link hosted by HFC.
A3.8 National conferences & Award ceremony
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• Children, particularly those in judicial procedures in cases of sexual abuse
• Professionals involved in the legal procedures (240)
• Families of victims
4. Expected results
• Comprehensive mapping of practices in partner countries and usage of the GPMap for future cases of sexual violence against children
• Transversal awareness-raising and multilevel cooperation between governmental bodies, private sector, civil society
• Better trained professionals able to recognize the rights of the children during judicial proceedings
• Harmonized child-friendly methodology and judicial practices in cases of sexual violence against children
• Advocacy of the implementation of the Lanzarote Convention
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced
Tangible:
- Interview guidelines for one-to-one interviews with children who’ve experienced judicial procedures in cases of sexual violence (x1);
- Interview guidelines for FGs with stakeholders (x1);
- Country report on judicial procedures in cases of sexual violence against children, and existing training practices (x6);
- Good Practices Map in cases of sexual violence against children (x1);
- Multidisciplinary training Curriculum and Methodology (MCM) on child-friendly justice in cases of sexual violence against children (x1);
- Study Pack (x1);
- Evaluation report on MCM implementation (x1);
- Transnational Justice & Rights for Children manual (x1);
- Promotional material (brochures 2 pages, x1000 per partner country);
- posters (x 500 per partner country);
- Electronic newsletter (x8);
- Online project information platform;
- Press releases (x3 per partner country).
Intangible:
- Focus Groups with stakeholders (2 sessions of 10 participants per partner country);
- Train the trainers event (1 session of 2 trainers per partner countries);
- MCM pilot testing (1 session, 5 external experts);
- MCM implementation (training program on child friendly justice, 40 participants in Cyprus; 50 in other partner countries);
- MCM Diploma Award ceremony (1per partner country)
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Helping Ourselves Prevent Exploitation (HOPE)
British Institute Of Learning Disabilities - Helping Ourselves Prevent Exploitation (HOPE) - grant €372,620.00 - 3 MS (UK, BE, BG) – JUST/2015/RDAP/AG/MULT
1. Objectives
• To reduce the vulnerability of women and children with intellectual disabilities to sexual exploitation
• To develop peer led accessible learning programmes that promote an understanding of sexual exploitation through exploring good and bad relationships
• To increase the knowledge and confidence of the beneficiaries to recognise, resist and report any sexual exploitation
• To provide learning for professionals about sexual exploitation co-delivered by peers with intellectual disabilities to improve local multidisciplinary responses and cooperation
• To disseminate the results and provide tried and tested resources for replication and roll out.
2. Activities
• Management and coordination of the project
• developing implementation plan
• six project meetings
• monitoring and reporting
• determining and delivering external evaluation
• Developing awareness programmes about sexual exploitation
• draft awareness programme, work book and action plan format developed
• draft learning programme and action plans developed for multidisciplinary professionals
• project team to agree final versions of programmes, workbooks and action plans
• recruiting and training peer mentors
• Raising awareness of sexual exploitation for young people with intellectual disabilities
• Delivering awareness raising workshops
• Ensure that participants are supported to complete their individual workbooks and action plans
• Measuring impact on return visit
• Improving the knowledge and responses of multidisciplinary professionals to sexual exploitation
• Identifying the professionals to invite to the learning workshop
• Delivering the learning workshops
• Ensuring completion and delivery of action plans for individuals and their organisations
• Measuring impact on people’s practice
• Awareness raising, information and dissemination
• Developing the dissemination plan
• Raising awareness of the project and objectives
• Targeted communication activities
• Sharing learning and resources
3. Type and number of persons benefitting from the project
• Peer mentors recruited and trained:
• England – 12 • Bulgaria – 6 • Total – 18
• Young people aged 1425 with intellectual disabilities attending the workshops:
• In England, 36 workshops will be run for a total of 288 young people
• In Bulgaria, 14 workshops will be run for a total of 112 young people
• The total will be50 workshops for a total of 400 young people
• Multidisciplinary professionals attending their learning programme
• In England, 10 workshops will be run for a total of 160 professionals.
• In Bulgaria, 4 workshops will be run for a total of 64 professionals.
• The total will be 14 workshops for a total of 224 professionals
4. Expected results
• Participants with intellectual disabilities will be able to recognise, resist and report any sexual exploitation
• Participants who are professionals will be more skilled at recognising sexual exploitation and will ensure better multidisciplinary cooperation and practice.
• Peer mentors will have developed transferable knowledge and skills in planning and delivering learning programmes
• The resources developed will enable the replication and roll out locally, regionally, nationally and across Europe.
• Type and number of outputs to be produced
• Project conference to share results and findings
• Best practice guide
• Training programme for peer mentors
• Workshop programme, workbook and action plan for people with intellectual disabilities.
• Learning programme for multidisciplinary professionals including action plan.
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Changing Attitudes among teenagers on Cyber Violence againstWomen and Girls – CYBERSAFE
REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017.
Objectives
• Create an evidence-based educational intervention that changes the attitudes of teenagers towards Cyber Violence Against Women & Girls (cyber VAWG), that is applicable to all EU countries
• Create Online Serious Game that supports and extends the in-person intervention
• Address cyber VAWG as a form of violence against women & girls & develop a gender-sensitive approach to prevent it & promote healthy relationships & gender equality online
• Develop & promote innovative experiential & playful tools that facilitate behavioral change among teenagers on cyber VAWG
• Facilitate professionals working with teenagers to run & implement educational prevention programmes on cyber VAWG
Activities
• Coordination, Management & Evaluation
• Specify the framework of Cyber VAWG among teenagers
• Develop Educational Prevention Intervention programme on Cyber VAWG for teenagers
• Assess the efficacy & impact of the developed intervention
• Disseminate project outputs to the wider community to enable replication
Persons benefiting
• 120 Teenagers from GR, EE, UK, IT will participate in focus groups/pre-testing
• 740 Teenagers from GR, EE, UK, IT will participate in the Pilot Interventions
• 45 Professionals working with children from GR, EE, UK, IT will participate in the Pilot Interventions
• 10 anti-violence workers will receive training on how to implement interventions
• min. 15,000 persons from across Europe will be reached through dissemination activites
Expected results
A multifaceted prevention intervention for teenagers in 8 languages that combines offline& online elements with different messengers to educate&change attitudes
Increase capacity of professionals working with children by enabling them to deliver intervention on CyberVAWG
Type & number of deliverables to be produced
• 1 Educational Prevention Programme for teenagers on Cyber VAWG: Online Serious Game & Intervention Guidelines
• 1 Set of Intervention Replication Guidelines
• 1 Project Website
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Sexual Violence – Educational and Prevention Program
REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017
Objectives:
• Prevention of sexual violence against children (SVaC) through educational activities, capacity building, and awareness raising
• To increase capacity of stakeholders and relevant professionals (SrP) to address issues of SVaC, through increased knowledge and strengthened multiagency cooperation
• To develop, implement and assess the impact of SVEP Program
• To reduce risk of SVaC among school students
• To actively involve children in the prevention of SVaC
• To increase awareness about SVaC.
Activities
• Project management and coordination
• Capacity building through increasing knowledge of SrP and strengthening multiagency cooperation
• Development, implementation and impact assessment of SVEP Program and advocacy for ensuring systematic implementation
• Active involvement of school children in the prevention of SVaC
• Raising awareness about SVaC.
Beneficiaries
• Direct 3816 Representatives of SrP 266 School children 3550
• Indirect more than 100000 - General public
Results
• Increased capacity of professionals to recognised and address SVaC
• Increased capacity of SrP to prevent SVaC through strengthened multiagency cooperation
• Effective prevention program for SVaC developed, implemented and assessed
• Reduced risks of SVaC among school children
• 60 trained peer educators carry out prevention activities on SvaC
o Increased awareness on SVaC on general public.
Deliverables
• 1 Training for trainers (36)
• 1 Multidisciplinary meeting (40)
• 1 International conference (80, 1 conf. proceedings)
• 1 SVEP Program –1 desk study, 2 training and 1 meeting of the working group, 36 pilot and 132 workshops for SVEP Program implementation,
• 1 Assessment report of the impact of the implementation of the SVEP Program,
• 1 Manual,
• 3 types of working cards
• 1 presentation of the SVEP Program in EU parliament (50)
• 6 Training for peer educator (60)
• 12 peer activities (60)
• 1 Youth Conference (110, conf. proceedings)
• 1 public campaign (1 radio jingl, Facebook page,1 public event, materials).
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Preventing Gender-Based Violence, the Youth's Outlook
REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017
Objective:
• The overall objective is to contribute to the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) by improving the awareness of young people about all forms of GBV, its causes, consequences and providing tools to prevent, recognize and counter it. This involves tackling and changing sexist attitudes, behaviors, prejudices and stereotypes, and increasingGBVvisibility.
• The project will involve 3 multicultural countries: Denmark, Romania and Spain, and will be developed in the framework of Interarts’ DECIDES Programme.
Activities:
• National level: comprise workshops for young students to discuss and provide information about prevention, cultural and social aspects related to GBV. Such workshops will refer to different cultural and artistic disciplines (visual arts and forum theatre), and will bring to the creation of specific cultural outputs. Seminars and trainings addressed to students will train them as peer educators and to teachers to increase their capacity of detecting potential victims.
• International level: exchange visits to allow beneficiaries to meet different realities; final international conference celebrated at the end of the project with participants from
different EU countries; 1 online platform created to disseminate in languages the project’s outputs.
• The project will directly benefit: 3000 students (15-18, 60% girls), 100 school staff, 20 local/national public authorities, 300 parents, 60 schools, 10 social, 10 health workers, 10 police officers.
Expected results
• increased capacity of stakeholders to address HBV;
• increased awareness of sexual and GBV;
• changes in the attitudes and behaviors as regards the issue ofGBV especially among young people; strengthened cooperation and exchange of information.
