Strengthening National Capacities to Prevent Domestic Violence
Project description
In 2008, the Government adopted the National Strategy for Protection Against Domestic Violence. It focuses on improving awareness, response and prevention. The hope is that standardized and efficient responses, alongside better public awareness, will reduce domestic violence in the country.
Five UN agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNFPA and WHO) are working together to support the Government’s National Coordinative Body to implement the new Strategy in three areas:
1) Support to improved national policy
2) Assistance to improve support to victims
3) By raising public awareness
Objectives
- To establish a standardized national protection system for the victims of domestic violence
- To strengthen the monitoring of policy-implementation and improvement of accountability of all policy-making actors
- To design and implement community outreach behavior change programmes, targeting the most at risk communities and public education campaigns
- To support programmes for economic empowerment of and reintegration of the victims.
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Focus Area
Social Inclusion
Major Source of Funding
Dutch Government and UN agencies
UNDP Programme Officer
Vesna Dzuteska Bisheva
Partners on the Ground
Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Science
Location
National level project
Delivery 2010
566,000 USD
Delivery 2011
436,000 USD
Project documents
Fact Sheet
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