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Preventing Gender Based Violence Through Education and Awareness Raising

The project "Preventing Gender Based Violence Through Education and Awareness Raising" is supported by the EU Commission and implemented by Kosovar Gender Studies Center (KGSC) in partnership with Solidar Suisse.

The Action, through a three years’ active engagement will commit: To counter and prevent all forms of Gender- Based Violence in Kosovar society through education and awareness raising and will focus on two objectives:

Objective 1: Raise awareness across the community and general public that violence against women is a human rights violation and encourage every citizen to challenge it.
Objective 2: Promote the implementation of effective measures for preventing and combating violence against women at the national and local level.

The project will directly address these needs in the following way:

Educational activities and capacity building:

  • Increasing the capacities of the Municipal Coordinating Mechanisms for Protection from Domestic Violence for the drafting of their three-year action plan.
  • Organization of numerous workshops for the transmission of knowledge and skills to local media, portals and municipal offices for information on how to ensure balanced reporting on sensitive gender issues, with a special focus on gender-based violence.
  • Information sessions with key actors (youth/students, teachers/professors, social work centers) including local media, CSOs, local authorities, journalists on how to identify and prevent GBV and discrimination.
  • Organize training sessions for members of social work centers, local level community police and other actors on increasing knowledge on Standard Operating Procedures for Protection from Domestic Violence, according to the Istanbul Convention.

Research and Analysis:

  • A baseline study on prevention, gender-based violence, empowering and/or effectuating early local warning mechanisms, and provisioning victim support services in Kosovo.
  • An endline study on prevention, gender-based violence, developing and/or effectuating early local warning mechanisms, and provisioning victim support services in Kosovo. Result of the study to be shared with all stakeholders and policy makers.

Information, communication and advocacy:

  • High-level Advocacy activities related to gender-based violence with key decision makers and stakeholders.
  • High-level Conferences involving key decision makers and stakeholders, communities’ representatives engaged in Human Rights with the focus on Women protection from violence and abuse.