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Youth for Love
REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017
Objectives:
The project aims at developing, implementing and evaluating an integrated educational program, in high-schools from5 European countries (Romania, Italy, Belgium and Greece), inthe course of 24 months, that would contribute to the prevention and combating of gender-based violence of teenagers and would provide support and awareness to both high-school students and education professionals with regard to the existence, unacceptability, consequences and management procedures to be applied in gender-based violence cases.
Activities:
WP 1 Management,
WP2 School Diagnosis,
WP 3 Teen Support Porgramme,
WP 4 Impact Evaluation
Expected results
• To develop educational instruments and methodologies -adapted to young people needs;
• To educate and raise awareness of 750 high-school students through 10 practical modules, in the course of 12 months
• To develop a personal engagement of students, teachers and school staff so to make unacceptable any kind of violence in the schools where they live
• To inform and train 225 education professionals (teachers, headmasters, school counselors, school psychologists) from high-schools 4)To bring gender-based violence, especially affecting teenagers, to the public attention
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Type and number of persons benefiting from the project:
1500students,225teachers,5000familiesofteenagers2.500.000Youngstudents Expected results
Type and number of deliverables to be produced:
• Trainingmodules,
• Asocialwebgame,
• paper materials,
• training for students,
• training for teachers,
• school diagnosis guidelines
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FIRST–Finding, Investigating, Redress and support
Objectives
• To increase the reporting of sexual violence and/or sexual harassment against children, with appropriate mechanisms in place to facilitate this in Bulgaria;
• To increase the number of quality victim support services for children victim of sexual violence and/or sexual harassment outside the capital city on Bulgaria;
• To prevent sexual violence against children;
Activities
• Project coordination and management
• Ethics Group
• Web page for reporting sexual violence
• Child participation guarantee activities
• Establishing of network of experts
• Legal and psychology consultations
• Elaboration and dissemination of tool for prevention
• Capacity-building
• Training curricula &Pilot training
• Awareness raising campaign
• Final multiplier event
Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• 150 children (and their families), victims or at risk of sexual harassment or violence;
• 500 children
• 70 parents;
• 140 practitioners (teachers;social workers;lawyers;psychologist;ect
Expected results
• Cases of sexual violence and/or sexual harassment against children are reported;
• Increased number of quality victim support services for children victim of sexual violence and/or sexual harassment outside the capital city on Bulgaria;
• Provided trauma support and counselling and legal counselling for children at risk or victims of sexual violence and their families;
• Effective mechanism for prevention of sexual violence is created and is in used from children and parents;
• Strengthened capacity of relevant professionals at the management level on the effective management of services for children, free of violence and harassment;
• Increased awareness about the risks of sexual violence against children and the need to report them.
Type and number of deliverables to be produced
• Development of common methodology – 1;
• 1 Trainingcurriculum;
• Tools for prevention for child guardian in 3 age group;
• Outdoor campaign
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Social services – in support of Roma women and children for a life free of violence
Association NAIA – Social services – in support of Roma women and children for a life free of violence – grant €310.257,00 – 3 MS (BG, ES, GR) – SVV – JUST/2013/DAP/AG
"Social services - in support of Roma women and children for a life free of violence" has a duration of 24 months and will be implemented within the three member states of the EU.
The project is aimed at the priority of the program to support victims of violence.
1. Objectives
The main objective of the project is to improve the support for victims of domestic violence of Roma origin in the EU by raising awareness of the existing specialized social services in three Member States; increasing the capacity of the teams of the organizations that render support to the group and encourage sharing of good practices and experience in working with them within the Union. The target group under the project are teams of NGOs, public organizations, religious communities, trade unions and others from Bulgaria, Spain and Greece that provide social services for Roma women and children. Indirect beneficiaries of the project results will be specialized social services across the EU and Roma women and children victims of domestic violence.
The project focuses on a particularly topical issue that affects more and more of the countries in the EU - domestic violence against Roma women and children. Violence affects the overall quality of life of the victims. It has serious consequences in all spheres: health, work, relationships and social life, housing, economic situation, legal aspects and thus reduces the opportunities for development, prosperity and secure life.
The project considers the problems with difficult access of this group of victims of domestic violence to support services, due to lack of information about them or inadequate services available to them, without taking into account the cultural diversity of the community and its specific needs.
The project builds on the understanding that teams of specialized social services for Roma women and children victims of violence should be more effective in their work. It will work on the needs of evaluation of the existing services, analyzing their deficiencies, recommendations for their better performance and sharing good practices of support that offer an individual approach to Roma women and children victims of domestic violence within EU.
2. Activities
• Project activities include the study of various forms of support for victims of domestic violence of Roma origin in the three countries participating in the project and an analysis of their services, quality assessment, identification of problems and making recommendations.
• Experts from specialized support services for Roma victims of domestic violence will go through training to become familiar with the specifics of the Roma community, acts of domestic violence in it and how to intervene effectively. A manual in 4 languages will be prepared under the project that summarizes the existing social services and presents good practices in the three countries.
• An international conference will be organized, at which the difficulties in the field will be discussed and new solutions will be identified.
3. Expected results
• As a result of the project a database will be created of the existing forms of support to victims of domestic violence of Roma origin in the three EU countries, which will include a wide range of specialized social services provided by NGOs, public organizations, religious communities, and others.
• Difficulties faced by professionals in the provision of support for Roma women and children victims of domestic violence and specific problems they encounter will be defined, and good practices that apply in their work will be shared. 180 experts from 75 specialist support services for Roma victims of domestic violence will have an increased capacity to provide better services. The project results will be the shared methodologies and expertise in support of Roma victims of domestic violence, experience and good practices within the EU.
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Preventing SGBV against migrants and strengthening support to victims
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The thePROTECT project will contribute to the coordination and/or adaptation of support services for sexual and gender-based violence to include refugees and migrants (children, women, LGBTQI persons, young men and boys).
Objectives:
• Strengthen and adapt existing national support services for SGBV to coordinate better and include refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers
• Build capacity for professionals who work with/for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers to identify and address the needs of (potential) victims ofSGBVmore effectively
• Empower and inform refugees, migrant communities and asylum-seekers of SGBV and its prevention through a regional awareness-raising campaign
The project will work with State authorities, first responders and service providers as well as refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers.
Activities:
• Regular interagency working group and multidisciplinary stakeholder meetings at national and regional levels
• Develop/review SOPs orGuidelines on SGBVin the context of migration
• Develop and facilitate capacity-building tools and trainings for professionals on SGBV in the context of migration
• Develop a regional SGBVinformation campaign strategy
• Develop and disseminate informational materials and organize information sessions on SGBVfor refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers
Expected results:
• All stakeholders are actively engaged in facilitating unhindered access to support for refugee and migrant (potential) victims of SGBV
• Strengthened capacity of professionals to respond more effectively to SGBV in the context of migration
• Increased awareness of SGBV in the context of migration among refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers
Deliverables:
• Needs assessment mapping exercise per country
• 8 SOPs or guidelines developed/reviewed/contributed to
• Capacity building tools and train the trainer manual developed and piloted
• 129 capacity building trainings held
• 13.200 information packages distributed
• 232 information sessions held
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Safe at home: preventing violence against women, young people and children in the housing sector
It is notoriously difficult to carry out preventative perpetrator interventions when violence against women, young people and children occurs in the home, behind closed doors. Housing providers have unique entry to the ‘hidden’ spaces occupied by perpetrators and victims, as they have privileged access to the homes and estates on which their residents live. Housing providers are often seen as more approachable than state agencies, and have regular contact with residents through community development activities (e.g. training and employment services, benefits advice) as well as tenancy-related communications.
This, along with the options available to landlords for requesting and enforcing injunctions against perpetrators, presents an opportunity to ‘fill a gap’ that other agencies –statutory and voluntary – cannot fill. However, this opportunity is currently being missed, for three key reasons, which this project will address:
1. Housing providers do not prioritise domestic violence on their estates.
2. Housing associations lack the skills and capacity to address domestic abuse.
3. Multi-sectorial approaches (policy and practice) to preventing and responding to domestic abuse currently exclude housing providers.
In short, housing providers have the opportunity to enforce protection / restraining orders and to prevent further violence against women, but lack the awareness, capacity and mandate to do so.
The following case study illustrates the impact trained housing professionals can have in identifying and responding to domestic abuse:
One of Peabody’s contractors visited a flat to carry out a routine repair. While he was working there, he heard the female resident ask her husband’s permission to use the toilet. This was an immediate ‘red flag’ for the contractor, who reported the incident to Peabody’s Community Safety Team straight away, adding that the woman seemed withdrawn when he spoke to her.
The Community Safety Team contacted the police to carry out background checks on the male resident, and it transpired that he was known to the police and social services. However, neither of these agencies had any contact with the man or his wife, and both were unaware that there might be any recurrence of violence. Working with both of these organisations, Peabody was able to develop a joint action plan to ensure the woman’s safety and to prevent further abuse.
Over 24 months, Peabody and Kadera will work in the UK and Netherlands to address these issues, with the ultimate aim of preventing further violence by identified perpetrators against women, young people and children.
To achieve this, we will:
• Raise awareness of domestic abuse amongst 25 housing providers in the UK and Netherlands.
• Train 1,680 frontline staff, employed by 25 housing providers to address domestic abuse on their properties.
• Provide recommendations to improve policy and practice in the area of collaborative working with enforcement agencies.
• Share learning, good practice and practical knowledge with stakeholders in the UK, Netherlands and beyond.
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New approach to violence perpetrators treatment - common study of police trade unions
1. Objectives
Main objective of the action "New approach to violence perpetrators treatment - common study of police trade unions" is to analyse and improve the intervention models targeted at perpetrators of violence against children, young people and women and preventing further violence.
