LB-MOI-497-4.4
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Launch 2 nation-wide media campaigns to announce for ISF due-diligence and accountability role in addressing GBV issues and in responding to the GBV needs of women, and another one during the 16 Days of Activism. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
General community
Between October and December 2017, ABAAD launched a nation-wide media and advocacy campaign under the slogan “Life_for_Life” Campaign, with its primary goal of calling on decision-makers and legislators to amend Chapter Seven of the Penal Code to sentence incest rape perpetrators to life imprisonment. For this end, several bi-lateral meetings were held between October and November 2017, with official stakeholders to discuss ways of strengthening fair legislations with regards to protection of women form S-GBV. The campaign provided people with different key messages on several gender-related topics, and created a nation-wide awareness. This broad awareness propagated towards stakeholders, policy makers, and political leaders, with some of them endorsing different causes, which culminated in the Lebanese President speaking against gender based violence, and lighting the presidential palace orange, as a sign to “Leave No One Behind”. More specifically, the above-mentioned stakeholder meetings held with the ISF, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs, Lebanese President and the National Commission for Lebanese Women, aimed at discussing possible ways of issuing policies, statements, memos to ensure protection of women and girls from all forms of violence. As a result of these meetings four (4) main official statements were issued, from the Lebanese President Micheal Aoun, the UN Representative Philippe Lazarini, H.E Jean Ogasapian as well the head of the NCLW in Lebanon. These statements focused on condemning all forms of GBV and on the necessity of expedite national efforts and processes to adopt a NAP for UNSCR 1325. In his speech during the unveiling of the statues dedicated to women survivors, President Aoun described violence against women as a type of barbarism – the result of an absence of human feeling towards another being. "One of my goals as president is to eliminate the legal differences between men and women, although this is a small step towards eliminating gender-based violence”. Lazarini reiterated the message of the Secretary–General delivered on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, that every woman and every girl has the right to a life free of violence. He assured that the United Nations is committed to addressing violence against women & girls in all its forms. Nevertheless, on the occasion of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence 2018, ABAAD, in partnership with the Office of the Minister of State for Women Affairs and the National Commission for Lebanese Women, and with the financial support of the Dutch Embassy in Lebanon, the British Embassy in Lebanon and the Norwegian People Aid, and a number of partners and allies, has launched the “#ShameOnWho?” nationwide campaign
“Life_for_Life campaign aimed at raising women’s awareness about the necessity to report sexual abuse, particularly due to the detrimental psychological damage that incest crimes leave on girls and women which might even lead to suicide. This campaign has contributed to achieving the set objectives of strengthening legislation and raising awareness to create an enabling environment. It is to be noted that this set objective falls under ABAAD’s four-year strategy for 2017-2020; hence, assessing the extent of achieving this objective could not be limited to one off media campaign and its related events. the “#ShameonWho?” campaign calls for the prosecution of all rapists and promotes a public opinion that supports the victim instead of judging her. The aim of this campaign is to press for tougher sanctions and accelerate trials against rapists, in cases of sexual violence and rape in particular, and to change social perceptions that stigmatize and shame female rape victims, pushing them to cover up the crime. It also aims to create a supportive public opinion that condemns the act of rape as a crime punishable by a deterrent punishment.
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nation-wide media campaigns to announce ISF’s role in due diligence and accountability regarding addressing GBV
Between November and December, ABAAD’s Life_for_Life campaign has reached to 4.6 million people inside Lebanon (4.2 Million were reached on Facebook, 83.1 thousand impressions on twitter, 119 thousands impressions on Instagram, and 174 thousand views on YouTube). In addition, 284.1 thousands were engaged on ABAAD Facebook posts during the 16 Days Campaign, while 20 thousands, 1.8 thousands and 12.2 thousands were engaged on YouTube, twitter and Instagram respectively. Furthermore, around 90 media outlets (press, TVs and social media platforms) covered the advocacy campaign of 2018. . the " ShameonWho"campaign, has reached 72 Million people on all social media platform.
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ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Rolling-out the produced tool on sexual education in Lebanon in Arabic, through organizing a total of 64 sessions. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Male and Female youth
To meet the requirement of this activity, our Partners from MARSA NGO , followed the below methodology: I- Conducted Three Workshops in three governorates a- In the South Governorate b- In the Bekaa Governorate c- In the North Governorate 2- Rolling out of SRHR sessions
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conducting SRHR training and awareness sessions.
I- three governorates targeted 67 service providers with 82 % female (55 Female) and 18% male participants (12 Male) from all Lebanese territories: a- In the South Governorate , from 22-23-24 JAN 2019 @Saida; targeting 24 participants (5 males and 19 females) from 12 organizations providing services for youth: Terre Des Hommes; Abaad; Makhzoumi; Julnar; Amel; Nabaa; Terre Des Hommes; Red Cross; RDFL, Beit Atfal Assumoud); IMC (; MOPH (Ministry of Public Health); MOSA (Ministry of Social Affairs). b- In the Bekaa Governorate, from 29-30-31 JAN 2019 @ Chtoura; 26 participants registered and attending the workshop from 12 participating (NGO, association, organization, and public sectors) providing services for youth: Makhzoumi foundation ; NISCVT (National Institution of Social Care & Vocational Training); Midwife Department USJ; (IRC, International Rescue Committee); LPHUD (Lebanese Physically Handicapped Union); PHC-Primary Health Care {Mar Francis -; Abaad; Intersos; Social Promotion Foundation; SADA AL GHAD; Life; SOS Children Villages. c- In the North Governorate from 4-5-6 FEB 2019 @Tripoli were 20 participants registered and filled the application to attend the Tripoli’s workshop from 11 participating (NGO, association, organization, and public sectors) providing services for youth: (Al Ekhlas Medical center; Al Azem Wal Saada-; CARE international; NISCVT- National Institution of Social Care & Vocational Training; Abaad; BAS-Beyt Atfal Assumoud; PHC-Primary Health Care { Minieh; Telmaayan; Deir Emmar}; Tripoli Governmental Hospital; PHCC-Primary Health Care Center {Al Ekhlas; Azem w Saadeh}; CRDP-Center for Educational Research and Development; DRC.) d- Rolling out of SRHR sessions : The 80% of participants (equal of 54 Person), who passed both the qualitative skills assessment and the quantitative information assessment, and received the certificate of completion, were provided with Surveys that has been developed for beneficiaries and educators, along with toolkit training material, power points presentations of all 10 learning objectives with corresponding hand-outs, exercises, and pre/post-tests fitting the young learners as most of the trainers expressed how rich the material was and how much time was needed to be much at ease with the learning process; consequently, the Trainers conducted a total of 52 sessions targeting 403 (262 female and 141 male) participants with 66 Syrian, 221 Lebanese and 116 Palestinian from 11 NGOs.
LB-MOI-497-4.2
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Production of an interactive toolkit on sexual education in Lebanon in Arabic, to ensure access to knowledge for male and female youth to sexual education. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Male and Female youth
Lebanon is still considered a somewhat progressively conservative and religiously diverse society. Considering the sensitive nature of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in the region, there are very few accessible, thorough or holistic resources on the topic. SRHR is an imperative aspect of public health, psychological and personal health, and deeply impacts women and young girls, particularly those with less access to resources. This is two-fold. On one hand, lack of knowledge and access to SRHR exacerbates VAW and SGBV. Because there are very few resources about SRHR, women and young girls are more likely to be exposed to violence and sexual exploitation. On the other hand, lack of access to SRHR significantly increases health risks otherwise mitigated by knowledge and accessible services unwanted pregnancies, specifically HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
ABAAD sub-contracted MARSA as well-known local expert organizations on SRHR, to produce this interactive toolkit; In that vein, our partner adopted a participatory approach starting by conducted a KAP survey on SRHR in Lebanon. The objective of this ad hoc survey is the production of an interactive toolkit on sexual education and awareness for youth in Lebanon in the Arabic language. The contacts for the KAP survey were collected from more than 8 organizations working with boys and girls all across Lebanon (Akkar, Baalbek- Hermel, Beirut, Beqaa, Mount Lebanon, Nabatyeh, North, South), with a focus on marginalized communities, including camps and informal settlements and highlighted misconceptions of sexual health, especially in regards to starting-age of sexual activity, its potential risks, and the preventive methods that ought to be taken. Hence, the toolkit material was developed
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Production of an interactive toolkit on sexual education in Lebanon in Arabic, to ensure access to knowledge for male and female youth to sexual education
The contacts for the KAP survey were collected from more than 8 organizations working with boys and girls all across Lebanon (Akkar, Baalbek- Hermel, Beirut, Beqaa, Mount Lebanon, Nabatyeh, North, South), with a focus on marginalized communities, including camps and informal settlements and highlighted misconceptions of sexual health, especially in regards to starting-age of sexual activity, its potential risks, and the preventive methods that ought to be taken., The KAP survey was filled by youth participants between 18 and 24 of age in both Lebanese and non-Lebanese populations; The groups consisted of diverse participants of different sexes, (192 filled surveys in total, 93 Males, 97 Females, 2 Trans), and religious sects. Then, a Literature Review and evaluation of previous work was performed on resources that were available, and scientifically based published researches that were executed with main focus on the tool, and Meetings have been conducted with more than of 8 selected organizations and NGOs, where the framework of the survey, in particular, in regard to gaps, needs, and perceptions where discussed. The KAP Survey data analysis confirmed: - The theory that the youth is not aware of the measures they would have to take before having experiences which could lead to having psychologically, health-related and physically traumatic experiences. - A prominent indicator that awareness about STIs and the risks that unprotected and protected sex harbour is not fully understood or informed to the youth. Also, the majority have only focused on HIV disregarding the other infections: especially that these other infections are more viral and readily transmitted through non-penetrative sexual experiences that these youths are apparently unaware of. - Ignorance about body rights and SGBV. - Communications struggles considering sexual reproductive health and rights among families, different generations, religion, society, politics, and different convictions. - Misconception of consent, labelling, bullying, harassment, tolerance, acceptance, and difference between Gender, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Sexual Behaviour, and Sexuality. - Becoming more aware and educated about contraception and sexual health will decrease the number of unsafe sex, unprotected experiences, and unplanned/unwanted pregnancies. - Almost all participants (97%) wanted to receive more information, the youth are eager to learn more in order to become more responsible to avoid contracting and transmitting infections. - The majority prefers to receive these information and trainings from NGOs, workshops, and organizations that hold the highest preference percentage (19%), followed by Universities (12%), and equal preference for Schools and Women/Men of Religion (8%). - Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Body Rights, , Sex and Gender Based Violence, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Mental Health, Marital Life, LGTBIQA rights and awareness, Child Marriage, Clinical Management of Rape, Religion and Sex, Women Rights, Sexual Health Centre’s (decreasing order) were all proposed by the participants, and it strengthens our hypothesis that there's lack of knowledge concerning these topics. Hence, the toolkit material was developed , yet not limited to the above listed results of the mentioned KAP survey, and includes 10 Learning Objectives in Arabic titled as: - Ethics, Rights and Obligations - Toolkit Learning Model - Youth Development and Body rights - Sexuality - Communication - Sexually Transmitted Infections - Harassment - SRHR - CMR In addition to the development of a booklet on how to utilize the Arabic produced tool and how to plan and train on the 10 Learning Objectives all in Arabic. The toolkit Validating did occur with pedagogy experts between May and Jul 2018 and was conducted and approved by the consultant of the tool validation.
