Civil Society Completed

Pro-active against Violence against Women

Animus Association Foundatation ·Bulgaria

€156k

Grant awarded

Civil Society

Programme

29 October 2019

Signed

About this project

The project aims at educating and mobilizing the civil society to fight violence against women. By organizing an awareness-raising campaign to recognize violence against women and the need to interfere and by sensitizing police officers about the issue,  we expect to raise the awareness of the public about the forms and consequences of domestic violence and have an increase of 30% in reporting. The project provides for the following activities: surveys, monitoring and analyses, in particular a survey of the attitudes of police officers towards domestic violence and their knowledge of the legal framework, an analysis of the statistical data from 112 emergency number calls and cases from reality, monitoring of public policies and practices regarding domestic violence in four cities in the country (the work of the police, the prosecution, the court and social services). The project envisages an awareness-raising campaign including a communication strategy developed by a working group of representatives of the police, reporters, female victims of domestic violence and experts supporting victims of violence, separate messages developed for the different target groups (the Roma community, young people aged 18 – 30, the elderly, etc.), a programme for empowerment of female victims of domestic violence, media and public events together with the police and women – ambassadors and an advocacy campaign, including advocacy to set up Regional centres with bar councils in the cities of Sofia, Silistra, Smolyan and others.

Project partners

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