2. Activities
In order to achieve above mentioned objectives project partners will analyse the existing models of interventions in Spain, Romania and other European countries, they will discuss the current availability and actual use of and conditions for different forms of protection. During the working meeting the group of experts consists of the members of partner organizations, specialist in working with the victims, psychologists and sociologists will create the recommendations for improvement of the existing models. In the further stage of the project will be organized national seminars in partnership countries with the aim to familiarize the law enforcement agencies with the elaborated propositions and methods of its implementation. The last phase of the project will be devoted to elaboration of the final publication summing-up the meetings and describing the final conclusions.
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
The target group of the project are 120 law enforcement officers from Spain (60) and Romania (60), the beneficiaries will be the law enforcement officers from all European countries who will benefit from the results of the project as well as the European community with the main emphasis on the victims of violence, children, young people and women.
The methodology used in the project will be based on mutual learning, exchange of experience and best practices, analysis and cooperation between law enforcement officers from partnership countries. The main activity will be professional training conducted by the specialist in the field of perpetrator intervention and protection of victims.
4. Expected result:
The expected result of the project is improvement of knowledge of the law enforcement officers from Spain and Romania on the issue of perpetrator treatment by bringing behavioural change and prevents further violence.
5.Type and number of outputs to be produced
The outputs and deliverable of the project will be 4 international meetings organized in Spain and Romania attended in total by 40 participants and 6 national seminars organized in partnership countries, attended by 120 law enforcement officers from partnership countries.
The main output of the project will be the final publication elaborated by the group of experts in the form of a guide for law enforcement agencies in all European countries on how to deal with the perpetrators of violence.
The dissemination strategy of the project will be based on the promotional materials, informative brochures and a newsletter which will be published in partnership languages and English and sending via internet to all the interested institutions and organizations from different European countries. I will contain all the current information, analysis and conclusions elaborated during the working meetings of experts. The promotional materials will be disseminated in Spain and Romania in order to reach the potential participants of the national seminars, the final publication will be translated into partnership languages and English and will be disseminated between the Members
States, it will be also posted in downloadable form on the website of the partner organizations.
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Gender Equality Awareness Raising against Intimate Partner Violence - II
1. Objectives and expected results
The GEAR against IPV-II project aims to contribute to primary & secondary prevention of Intimate Partner/Dating/Sexual Violence (IPV/DV/SV) among teens. Priority 2.2.3 is addressed because main beneficiaries are teens (12-16 years old) who are victims/perpetrators of IPV/DV/SV or at risk (teens’ general population) & at high risk (abused/neglected/vulnerable children 12+ years old) of becoming victims/perpetrators in the future. Target-groups are school teachers & teachers/professionals working with high-risk teens. The proposed GEAR against IPV approach has been pilot-tested & evaluated during a former DAPHNE III project (JLS/2008/DAP3/AG/1258); it is child-centered as teens are not taught but, instead, guided (exclusively via experiential activities) to explore their own attitudes, their impact to their lives & to ‘discover’ & exercise life skills enabling development of violent-free intimate relationships.
The expected result is teens empowered in ways promoting zero-tolerance & equipped with
‘protection skills’ that will enable them to avoid being victimized &/or to appropriately & safely react to IPV/DV/SV as victims or bystanders. Moreover, all teens will be equipped with valuable life skills for breaking the cycle of violence & building healthy relationships.
The objectives set, the methodology of the activities for their achievement, along with their expected deliverables & outputs are:
• Mapping of preventive & supportive initiatives for IPV/DV/SV in teens in 5 MS, via desk research that will result in 5 Country Reports (CY-ES-GR-HR-RO)
• Develop material appropriate for preventive projects with teens in 5 MS & at EU level
• Provide an updated ‘Guidance Material’ (Master Package) that can be used for the development of culturally appropriate National Packages in each EU MS
• Develop, pilot-test & evaluate culturally adapted material (5 National Packages) for 3 MS (CY-ESRO) & update the existing material for 2 MS (GR-HR); the method for the evaluation will be experts evaluation & focus groups with teachers & students, the results of which will be presented in 7 Evaluation Reports
On the basis of the methodology described & with the material provided in separate booklets of the National Packages:
• Build teachers’ capacity to implement preventive interventions, as well as to screen, support & protect victimized teens; ~290 teachers & professionals working with high-risk groups trained in 11 Seminars; their implementation & evaluation results will be presented in 5 Country Reports & summarized in 6 Policy briefs/Factsheets (5 National & 1 EU), that will also include recommendations on the basis of the experience gained
• Conduct IPV/DV/SV preventive interventions with teens from the general population & from high-risk groups; ~1.300 teens will participate in 70 Workshops (50 with students & 20 with high-risk teens), implemented by trained teachers/professionals; their implementation & evaluation results will be presented in 5 Country Reports (in English & national language) & summarized in 5 National & 1 EU Policy briefs/Factsheets
• Sensitize Teens’ general population via peer-dissemination: 5 e-campaigns (using a compilation of artistic products each Workshop will create for conveying preventive messages to teens) will be conducted in 5 MS; in total, 140 teens will present in 5 National Conferences their experience from the Workshop
Apart from teens’ sensitization, the dissemination strategy includes activities, aiming to promote:
• the project’s methodology, materials & activities
• future implementation of Workshops in schools after the project's life
• the development of new National Packages for all MS
Towards these aims will contribute, along with the aforementioned, the following deliverables & outputs
• Project’s Leaflet & website
• 6 Conferences & 6 Factsheets
• 5 National with speakers representatives of the 70 Workshops
• 1 EU with speakers from 28 MS & 8 candidates/potential
• Final & External Evaluation Reports
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Career ROCKET: Respect, Opportunities, Choice, Knowledge, Equality and Training
1. Objectives
• Enhance the capacity of teachers and educators to mainstream gender in the entire school curricula and place gender at the core of citizenship education.
• Enhance the capacity of schools to provide career guidance free of gender stereotypes.
2. Activities
WS0: Project administrative and financial management
WS1:
• Entry (baseline) study on teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards gender equality
• Analysis of school curricula of all mandatory subjects for primary (1-4) basic (5-8) and secondary (9-12) education levels.
• Development of a common framework for the integration of gender issues in school curricula.
• Development of a module on gender equality for teachers in citizenship education
• Development of a training programmeand tools for peer trainers in secondary education.
WS2 Trainings
• ToT for teachers peer trainers
• Teachers peer trainings
• ToT for student peer trainers
• Gender equality training for school career counseling experts
• Capacity building seminars for school managers and decision makers on development and implementation of a school policy on equality.
WS3: Career ROCKET festival in schools
• Peer trainings on gender stereotypes in occupations and career choice for students
• Development of a toolkit for Girl’s and Boy’s day in schools
• Preparation of the Career Rocket festivalsin pilot schools
• 2day Career Rocket festivals in pilot schools in all
WS4 Promote GE culture in schools – dissemination of the results
• Development of a resource web page for schools on gender equality
• Meetings with educational authorities
• Development of a selfevaluation tool of school environment from gender equality perspective.
• National competitions for the label ‘School free of gender stereotypes’
• Production of a documentary
• Final conference/forum
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• Teachers and school directors – 18 000
• Students – 4800
• Expected results
• Enhanced capacity of teachers and educators to mainstream gender in the entire school curricula and place gender at the core of citizenship education
• Increased awareness of pupils on gender stereotypes and traditional gender roles and their negative impact on personal and professional development
• Increased capacity of schools to develop and implement school policies on gender equality sustained with mechanisms and activities in the annual school plans
• Increased capacity of schools to present career choices without gender stereotypes to both girls and boys
4. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• Administrative reports (narrative and financial) – 4 interim and 1 final report
• Work Plan detailing project deadlines, milestone, outputs etc
• Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy
• Report produced by the External Evaluator
5. Outputs within WS1WS4
• 4 national baseline study reports and 1 summary report
• 4 analysis of school curricular in national languages and 4 summaries in English
• 1 Framework for developing the guides for the integration of gender in subject matters in English
• 1 Testing protocol in English and 4 translations
• 4 Guides for teachers one in each national language
• ToT programme for teachers peer trainers
• 22 twoday Trainings for teachers peer trainers
• 600 peer trainings delivered by trained teachers to schools nationally in 4 countries.
• 1 Module for teachers in citizenship education in Bulgarian and English
• 2 packages for peer trainers in Bulgarian and 4 translations
• 8 threeday ToT for 176 boys and girls and 44 teachers in supporting function in 4 countries
• information materials on gender equality and career choices for parents (2 in English + 4 translations = 10)
• guide of career choices/development (4)
• resource website for schools on gender equality with materials and practical educational tools in English and 4 national languages
• documentary
• Final conference report
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Equality Charter Marks in order to overcome gender stereotyping in education across Europe
1.Objectives
To create whole-school change in schools for 13–18-year-olds, that will impact on young people’s expectations of gender roles and challenge gender stereotyping through the creation of a Gender Equality Charter Mark (GECM) quality standard and accreditation tool. This tool will enable a school to measure progress in tackling the effects that gender stereotyping still has on pupils in relation to both subject (and career) choices and as a root cause of sexual harassment and gender-based violence in schools and wider society.
2.Activities
• Conduct an international literature review of current gender equality policy and practice implemented in schools
• Review current, country-specific gender equality policy and practice implemented in schools, including national whole-school development initiatives, in Hungary, Italy and the UK
• Conduct a qualitative baseline data capture of current assumptions and perceptions on gender stereotyping/inequalities amongst pupils and teachers in three target schools (that include the age range 13 –18) in each of three EU countries
• Create three bespoke National GECMs to be trialled in three target schools in each country, to include:
• a baseline audit to assess current practice in school
• targets and strategies/guidelines/steps/standards to implementchange
• criteria to assess submitted evidence from school for achieving GECM at either bronze, silver or gold level
• a panel of gender equality specialists to assess and award GECM accreditation
• Evaluate pupils’ and teachers’ attitude and behavioral changes to gender stereotyping following one year of whole-school implementation of a draft national GECM in three schools in each country.