LB-MOI-497-4.1
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Organize 12 training workshops targeting 324 ISF members on issues related to the Clinical Management of Rape and proper referral pathways. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Internal Security Forces members
Between March and June 2017, 75 ISF members and officers across all Lebanese governorates received training's on CMR sensitization through four (two-day) sessions, on the following dates: 1. 28 & 29 March 2017 2. 18 & 19 April 2017 3. 23 & 24 May 2017 4. 20 & 21 June 2017 The table below shows the increase in knowledge/month between February – June 2017, according to the pre/post test results: March: pre-test 34% - post-test 84% -- % of change 50% April: pre-test 26% - post- test 80% -- % of change 54% May: pre-test 29% - post-test 81% -- % of change 52% June: pre-test 27% - post- test 85% -- % of change 58% These sessions aim to ensure proper implementation of law 293 related to domestic and sexual violence, provide training on women survivor’s protection needs, and maintain proper referral pathways. They will equip ISF centers with CMR PEP kits (post-exposure procedures in the case of rape/sexual assault). This is important as there are no unified national procedures for CMR, and ABAAD wants to ensure that the first persons of contact for victims of SGBV in the judicial/legal/investigative sphere (i.e. the ISF) are well-versed in the appropriate procedures for victims of sexual violence and assault. Through joint efforts, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) and ABAAD are raising awareness on crimes of sexual violence. In July 2017, ABAAD conducted a ToT on CMR sensitization for ISF senior officers. ISF then issued Memo # 339/204 s.4 in September 25th, 2017 on “Standards of Interaction and Investigation in Human Trafficking and Sexual Assault Crimes, and standards of support to survivors of such crimes” (annex #25). This memo was then designed as a flyer and poster, translated into two languages (English & French) that the Non-Arabic speakers can understand it, and distributed in the ISF Police Stations and to the public via checkpoints (ISF officers flagged down cars and passers-by, handing out pamphlets highlighting the laws protecting women and the role of the ISF in enforcing these statutes. The pamphlets include information on the steps women should take if they are experiencing any form of violence or harassment). Six meetings were then held with the head of the Internal Security Forces as well as the ISF Head of the Training and Research Department, where an MOU was signed between ABAAD and the ISF (annex #25). These meetings resulted in an agreement between the ISF and ABAAD to 1) launch a national media campaign in 2018 on the ISF Due Diligence, and 2) conduct capacity building workshops for ISF members on the official memo, namely covering issues related to sexual assaults, clinical management of rape, as well as trafficking against women. Based on that, in November and December 2017, a ToT was issued to five high-ranking officers from the ISF where their graduation ceremony took part on October 2018, during a conference organized under the patronage of the Director-General, General Imad Othman , in the presence of Minister of State for Women Affairs Mr. Jean Agassbian, H.E. Ambassador of the Netherlands in Lebanon Mr. Jean Weltmanns, the Director General of the Ministry of Information Hassan Falah, representatives of relevant ministries, the leadership of the army, security institutions and civil defense, judges, as well as representatives of civil society organizations. During 2018, weekly two days training sessions were given to more than One Thousand Two Hundred (1200) ISF officers for an average of 22 officers per session, with 96 female ISF officers (8% of the total participants) and 1104 male officers (92% of the participants). And with the aim of building their capacities on CMR, we used simultaneous interactive and informative sessions making the participation more appealing. Such activities included movies, role playing, and exercises attempting at creating a holistic understanding of the problems discussed in the sessions and addressing the following topics: - Essential concepts of sexual assault - Acquiring skills to handling survivors of sexual assault - Psycho-social and ethical elements needed when approaching a survivor of sexual assault - Important considerations to acquire when handling survivors of sexual assault in the male, children, and elderly population - Defining the clinical management of cases of sexual violence - Introducing the basics of prophylactic methods via the sexual assault aids kit - Interagency standard operating procedures (SOPs) for SGBV prevention and response in Lebanon - Referral systems in Lebanon - Practicing the essentials And on the second day, using explanatory/informative documentary and presentation on the memo. With the aim of building their capacities on topics related to human trafficking and sexual assault, monitoring/identifying indicators, and conducting investigations (annex #25). All ToTs conducted were done so with the objective of expanding the pool of trainers and ensure sustainability and a consistent flow of trainers within the Lebanese Internal Security Forces. This also dually acts as an exit strategy for ABAAD, as the ISF begins taking on the responsibility and due diligence in training its officers. Nevertheless, this memo was lunched during an activity organized jointly by The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces and Abaad on April 14, 2018; an activity was about a parade by an ISF cycling squad, the Harley Davidsons Ladies Club and Lebanon Bikers from Ain Mreiseh neighbourhood of Beirut through two awareness checkpoints at the National Museum and Chevrolet roundabout areas to finally reach the Memorial of the women victims of domestic violence in Baabda, presidential palace road. During their tour, the cyclists distributed leaflets among passers to familiarize the above memo. Towards the end of the activity, the head of the PR division at ISF, Colonel Joseph Musallam, said: “When the ISF set its priorities for the protection of freedoms and human rights, it took into consideration the crimes committed against women,” and stressed the need to rethink some of the outdated inherited customs that impede the realization of women’s rights. Abaad director, Ghida Anani, for her part, pointed out that the memo is a sharp translation of ISF commitment to the file of domestic violence and violence against women and girls.
These sessions aim to ensure proper implementation of law 293 related to domestic and sexual violence, provide training on women survivor’s protection needs, and maintain proper referral pathways. They will equip ISF centers with CMR PEP kits (post-exposure procedures in the case of rape/sexual assault). This is important as there are no unified national procedures for CMR, and ABAAD wants to ensure that the first persons of contact for victims of SGBV in the judicial/legal/investigative sphere (i.e. the ISF) are well-versed in the appropriate procedures for victims of sexual violence and assault.
These sessions aim to ensure proper implementation of law 293 related to domestic and sexual violence, provide training on women survivor’s protection needs, and maintain proper referral pathways. They will equip ISF centers with CMR PEP kits (post-exposure procedures in the case of rape/sexual assault). This is important as there are no unified national procedures for CMR, and ABAAD wants to ensure that the first persons of contact for victims of SGBV in the judicial/legal/investigative sphere (i.e. the ISF) are well-versed in the appropriate procedures for victims of sexual violence and assault. Through joint efforts, the ISF and ABAAD are raising awareness about crimes of sexual violence. In July 2017, ABAAD conducted a ToT on CMR sensitization for ISF senior officers. ISF then issued Memo # 339/204 s.4 in September 25th, 2017 on crimes of trafficking in persons and sexual assaults against women in Lebanon. This memo was then designed as a flyer (http://www.abaadmena.org/documents/ebook.1523729521.pdf) and poster (http://www.abaadmena.org/documents/ebook.1516286942.pdf) and distributed in the ISF Police Stations and to the public via checkpoints (ISF officers flagged down cars and passers-by, handing out pamphlets highlighting the laws protecting women and the role of the ISF in enforcing these statutes. The pamphlets include information on the steps women should take if they are experiencing any form of violence or harassment) Six meetings were then held with the head of the Internal Security Forces as well as the ISF Head of the Training and Research Department, where a MOU was signed between ABAAD and the ISF. These meetings resulted in an agreement between the ISF and ABAAD to 1) launch a national media campaign in 2018 on the ISF Due Diligence, and 2) conduct capacity building workshops for ISF members on the official memo, namely covering issues related to sexual assaults, clinical management of rape, as well as trafficking against women. Based on that, in November and December 2017, a ToT was issued to five high-ranking officers from the ISF. Weekly training sessions will then be given to more than twenty ISF officers per session to build their capacities on CMR and topics related to human trafficking and sexual assault, monitoring/identifying indicators, and conducting investigations. All ToTs conducted were done so with the objective of expanding the pool of trainers and ensure sustainability and a consistent flow of trainers within the Lebanese Internal Security Forces. This also dually acts as an exit strategy for ABAAD, as the ISF begins taking on the responsibility and due diligence in training its officers.
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ISF issued Memo # 339/204 s.4 in September 25th, 2017 on “Standards of Interaction and Investigation in Human Trafficking and Sexual Assault Crimes, and standards of support to survivors of such crimes” (annex #25). This memo was then designed as a flyer and poster, translated into two languages (English & French) that the Non-Arabic speakers can understand it, and distributed in the ISF Police Stations and to the public via checkpoints (ISF officers flagged down cars and passers-by, handing out pamphlets highlighting the laws protecting women and the role of the ISF in enforcing these statutes. The pamphlets include information on the steps women should take if they are experiencing any form of violence or harassment). Six meetings were then held with the head of the Internal Security Forces as well as the ISF Head of the Training and Research Department, where an MOU was signed between ABAAD and the ISF (annex #25). These meetings resulted in an agreement between the ISF and ABAAD to 1) launch a national media campaign in 2018 on the ISF Due Diligence, and 2) conduct capacity building workshops for ISF members on the official memo, namely covering issues related to sexual assaults, clinical management of rape, as well as trafficking against women. Nevertheless, this memo was lunched during an activity organized jointly by The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces and Abaad on April 14, 2018; an activity was about a parade by an ISF cycling squad, the Harley Davidsons Ladies Club and Lebanon Bikers from Ain Mreiseh neighbourhood of Beirut through two awareness checkpoints at the National Museum and Chevrolet roundabout areas to finally reach the Memorial of the women victims of domestic violence in Baabda, presidential palace road. During their tour, the cyclists distributed leaflets among passers to familiarize the above memo. Towards the end of the activity, the head of the PR division at ISF, Colonel Joseph Musallam, said: “When the ISF set its priorities for the protection of freedoms and human rights, it took into consideration the crimes committed against women,” and stressed the need to rethink some of the outdated inherited customs that impede the realization of women’s rights. Abaad director, Ghida Anani, for her part, pointed out that the memo is a sharp translation of ISF commitment to the file of domestic violence and violence against women and girls.
through four (two-day) sessions, on the following dates: 1. 28 & 29 March 2017 2. 18 & 19 April 2017 3. 23 & 24 May 2017 4. 20 & 21 June 2017 The table below shows the increase in knowledge/month between February – June 2017, according to the pre/post test results: March: pre-test 34% - post test 84% -- % of change 50% April: pre-test 26% - post test 80% -- % of change 54% May: pre-test 29% - post test 81% -- % of change 52% June: pre-test 27% - post test 85% -- % of change 58% During 2018, weekly two days training sessions were given to more than One Thousand Two Hundred (1200) ISF officers for an average of 22 officers per session, with 96 female ISF officers (8% of the total participants) and 1104 male officers (92% of the participants). Results of Pre-Posttest showed below: From Figure 1, we can deduce that the percentage of correct answers after receiving the training increased by 26.53%; suggesting that the training had a positive outcome in increasing the knowledge of the participants about the topic at hand. 94.83% of the participants showed improvement after the training; their post-test scores were higher than their pre-test score. 42.40%, almost half, of the participants achieved significant improvement (their score increased by more than 30 points in the post-test compared to the pre-test).
LB-MOI-497-3.7
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Launch a nation-wide media campaign to announce for the help-line GBV holistic services. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
nation-wide media campaign to announce help-line for holistic GBV services
As a part of ABAAD’s advocacy strategy, the First organized media campaign aims to shed light on holistic services available to survivors to ensure their accessibility That being said, in 2017, ABAAD conducted two nation-wide campaigns to promote the up-scaled Men Center services (71283820). The campaign aimed at sensitizing the public audience in Lebanon about the services of the Men Center.s
The campaign included an out-door campaign along with a promotional TV spot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM8KcrPKIR8) . The TVC portrays a man’s voice self-reflecting on conflicting emotions: fear, sadness, and anger. Emotions that have resulted of tiredness, stress, irritation, and at times a feeling of ineptitude and inadequacy. The trigger of these stressors were the loss of an income source among other reasons. "Do I lose control, or do I cry?" pondering this man’s voice. Facing this self-reflection, we see an abused woman trying to hide the bruises on her face, and another woman not showing any bruise, as the silence sometimes hurts much more than any word could. The campaign introduced the services of the Men Center to the general audience as it was able to reach a nation-wide audience through 1000 billboards across the country, tens of community awareness sessions with men along with Men Center Line number distribution, social media and tens of media outputs. The TVC calls for men to consider the effects that anger, abuse, neglect, or violence could have on men’s families. It warns them not to wait until it is too late. It informs them that the low-cost, confidential, and anonymous services of the Men Center is a phone call away. On another note, the project/the Netherlands contributed as well to the 16 Days National campaign of Activism Against VAW 2017 Advocacy campaign calling upon increased sentences in case of incestuous rape by covering printed and audiovisual materials promoting the central Helpline (81788178) to ensure accessibility of GBV survivors to protection services and encourage disclosure. Direct link to Poster: http://www.abaadmena.org/documents/ebook.1511865964.jpg flyers: http://www.abaadmena.org/documents/ebook.1513600656.pdf TVC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5nejQHvKIU
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Between September and October 2017, over 150 calls were registered on the Men Center log, 47% of which were provided with appointments to start receiving individual psychotherapy sessions. Approximately 2/3 of these calls were a result of the visibility that was provided by the Men Center campaign, through the billboards and the TV spot. in year 2016, the Men Center assisted 40% of its beneficiaries to increase healthy non-violent communication skills.
