Strengthening the Victim Support System

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">The project contributes to the programme outcome "Reduced domestic and gender-based violence and gender inequalities". The donor project partner in this project is the&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS).</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The project will improve the system for support to victims of domestic and gender-based violence to ensure a systematic, sustainable and coordinated approach to combat such violence.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">The Project Promoter is the&nbsp;<strong>Estonian National Social Insurance Board, </strong>which&nbsp;will collaborate with all relevant organisations active in the field (primary care physicians, women shelter organisations) who will be consulted / involved to the project activities.&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">Target groups of the project are victims of violence (children, women, men), perpetrators of violence and specialists who come into contact with victims of violence. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">To be successful in preventing the domestic and gender based violence in the long term, this project will:</span></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">develop a volunteers’ system to accomplice state victim support,</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">develop interventions for perpetrators of violence, </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">develop an early detection system for health care workers, </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">provide counselling and/or abilities for that to specialists at woman’s shelters,</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">provide a quality assessment tool for women’s shelters. </span></span></span></li> </ul>

Bilateral cooperation results

A very comprehensive study trip was put together by donor partner NKVTS giving a thorough overview of the victim support system and services in Norway. Our specialists visited organisations like Alternative to Violence (ATV), Rosa-project (trafficking), Romerike shelter as well as the Directorate of Health. The analysis of Rosa-project results is of special interest as it is an innovative approach to us.

Project partners

• Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) Donor project partner· Norway