A Good Practice Guide on Ending Gender-Based Violence

TARGET GROUP: PUBLIC

OBJECTIVES

•   To bring together men and women from totally different back grounds, countries, religions, ideas and belief systems.

•   To create awareness between youth from different cultural backgrounds.

•  To train trainers and highlight that despite social, economic, educational, geographical, and cultural differences, violence against women is a fact and a factor that tragically affects them all.

SUMMARY

Many European projects have been implemented on gender equality and violence against women. One can find as many as possible just by surfing through the internet and especially within the various institutions of the European Union. However, this BREAKING THE CYCLE project brings about its own distinctive perspective on combatting gender based violence. Yes, it is true that many good practice guides have been created, elaborated upon, written and publicized; this guide is unique in many ways. On the contrary, reading through the content of this guide, participants will find some similarities in the framework of good practices. Some content will be familiar, for they have already been implemented in like trainings as an example, the term “legal aid.” Also, there will be huge differences in the essence and the challenges that the good practice is trying to face, to combat, and to transcend. Thirty good practice training topics in total; five gathered from each partner’s country. These topics range from capacity building to self-defence, from refugee camps to discrimination during menstruation, from engaging men and boys on GBV to audio stories for adolescent boys, from shelters for victims of trafficking to family planning. This guide is a most interesting read for all concerned; a short story of discrimination against women, and most of all a “guide” to replicate “good practices” that have been implemented with results, paving the way to gender equality. We express our appreciation to ERASMUS+ programme for giving us this precious experience and opportunity

REFERENCE

https://www.peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/A%20Good%20Practice%20Guide%20on%20Breaking%20GBV%20-%20Breaking%20The%20Cycle.pdf