LB-MOI-497-3.6
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Establishing a new facility/space specifically tailored for women and girls (adolescents) who have MH challenges. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV survivors residing in Lebanon
In the last years, policy briefs and studies conducted by the GBV sector highlighted the need to establish a specialized service for GBV survivors with MH challenges Were women and girls who are survivors from Gender Based Violence (including teen adolescent girls) and who have at the same time mental health challenges are not being currently able to access a specialized emergency safe sheltering program that is also well prepared to appropriately deal with persons having mental health challenges, especially if they are having some active mental symptoms. When these women and girls are accessing the regular GBV shelters, their situation might be aggravated if kept without appropriate mental health care. Hence the need to establish a facility specifically tailored for women and girls (teen adolescents) who have mental health challenges. In addition, there is no current national mental health standards for the establishment of such mental health facilities. Based on these analyses, ABAAD met with MoSA in order to coordinate the launching of such a service, to ensure its sustainability. In recent months, ABAAD and MOSA, and based on several meetings chose Jbeil as a hub for providing holistic services, from a Men Center to a shelter, and will be coordinating closely with MoSA’s Social Development Centers (SDCs) in the area. Moreover, ABAAD intend to proceed with a model of Mental Health facility, featuring high quality standardized physical structural and operational methodologies and technics, which is first of its kind in Lebanon.
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Abaad has consulted with the NMHP/MOPH for the development of accreditation criteria/standards to establish this specialized service facility. These accreditation standards, will provide a framework and act as a reference for organizations willing to establish a mental health facility targeting women and girls with mental health challenges and who are GBV survivors. . In parallel, we initiated negotiations with MoSA in September to ensure their full engagement and buy-in throughout the activity. Moreover, The first draft of the accreditation standards for the residential mental health facility was developed based on literature review. This draft was further reviewed based on findings from field visits to 2 specialized emergency safe sheltering program of 2 different organizations, and the detailed review of the first draft between NMHP and Abaad technical persons. The accreditation standards hence developed is targeting persons with mental conditions (including women and adolescents) residing in a facility for mental health treatment. Women can be accompanied by children. The persons in the residential mental health facility are expected to actively participate in the development of their care and recovery plan that will include rehabilitation and social reintegration activities related to their mental condition, and appropriately tailored to their GBV survivor condition. The persons in the residential mental health facility are expected to actively participate in the development of their care and recovery plan that will include rehabilitation and social reintegration activities. Some persons will be transferred to other facilities after mental health stabilization. The average length of stay is expected to range from few weeks to several months. The proposed mental health standards contain Measures of Quality linked to one of the following seven elements of quality: Accessibility, Appropriateness, Continuity of care, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Safety, Continuous Improvement Of Performance. The Measures of Quality are also distributed among the following three levels: Basic: Addresses basic structures and processes linked to the foundational elements of safety and quality improvement in primary health care service delivery. Advanced: Builds on the foundational elements of quality and safety, emphasizes key elements of participant-centred care and consistency in the delivery of services through standardized processes. Excellence: Demonstrates a commitment to excellence and leading the primary health care field in terms of quality and safety. The land dedicated for the activity was purchased toward end of the contract…Call to tender was initiated for design and built and accordingly construction process proceeded.
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ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Provision of multi-sectoral services namely legal education sessions, psycho-therapy sessions, as well as CMR services for women survivors of SGBV. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Women SGBV survivors residing in Lebanon
ABAAD’s Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) throughout the country (North, Bekaa, South, Beirut and Mount Lebanon) that provides direct prevention and response services for women and girls survivors or at risk .
the overall aim is to protect vulnerable women and girls from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect, including GBV, the eight Model Centers provide holistic care (case management, legal consultations, court representation, CMR services, psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluation and follow up) as well as referral (GBV/family violence protection orders) to emergency safe housing (Al Dar) and soft skills/economic empowerment training
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PROVISION OF MULTI-SECTORAL SERVICES NAMELY LEGAL EDUCATION SESSIONS, PSYCHO-THERAPY SESSIONS, AS WELL AS CMR SERVICES FOR WOMEN SURVIVORS OF SGBV
These WGSS’s, during the span of the project, provided services for 34,861 women and beneficiaries as showed below: - 23 Women benefited from Psychiatric consultations, - 13 women benefited from Forensic doctor consultations , - 843 women benefited from Case management [2] sessions , - 164 women benefited from Individual psychotherapy sessions - 82 women benefited from Legal counselling sessions, - 122 women benefited from Community-based groups [3], - 946 women benefited from Socio-economic empowerment [4] sessions, - 20,229 women, girls, boys and men benefited from Sensitization sessions [5], - 438 women benefited from Group Therapy women - 12,001 women, girls and men& Boys benefited from PSS cycles, using the Basic Life Skills toolkit (BLSP). Additionally, under this component, ABAAD partnered with: - Women Working League Association (WWLA) to address the need to increase knowledge about legal rights and the Lebanese Labor Law, National Social Security Fund (NSSF) & Personal Status Codes. This legal education aims at empowering women to be more socially and socioeconomically engaged, as to decrease rates of structural and domestic violence. Legal awareness sessions were provided by lawyers and experts free of charge to 397 women. By learning about personal-status and labor laws, women make better-informed decisions and are given more agency. Parallel to this, WWLA conducted legal consultation sessions for 150 women across the reporting period. These sessions aimed to provide direct and accessible information about personal status laws and their restrictions on women’s rights in Lebanon. The women receiving the consultation were often in compromising circumstances and received information about potential legal steps they could take going forward. - AFEL, a specialized CP and GBV national NGO, provided 24 awareness sessions/ Psycho- Social Support (PSS) activity targeting 512 children at risk for or survivors of SGBV, in addition to 132 case management sessions for 90 Care- Givers and 102 case management sessions for 63 Children. Also, AFEL provided 72 individual psychological follow-up sessions for 18 children and one support group with 6 sessions for 18 children. - Committee for the Follow-up on Women Issues in Lebanon (CFUWI) to address the issue of women’s rights in the international framework mainly (CEDAW), for this end, CFUWI has developed a flyer on the international protection mechanism and CEDAW convention, and had executed 16 awareness sessions about this subject targeting 485 women (279 Lebanese and 206 Syrian) participants in the 4 governorates of Lebanon. - PALWHO, that conducted 100 Psychotherapy sessions for 20 women (5 sessions each), 18 Health Education sessions targeting 180 beneficiaries, 5 PSS activities targeting 100 women. Another partner, PALWHO, conducted psychotherapy sessions for 12 women (5 sessions each) and PSS activities for 50 women.
LB-MOI-497-3.4
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Up-scaling the multi-sectoral services provided at the three Mid-Way transitional Houses with an additional socio-economic empowerment/livelihood component--Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV survivors - residing in Lebanon
ABAAD’s Mid-Way Houses, free and temporary safe shelters for women at risk or survivors of GBV, located in three different governorates in Lebanon and which provides services for adolescent girls, single and married women along with their children. Survivors of sexual or gender-based violence can seek different kinds of Clinical care, engage in individual or group therapy and take part of numerous vocational activities. In a confidential and safe environment, women are able to gather information and explore their options, with the assistance of trained professionals. Immediate safe-housing (24/7), crisis counseling, emergency support and information on legal rights and legal consultations (short term cases), psycho-social support, referrals for long-term welfare provision, income assistance and access to resources are all available. To meet the requirement of this activity, These Safe shelters, during the lifetime of the project support 490 beneficiaries (198 women, 181 girls and 111 boys),benefited from services related to enhancing their self-esteem, increasing their life management skills, providing emotional support, decreasing physical and psychological harm and enabling women’s long-term safety and empowerment, as follows: - 379 right-holders women &girls benefited from Case Management services [1] (average of 5 case management sessions per beneficiary) - 225 Awareness sessions - 12 forensic doctor report - 42 psychiatric consultation - 217 right-holder benefited from psychotherapy sessions - 175 beneficiaries benefited from legal consultations in-house and referred - 223 right-holder benefited from recreational activity sessions - 229 right-holder benefited from life skills sessions using the Basic Life Skills Programme (BLSP) . As a part of ABAAD’s holistic and multi-sectoral services provided in the Mid-Way Houses MWH, ABAAD offered with a socio-economic component in order to enhance the level of knowledge and potentially the skills of the women that need to build specifically a professional plan. Effectively, the girls and women going to the shelter find themselves without resources and in need for a job once they are out of the shelter. In order to ensure the highest standard for the above activities, ABAAD investigated the best suitable, effective and sustainable ways to upscale the MWHs with the socio-economic empowerment SEE component, thus, ABAAD sub-contracted Safadi Foundation (SF), as a well-known NGO in Lebanon in the field of socio-economic development and PALWHO as a well-known women Palestinian organization working in the Palestinian camps., were they Between August and October 2017, ABAAD completed a Due Diligence process for the organization, including organizational and financial capacity assessment. Additionally under this activity, ABAAD team coordinated internally across different departments for the purchasing, delivery and setting up of IT labs in each Mid-way House. The logistics team procured a total of 45 laptops, necessary furniture and other needed stationary following the details of ABAAD procurement policies. Each of the center received 15 laptops and needed furniture to refurbish one of the existing rooms into an IT lab. After their physical completion, ABAAD programs team recruited 3 IT trainers based on ABAAD’s recruitment policy, and selected 1 qualified consultant for each of the 3 respective areas (where the MWH are located). Each of the consultants was inducted to ABAAD internal policies including CoC, child protection, PSEA and received an induction to the operational mode of the MWH. Following that, each of the consultant closely worked with ABAAD program’s team to tailor their workshops based on the expressed needs by the women residing in the shelters, coupled with an assessment of their literacy skills and abilities to use the computers (annex #20). The total number of participants targeted through these workshops totaled to 135 women (45 women in each MWH).