3.Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• 13,500 school children (13 – 18 yrs) benefit from whole-school implementation of GECM (average 1500/school in 3 schools in each of 3 EU countries)
• 90 senior leadership team teachers (average 10/school in3 schools in each of 3 EU countries)
• 90 school governors (average 10/school in 3 schools in each of 3 EU countries)
• All secondary schools in Hungary, Italy, and the UK will be invited to implement the National GECM (about 23,000 schools)
• 5% of secondary schools across Hungary, Italy and UK engage with their national GECM (about 1150 schools)
• 1000 members of the European (and International) academic community
4. Expected results
• Target schools show increased awareness that tackling gender equality needs a whole-school approach for supporting a widening of subject choices made by girls and boys, and broader issues, such as teacher and student attitudes
• Target schools recognize that a whole-school approach to gender stereotyping helps address gender-based violence
• Targetschools show measurable change and progress in whole-school policies and practices for tackling gender stereotyping
• Increased awareness amongst pupils in target schools of how gender stereotyping is affecting their subject and career choices
• At least 2 out of3 target schools in each country continue to the next level of the GECM in the next academic year
• Uptake of the GECM process by 200 schools in each EU partner country
• Uptake of the GECM idea by organizations in 3 other EU countries to create further national gems
5.Type and number of outputs to be produced
• 4 literature reviews
• 12 journal articles including teacher unions and professional publications
• presentations at 12 conferences including teacher events
• blog posts, tweets, media reports
• 3 National GECMs
• GECM support materials e.g. policy templates, lesson plans, curriculum subject links, inhouse training, use of language guidance, assembly plans. 20 for each country (60 in total)
• 3 training courses for implementing gender equality in schools (at least 1 course per country)
• 3 National GECM support webpages to enable project sustainability
• 1 European Gold Standard GECM accreditation tool
• 3 national GECM launch events
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Free to Choose (FtC)
1. Objectives
• To raise awareness on gender diversity, enhancing and strongly promote change of culture and behaviour in youngster in choosing and transition phases and in adult key persons, regarding types, roots and effects of gender stereotypes and segregation in labor market.
• Related objectives are to bring young people and the adult key persons to get involved in a innovative and develop a different vision of the professions, skills and opportunities in labor market gender perspective. This will require the recodification of stereotypes, its recognition and overcoming, acting on youngs and adults
2. Activities
• Management and coordination (WS 0): Coordination and implementation of activities, Admin.and financial management, Monitoring, evaluation, International meetings
• Operational Map(WS 1): 3 researches Mind the gap, Coming out, FtC map
• Game design (WS 2): Ethnographic research on ludic habits and preferences of the target; Design of the game, (game type identification, rules and mechanics, prototype, final game release, Game Design Document, PlayerBook and WizardBook, Writing of guidelines; Training Seminar for partners on game usability game, Report and papers on the game design process and results.
• Experimentation and Training (WS 3) Development of training materials, E-training for conductors/game masters, Evaluation of training materials and sessions, Testing of game sessions, Test study on game's effectiveness:
• Dissemination (WS 4): Opening of Facebook project profile 2. Opening of Project Web Site, linked with each web page of the partners; 3. Using IRES Elearning platform. 4. Organization of Presentations of Social Research; 5. Organization of Local events during the Transnational; Outputs
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• Youngsters in a transition phase: directly during experimentation of game 90, over 2000 are estimated to be involved by social and web and 5000 over the end of the project
• Adults with key roles: directly during experimentation of game 90, over 200 in dissemination meetings, over 2000 are estimated to be involved by social and web and5000 over the end of the project
4. Expected results
• Improved awareness and detailed knowledge among youngs regarding gender socialistation
• Increased knowledge among adults as key actors in choice and transition steps
• Widened the knowledge and awareness on the general biased vision of the professions, skills and opportunities for youngs from a gender perspective
• Promotion of a change of culture and behavior valid for Ue and extraUe, policies to promote gender mainstreaming on youngs related strategies
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• WS 0: 1 Partnerships Agreement; 1 Budgetary Control System; 30 Timesheets x each staff person, 1 Gantt Diagram, 1Intermediate and 1 final financial report, 1 Intermediate and 1 final reports, 5 Transnational Meetings;
• WS 1: 2 Interview form; 1 focus group form; 1 Report “Evidence-based games”; 1 Report “The stereotypes map by countries”; 1 Report on Gender gap scenario
• WS 2: 1 Ludic Ethnographic Report, 1 Ethnographic results, 1 Game Design Document, 1Prototype, 1PlayerBook, 1WizardBook, 1Seminar
• WS 3: 1Tutorial video on using "Free to choose", 1Tutorial ebook on using "Free to choose", 1Training session, 15 Interviews to trained game masters, 1Evaluation report on training activity, 18Game sessions,150Interviews, 1Evaluation report on game's.
• WS 4: 1.Facebook profile of the project; 2. Web site of the project; 3. Social Research; 4. Conferences to present the Social research; 5. Localevents; 6. Final Infoday
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GENDERED: Combating gender stereotypes in education and career guidance
1. Objectives
• Explore the role that schools, teachers and curricula play in terms of perpetuating gender-stereotypical behaviors and expectations among girls and boys.
• Identify the attitudes and beliefs of girls and boys on gender stereotypes in relation to their career choices.
• Develop innovative pedagogical tools and materials for teachers and career guidance counselors to combat gender stereotypes in the classroom.
• Raise awareness on how gender stereotypes inform daily practices in the education setting among all those key actors who are involved: a) secondary school teachers B) in career guidance and mentoring.
• Raise awareness and understanding among boys and girls on the ways in which gender stereotypes shape and influence the perceptions, attitudes, beliefs and personal choices;
• Challenge gendered attitudes and behavior patterns among girls and boys through a reflection process to renegotiate the way they see themselves and others beyond the 'prohibitions' and 'restrictions' associated with their gender
• Widely spread policy recommendations and messages in relation to the eradication of gender stereotypes in education.
2. Activities:
• Conducta diagnostic study using quantitative and qualitative research tools in order to identify those attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate gender stereotypes.
• Convene and coordinate Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG) in each partner country.
• Develop gender-sensitive educational programme for teachers to implement in schools with girls and boys (aged 13-16);
• Update/Develop career counseling manual and teacher’s guide to facilitate and support the implementation of the educational programme for girls and boys (aged 1316).
• Develop innovative online game for adolescents (aged 1316), as a resource to support the deconstruction of traditional and stereotypical attitudes and behaviors related to gender.
• 6.Teachers' training seminars, aiming at their capacity building toimplement interventions with adolescents utilizing the pedagogical tools and materials developed in Workstream 2.
• Awareness raising workshops with adolescents at schools by the trained teachers in order to pilot test & evaluate culturally adapted material and online game (National Packages)
• Dissemination events in all partner countries.
• Final conference in Cyprus presenting the results of the project including the recommendations and messages.
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• 200 secondary school teachers
• 120 career guidance counselors
• 800 secondary school students
• 400 decision-makers/institutions/stakeholders
• 8,000 indirect beneficiaries
4. Expected results
• Teachers, educators, and career counselors gain a deeper understanding on the ways in which gender stereotypes shape and influence the perceptions, attitudes, beliefs and personal choices of girls and boys. They will be equipped with information & skills for the implementation of school-based interventions aiming to raise awareness and challenge gendered attitudes and behavior patterns among girls and boys.
• Through the awareness-raising workshops adolescents will have the opportunity to replace their stereotypical attitudes with healthier ones about gender roles & equality via a) assessing& challenging within a safe environment their culturally ‘inherited’ gender stereotypes & misconceptions, b) exploring the influence gender stereotypical attitudes & socially imposed gender roles have on their educational choices and life chances.
5. Type and number of outputs of the project
• 4 GENDERED National Packages (3 new & 1 updated) including career guidance manual, teachers guide, and online game
• 1 GENDERED educational programme
• 1 Online game and downloadable app.
• 4 country diagnostic reports, 1 set of indicators, 1 synergy of research findings
• 3 local dissemination events and 1 European Conference.
• 4 project webpages.
• 1750 project leaflets in 5 languages.
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GET UP – Gender Equality Training to overcome Unfair discrimination Practices in education and labour market
1. Objectives
The main priority of the project is to address the stereotyping of educational and career choices and to promote gender equality in education, training, career guidance and at the workplace. To respond to this main priority the specific objectives of the project are to:
• define a European Minimum Standard of Competences on Gender Equality (EMSC) for those responsible of Human Resources at the workplace (directors, employers, trade unions), Career Guidance professionals and Teachers supporting training and employment choices in order to guide, promote, recruit and retain individuals by overcoming gender stereotypes and taking into consideration their skills, competences and interests;
• strengthen the skills and competences of the above-mentioned professionals of both private and public organisations and companies on European and national legislation, practices and behaviours aimed at overcoming gender stereotypes;
• raise awareness on gender equality among partner organizations and their members, as well as the whole public, thus promoting also at the European level the benefits delivering from the equal participation in society of men and women.
2. Activities
• Comparison and analysis of existing training offers on gender balance issues for the different professional profiles involved in the project, considering also that EIGE is going to provide one through its online platform;
• Focus Groups for Assessment of knowledge, skills and behaviors that the partners organizations and their members and networks have over the issues of gender equality and the acceptance of the “other” as a basic factor of the organizations working in a nondiscriminatory manner;
• Definition of the knowledge and competences needs;
• Definition of the EMSC that the professionals involved should achieve on the issues of gender equality, nondiscrimination and promotion of equality in education and at the workplace.
• Design and definition of a standard for the Training aimed at the achievement of the EMSC, both in person and online;
• Implementation of the Training Offer on an experimental basis within the partners organizations and their members;
• Uploading and dissemination of the project results
• Raising awareness campaign;
• Monitoring and evaluation of the achieved results and impacts.
3. Direct target groups:
• Trade unions employees and gender experts;
• HR managers, directors and employers responsible for HR management both in public and private organizations;
• Career Guidance professionals
• Teachers and trainers from VET centers, schools, universities – primarily those in charge of guidance and counseling
4. Indirect target groups
• young people 13-35 years and adults in transition phases down the education training labour market chain;
• local, national and European policymakers;
• citizens at large.
