VERA - Positive change through integrated action in turbulent times!
National Agency for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men ·Romania
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The project objective is to improve and adapt the public response capacity of central and local authorities in order to provide better and adequate support for victims of domestic and gender-based violence in the present challenging times, due to the COVID - 19 pandemic, by also including specific interventions for vulnerable groups exposed to double discrimination. The activities that will be carried out in the project aim at:</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">-improving the response capacity to emergency intervention in cases of domestic violence, at the communities’ level, of the mobile teams set up based on inter-agency collaboration;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">- enhancing the institutional capacity of the General Directorates of Social Assistance and Child Protection by training specialists from Domestic Violence Departments on access to justice for victims of domestic and gender-based violence;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">- developing a monitoring tool (barometer) in the field of domestic and gender – based violence, at county and national level, that will observe the implementation of the national policies in the field, the prevalent forms of domestic and gender-based violence and trends during COVID - 19 pandemic as well as challenges and specific needs of the victims, in order to develop or adapt the policies and programes in the field.</span></span></p>
Project partners
- Center for Training and Evaluation in Social Work (CFCECAS) Project partner· Romania
- Sensiblu Foundation Project partner· Romania
- Necuvinte Association Project partner· Romania
- Center for Community Safety and Mediation Center (CMSC) Project partner· Romania
- Association for Socio-Economic Development and Promotion CATALACTICA Project partner· Romania