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As a part of ABAAD’s holistic and multi-sectoral services provided in the Mid-Way Houses MWH, ABAAD offered with a socio-economic component in order to enhance the level of knowledge and potentially the skills of the women that need to build specifically a professional plan. Effectively, the girls and women going to the shelter find themselves without resources and in need for a job once they are out of the shelter. In order to ensure the highest standard for the above activities, ABAAD investigated the best suitable, effective and sustainable ways to upscale the MWHs with the socio-economic empowerment SEE component, thus, ABAAD sub-contracted Safadi Foundation (SF), as a well-known NGO in Lebanon in the field of socio-economic development and PALWHO as a well-known women Palestinian organization working in the Palestinian camps
SSF and ABAAD joined their resources to provide to each shelter residents a tailored service based on their background, needs and expectations at professional level. Consequently, to contribute to the achievement of this activity, Safadi recruited an SGBV social worker to coordinate with ABAAD’s Case Managers and started the process. This social worker conducted info sessions with the beneficiaries to inform them about the project and to recruit a group of trainees, she met the MWH case workers to discuss the beneficiaries’ potential, set action and exit plans with ABAAD case worker for each beneficiary, prepared pre-posttests with the trainers according to the type of training, and attended a training workshop to ensure efficiency and increase in knowledge of the beneficiaries. The coordination between Safadi and ABAAD ensures delivery of both: a comprehensive system and the tailoring of activities to women survivors of or at risk for SGBV. The two-fold nature of these activities ensures the best possible outcomes for the MWH beneficiaries. Safadi team has conducted a pilot activity for six women in the Bekaa MWH,: - Developing an orientation system linking women in the safe shelters to community resources and the labor market - Assessing training centers and NGOs offering vocational training in local communities - Conducting case studies of women and girls in MWH in coordination with ABAAD’s team, and drafting a personal life-plan for these women while centering the economic integration process - Drafting accelerated vocational training curricula adapted to women’s capacities and resources including personal development and managerial skills. - Providing sessions given by a certified trainer on the basics of beauty care for any women with an interest or already established cosmetic skills. The aim of this is to tailor the socioeconomic development activities to the needs and interests of women in the shelters, rather than provide generic trainings. - Linking women to other NGOs responding to the integration process - Ensuring joint follow-up between Safadi Foundation and ABAAD - Conducting placement and job training and providing certification and individual kits for certified women - Assessing the MWH’s beneficiaries in the North and South MWH to check: number, profile, interests and skills in addition to the homogeneity of the groups regarding their age category and the period of residency. Based on the found results, it has been agreed to implement this activity with previous women beneficiaries of the MWH, and the activities took place at the nearest Women and girls safe space WGSS (Mount Lebanon: Choueifat, North: Quobbe) - Implementing two one-month Vocational Trainings for two groups of targeting 35 women participants and 1 Three months vocational training targeting 21 women participants from both refugee and host communities. By the end of this training, women participants gained marketing and managerial skills; - Linking women to other NGOs responding to the integration process and providing a placement program for trained and graduated women - Ensuring joint follow-up between Safadi Foundation and ABAAD - Closing ceremony and certification and individual kits distribution for graduated women coinciding with the IWD, in close coordination and support of respective municipalities.
implement economic-empowerment project activity. PALWHO, a Palestinian organization targeting mainly Palestinian beneficiaries, conducted vocational training for 40 women over 80 sessions, including sewing, embroidery, cooking, and literacy, etc. ABAAD assessed the need to expand the trainings beyond the MWH to Palestinian camps, and decided to recruit PALWHO, given their extensive history in working on empowering Palestinian women in Lebanon. PALWHO’s knowledge of the sociocultural context of Palestinian women in Lebanon aimed to provide specifically tailored activities for these women. The aim of this extension beyond the MWH was to reach underserved women in Palestinian camps, and to address the issue of socioeconomic empowerment and life skill building for women with limited mobility outside the camps.
LB-MOI-497-3.3
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Organizing 8 community-based training programmes with around 120 male youth and boys on active-non violent attitudes and behaviors. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Male youth and boys
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8 trainings were conducted to 120 male youth & boys (Lebanese and Syrian)
8 trainings were conducted to 120 male youth & boys (Lebanese and Syrian) on active non-violent concepts, gender & masculinities and non-violent stress & anger management technics in each of Qobbeh & Bebnine (in the North), Zahle & Labwe (in the Bekaa) Ghobeiry & Jbeil (in Mount Lebanon) , Bint Jbeil (in the south)l & Msaytbeh (in Beirut) Trainings were based mainly on Program Ra and its related modules– named after Rajol, the word for man in Arabic – which is the first adaptation of Program H in the Middle East
8 training conducted and reached around 380 people and were presented as: 1. Theater scene. 2. Photo exhibition 3. Checkpoints (distribution of flyers and info about the program)
LB-MOI-497-3.2
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Up-scaling/replicating the current Men Center Model to provide engendered psycho-therapy sessions for Men and male youth with abusive behaviors. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Men and male youth with abusive behaviors
Since the start of the project, ABAAD assessed the possibility of replicating the Men Center services at the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) structures in both Tripoli and Saida and beyond. After several meetings with LRC head and concerned team, ABAAD identified possible challenges to proceed with LRC due to their hierarchical structure that might pose delays related to the prolonged and timely procedures they require, and that would span beyond the timeframe of the project. Furthermore, LRC is in process of developing their own internal GBV SOP system, and were leaning more towards on completing that process before deciding on scope of engagement in the GBV response (whether with men or women).
Alternatively and as stated in original project document, and in order to mitigate any delay, ABAAD raised the proposition to replicate the Men Center through MOSA existent SDC structures and the Ministry agreed on establishing Men Centers in three main areas in Lebanon: the South, the Northern ML and Baalbek and to contribute fully to provide the location and its operational expenses from MOSA side. The centers of the MOSA ensures very long term sustainability. Moreover, ABAAD is familiar with the MOSA structure and its hierarchical system and has been able to work within and around it, based on the signed MoU between ABAAD and MoSA. As such, no challenges are foreseen on that front and this buy-in from MOSA can ensure sustainability of the service beyond the project. Furthermore, replicating these structures under MOSA can come as complementarity step for the roll-out of the National GBV SOP being led by MOSA and can open the gate for wider replication across the country beyond the three centers solely. For this end, ABAAD organized bilateral meetings with MOSA and local authorities to concretize and establish the Men Center across Lebanon, as well as homogenize the aforementioned SOP, which led to sign an MOU with MOSA for the up-scaling of the Men Centers (annexed #18) in order to homogenize referral pathways to the Men Center, as well as the Red Cross and/or SDC for the provision of these services. The 3 areas were strategically chosen based on a service gap needs’ identification. More specifically, Baalback was chosen to complement ABAAD’s Case Management Unit in Labweh & MWH in Beqaa. South/Bisariyyeh also complement the Women & Girls Safe Space in Bint Jbeil and the MWH in Southern Mount Lebanon. MoSA contributed with the physical structure, and ABAAD refurbished and equipped the centers in both areas , recruited the staff, managed and train the personnel composed of Psych-Social Worker, Case Worker, Center Coordinator as a permanent Staff and contracted with Psychotherapist form both areas. Both centers, begin running in the first half of 2018. In addition to this, MoSA contributed to normalize the concept of service provision specifically tailored for men and men’s rights to receive psychosocial services based on their gender roles, and the potential violent impacts and forms witnessed by men based on societal expectations and manifestations. Hence, four (8) support groups (4 groups in each center), 12 sessions each group, were conducted in the center’s catchment area targeting 108 adult men (74 Lebanese and 34 Syrian) With the aim at providing emotional support. The objectives revolved around providing participants with an open space to express and talk about daily stressors, expression of anger in a healthy way, and reflect on experiences of migration and exile in order to help the participants in “re”-creating complete narrative frames relevant to their personal stories. The participants were given an open platform to share fears and concerns as well as identify stress factors resulting from life events such as death, relationships and sexuality. In addition, the sessions contributed in providing the participating men and male youth with techniques and tools related to stress management, understanding gender roles, and acquiring positive coping mechanisms to respond adequately to the plight of the situation they are living in. The support group sessions were held over a period of two months for each group, covering three hours per session. The approach used in the delivery of support group sessions is based on a participatory model through which the participants debrief their emotions resulting from stressful events in a safe and trustworthy environment as well as reflect on their own experiences and thoughts. This exchange of opinions and experiences allows addressing misconceptions around topics of concern by setting the ground for a peer to peer support network that would be sustainable after the time of intervention is due. Themes and topics addressed: Through the above explained approach, two main layers, including several themes, were addressed as per the below: - Structured Psychosocial Support (GBV Oriented) - Identification of fears and concerns - Identification of anger and stress symptoms - Managing stress and anger - Emotional Support (Dealing with fears and concerns) - Death and separation - Friendship and relationships - Sexuality/Emotions Additionally, men participants in the support group sessions were referred to benefit from individual psychological services and follow up. This is considered as a first step toward achieving the purpose of the existence of the center in the area, since men statistically are less likely to seek help and more likely to discontinue participation in programs of psychosocial support period. This phenomenon is a result of the negative social stigma for men and help seeking behavior as it contradicts patriarchal masculine gender role socialization. Furthermore, during the span of the project, six workshops on “ Anger And Stress Management” took place within 2018 (3 workshops in the South and Bekaa centers) trageting 76 beneficiary (40 Syrian men and 36 lebanese men). These sessions contributed as mentioned above in providing the participating men and male youth with techniques and tools related to stress management, understanding gender roles, and acquiring positive coping mechanisms to respond adequately to the plight of the situation they are living in. Moreover, three (3) Community / Sports Events based and aligned with the Men Center campaign objectives has been carried out, targeting 1,062 men (592 from Syrian nationality and 470 form the Lebanese nationality), in collaboration with the municipalities in the areas. These events constitutes of:Marathon: Ghazieh International Race on 25 Nov 2018 were 600 Men and teenagers: - male Run with the aim of stop violence, wearing T- shirts with the slogan of the Men Center Campaign (إحسبها صح!) and the following activities tooked place: - MC flyers Distribution - Bracelets Dissemination, with printing the men center helpline number - Booth - in the presence of Municipality mayor and SDCs directors , 2 football teams (Male and female- gender equivalents) a mini football game took place were we: - Spread the messages of engaging men and ending VAW during the encouragements, - Distribute brochures about Abaad and men centers services - Distribute cups for the two teams and medals for the players In the interim, the center in Beirut was up-scaled to accommodate more capacity of sessions with men. As a direct result of the Men Center refresher campaign in September 2017, promoting as well the center’s line, ABAAD witnessed an increased number of beneficiaries at the center, from both refugee and host communities. Hence, the center in Beirut now can accommodate sessions in parallel in addition to a large space for support group sessions and stress & anger management workshops. - During the project period, around 400 men received psychotherapy sessions (around 4 sessions per beneficiary per month) as follows: 83.05% individual therapy, 14.41% couple therapy(only in Beirut Center), 2.54% family therapy(only in Beirut Center).
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ABAAD raised the proposition to replicate the Men Center through MOSA existent SDC structures and the Ministry agreed on establishing Men Centers in three main areas in Lebanon: the South, the Northern ML and Baalbek and to contribute fully to provide the location and its operational expenses from MOSA side. The centers of the MOSA ensures very long term sustainability
For this end, ABAAD organized bilateral meetings with MOSA and local authorities to concretize and establish the Men Center across Lebanon, as well as homogenize the aforementioned SOP, which led to sign an MOU with MOSA for the up-scaling of the Men Centers (annexed #18) in order to homogenize referral pathways to the Men Center, as well as the Red Cross and/or SDC for the provision of these services. The 3 areas were strategically chosen based on a service gap needs’ identification. More specifically, Baalback was chosen to complement ABAAD’s Case Management Unit in Labweh & MWH in Beqaa. South/Bisariyyeh also complement the Women & Girls Safe Space in Bint Jbeil and the MWH in Southern Mount Lebanon. MoSA contributed with the physical structure, and ABAAD refurbished and equipped the centers in both areas , recruited the staff, managed and train the personnel composed of Psych-Social Worker, Case Worker, Center Coordinator as a permanent Staff and contracted with Psychotherapist form both areas. Both centers, begin running in the first half of 2018. In addition to this, MoSA contributed to normalize the concept of service provision specifically tailored for men and men’s rights to receive psychosocial services based on their gender roles, and the potential violent impacts and forms witnessed by men based on societal expectations and manifestations
LB-MOI-497-3.1
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Produce centralized and systemic helpline services for women survivors of SGBV. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV survivors residing in Lebanon
Despite the tireless work of NGOs and local partners to provide services and assistance to women survivors and at-risk of SGBV, there still remains a gap in the accessibility to all women, despite their mobility, nationality, sexuality, age or socioeconomic background. For this reason, ABAAD introduced in this project a national, centralized helpline to provide access to and knowledge of existing services (many of which are provided by ABAAD). This helpline provides information to any woman who calls, as well as secure a more comprehensive referral pathway to women with limited mobility, all in line with the aforementioned National GBV SOP.