5. Expected results
• greater cooperation and communication among local authorities, employers, decision/policymakers and employees on the issues of gender stereotypes in education-training transition phases and at the workplace;
• defined set of competencies and related minimum obligatory training standard for the professionals involved as direct target groups for the adoption of a nondiscriminatory and nonstereotyped approach at the workplace
• improved self-awareness about the role to be played by HR managers in overcoming the gender gap at the workplace
• systematized information about existing policies and practices to fight gender stereotypes at the workplace at national and EU level, together with strategies for their effective implementation by relevant stakeholders
6. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• EMSCon Gender Equality
• Training Model
• Online Project Platform
• Raising Awareness tools – 3 videos, photos collected through the contest and GET UP Serious Game
• Online Antidiscrimination Training Kit
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BREAK! – overcoming gender stereotypes in Europe through crossmedia learning
1. Objectives
• To develop a solid methodological framework based on a behavioral approach, in order to monitor and evaluate how the project’s activities generate change in attitudes of young people aged 13-30
• To produce a series of film episodes addressing various everyday situations of young people, stemming from gender stereotypes but not excluding intersectionality, to be broadcasted through various channels in 3 partner countries;
• To attract young people with an innovative cross-media project, including social media, applications, blogs, online interactive educational materials, real life events, etc thus reaching out better to youth in the work towards promoting gender equality;
• To adapt the use of these media activities in classes and in career guidance, by producing E-educational materials aimed at teachers and guidelines aimed at career orientation counselors, helping them to better work on challenging the stereotypical assumptions about the roles of men and women.
2. Activities
• Workstream 0 – Management and coordination
• Workstream 1 – Methodology: to assess how the activities led to attitudinal and behavioral changes, in line with the defined impact of the project.
• Workstream 2 – Film episodes: a series of 10 film episodes addressing various gender stereotypes.
• Workstream3 – Crossmedia activities: radio shows, online educational activities, social media, live events, webpage, and blogs), to engage further young people in understanding and combating gender discrimination.
• Workstream 4 – Educational and career orientation activities: guidelines and training for teachers and career counselors and training professionals on how to use them in their work.
3.Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• Young people aged 13-30 are the main target public of these media materials.
• 100400 teachers and career counselors from 3 partner countries
• By creating materials in English and Russian, these can be used immediately in any educational and career orientation setting in a variety of countries in Europe and thus reaching hundreds of thousands of young people, including a vast Russian-speaking community.
4. Expected results
• raised awareness among Estonian, Lithuanian and Icelandic societies, including the Russian speaking minority, with regard to current realities and the negative impact of gender stereotyping in education and labour market in their countries;
• more professional approach by teachers and career counsellors, equipped with relevant competencies and contemporary interactive materials for working with young people without a gender bias;
• less school dropouts based on wrong career choices;
• an understanding and methodology for work against gender bias in education and labour market that is transferrable onto other European societies.
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• one interactive project website containing all media materials, in 5 languages (EN, EE, LT, IS, RU)
• a series of 10 film episodes, available online and hard disk, subtitled in EN, EE, RU, IS, LT and PL
• 30 radio shows and podcasts in Estonian, Russian and Icelandic
• cross-media campaigns in 3 countries (special website, blog, forum, online games, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
• 6 workshops for young people
• 1 set of guidelines for teachers (for different age categories of students), 1 for career counselors, in all project languages
• 11 trainings for teachers and for career counselors
• an impact assesment study
• guidelines for media intervention and educational materials in different contexts
• policy recommendations.
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IMAGINE (Inspiring Male Action on Gender equality In Europe)
1. Objectives
• To develop a pan-European initiative for engaging men/boys to eliminate SH&SV
• To share good practices on how men/boys can contribute to eliminating SH&SV
• To improve awareness of the links between SH&SV and gender inequality
• To develop accessible tools on engaging men/boys in gender equality and violence prevention throughout Europe
• To build a pan-European community of individuals and organizations committed to working with men /boys on gender equality and violence prevention
2. Activities
Development Phase (6 months)
• Partners meet to share and consolidate existing approaches to working with men/boys
• Recruit and train 10 peer educators in each partner countries
• Bring the 3 cohorts of peer educators together with associate partners to concrete a model for working with teenage boys Implementation Phase (2 years)
• Unroll the correlated model for engaging teenagers in the 3 partner countries
• Ongoing action learning and research will capture learnings and allow the model to be adapted and refined
• Partners will support peer educators will train 10 other peer educators each to roll out the intervention in their communities
• Sharing Phase (6 months)
• Work with associate partners to build capacity to adapt tools/models to their own context
• Develop & disseminate website, project evaluation, and tools
• Convene civil society, funders and decision-makers at a pan-European conference to share findings and tools developed
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• 30 peer educators (men aged 18 – 30 years old) directly benefitting from the project (10 per partner country)
• 300 peer educators (men aged 18 – 30 years old) indirectly benefitting from the project (100 in each partner country)
• 1,800 teenage boys directly benefitting from the project (600 in each partner country)
• Estimated 18,000 teenage boys indirectly benefitting from the project across Europe
• Estimated 25,000 members of the public reached by the website by the end of the project
• Estimated 200 attendees (including project staff and peer mentors) at the final conference
• Estimated 5000 adults in the boys' and peer educators' lives reached; parents, teachers, mentors, trainers, counselors etc.
4. Expected results
• Decrease in the incidence of SH&SV for women/girls in lead member states’ intervention areas
• Increased awareness of the systemic causes of SH&SV and how these can be disrupted
• Increased awareness of ways in which positive masculinities and engaging men and boys in gender equality can effectively challenge and prevent SH&SV and contribute to gender equality
• Decrease in negative effects associated with unhealthy masculine stereotypes (e.g. risk-taking, substance abuse, unresolved male mental health needs, suicide etc.)
• Increased engagement of men/boys in SH&SV prevention and the promotion of gender equality
• Greater awareness, visibility, and resources explaining the ways in which men/boys can be involved in SH&SV prevention and the promotion of gender equality
• Greater capacity for European organizations to work with men and boys in effectively implementing SH&SV prevention activities that are relevant to their settings
• An active pan-European network equipped with the tools to develop and roll out engagement programmers with men and boys to eliminate SH&SV
• Increased pan-European awareness of the underlying causes of SGBV as they relate to gender inequality and masculinity
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• 1 kick off meeting for partners
• 1 three day meeting for peer educators (including one day where joined by Associate partners)
• 90 intervention sessions delivered to teenage boys in the life of the project
• 1 intervention toolkit as developed by peer educators
• 1 Multilanguage website with integrated online community and social media facilities with
Integrated online community
• 1 final evaluation report (online dissemination only)
• 1final dissemination event
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Action grants to educate and raise the awareness of girls and boys about gender-based violence as a way to prevent it at an early stage
Objectives of the SAFER project are to prevent, encourage reporting and combat gender-based violence (GBV) against children fostering a systematic approach in cultivating
life skills, building healthy relationships, adopting and maintaining values, (such as, respect, justice) and increasing resilience and personal strength.
The project aims at sensitizing and awareness raising of primary school teachers, students, parents and relevant stakeholders regarding GBV; and supplying teachers with relevant classroom material enabling them to discuss about GBV in their classroom, challenge existing gender stereotypes and ultimately prevent GBV.
Multiple methods are grouped in two large thematic categories a) Developing and utilizing awareness raising procedures aiming at sensitization b) Development of innovative training materials for teachers to identify and prevent GBV.
Activities:
• Designing and developing the survey and analysis of results
• Development of Training/ Educational Package preparation
• Pre-testing of material and exchange good practices among the trainers
• Capacity-building and training for teachers
• Implementation of awareness and dissemination activities to the target groups and general public
Main Target: 100 Primary Teachers in each country (total number of 600)
Beneficiaries: Children 8-12 years old
Results:
• Teachers: Enrich of competences and awareness about the issues of gender-based violence, and ways to tackle the issue.
• Children: Improvement of knowledge and skills to prevent and to react to GBV. Development of assertiveness to counteract and develop resilience and adequate coping
• Society (Impact to parents, stakeholders etc): Development of a more unprejudiced society, able to understand and prevent GBV actions
Type and number of outputs to be produced:
• National and Comparative Research Reports Educational package for the teachers
• Awareness raising outputs (video, animation movie, mobile application etc) Dissemination materials
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Lights, camera and action against dating violence
This project is focused on promoting adolescents’ capabilities to improve their intimate relationships with their peers through different activities that aim to:
• Enable adolescents to acknowledge IPV-related protective factors that are present in themselves, their families, the school and other closed settings, and to know how to properly use them,
• Contribute to education and awareness-raising about the importance of positive interpersonal relationships based on self-esteem and trust,
• Endorse adolescents in challenging sexist and tolerant attitudes towards gender-based violence and dating violence,
• Promote skills to manage problems and conflicts through interpersonal communication, mediation and negotiation among youth, and
• Empower young people to claim their rights and those of their peers to be held in esteem and to protect themselves from at-risk or abusive relationships.
Main Activities:
• Seminar with teachers: “Promoting Protective Assets Related to Violence Together”.
• Workshop with adolescents: “Filming Together to See Ourselves in a New Present”.
• Short film exhibitions with participants, their families, authorities and other stakeholders.
• Teaching guides for the use of short films.
• Computer-based evaluation system.
• International Final Conference: “Dating Violence and the Role of Education”.
Type and number of persons benefiting from the project:
• 600 to 700 adolescents (boys and girls), aged 14 to 15 years, enrolled in secondary education schools from Alicante (Spain), Rome (Italy), Cardiff (UK), Iasi (Romania), Porto (Portugal) and Lublin (Poland).
