Issues Affecting Women Programme Grants (2008)

• "Zena BIH" Mostar

  To provide assistance, psycho-social and legal support, as well as safe-house accommodation to women and children who are victims of violence, and to provide psycho-social help to violators if they so desire. The organisation also provides, mostly in the rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, information about the solutions and mechanisms foreseen by the law to help victims as well as raise awareness about violence against women and children, targeting representatives of religious communities, local government, media, and educational and cultural institutions. (Over two years)

• Autonomous Women’s Center

  To ensure a consolidated national approach to countering domestic violence in Serbia. This will be done through the adoption and implementation of the Protocol on Operating Procedures of Services and Inter-Sectoral Cooperation. This protocol seeks to foster respect for the position of victims, to promote the security of victims and to determine the responsibility of the violator. (Over two years)

• Bahia Street

  To promote equality in Brazilian society by fostering an educated and engaged population of African-Brazilian women who can succeed in professional careers while being activists for their communities. This is achieved by allowing impoverished female students to reach their academic potential, including attending university, and supporting their mental and physical health and well-being, as well as assisting their families and the communities where they live. (Over two years)

• Cambodian Acid Survivors' Charity (CASC)

  To eliminate acid violence in Cambodia, and empower the local health care system to care for acid-burn victims. Through reconstructive surgery, physical rehabilitation and psychological support, to ensure all acid-burn survivors are able to successfully reintegrate into society. To this end, CASC also works towards ending the marginalisation of and discrimination against people with disfigurements and disabilities. (Over three years)

• Lara

  To decrease and prevent trafficking of young girls by providing local secondary school teachers in 20 towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the knowledge, skills and resources they need to work with children to protect them from trafficking. In addition, by increasing awareness about trafficking among secondary school girls, and in the local communities, Lara creates conditions for the active involvement of the communities in combating trafficking. (Over two years)

• Manav Seva Sansthan “SEVA”

  To prevent trafficking of women and adolescents by facilitating informed and safe cross-border travel, thus minimising the incidence of exploitation and abuse among Nepalese migrants seeking alternative economic opportunities away from home. This entails constructive engagement with gatekeepers (border police and army), local NGOs, and law enforcement and Intelligence agencies. (Over two years)

• Sisters of the Good Shepherd – Good Shepherd Services

  To provide comprehensive services (i.e. short-term crisis counselling, safety planning, information, referrals, and advocacy) to women survivors of domestic violence and to their children in New York City. To maximise participants’ capacity to access safe housing and achieve greater autonomy by ensuring that they develop vocational and educational plans specific to their needs and interests. Specifically, the programme seeks to implement an employment-focused culture in its domestic violence shelter and to gradually extend this approach to the non-resident population. (Over three years)

• SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence Niksic

  To combat violence against women and to assist victims of all forms of violence in Montenegro, through cooperation, coordination and communication between SOS Hotline and relevant social institutions in the community. Additionally, to provide victims with accessible and adequate physical and psychological rehabilitation services and support, in order to prevent further violence against them. (Over two years)

• Zenski Centar Trebinje

  To provide appropriate support for women and children, victims of domestic violence, in the eastern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. To build up a team of experts, by training eight strong and empowered women who have themselves been victims of domestic violence so that they can in turn provide full support to victims. Also, to organise a support network in the Trebinje region by involving voluntary and statutory agencies through the adoption of memoranda and protocols. (Over one year)

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