ABAAD conducted two bilateral meetings with the Ministry of Telecommunications (MoT) to discuss possibilities of exemption of fees for this helpline. In order to maintain the national identity and scope of the hotline, ABAAD coordinated with MoSA between June and August 2017 to discuss possibilities to co-producing the service once the National GBV SOP is officially launched. ABAAD in parallel developed the database system, log system, documentation and necessary referral sheets, data analysis, and mapping of the referral systems for the different services, all in line with the National GBV SOP. Four expert social workers in the field of SGBV to has been rotating on management of the helpline calls Following a thorough training on ABAAD’s policies and procedures, gender-sensitive approach, the developed SOP and case management curriculum. During the span of this project, the helpline services received around: - Approximately 1552 women and girls called our helplines/hotlines in 2017 - Approximately 1900 women and girls called our helplines/hotlines in 2018, and they are all GBV-related (including sexual assault, physical abuse, emotional abuse, etc.) out of which 43% are sexual assault.
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ABAAD introduced in this project a national, centralized helpline to provide access to and knowledge of existing services (many of which are provided by ABAAD). This helpline provides information to any woman who calls, as well as secure a more comprehensive referral pathway to women with limited mobility, all in line with the aforementioned National GBV SOP.
During the span of this project, the helpline services received around: - Approximately 1552 women and girls called our helplines/hotlines in 2017 - Approximately 1900 women and girls called our helplines/hotlines in 2018, and they are all GBV-related (including sexual assault, physical abuse, emotional abuse, etc.) out of which 43% are sexual assault.
LB-MOI-497-2.6
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Produce a platform/ on-line interactive portal that will Produce first-hand gender sensitive reports and media pieces around women�s and gender issues in conflict situations. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Public
Despite the Right to Access Information Law that was passed early 2017, it is still very difficult in Lebanon to access data and information from government bodies. Fe-Male planned to develop a national web-platform to harness new media and data journalism, i.e. info-graph and multi-media all tailored to address key issues related to violations of women’s human rights in addition to other human rights violations and active citizenship rights. This web-platform was to act as a digital citizenship and human rights’ magazine that produces cutting-edge, first-hand and evidence-based information, in addition to re-producing and representing existing information (studies, and produced knowledge) on related matters that are not accessible for the general public. More specifically, the web-platform team was to use investigative journalism to address key human rights and citizenship issues in the Lebanese society and act as a watch-dog for government work.
As such, under “NASEEJ” project, Fe-male has re-constructed and re-launched "Sharika wa Laken - SWL”: https://www.sharikawalaken.media which is an independent women's news website based in Lebanon. The website is an initiative founded by Fe-Male and is a continuation of its work to raise awareness and advocate for women's issues in Lebanon, the Arab world in particular and the globe. Its team consists of a group of women journalists who are committed to human rights and the role of the media in raising awareness and achieving positive change in societies. The website's team focuses on monitoring and observing the reality of women in Lebanon and the Arab world, criticizing this reality, disseminating news about it, as well as supporting the work and struggle of women's and human rights organizations in Lebanon and the Arab world. SWL aims to be one of the main sources of news and information about women in Lebanon and the Arab world. The site is committed to the following principles: Freedom of expression of ideas, views and opinions, and producing news that are important to women in particular, and the public in general. It’s also committed to gender-sensitive reporting and coverage in news editing, ensuring the security of data and the highest levels of accuracy through reliable sources, impartiality, transparency and objectivity, in addition to refraining from broadcasting any content that incites violence, sectarianism, racism, intolerance or discrimination. Preparation phase: - new visibility guidelines and lifting the logo, contracting a company that took care of rebuilding the website and data migration (so as not to lose the archive and the database of years), - Choosing the staff who will be working on implementing the activities and a meeting with several journalists and reporters who will be on board of the team producing material for the Facebook page and the website. - Elaborating the basic functionality required from the website: A preliminary study and analysis was made to serve as the basis for designing, developing and maintaining the track and approach for delivering an online interactive, engaging, multilingual and multicultural website. The website interface emphasizes on the ease of locating the required data within the minimum amount of time to all types of users and herewith the specifications of this website: - WordPress Solution: Setup a fresh WordPress site for hosting the new site/data. - Security: Several security measures/plugins to minimize to high extent security issues. - Performance Optimization/CDN: Caching measures to help speed up the site and optimize the site for fast loading, along with setup along with a "Content Delivery Network" for further speedup and experience optimization. - Theme: Setup, configure, and customize WordPress theme officially licensed. - Customization for proper display of content as needed and site functionality. - Core Plugins: Setup and configure essential plugins to handle data backup automation, SEO optimization, Google Analytics tracking and any other needed plugin. Moreover, Fe-male collaborated with over 30 journalists from Lebanon and the Arab world such as Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, and Jordanto produce written and video content, in addition to info graphics for the website. Which led to create a wide network of journalists who are willing to volunteer, ensuring sustainability, in writing for Sharika wa Laken because they know the value of work the SWL is doing and its impact on the new media. Nevertheless, during the span of this project: - 255 reports, articles and videos produced and published since SWL launching in November, 2018, - A total of 917 posts were migrated, this included posts which were set as draft/deleted status and were kept for legacy also as draft status under the new website, so only previously active posts are available as published. - A total of 12 categories were migrated. - A total of 1,600 tags were migrated. - All categories and tags have been properly associated with relevant tags. Tags and Categories properly link to their related articles via clicking on tag/category links - A total of 5,000 media images (different sizes) have also been migrated to the new site, and properly associated with each relevant article as featured images. - A total of 7 pages have been migrated. - 89.59% engagement on the site, with the traffic on the page reached 99.3% with a total of 9,698 views. link to the written content https://www.sharikawalaken.media/category/مقالات- وتحقيقات/ link to the videos https://www.sharikawalaken.media/category/videos/
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Platform/ on-line interactive portal that will produce first-hand gender sensitive reports and media pieces around women’s and gender issues in conflict situations
# of platform/ on-line interactive portals that will produce first-hand gender sensitive reports and media pieces around women’s and gender issues in conflict situations
LB-MOI-497-2.5
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Initiate a partnership with local and/or regional media institutions to conduct a workshop for around 25-30 journalists on investigative reporting, while initiating a call for gender-sensitive investigative reporting. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Media institutions/personnel
As a part of ABAAD’s holistic mission, this project aims to not only provide media personnel with the right tools to cover gender-sensitive investigative reporting, but also provide the most appropriate and effective framework for this reporting. Namely, not only should journalists be given the right resources to adapt to difficult and emotionally stressful contexts, but should also be provided with the frameworks that present GBV and gendered issues in the most objective and contextualized manner.
In August 2017, ABAAD signed an MOU with CILAT in order to address this gap. In October 2017, CILAT initiated contact with the Director Arab Regional Investigative Journalists for the sake of conducting the regional training. AREEJ showed high interest in this partnership. CILAT set the criteria for selecting the journalists who were to take part in the training. These were as follows: - Work in the media and journalistic field; - Have education background in media, communication or a related field - Show interest in investigative journalism - Demonstrate commitment in conducting investigative pieces on women and human rights related issues - Show sensitivity and awareness towards issues related to human and women’s rights Despite planning to launch a call for participants and disseminate it, organize trainings and contacting institutions and reporters to work on this issue, CILAT did not follow through with the MOU or the planned deliverables for reasons related to their internal processes. Subsequently, in order to mitigate this challenge ABAAD extended the scope of the contract with Fe-male to cover this activity in May 2018 ( Fe-male MOU and schedule # 2 annexed # 14) Moreover, Fe-male shared an announcement on their multiple social media platforms as well as sharing it with their mailing list as a call for participants. Many showed their interest and they received many applications, of which only 25 were chosen based on pre-selected requirement criteria. The workshop took place outside the capital and it went on for three consecutive days from the 21st until the 23rd of September 2018. Five professional trainers in the field were contracted Dr. Walid Saqaf (a specialist in the technology of media and journalism and a university instructor, who came all the way from Sweden), DR. Khouloud Khatib, Mrs. Rouba El Helou, Mrs. Madonna Khafaja and Ms. Youmna Fawaz, to deliver the workshop. The workshop was very intensive and interactive. Participants were engaged in hands-on activities as well as being involved in discussions away from lectures and mandating. The majority of the participants wished that they had more time for such workshops “Three days were not enough for the investigative journalism workshop, especially that we tackling issues of GBV. We need to dig deeper in this topic” as they considered the material important for their personal and professional growths in the field of gender and gender equality “I think that the toolkit is very rich in content and I’m looking forward to a TOT”- “I have been a journalist since a long while now, but I have never thought of using a gender-sensitive language while handling GBV cases. This workshop triggered the thought of it”; They also valued the knowledge provided to them since it was their first time to learn gender-sensitive reporting or he actual techniques of investigating. At the end of the workshop, it was announced that there will be technical support for the top four investigative topics. Fe-male received suggestions of 20 topics and Fe-Male along with the team of trainers selected them to produce investigative reports, following up with journalists who won the grant given by Fe-Male on gender-sensitive reporting, and the production of material for Sharika wa Laken. Each of the four selected journalist was assigned a mentor to follow up on producing complete gender-sensitive reports with accurate data and credible sources. The mentors, were chosen based on their availability, Mrs. Rouba El Helou, journalist Youmna Fawaz and lawyer Dr. Khoulod Al Khatib. The journalists were given a one month period to carry the task, and with the guidance of the mentors and Fe-Male they were provided with needed resources to fulfil this task (linking them with stakeholders, networking...). The publishing was dependent on ensuring that each report took its share of views and shares on the social media, and The links for the four (4) produced reports can be found below: Myra Abdallah: https://www.sharikawalaken.media/2019/02/19/الهوية-الجندرية-القاتلة-في-العراق/ Jana Dheiby: https://www.sharikawalaken.media/2019/02/25/قصّة-بنات-أبو-رجال-أبشع-أنواع-العنف-ال/ Zeinab Mohsen: https://www.sharikawalaken.media/2019/03/20/حياة-قيد-الإنتظار-قصّص-نساء-في-المحاكم/ Hala Al Turk: https://www.sharikawalaken.media/2019/03/26/أنا-أيضًا-صحافيات-يشهدن-ضدّ-أصحاب-نفوذ/ The topics tackled in these reports were all in the GBV discourse, mainly on trafficking, LGBTQI, harassment in media, personal status laws and child marriage. One of the topics, produced by the journalist Jana El Dheiby and mentored by reporter and journalist Youmna Fawaz, had the most views and shares during this period, which lead to provoking the Internal Security Forces to act and further investigate the case. The Minister, Ms. Raya Al Hassan, personally vowed to handle the case and called for immediate action to see the whereabouts of the case and punish all the responsible parties, and within ten days, action was indeed taken: The girl is now in the care of an NGO and the father is in the custody of the Security Forces.
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Partnership with local and/or regional media institutions to conduct a workshop for around 25-30 journalists on investigative reporting
The workshop took place outside the capital and it went on for three consecutive days from the 21st until the 23rd of September 2018. Five professional trainers in the field were contracted Dr. Walid Saqaf (a specialist in the technology of media and journalism and a university instructor, who came all the way from Sweden), DR. Khouloud Khatib, Mrs. Rouba El Helou, Mrs. Madonna Khafaja and Ms. Youmna Fawaz, to deliver the workshop.