Expected results:
• Increased adolescent awareness about the importance of positive interpersonal relationships based on esteem and trust;
• Improved adolescent attitudes against sexism, intolerance towards intimate partner violence and other forms of violence against peers; and,
• Improved adolescent skills for managing conflicts through interpersonal communication, mediation
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EQUI-X - Promoting innovative strategies addressing the construction of gender identities and engaging men and boys in non-violent models of masculinity
Abstract:
EQUI-X brings a gender-synchronized approach (H|M Program) aiming to achieve gender-equity (SDG-5) and prevent violence in its multiple forms. This will take place across 5 EU countries (ES-PT-DE-BE-HR).
Objectives
• Bring to EU a new approaches preventing gender-based violence amidst girls/women and boys/man, from different ages and backgrounds
• Promote innovative-strategies that empowers both girls/women and boys/man, addressing the construction of gender and promoting non-violent models of masculinity
• Strengthen relations between EU Academia and NGO’s for gender-based violence
awareness and prevention programs
Activities
• Workstream 1: Research, monitoring, evaluation, diagnostic analysis of strategies and tools for gender-based violence prevention at the national and EU levels. Simultaneously the Workstream 1 will monitor and asses Workstream 2/3
• Workstream 2: Adapt and implement a methodology based on a gender-synchronized approach towards gender- based violence prevention in girls/women and boys/man (H|M Programme)
• Workstream 3: Capacitation of professionals to promote gender-equity and violence prevention through training on the methodologies and tool developed in EQUI-X
• Workstream 4: Dissemination of findings through: final conference, final report, national and EU H|M Program, and national publications, EQUI-X Networks
Beneficiaries
• Girls/women and boys/men (ages 12-21) in compulsory school, in juvenile detention centres, in housing or shelters, refugees and migrants – 600p
• Professional and caregivers working with the targeted groups – 90p
• National and European policy makers and gender equality counsellors/advocate
• The Academia and NGO’s that address gender equality
Expected results
• Increased knowledge and awareness on gender-based violence with youth people
• Increased capacity of professionals and caregivers to promote gender-equity and non-violence
• Provided a tested methodology for prevention of gender-based violence
Outputs
• 5 national H|M programs and 1 EU 15 training courses
• 5 national campaigns,1 EU campaign
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New GenDeration – Learning and action against gender-based violence
Objectives
The overall aim to prevent and counter gender-based violence among children by providing learning and action processes for gender sensitivity
The specific objectives of the projects are:
• To provide methodological ground and training opportunities for professionals working with children in the formal and non-formal educational sphere on the topics of gender and gender-based violence;
• To engage at least 900 children in learning processes, boosting understanding of gender and gender-based violence, critical thinking on gender and overall gender sensitivity;
• To employ child-friendly campaigning methods on awareness raising on gender among children in schools and communities;
• To disseminate good practices in preventing and countering gender-based violence among children, generated within the project.
Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• Children, aged 13-18: 1815
• Professionals working with children: 2240
Expected results
• Professionals working with children provided with training opportunities and access to educational resources on the topics of gender and gender-based violence;
• Children engaged in learning processes, boosting understanding on gender and gender-based violence;
• Raised awareness among children on gender and gender-based violence through child-friendly campaign methods;
• Generated and disseminated good practices in preventing and countering gender-based violence among children.
Type and number of outputs to be produced
• Gender Matters Manual in ES, PL and BG, 600 copies
• International extended partnership workshop
• 6 launch events for Gender Matters
• 3 in-country training for trainers
• 9 summer camps
• 75 school workshops
• 15 school and community campaigns
• Love Gen(d)eration App
• 15 Teens React videos
• Posters, postcards and other give-away materials
• MOOC on education and awareness raising on gender and gender-based violence
• International conference
• 6 in-country dissemination trainings
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Play it for change - Raising awareness and empowerment of girls and boys for the prevention of gender-based violence through audiovisual media and music
Objectives
Educate and raise youth through audiovisual media&music by encouraging their critical thinking and fostering their empowerment to prevent and combat GBV.
Specific objectives:
• Collect evidences on the impact of gender stereotypes in the audiovisual media&music on youth attitudes and behaviours towards GBV and to assess the needs
of teachers to prevent GBV
• Build the capacity of teachers to prevent GBV through gender sensitive audiovisual media&music
• Educate and encourage critical thinking among girls and boys by providing information and skills to foster their empowerment
• Foster cross national communication among girls and boys, to multiply and disseminate the result of the project
Activities
• Collection of evidences on the attitudes and behaviour of girls and boys towards GVB
• Needs assessment of teachers or the prevention of GBV among youth
• Implement a Capacity Building Programme for teachers
• Raising awareness activities to prevent GBV among girls and boys through audiovisual media&music and to foster their empowerment
• Communication, multiplying and dissemination activities
Beneficiaries
• Main beneficiaries: 3000-3500 girls and boys
• Other target groups: 270-350 teachers; 240-300 potential stakeholders
Results
• Enhanced knowledge of the impact of gender stereotypes on youth attitudes towards GBV
• Increased capacity of teacher to work with youth on the prevention of GBV
• Increased education and critical thinking of youth towards audiovisual media and music messages that reproduce gender stereotypes
• Increased cross national communication among both teachers and among youth
Outputs
• 6 Collection of Evidences&Needs Assessment Reports + 1 Transnational Report
• 6 30h CBP
• 24 Raising Awareness Activities
• 24 Master class with experts
• 24 GBV prevention audiovisual works and music produced
• 6 National Youth Festival
• 1 European Mutual Learning Seminar for professionals
• 1 European Youth Encounter
• 1 Policy Brief
• 3000 leaflets
• 1 Website
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GenderEqualityMatters(GEM):TacklingGender-basedViolence
Gender Equality Matters(GEM): Tackling Gender-based Violence
Objectives:
• Raise awareness, challenge attitudes and promote behavior changes in relation to gender-based violence generally;
• With specific reference to violence perpetrated against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community.
Activities:
• Needs assessment (across the three identified target groups)
• Education and awareness-raising for children (first target), parents (second target)
• Capacity-building and training for educators (third target)
• GEM project webpages development (all partners)
• Consortium meetings (bi-annual)
• Collaboration/dissemination across national and European organizations
• Monitoring and evaluation of all activities
• Reports (Interim; Final/Impact)
Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
Schools: 1st/2nd level (47);Children: aged 10-18 (2550); Parents (600);Teachers (560);Teacher
trainers (60); School Heads (16800); Preservice teachers (250)
Expected Results:
• Challenging and changing attitudes and behaviours amongst children, parents, educators
• Designing, implementing and disseminating resources to address gender-based violence in a variety of settings
• Strengthening of societal recognition of gender-based violence as a human rights/equality issue
Type and number of deliverables to be produced:
• International Conference (1)
• Presentations at conferences (6)
• Journal publications (4)
• Open national events (10)
• Webpages (5)/social media (across partners: 3 per partner) for dissemination;
• articles (5);
• newsletters (4);
• leaflets (1);
• classroom and school resources (2);
• school self-evaluation instruments (2)
• Training modules (3),
• MOOC (1),
• manuals for teachers (1),
• teacher trainers (1);
• training workshops for parents (3)
• Evaluation instruments (4);
• Evaluation activities (2)
• Interim Report (3);
• Final/Impact Report (1)
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GenderEqualityMatters(GEM):TacklingGender-basedViolence
Project Title:
Preventing GBV by challenging stereotypical masculinity - a whole-system- approach
Objectives
The project works with evidence-based strategies froma holistic and whole-system approach to preventGBV.Theobjectives isto scale up and deliver interventions (fathers’groups and school- based interventions, SBI) by training volunteers and professionals.
One objective is to set up a supporting structure and implementation cycle (training for trainers, coaching/support, M&E and networks) for long-term sustainable implementation, including aggregation and sharing of experiences, gained in local implementation. The project aims at strengthening local, national and European collaboration.We work with awareness-raising and capacity building through various communication efforts.
The overall objective is a decrease inGBVand increased involvement of men and boys in gender equality.We expect increased awareness on fathers and care work, GBV prevention, the continuum of violence and masculinity. Challenging of stereotypical gender norms, and more bystander interventions.Developed collaboration and capacity on GBV prevention
Persons reached: 3700 children and youth, 10-19 years, 300 fathers, 1300 health care staff, 860 staff working with youth and 1500 other professionals. Broad public: up to 250’000 (online).
Activities:
• Fathers’ groups and SBI:s
• Trainings for facilitators
• Training for trainers in MVP
• Lectures
• Coaching
• Conferences and networks
• European study visits
• Dissemination and communication
Deliverables:
26 trainings for facilitators,
25-30 schools implementing SBI,
43 fathers’ groups,
55 lecturers, coaching of 120 health care staff.
M&E tools for 3 interventions, implementation cycle routine,
4 revised manuals and 20 scenario exercises.
2 conferences, 20 network meetings and boosters, 4 research meetings, 2 European study visits and 2 seminars.
4 thematic reports, 2 campaign weeks (online), newsletters, 2 debate articles, research dissemination.
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Preventing Honour Related Violence by education and dialogue through Immigrant NGOs
Website and deliverables: http://www.human-right.net/fatima/index.php?lang=en
According to European Parliament the problem of Honour Related Violence (HRV) is increasing in European Union and not decreasing which is alarming considering the basic values on human rights that govern the societies in the Union. Many member states have taken action to protect the victims through social care, civic sector, legislation and training of different stakeholders. However, the preventive actions are few and under-developed. One reason is that the target group with patriarchal values live dominantly in segregated areas, out of reach for awareness rising actions by authorities and the civic sector. One group of NGOs with natural communication channels, immigrant NGOs, are more or less excluded in the strategies of combating HRV.
The reasons behind this inclusion are many but the main ones are:
1. Lack of knowledge and expertise in the immigrant NGOs.
2. Lack of training materials at immigrant NGOs regarding human rights and the right of women and children.
3. Lack of sustainable structure for cooperation between the stakeholders from the host country (authorities and civic sectors) and immigrants NGOS.
The proposed project aim to address the above shortcomings by:
1. Developing structures for cooperation between the stakeholders from the host country (authorities and civic sectors) and immigrants NGOs by the inclusion of these NGOs in the strategies for combating HRV.
