| Reporting Organization: | UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 416,520 |
| Timeframe: | December 17, 2013 - June 30, 2015 |
| Status: | Completion |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Afghanistan - $ 416,520.00 (100.00%) | |
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| Humanitarian Response (60 %) | |
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| Gender Equality (40 %) | |
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The project aims to prevent gender-based violence for 5,300 women and 4,600 girls living in communities of internally displaced people, refugees, and returnees (refugees returning to Afghanistan from other countries) in Nangarhar. The project aims to establish a coordinated community-response mechanism involving health, police, judicial and legal services, shelters and protection services, educational institutions, and religious and cultural groups. This mechanism helps to: (1) protect women and girls from violence before it happens and ensure that survivors of violence, their children, and other dependents receive the comprehensive support they need in a timely and sensitive manner; (2) give women and girls access to protection and legal assistance and meet their basic health and livelihood needs; (3) encourage survivors to report incidents of violence by ensuring a gender-sensitive and appropriate response while increasing trust in the police; (4) promote “zero tolerance” of gender-based violence throughout the communities; (5) increase prosecutions and convictions for gender-based violence; and (6) better monitor women’s safety and intervention programmes. Some project activities include: (1) establishing a referral system to help women and girl survivors of violence navigate through support systems and services, as part of a coordinated community response; (2) raising awareness of gender-based violence issues through radio and television programs, publications, group discussions, workshops, training sessions, educational activities, and peer-to-peer education activities; and (3) supporting the Gender-Based Violence Sub-Cluster, a national coordinating body located in the capital of Nangarhar, by offering training programs, advocating for the rights of refugee women, and developing a response mechanism for gender-based violence cases against women, girls, and boys.
| Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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| Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
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Return to topThe expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: Improved provision of services for survivors of gender-based violence among displaced and returnee communities in Nangarhar province.
Results achieved by the UNFPA through the support of the Government of Canada as of the end of the project (June 2015) include: (1) 4 batches of training workshops for 100 religious leaders on Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response were conducted; (2) 4 batches of training workshops for 100 teachers on GBV prevention and response in six Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) camps were conducted; (3) 50 self-support groups were established in six IDP settlements with 8 initial trainings and one refresher training on GBV psychosocial counselling, GBV referral, and GBV prevention and response were conducted to self-support groups; (4) 333 GBV key actors (staff from The Directorate of Women’s Affairs (DOWA), Department of Refugees and Returnees, GBV Sub-cluster members, community and religious leaders) were trained on GBV prevention, response, referral and coordination; and (5) training on GBV data collection was conducted and tools were distributed to the health facilities. This project has contributed to the prevention of GBV of women and girls living in living in communities of internally displaced people, refugees, and returnees (refugees returning to Afghanistan from other countries) in Nangarhar.