# of workshops on gender-sensitive investigative reporting
LB-MOI-497-2.4
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Organizing 6 self-care sessions for around 90 media personnel namely those exposed to conflict situation-Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Media institutions/personnel
Journalists, particularly those covering violence and conflict zones, often suffer from symptoms of trauma and emotional stress because of the nature of the stories they report on. After conducting a prior needs study, Fe-Male conducted three self-care sessions for journalists working in the field of GBV and women’s rights. The prior needs study was conducted in Beirut, Bekaa, and Tripoli through FGs with journalists working on the field, as well as a survey that was circulated via a mailing list and social media. These sessions focused on the concepts of mindfulness, stress reduction techniques as well as wellbeing and resilience. The specific learning objectives of these self-care sessions include: - Developing knowledge of the essential self-care practice, including key intervention concepts and practices: essential self, self-care, discipline, mindfulness - Understanding the process of emotional awareness - Developing knowledge and understanding of research-based health benefits of mindfulness - Exploring tools to use for developing a personal self-care practice - Developing knowledge and understanding of the process, tools and needed apparatuses for self-regulation - Learning the process of integrating resilience into wellbeing
Our partner was able to give a pilot self-care session to journalists in the field of women’s rights and GBV-related issues. This session, conducted by the expert consultant, certified life coach and positive psychology expert, Mr. Milad Hadchiti, was driven based on the aforementioned prior needs assessment. Based on this assessment, sessions were based in Beirut on January 31, 2018, February 28, 2018, June 20, 2018 & July 18, 2018, and in Tripoli (Northern Lebanon) on March 17, 2018, and June 19, 2018 targeting 92 Lebanese participants with 19 Male (21% of the participants) and 73 females (79% of participants) . These sessions were based primarily on stress reduction, wellbeing and resilience, based on the needs gauged earlier and the content was mostly practical and intended for the relief and the well-being of the participants and not to increase a certain knowledge. Based on the participants’ recommendations (and request, a one-day self-care session is not enough for the journalists who daily face hardships and some of them are in direct contact with victims or survivors of GBV and people who suffer. It is recommended that each session could be conducted in a form of a retreat, where the journalists can actually separate themselves from their surrounding for a while and enjoy the stress- releasing techniques. A short video/documentary was created to document these sessions, including interviews with the participating journalists.
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Self-care session pilot
Our partner was able to give a pilot self-care session to journalists in the field of women’s rights and GBV-related issues. This session, conducted by the expert consultant, certified life coach and positive psychology expert, Mr. Milad Hadchiti, was driven based on the aforementioned prior needs assessment. Based on this assessment, sessions were based in Beirut on January 31, 2018, February 28, 2018, June 20, 2018 & July 18, 2018, and in Tripoli (Northern Lebanon) on March 17, 2018, and June 19, 2018 targeting 92 Lebanese participants with 19 Male (21% of the participants) and 73 females (79% of participants) . These sessions were based primarily on stress reduction, wellbeing and resilience, based on the needs gauged earlier and the content was mostly practical and intended for the relief and the well-being of the participants and not to increase a certain knowledge. Based on the participants’ recommendations (and request, a one-day self-care session is not enough for the journalists who daily face hardships and some of them are in direct contact with victims or survivors of GBV and people who suffer. It is recommended that each session could be conducted in a form of a retreat, where the journalists can actually separate themselves from their surrounding for a while and enjoy the stress- releasing techniques. A short video/documentary was created to document these sessions, including interviews with the participating journalists.
Self-care pilot
LB-MOI-497-2.3
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Organizing three national capacity building workshops with around 75 media personnel on the produced toolkit, to ensure gender-sensitive reporting of cases on GBV. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Media institutions/personnel
The set of three training workshops based on the above mentioned toolkit produced by Fe-Male was conducted on 28-29 of September 2018 and on 12-13 and 19-20 of October 2018 targeting journalists and reporters from various areas in Lebanon, were the workshops’ agenda was based on the toolkit’s content. For the selection, an announcement was shared on social media as well as sent via mailing list (attached in the annexes folder), and all applications were received through a Google form (https://goo.gl/forms/5rhgWEwQgLu2SZtP20 . The criterion upon which the trainees were selected was the years of experience. Around 100 journalists and media personnel in local and international NGOs applied to participate in the workshops, but only 75 (53 females and 22 males) were selected. Those who sat for the first training were those with minimal years of experience. The trainers were selected based on their expertise and knowledge: Dr. Nahawand Al Kaderi, a university professor and a researcher in media, Dr. Khouloud Al Khatib, a human rights and fundamental freedoms defender, researcher and trainer in the fields of human rights and international, regional and national protection mechanisms, Ms. Sanaa Khoury, independent Lebanese journalist, specialized in cultural journalism. She is known for her critical articles, and follows the popular culture and women's affairs in the Arab region and the world, Ms. Aliaa Awada, a journalist and a feminist activist with a twelve-year experience in human rights, equity and gender, she is co-founder at Fe-Male and has worked in advocacy and campaigning at different local and international organisations, and Ms. Reem Maghribi, an editor, publisher, and communications consultant. She develops and runs projects that center on documentation, communication and the media. The results of the pre/post tests showed a great improvement in all three trainings. The percentages were increase in knowledge by 58%, 92%, and 92% respectively in the three workshops. To ensure the toolkit’s sustainability, Fe-Male has published it online and it’s an available resource for anyone to adopt; be it a student, academician, journalist, activist or expert. In addition, Fe-Male plans to use this toolkit in its future trainings as well as planning to organize a TOT so that its content spreads among all journalists.
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National capacity building workshops with around 75 media personnel
# of National capacity building workshops with media personnel
The set of three training workshops based on the above mentioned toolkit produced by Fe-Male was conducted on 28-29 of September 2018 and on 12-13 and 19-20 of October 2018 targeting journalists and reporters from various areas in Lebanon, were the workshops’ agenda was based on the toolkit’s content.
LB-MOI-497-2.2
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Development of a toolkit on gender-sensitive media coverage in conflict/post conflict situation that would include issues related to how to conduct media interviews with GBV survivors, how to deal with trauma affected populations (namely women and children). Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Media institutions/personnel
The need for a code of conduct to regulate the way journalists and reporters deliver the information and to set limits to how far they can go in smearing the survivors’ reputations and/or jeopardizing their lives, lead to the need of producing a toolkit that would build the knowledge and skills of these journalists on issues related to gender-based violence. This toolkit aims at reaching out to all the journalists/ reporters and training them to better tackle the cases of violence against women and perceive it as part of human rights, and not just another sensual story, in addition to encouraging a deeper understanding of the cases and the best ways of addressing them. For this end, a peer review committee was formed that includes specialists in the GBV sector, academics, trainers and linguists, and the toolkit has been developed. This was steered by desk research on coverage trends of GBV and women survivors of violence, and with the aim of ending negative stereotypes and generalizations of GBV and GBV-survivors, redirecting media coverage to ensure the highest standards of conduct, as well as protecting survivors from defamation. It's composed from seven main chapters: - Introduction - Women’s rights in the international laws - Gender based Violence against women and girls - Principles and associated ethics to cover cases of violence against Women and girls - Gender Sensitive Media- Coverage - How to interview survivors of violence - Terminology - Annexes and document
This toolkit was designed for several reasons, some of which being that women in conflict/post-conflict contexts, particularly in the Middle East, are subject to societal and historical/traditional constraints that limit them severely in seeking help for GBV. The media, widely consumed, has a large part to play in the depiction of women survivors of violence in conflict/post-conflict contexts. Rather than portray women as “immoral” or as responsible for the violence perpetrated against them, this tool aims to shift the media lens that covers GBV in these contexts. In the context of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, this toolkit aims to localize the global convention to protect women and children of all nationalities exposed to GBV.
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Media Gender-Sensitive Toolkit
a peer review committee was formed that includes specialists in the GBV sector, academics, trainers and linguists, and the toolkit has been developed. This was steered by desk research on coverage trends of GBV and women survivors of violence, and with the aim of ending negative stereotypes and generalizations of GBV and GBV-survivors, redirecting media coverage to ensure the highest standards of conduct, as well as protecting survivors from defamation.
# of Gender-Sensitive Media Toolkits
Gender-Sensitive Media Toolkit
LB-MOI-497-2.1
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Production of a Code of Conduct between Media institutions/personnel and Women NGOs on gender-sensitive media coverage in conflict/post conflict situation. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Media institutions/personnel and GBV sector
ABAAD sub-contracted a local feminist NGO called Fe-Male for the completion of these activities. Fe-Male is a civil feminist collective organization working with women and girls to eliminate injustice through building young feminist movement, empowering agents of change, and campaigning together against discriminatory norms and policies. Based on its strategic objectives, Fe-Male strives to improve the representation of women in media, and to eliminate the predictable social images that are projected on women and girls. Therefore, Fe-male was selected for their experience in working at the grassroots level in the media domain, and then trained. afterwards, using this extensive training, Fe-Male hired two consultants to write and produce the CoC, covering women’s issues in media in Lebanon, a code that aims at challenging women’s objectification in ads; and in covering women’s issues, mainly women survivors of violence, during and post conflict situations . The need for this CoC is due to the gap in available media resources and means of protection specifically for women and children. Despite efforts to make media in Lebanon more protective, these groups remain vulnerable, particularly in the case of conflict and post-conflict contexts. The main goals of this code are as follows: - Develop practical recommendations for gender-sensitive media coverage, particularly on issues of violence against women in armed conflict and post-conflict settings - Encourage the application of CoC clauses and manifests its recommendations on a practical and ground-level, including practicing gender-sensitive media coverage that does not judge (vilify or glorify) experiences of women and children survivors of violence - Guarantee the protection of women and children survivors of violence from the harsh light of gender-insensitive media (e.g. the harsh and decontextualized depiction of women survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault) Five Focus Groups discussions were held in November 2017 , one out of which was held with GBV survivors and the remaining four were held with fifteen professionals each, including case managers, academics, researchers, decision makers, social and case workers, NGO media officers and coordinators, as well as journalists. The CoC has been finalized, translated, proofread by 3 experts, designed, printed and disseminated through actors in both GBV and media sectors/networks, and launched during the event that took place on the 29th of May 2018 at NDU university during a one-day conference entitled, “A Voice of Our Own: Retelling the Stories of Gender Based Violence,” that was organized by the Faculty of Law & Political Science at the aforementioned University. The event was compromised of a gender NGO fair. TV host, writer, life coach, and trainer Milad Hadchiti hosted the opening ceremony, in the presence of the first Secretary of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Ms Bina Saib where she said, “We need to step away from stereotypes and challenge ourselves to tell a nuanced and balanced story that engages the public.” and the presence of Chairperson Dr. Dany Ghsoub where he called for “the immediate implementation of the COC to deal with all kinds of exploitation and protect freedom from oppression”. Moreover, an interactive panel discussion entitled “A Voice of Our Own,” took place during the event, moderated by the news reporter, writer, producer, and TV host Jad Ghosn. The Panel included Ms. Ghida Anani (ABAAD founder & Director), Mr. Frank Elbers, Ms. Hala Bejjani, Ms. Nidal Ayoub, and Mr. Eugene Sensenig. The speakers all agreed that social responsibility requires us to construct GBV stories in a way that enables us to celebrate survivors. Following the event, NDU’s FLPS professors vowed to continue their commitment to create an open space for people to communicate on gender-related issues by carrying out research projects, white papers, and a variety of GBV-related events, focusing on social justice and conflict resolution as well as considering including the toolkit in their curriculum - https://www.facebook.com/NaseejProject/videos/204940453634490/
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CoC between Media institutions/personnel and Women NGOs on gender-sensitive media coverage in conflict/post-conflict situations
The CoC has been finalized, translated, proofread by 3 experts, designed, printed and disseminated through actors in both GBV and media sectors/networks, and launched during the event that took place on the 29th of May 2018 at NDU university during a one-day conference entitled, “A Voice of Our Own: Retelling the Stories of Gender Based Violence,” that was organized by the Faculty of Law & Political Science at the aforementioned University. The event was compromised of a gender NGO fair. TV host, writer, life coach, and trainer Milad Hadchiti hosted the opening ceremony, in the presence of the first Secretary of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Ms Bina Saib where she said, “We need to step away from stereotypes and challenge ourselves to tell a nuanced and balanced story that engages the public.” and the presence of Chairperson Dr. Dany Ghsoub where he called for “the immediate implementation of the COC to deal with all kinds of exploitation and protect freedom from oppression”. Moreover, an interactive panel discussion entitled “A Voice of Our Own,” took place during the event, moderated by the news reporter, writer, producer, and TV host Jad Ghosn.