2. Capacity building with the immigrant NGO sector by developing training materials adapted to their needs and the to target groups based on conventions on Human rights and the right of women child approved by the European Council.
3. Awareness raising among public and civic sectors concerning the role and responsibilities of immigrant NGOs concerning combating HRV in the national strategy for HRV.
Further the project aims to establish a European network among immigrant NGOs in different member states in order to:
1. Facilitate better and more efficient exchange of knowledge and experiences regarding European conventions on human rights and the right of women and children
2. Exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences regarding HRV and the consequences for the victim and the offenders.
3. Finally the project aims to be a further step in general awareness rising effort to highlight the importance to take preventive measures against HRV.
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Early Marriage - Culture Or Abuse?
Final report: http://amalipe.com/files/bulletin/EM_report_TOTAL_FINAL_FINAL.pdf
1. Objectives
Objectives comply with the priority of the call “Violence linked to harmful practices”. The main objectives are: to explore the sociological aspect of the Roma view on early marriage, to early detect the problems in the Roma community and to educate teachers, Roma representatives, experts in the field of social work, counseling and health care, NGO’s and the police on how to act as a mediator at the occurrence of early / forced marriage.
To achieve those objectives the project will have the following work-streams:
• Sociological research "Early Marriage: Culture or Abuse "
• Training on mediation and "door to door" visits
• Prevention programs for schoolchildren
• Dissemination and promotion
2. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• The main target group are members of the Roma community, especially parents. Their children in particular girls of 12-14 years are the main beneficiaries of these activities. The target group are also public services on the local level (schools, social services, health community centres, police and others) and NGO’s and Roma activists.
• The project uses “door to door” method of field work in order to have a reliable picture of the problem. The project applies a method of coordination and participatory approach and ensures coordinated work of responsible institutions, NGO's and Roma authorities for preventing early / forced marriages. As a result members of the Roma community and others will develop higher awareness on the topic and be presented with the notion that early / forced marriage is not a cultural norm and getting education and marring later is more favorable practice that does not violate Roma culture but contributes to its development.
• Schoolchildren will receive knowledge on reproductive health, sexual education and family planning, encouragement to learn and acquire skills for constructive solving of conflict situations; awareness of cultural diversity and modernization of Roma culture.
• Roma mediator will be trained and have the experience to detect problems. Public services on local level (schools, social services, health community centers, police, others) and NGO’s will gain the necessary knowledge on how to act as a mediator.
3. Type and number of outputs to be produced
Most important outputs and deliverables are tools and results of the sociological research, prepared and executed training programme for mediators, employed Roma mediators who will carry out "door to door" visits in Roma settlements, organized thematic discussion of interdepartmental teams, implementation of prevention programs in primary schools with educational film, discussions in the community, discussions in the group and guidelines with research findings and tested recommendations for the prevention of early / forced marriages to be sent to decision-makers in all project partners countries.
Dissemination strategy includes work with mass media, project website, promotion in elementary schools, publication of the programme for mediators, publication of prevention programme for schoolchildren and final conference in Ljubljana.
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A-Z to SAFETY
Project website: http://ikwro.org.uk/a-to-z-to-safety/
A-Z to Safety is a 6-member partnership based in the UK, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey (Associate). The project aims; create safe environments for women and girls; combat and prevent injustice against women and girls from violence linked to harmful practices (VHP) and uphold the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
1. Objectives
• prevent, and protect women and girls from harmful practices
• increase accessibility of services for women and girls
• empower women and girls
• facilitate and encourage direct participation of communities in preventing harmful practices
• ensure the sustainability of services through improved data collection, training and dissemination of
• good practice
• add value to practice at a European level
2. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
The Project has 6 target groups:
4. Iranian, Kurdish, Turkish, Afghan, Arab, Roma and other Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women and girls residing in the partner and other EU countries: mainly migrants, refugees/asylum seekers who have arrived in the EU individually or with their families due to civil unrest, economic/political difficulties and commonly coming from countries that deny basic human rights and have strong patriarchal roots. These women and girls continue to be subjected to VHP in host countries. Our beneficiaries include women who have never been allowed to develop economic independence which increases their vulnerability.
5. Professionals in a prime position to practically assist our beneficiaries: teachers, social workers, police, NGO coordinators, and national/local government policymakers and officials e.g. housing and health workers and their professional training bodies.
6. Communities that need to change their mind-set about harmful practices in order to eradicate this violence.
7. The media through which we aim to raise public awareness and impact on policy, practice and legislation.
8. Practitioners across the EU who need to access to reliable data and resources in order to impact positively in ending VHP in the EU.
9. EU and national legislators, policy and decision-makers who can initiate and implement changes to legislation and government practice.
The need for this project is based on partners’ discussions with service users, focus groups, and the experience, research derived from DAPHNE projects in partner countries.
3. Type and number of outputs to be produced
Over 24 months A-Z to Safety will deliver:
• Accessible information advice and guidance – both 1:1 on our premises and on an outreach basis to 400 women and girls and through National Helplines to 2,400 women, young girls and professionals.
• Counselling to address anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress caused by violence, abuse, and death threats, and to increase confidence for 200 women and girls
• 160 targeted awareness-raising workshops and 6 steering group meetings for communities to change their mind-set
• 320 training workshops and 6 steering group meetings for professionals to increase their understanding of VHP and enable more effective support to women and girls
• Mainstreaming of VHP training as part of Continuous Professional Development for professionals in key agencies
• Guidelines on Community Participation aimed at ending VHP; and Service Standards to inform the design of services for women and girls affected by harmful practices
• Skills development to increase women and girls’ confidence, self-esteem, employability and financial independence: 70 in leadership courses; 90 in rights and entitlements; 50 in numeracy;
• 70 in employability and 20 women receiving employment support and jobs.
• A new ‘practitioners’ website to share data, resources, Guidelines and Service Standards with EU partners, countries, EU and national legislators and government agencies and a conference for 200 participants.
• Campaigning and lobbying politicians and legislative bodies at national and EU levels to bring about changes in policy and legislation to ensure safe safety for our beneficiaries.
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priority Harm
1. Objectives
• To foster cooperation between child protection, health, and education systems; justice and police to coordinate their activities related to combat the early marriage among Roma communities applying ChildCentred Approach /CCA/
• Raising awareness among different target groups in Roma communities in order to change their attitudes and behavior regarding early marriage
• To increase the practice at the European level in the area of applying CCA to protect children from the harmful tradition of early marriage
2. Activities
• 4 transnational partners meetings
• Regular communication and coordination between partners
• Monitoring the project implementation
• Design of a methodology to analyze MultiSectoral Cooperation
• Data collection, the study of documents
• Working out of 4 analyses
• Working out of a comparative report and translation into 5 languages
• Training stakeholders’ representatives
• Development of a training package for awareness-raising activities
• Creating youth advisory panel
• Delivering sessions for children
• ConductingParents’ schools
• Community work Family Group Conferences, counseling, etc.
• Developing a dissemination plan
• Developing a project website
• 4 regional dissemination events
• Final Conference
• Design of a Toolkit
• Translation into 5 languages
• Elaboration of 1200 USB sticks, containing the Toolkit
• Developing a project brochure
• Selection of the evaluation team
• Developing process evaluation indicators
• Data collection and analysis
• Writing the report
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• 1000 children involved in awareness-raising sessions
• 500 parents in Parents’ schools
• 500 members of families and community – involved In Family Group Conferences and Counseling
• 150 representatives of institutions – participating in trainings and workshops
• 1000 representatives of child protection, health and education systems; justice and police are aware of the problem and have a tool to act
• 250 participants in dissemination events
• 20 000 persons access the ERIO network facilities
• 1500 people access the project website
• 500 people download online publications
• 5000 citizens informed about the problem
4. Expected results
• Promoted approach to asserting rights of children as a base for combating and prevention of early marriage among Roma communities
• Empowered young people to protect themselves from involvement in early marriages;
• Strengthened child participation for protection of their rights and those of their peers of involvement in early marriages
• Improved positive parenting skills related to supporting the development of the child and raised awareness of the risks and consequences of early marriage
• Increased number of men from the families and communities engaged in the protection of children from early marriage
• Increased awareness among the Roma community of the legal framework regulating marriage in the respective partner country and the consequences of early marriage
• Identified working policies and practices of interinstitutional and cross-sectoral cooperation in the partner countries
• Improved competence and professional skills of the stakeholders (child protection, health, education, justice, police, Roma community) in the area of child rights and their sensitivity to the effects of early marriage on child development as well as on the society on the whole
• Stronger interinstitutional and cross-sectoral cooperation in the partner countries with regard to early marriage based on child individuality and protection of its rights
• Widespread project results and products.
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• A Comparative report analyzing the situations in partners country
• A Toolkit all training packages used in the project, child rights protection issues in 6 languages
• 1200 USB sticks in partners languages
• A Project brochure in 6 languages
• A Multilingual website
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EU Roadmap for Referral Pathways on Early/Forced Marriage targeting frontline professionals
Project website: http://femroadmap.eu/
1. Objectives:
• To obtain and integrate victim/expert feedback on an integrated, multi-professional EU Roadmap for Referral Pathways on early or forced marriage or forced sexual relationships for frontline professionals throughout the EU.
• To implement and evaluatethe EU Roadmap with multisectoral actors (child protection system actors, health sector, law enforcement, education and childcare, justice, victim support services) in contact with victims or potential victims of harmful practices in 5 Member States (AT, DE, FR,PT, UK)
• To disseminate the EU Roadmap in the EU Member States via the project partners and in the European Region via the UnitedNations Population Fund network.
