Project objectives:
- Empowering VAW victims & women at risk through development of key messages and most effective communication tools to increase women’s abilities to recognise VAW and trigger motivation to reach out for help.
- Building capacity of professionals – health care professionals (primary health care level doctors and gynecologists), social workers, child rights protection officers, journalists – through training and development of practical information to ensure sensitive support for victims of VAW and input to VAW prevention.
- Raising awareness of the general public through informing society about various forms of VAW & challenging victim-blaming attitudes within society.
Project activities:
- Identifying success stories and good examples.
- Developing information on how to recognise violence, what to do if you encounter it and where to go for help.
- Training for professionals on how to identify victims of violence and how to provide quality assistance.
- Social and awareness-raising campaigns.
- Media monitoring and recommendations on how to avoid blaming victims of violence.