# of CoC between Media institutions/personnel and Women NGOs on gender-sensitive media coverage in conflict/post-conflict situations
LB-MOI-497-1.9
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Organize a national inter-disciplinary platform/event. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV sector
Under the patronage of MoPH and in partnership with TABYEEN, ABAAD organized a national interdisciplinary conference on gender and MH, titled, “Mental Health and Social Safety: From the Clinic to the Civil Society Response”. Held on February 22nd, 2018, this conference served as an interactive platform in response to the needs of national and international organizations, experts in MH, and judicial actors to share and discuss successful experiences, challenges, and opportunities in the areas of family protection against violence in the clinical and field settings. It aimed to strengthen the multi-sectoral coordination between providers of GBV and MH services in Lebanon. Recommendations will contribute to the development of action plans for the implementation of the National Strategy for Mental Health (NSMH), issued by MoPH. Its outlines were divided into three segments: I- MH in international and regional discourse II- MH policies and regional and national social safety needs: Interventions and sharing experiences from national and international organizations III- Women’s protection from DV and social protection: between judicial and psycho-social interventions
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# of national interdisciplinary platform/events
LB-MOI-497-1.8
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Production of a national toolkit/curriculum on the psychological considerations while dealing with couple dynamics in cases of Intimate Partner Violence or GBV. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
Internal Security Forces
Despite the work of NGOs in advocating for women’s rights and protection, violence against women remains pertinent in Lebanese society. One of the most silent and normalized forms of violence is IPV. For this reason, ABAAD chose to create a national toolkit/curriculum on the psychological considerations of dealing with couple dynamics in this case. In the past, ABAAD’s psychotherapists conducted training on IPV for the ISF. Throughout these trainings, these psychotherapists assessed a need for a more sustainable and structured tool to deal with IPV and couple dynamics. In response to this need, ABAAD, in coordination with Tabyeen (a national psychotherapy supervision center in Lebanon) and the ISF, had finalized the production of a national toolkit on the psychological considerations of dealing with couple dynamics in cases of IPV or GBV. This toolkit is comprised of an operational manual and annexed with a conceptual framework of the agreed-upon considerations. This toolkit not only considers the woman’s position, but also the men’s role in participating in the rehabilitation and amendment of the situation. It stresses the importance of engaging men with violent or abusive behaviors in the solutions for IPV, and, on a broader level, VAW. On that level, this toolkit takes a multifaceted and proactive approach to dealing with couples in these circumstances. Among other provisions, it offers: - Coordination between security, judicial and legal work, criminal investigative work, and protective psychological work (diagnosis, classification, treatment, and rehabilitation), in order to build a coherent and integrated system for legal, social and psychological development; - Building the capacity of security officials in the ISF to deal with victims and perpetrators of IPV; - Link national security phenomena with global security, personal security and psychological security; - The establishment of investigations, verifications and judgment of IPV in the framework of gender equality, justice and neutrality; - Developing listening, writing and speaking skills in dealing with IPV phenomena among ISF officers. This activity complements the development of ABAAD’s GBV SOP (the part related to ISF) as well as the CM Curriculum, as they share similar objectives. This manual will serve as a training material to all ISF internal workshops.
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National toolkit/curriculum on the psychological considerations of dealing with couple dynamics in cases of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) or GBV for Internal Security Forces
Number of national toolkit/curriculums on the psychological considerations of dealing with couple dynamics in cases of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) or GBV for Internal Security Forces
LB-MOI-497-1.7
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Rolling-out of 108 self-care sessions on a monthly basis for front-liners in each of the six governorates. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV front liners
In order to complete this activity, the NMHP has invited the MHPSS Task Force organizations to a ToT from which 22 applicants were selected according to their educational background, years of experience and previous experience in conducting trainings after submitting a filled Google form and a signed letter of intent from their organization to conduct 5 self-care sessions for frontline workers. The 2 days ToT took place on the 15th and the 16th of October 2018 in the presence of an observer from ABAAD and facilitators from the NMHP (attendance sheet+ Agenda- Annex# 6). The master trainer from the NMHP presented the self-care manual at the first day of the ToT and explained to participants how to conduct the training, how to deliver the main key messages and how to use the self-care techniques in each domain. At the end of the first day, the master trainer assigned every person to a section of the manual in order to prepare it and present it the next day using one facilitation method as an example to what can be done in the actual self-care sessions. The entire second day was dedicated for the presentations of the assigned section of the manual, after every presentation the other participants as well as the master trainer and the observer from ABAAD gave constructive comments and feedback to improve the performance of participants when they start their own self-care sessions with front-liners. Evaluation sheets were distributed at the end of the first day to take the feedback of participants on the material and the master trainer. The compilation of the evaluation forms showed that 45% of participants thought the overall training was excellent and all of them answered yes when asked if they recommend the training to others. Training evaluation results: Figure 1: Training of trainers-Overall training rating Figure 2: Training of trainers-Training recommendation outcomes In terms of the training workshop the main points where participants strongly disagreed were: that the content is organized and easy to follow (14%), the training techniques and methods were useful and helpful (10%) and that the time allotted for the training was sufficient (10%). And more than 50% strongly agreed that the trainer was well prepared and knowledgeable about the training topics. Figure 3: Training of trainers-Training evaluation outcomes Refresher training A one day refresher training was scheduled as a follow up to the ToT and invitations were sent to all the participants who attended previously. The main goal of the refresher training was to further support participants in the implementation and roll out of the self-care sessions in a standardized and harmonized way. The refresher training session was held on the 14th of December 2018 with 15 participants out of the 22 (attendance sheet-Annex 7). During this session, the master trainer shed the light on important concepts and gave participants additional tips on how to conduct the sessions. The hand-outs and pre-post-tests that are supposed to be handed to frontliner’s attending the self-care sessions were distributed to participants to get their feedback before their finalization. After the refresher session all participants were urged to start planning the 5 self-care sessions to frontliners taking into consideration that the first session should be supervised by a team member of the technical unit of the NMHP or by the observer from ABAAD team. Rolling-out of self-care sessions: The trainers started the first supervised self-care session with frontliner’s from their own organizations, The supervisors (from ABAAD and NMHP) filled a trainer’s evaluation form and constructive comments were given to the trainer onsite for them to improve performance in the next 4 unsupervised sessions. A Total of 54 self-care sessions in the six governorates for front-liners were conducted by 15 trainers completed their first supervised sessions targeting 412 participants from which 32 are males and 380 are females. Certificates were distributed to trainers who completed the training and held self-care sessions to frontliner’s. Conclusion: The national self-care manual for front-liners is considered a guide for organizations who are interested in training their front-liners on self-care and providing them with practical tools and techniques to help them take care of themselves. Self-care component should be included in the policies of all organizations generally and in organizations working in the humanitarian field specifically. Those TOTs has created a group of trainers committed to training the largest number of front-liners possible in all of the sectors in Lebanon ensuring sustainability, however more TOTs are needed in order to create a wide pool of self-care trainers. Moreover, 28 info sessions about the manual were conducted, targeting around 560 of the GBV and CP front-liners In all regions, aiming at defining the guide, its objectives and the importance of its adoption and implementation.
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# of self-care sessions
LB-MOI-497-1.6
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Production of a national self-care curriculum. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV front liners
In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis has been ongoing for more than 8 years, causing massive displacement and increase in demand on services, especially in terms of CP and GBV sectors. As a result, frontline staff members working in those sectors are trained on and asked to perform additional tasks regularly, which will oftentimes make them feel overloaded and burnt-out, especially when the organizations have limited resources to support their staff, and underdeveloped pre-employment preparation and stress management practices. With the goal to improve the wellbeing of CP and GBV service providers, ABAAD conducted a meeting with the Head of MoPH’s National MHPSS programme in August 2017 for the production of a national self-care curriculum for that purpose endorsed by the Ministry of Public Health. In December 2017, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between ABAAD and MoPH—the National Mental Health Program (NMHP), which defines the two institutions’ scope of work. This MOU sets the modalities to ensure that victims of SGBV receive comprehensive and equitable MH services. Moving forward, in December 2017, ABAAD signed a contract with National Mental Health Program (NMHP) to develop the self-care curriculum. As part of the strategic objective annexof the MHPSS TF related to capacity building of the staff upon their specific needs and in line with the strategic objective of the National Mental Health Strategy: objective 2.2.2 Develop a capacity building proposal tailored for non-specialized health and social welfare/protection care staff at all levels of care in collaboration with all relevant actors, the first national self-care manual for front liners working in the CP and GBV sectors was developed. This national self-help curriculum aims to build the capacities of overloaded service provider personnel and create more sustainable modalities of work, promoting rest, relaxation and wellbeing in times of increased stress and pressure. Self-care activities globally involve behavioral, experiential, psychodynamic, and systematic traditions, but the activities defined in this curriculum were based more specifically on the needs of front-liners working with vulnerable populations in Lebanon, and will be adapted to the local context. Development process Developing the self-care manual was preceded by a thorough literature review in addition to bilateral meetings with self-care experts and a needs assessment was conducted in order for the manual to be well adapted to the context of front liners and target their needs. A-Literature review The literature review was conducted before the needs assessment took place and extended until after the results of the needs assessment were analysed and all evidence based articles read and used in the manual were compiled and saved for references. B-Needs assessment The needs assessment was conducted through a qualitative methodology design consisting of 7 bilateral meetings that took place at the NMHP offices and ABAAD offices with self-care experts (MH practitioners and psychotherapists) working closely with frontlines from ABAAD to benefit from their experience in the field of self-care, in addition to 3 focus groups discussions (FGDs) with 44 frontlines from different NGO and MoSA social workers, randomly selected by their organizations through an invitation disseminated by the MHPSS task force and ABAAD in addition to an invitation sent to Social Development Centers (SDCs) disseminated by MOSA centrally. The goal of the needs assessment was to maximize the efficiency of the training and the adequacy of the manual and to adapt them taking in consideration the frontliner’s perception. The main objectives of the needs assessment were to collect from participants: - Their current knowledge about self-care - Their perceived challenges in the field - Their needs in terms of self-care - Their expectations anticipated from a self-care training Findings of the needs assessment: The questions addressed in both the focus group discussions and the bilateral meetings were similar and mainly revolving around: - The understanding of self-care - The challenges faced in the field - The self-care techniques used by individuals - The expectations from a self-care training - What do they expect from their organizations in terms of self-care After the finalization of the self-care draft manual, the document was shared with external reviewers, from UN agencies (WHO, UNRWA, UNICEF), international and national independent technical experts that led to the compilation of their comments and feedbacks and updating the document accordingly. The manual is composed of three main chapters as reflected below: - Introduction to Self- Care - Impact of psychosocial Adversity on field workers - The 4 domains of self-care: 1-Physiological 2-Professional 3-Psychological 4-Spiritual Nevertheless, the document was translated into the Arabic language and both versions (English and Arabic) were designed jointly in one document.
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National self-care curriculum
# of national self-care curricula
MOU with MoPH and Contract with National Mental Health Program
In December 2017, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between ABAAD and MoPH—the National Mental Health Program (NMHP), which defines the two institutions’ scope of work. This MOU sets the modalities to ensure that victims of SGBV receive comprehensive and equitable MH services. Then, in December 2017, ABAAD signed a contract with National Mental Health Program (NMHP) to develop the self-care curriculum, after which they conducted a desk review, three focus groups (FG) with NGO and MoSA social workers, and interviews with MH practitioners and psychotherapist were also completed. This curriculum should be finalized and launched by the First quarter of 2018.