2. Activities:
• Analysis and consultation on the EU Roadmap via victims/potential victims and national/EU experts (UNICEF, EU Plan Office, Equality Now, Eurochild)
• Pilot the EU Roadmap in the 5 partner countries through multi-professional focus groups, national expert interviews, and face to face interviews with victims or potential victims
• Implementation and evaluation of the EU Roadmap for 12 months in 5 support service organizations (1 per partner country) and dissemination of the Roadmap across the UNFPA network
• Dissemination in the EU and Eastern Europe/Central Asia to have a sustainable impact outside of EU borders
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project:
• Victims and potential victims of early/forced marriage or forced sexual relationships who seek assistance from frontline professionals (number of persons cannot be predicted as few estimates exist of incidence)
• Frontline multidisciplinary professionals in the partner countries (50 specialized professionals in total; 10 per country).
• Gender-based violence/child rights advocates in Eastern European/Central Asia (200), country officers (200), and YPEER network(100) who have multiplier effects throughout Region.
4. Expected results:
• Improved victim assistance for victims and potential victims of early or forced marriage or forced sexual relationships and their families, peers in the 5 project partner countries and in Europe/Central Asia through UNFPA
• Improved knowledge of harmonized, best practice standards for referral pathways by frontline professionals, child protection/law enforcement/education/childcare/justice/health actors
• Increased awareness of the applicability of the EU Roadmap of Referral Pathway on early/forced marriage throughout the gender focal points in the European Region via dissemination by UNFPA and through a wide range of nongovernmental organizations and voluntary organizations that are working directly with children at risk of forced marriage and/or its consequences.
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced:
• 1 Working paper of existing national guides on forced/early marriage; identification of gaps in English
• 5 multidisciplinary focus groups, 15 narrative interviews with victims, 15 expert interviews, 1 Guideline on a focus group/interview methodology
• 1 Project website in English, 8 Social Media updates, 10 newspaper/magazine/blog in English or partner language
• 1 EU Roadmap for Referral Pathways, 50 pages on early/forced marriage/forced sexual relationships for frontline professionals in 5 languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian) as a programmatic tool for MS
• 1 Evaluation report, 30 pages in English of the implementation of the EU Roadmap in the 5 partner countries
• 5 national Dissemination Plans 10 pages each and 1 Dissemination Plan, 15 pages UNFPA activities
• 1 Awareness-raising report on rights of young victims and potential victims with regards to harmful practices to target youth via the YPEER network and written in collaboration with youth
• 1 Final project report to DG Justice in English
• 1 Public summary document of the project, 4 pages in English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian
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Marry When You Are Ready
Project website: http://www.ternibori.org/en/
1 . Objectives
• The project addresses the problem of early marriage involving girls, aged between 9 and 15 years, in Roma communities in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Austria, Italy. These are countries both of origin and where Roma live today, carrying on this patriarchal tradition of violence. Combined child marriage is a cultural tradition, aggravated by economic difficulties and social segregation.
• It prevents normal growth in a large number of girls who are deprived of the right to education, work, choice of partner, and personal development. The psychological, physical, and economic consequences are far-reaching.
2 . Activities
The project lasts 18 months and has two workstreams: Community work, for awareness-raising, and Recommendations and dissemination, to impact on policies.
• Community work (15 months) – Common working method will be established through an exchange (initial staff training in Montenegro) with Associate Partners with expertise on the issue. The operators will organize meetings to raise awareness and provide information on the physical and psychological risks and economic impact arising from early marriage. Special focus is on rural and segregated areas. Both adults and community leaders are targeted, and children and youth, encouraging them to continue schooling. It is the start of a long path, that aims to trigger a change of cultural attitudes. The work is based on informal meetings, theatrical performances, movies, and progressive role models. Experiences, materials, and documents form the basis of evaluation and discussion among partners (meeting in Romania).
• Recommendations and dissemination (8 months) Analyses and methods from Community Work will be processed into the Red Notebook, with practical and policy recommendations on European, national and local level. It is a call to action for eradication of child marriage, so far inexistent as issue in policies and strategies for Roma integration. Red Notebook with indications on how to frame legislation, policies and support, will be presented to policy makers and stakeholders in a conference in Bruxelles and in 5 national conferences.
3 . Type and number of persons benefitting from the project
• The direct beneficiaries are Roma girls and their families and communities, 30 in 5 countries.
• At least 7.200 individuals will be engaged through direct contact.
• The other main target group are policymakers on the European and national level of 5 countries.
• Indirect beneficiaries are stakeholders working with and for Roma communities inclusion: public institutions on local level, school and health authorities and workers, social services and mediators, NGOs working
4 . Expected Results
• Obtain a new awareness in institutions and civil society organization at EU and national level, about the dimension and severity of the problem and the need to insert it as a transversal priority in Roma inclusion strategies.
• Initiate a cultural change in the attitude towards the forced child marriage, mainly within the Roma communities but also in the general public.
• Forge a strong partnership of Roma women organizations with the capacity to pursue this work as a priority.
5 . Type and number of outputs produced by the project
• Website; social channels.
• Staff training.
• Methodological Toolkit.
• At least 1250 community meetings.
• Documentary archive; videos.
• 7 public theatre performances.
• Evaluation meeting.
• Publication “Red Notebook: Practical and Policy Recommendations..
• 6 high-level stakeholders conferences.
• Functional outputs: communication toolkit, 2 press releases, 8000 canvas bags; monitoring platform, administrative guidelines, 4 reports
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HASP Honour Ambassadors against Shame Practices
Project website: http://hasp-project.eu/en/about-hasp/
1. Objectives
• Improve knowledge, raise awareness and help change attitudes on Honour Related Violence (HRV) against women, ranging from forced marriage to so-called “honour crimes”.
• Promote skills of social workers and law enforcement personnel regarding the detection, assessment and reporting/addressing HRV against women thus combat and prevent HRV practices.
• Provide specific policy recommendations at the national and EU level, thus engaging public authorities and policymakers with the aim of enhancing and upgrading antiHRV policies.
• Promote awareness-raising through the direct participation of relevant communities and stakeholders, incorporating direct participation of those communities, with a focus on engaging men (indicatively, White Ribbon UK is a partner), as well as community and religious leaders and/or victims from practicing communities (also see Associate partners).
• Encourage mutual learning and exchange of good practices between professionals and/or organizations, including public authorities, on the combat and prevention of HRV practices.
2. Activities
• Investigate, map, and comparatively analyze current situation regarding HRV in the participating countries and the EU
• Provide a scientific study of HRV against women
• Develop a joint transnational short eLearning training program for social workers and law enforcement personnel, aiming at providing them with the skills required in order to effectively detect and address HRV practices.
• Implement Awareness Raising Field Missions, conducted in collaboration with Associate partners and other stakeholders, thus actively involving relevant communities
• Implement the exchange of good practices through Mutual Learning
• Raise awareness on HRV through Research workshops, Public Roundtables, Info Days, and an International Conference, the transnational “Honour Ambassadors” network as well as other dissemination activities
3. Type and number of persons benefiting from the project
• Social workers and police officers (min. 1900)
• Women experiencing or at risk of HRV (undefined)
• Professionals and organizations working on gender equality/human rights issues and, especially on HRV, throughout Europe and beyond.
• Policymakers at all levels in five EU countries
• Academics (min. 30)
• Communities (min. eight)
4. Expected results
• To improve knowledge on the issue of HRV in the participating countries
• To provide specific policy recommendations at national and EU level
• To study the psychological aspect of HRV
• To reach women experiencing or at risk of HRV
• To develop an online joint transnational e-learning training program for social workers and law enforcement personnel
• Raise awareness through the Awareness Raising Field Missions, conducted by the HASPs in collaboration with Associate partners and other stakeholders
• Promote in practice the exchange of good practices through Mutual Learning
• Raise awareness on HRV through dissemination activities
5. Type and number of outputs to be produced
• Mapping HRV practices against women reports (one report per partner country and a comparative analysis report)
• Policy Recommendations Paper
• HRV Practices against Women: A psychological Approach (one scientific study)
• An Honour Toolkit against Violence, providing women experiencing or at risk of HRV with a step by step selfassessment, and also offering them guidance on how to face the situation (organizations and authorities to resort to etc.)
• A joint transnational training programme for social workers and law enforcement personnel
• Training material for the joint transnational e-training
• Mutual Learning
• HASP Trainee Guide
• Awareness RaisingField Missions (at least 40)
• HASP Mutual Learning
• Research workshops (at least 2 per partner organization)
• Info Days (at least1 per partner country)
• Public Roundtables (at least 1 per partner country)
• International Conference on HRV practices against women
• HASP Network (transnational)
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School education programme on gender equality, gender-based violence and harmful practices
Objectives
• Empower children to respect human rights, recognize violations of children rights and forms of GBV violence and protect themselves;
• Raise the awareness of school personnel, families, communities, and support services to develop a supportive environment for children;
• Strengthen political commitment of local authorities (education, welfare, youth) to sustain school education programs on gender
Activities
• Development of education modules and educational resources for children and focal points
• Meetings with schools, families, local authorities and support services
• Delivery of education activities
• Dissemination / Awareness-raising activities
• Evaluation of project impact
Type/number of persons benefiting from the project
• Total of 1.322 children: 685 secondary schools, 637 primary schools
• Teachers / School personnel: ~ total of 93-124 focal points trained
• Families and communities: 1.860-2.480 people reached
• Local authorities and support services: ~35 entities reached
Expected results
• Children change their attitudes towards gender stereotypes and social, cultural and religious norms reinforcing those
• Children have increased capacity to claim their rights and to protect themselves in risky or violent situations and to access specialist services and support
• Families and communities are better aware of GBV and children rights
• A reference system between authorities, services and the schools
• Comprehensive education program transferable to other contexts
• Strengthened political commitment to sustain school education programs on gender
Type/number of deliverables to be produced
• 19 education modules
• 24-32 educational resources
• 57-114 creative outputs developed by children
• 62 meetings with schools
• 31 meetings with families
• 31 awareness-raising events
• 66-84 meetings with local authorities and support services
• Facebook, Blog, Instagram
• 50-60 dissemination actions
• Baseline assessment / 2 evaluation report