Signed MOU with MoPH and contract with National Mental Health Program (NMHP)
LB-MOI-497-1.5
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Organizing four (4) national TOTs on the produced tool. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV case and social workers
Pursuant to the development of the GBVCM curriculum and the animated SOPs, ABAAD conducted 3 national ToT workshops on the use of the tool. Each of the capacity building workshops were held for 5 days starting February 2018; The first workshop was targeted 29 ABAAD frontline personnel including social workers and case workers as a pilot testing, to assess and validate consistency with planned objectives, to correct deviation from original plan, to enhance and improve quality of the curriculum, to troubleshoot potential gaps in knowledge and information delivery, to address specific needs of information by relevant audience, the second workshop was targeted 15 social workers at the Social Development Centers under the Ministry of Social Affairs, and the third workshop was targeted 15 from the Lebanese University’s Faculty of Public Health with the fourth year students of Medical Social-work Faculty. In total, 64 social workers, case managers, front line personnel, and care providers were targeted under this activity.
The workshops aimed at building the capacities of the aforementioned personnel on GBV Case management and standardizing the case management system in the response programs using ABAAD GBV CM curriculum. The training was based on the developed curriculum in addition to the instructional video on GBV case management & SOP (using the video under the GBV SOP mobile app. The toolkits focused on the do(s) and don’t(s) in working with survivors and aimed at building local actors capacities in various steps of case management in addition to the conceptual framework and the SOPs.
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# of national ToTs on the CM curriculum
LB-MOI-497-1.4
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Accreditation of GBV CM Training curriculum by Major Academic Institutions in Lebanon. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV case workers, social workers, medical social workers
In late 2017, ABAAD has contacted several universities in Beirut regarding possible endorsement and use of the national GBV Case Management Curriculum in light of their involvement in the peer review process of the curriculum. The universities included: the University of Saint Joseph/Social Work School, Lebanese University/Faculty of Public Health, La Sagesse University, and the Lebanese American University/IWSAW) and they all expressed interest in the curriculum. Following thorough consideration of the different university curriculums, ABAAD planned to launch the accreditation process through the formation of a peer-review committee representing the different academic institutions. As part of the process, ABAAD has contacted these academic institutions in order to ensure that knowledge of a unified case management curriculum is mainstreamed across institutions and across new generations of front-liners, especially those graduating from faculties of social work. However, MOSA as lead on this curriculum, and to ensure that the use of the curriculum is standardized on a national scale, leaned more towards engagement with the Lebanese University which is Lebanon’s public university.. Knowing that such government procedures in Lebanon are highly centralized and bureaucratic, this would be a very lengthy process. Alternatively, a proposition was made by MOSA to possibly integrate the curriculum as part the courses under the Master Gender Studies at the Lebanese American University where amount can be invested in covering the expenses for a group of MOSA Social Workers to complete this course and become certified as trainers on the curriculum on national level and the on the National GBV SOP. This process will be led by MOSA following the launch of the curricula, which was delayed in its completion due to gap in cabinet formation,
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Accreditation of GBV CM Training curriculum by major academic institutions in Lebanon
# of academic institutions who accredited GBV CM curriculum
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ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Production of the Arabic version of the GBV Case Management Training Curriculum in close coordination with GBV sector in Lebanon. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV sector
An expert consultant was subcontracted to produce the National GBV Case Management curriculum, the first of its kind nationally and regionally and in the local language. After completion of desk research on the available resources, the first drafts of the main handbook and the facilitator’s guide (a tool designed to provide the trainer with all needed resources) were finalized. The GBV Case Management Curriculum is finalized, composed of 17 modules as following: - Module 1- Gender - Module 2: Sociology of Gender - Module 3: Human rights - Module 4. Women's rights - Module 5. Gender equality - Module 6. Gender analysis - Module 7. Gender-based violence - Module 8. Causes and effects of gender-based violence - Module 9. Combating gender-based violence - Module 10. Integrated Case Management - Module 11. Case identification steps - Module 12. Evaluation phase - Module 13. Planning phase - Module 14. Implementation and follow-up phase - Module 15. Closing of the Case - Module 16. Case manager - Module 17. Communication skills - Forms This final version of this curriculum serves as a tool for Non GBV specialists, academic personnel, university students and GBV specialized, to get introduced to the GBV concept, problematic and the Case management process. It is also worth mentioning that each module of this curriculum is considered as a standalone training package, allowing diversity of themes and topics for trainings and workshops related to GBV prevention, and ability to target participants with different background and experience. Additionally, ABAAD worked on producing 7 animation videos on the “Do’s and Don’ts” for case workers during their work with GBV survivors that were included in the mobile application and circulated among the GBV actors and their case workers/ case managers. ABAAD sub-commissioned the same mobile developer who created RESPOND mobile App to produce the animation videos. Between September 2017 and June 2018, seven animation videos were completed. Following are the YouTube links to the videos: - How to deal with disclosure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-wXWt01r7s - Recommendations for Staff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2LiUcXAkYY - Types of Disclosure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmLFsPrTzTo - Informed Consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXPrfDSOu6U - Home Visits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRqZM5vUrZc - Referral Process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSSaNVwjDzE - Dealing with Survivors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6945df0-raU&t=9s
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Case Management Curriculum
Arabic version of the GBV Case Management (CM) Training Curriculum
An expert consultant was subcontracted to produce the National GBV Case Management curriculum, the first of its kind nationally and regionally and in the local language. After completion of desk research on the available resources, the first drafts of the main handbook and the facilitator’s guide (a tool designed to provide the trainer with all needed resources) were finalized.
Arabic version of the GBV Case Management (CM) Training Curriculum
LB-MOI-497-1.2
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Organizing 12 roll-out training sessions (two in each governorate) with relevant inter-sectoral referral agencies. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV front liners
The finalized version of the developed SOP draft was presented to key stakeholders through different existing humanitarian response structures in Lebanon. The presentation workshops, aimed to showcase the content of the GBV SOP and unify the understanding of GBV procedures among front-liners in the field. It was envisaged that this process will create more clear, smooth and sustainable referral pathways for women survivors of or at risk for GBV, and will create lasting relationships between GBV front-liners and Lebanese ministries. These sessions took place during the monthly regular meetings held by the SGBV Task Force, Protection Working Group, MHPSS Working Group and the CMR Task Force at the central levels. Efforts were also geared towards field representation, which was done through the existing sub SGBV and Protection working groups throughout the 4 regions of Lebanon. Feedback collected contributed to adaptation process and modification of the final document accordingly.
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ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Production of a GBV-SOP document nationally endorsed by relevant official entities in Lebanon. Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
GBV service providers
In 2012, ABAAD established and has been co-chairing the National Technical Task Force to end GBV in Lebanon (NTTF) which is directly chaired by H.E the Minister of Social Affairs. This collaborative relationship with the ministry comes as an integral part of ABAAD’s core belief that the state has a fundamental role in eliminating GBV and supporting all related efforts. As such, NTTF’s main objective from the very start was to identify national priorities in the area of combating VAW (Violence Against Women), as well as to set and develop national action plans aimed at addressing GBV challenges, preventing its prevalence, and mitigating its impact. For this end, an expert lead consultant, Dr. Jean Kors, was subcontracted to develop this SOP following a thorough consultation in the field on best profile to lead this work and a number of set criteria, and most importantly with a consensus and buy-in from the Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA), as the lead ministry to this national process, who contributed in the revision of the ToR and work plan and recruitment the process. The GBV SOP was developed through a collaborative consultative process that engaged government and non-governmental organizations, concerned UN agencies (UNICEF/UNFPA/UNHCR/UNW/WFP…), national GBV CSOs & safe shelters (Mary & Martha; YWCA, Sisters of Good Shepard…), Syndicates (of doctors, of midwives, of nurses, of social workers, of psychotherapists…) and relevant representatives of the communities and groups that are affected by, or that can influence, the prevalence and impact of GBV in Lebanon. Dr. Jean Kors completed the national GBV SOP through a participatory and dynamic methodology that ensured proper consultation with the main stakeholders. The process was completed under the sponsorship and support of the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), and in collaboration with the National Technical Task Force to end GBV in Lebanon (NTTF), as well as other relevant national stakeholders including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (MoI), the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), Ministry of Education & Higher Education (MEHE) and the GBV sector in Lebanon. The GBV SOP includes actions and commitments for duty bearers at all public and civil levels, all aimed at the mitigation of GBV prevalence and impact. This emphasizes the need to steer all stakeholders to strengthen not only their internal systems and services, but most importantly their accountability and commitment to collaboration, coordination and excellence. To ensure the best interests of the targeted groups, all interventions, starting from this process itself and to the creation and implementation of all procedures and policies, the following guiding principles were adopted and practiced: - Compliance with all applicable human research regulations and ethical conducts related to human research - Participation and involvement - Non-Discrimination - Social value - Do not Harm / Protection from physical, mental and emotional harm - Collaboration and information - Respect for persons - Best interests of GBV survivors - Survivor-centered approach - Access to information - Scientific validity - Accountability Moreover, the GBV SOP is composed of five (5) main sections: - Standard Operating Procedures - Standards and quality of work - Case Management - Referral System - Referral Pathways - In addition to 2 sections related to Recommendations and Forms. Several meetings took place between ABAAD and MoSA, resulting in correspondence with the main representatives to form a steering committee. The expert conducted a desk review of the material and conducted 29 semi-structured interviews with NGOs, INGOs, ministries & official entities, UN agencies, and national GBV experts, to gather specific qualitative information. He also analyzed the feedback/data that was collected through mixed methods from the research in order to come up with the SOP. The GBV SOP has been reviewed by the national GBV actors (Official entities and civil society organisations) during a consultation meeting held on July 19, 2018 with the presence of 57 participants representing GBV actors, in addition to MOSA and ABAAD staff members. The Document has been endorsed by MOSA and reviewed by the steering committee composed from the ministries of Justice, Interior (ISF), Public Health (MOPH), Social Affairs and ABAAD during the meeting that was held on November 29, 2018. In parallel to this, the consultant, with the support of NASEEJ’s team, conducted mapping for all available GBV service providers and all GBV-related actors and front-liners (ISF, judges, NGOs, INGOs, ministries, Forensic Doctors, lawyers, hospitals, health facilities, etc…) that can be used for the referral pathway to be developed in line with the centralized helpline that ABAAD is managing. The consultant also designed a survey as an instrument to examine the availability and/or lack of adequate services provided to GBV survivors both by service providers and relevant agencies that have been identified in the earlier mapping exercise. This survey has been sent to the identified actors providing services for GBV survivors who were asked to fill in the survey with proper data to the best of their knowledge. List of interviewees, NTTF and steering committee memo for this activity, attendance list of the consultation meeting, list of interviewees and the SOP document are attached in Annex # I. To note that this National GBV SOP is the broader umbrella of the GBV SOP in Emergency setting document that was developed by the GBV Task Force sector and printed with the support of the RDDP project and transformed, with support from Diakonia and RDDP into a mobile application for humanitarian responders to GBV in Lebanon entitled RESPOND!
Throughout ABAAD’s extensive work on the field and with women & girls survivors of GBV, the need for producing a national unified Gender Based Violence Standardized Operational Procedures (GBV SOPs) and related tools and documents arose. This much-needed tool could help not only GBV front-liners, but also members of the Internal Security Forces (ISF), Health workers, Social Workers, various ministries as well as research and advocacy NGOs in the field of GBV.
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list of interviewees
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PRODUCTION OF A GBV-SOP DOCUMENT NATIONALLY ENDORSED BY RELEVANT OFFICIAL ENTITIES IN LEBANON
First draft version of the national GBV SOP
With full support of the Netherlands, and under the leadership of the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), and with the collaboration of ABAAD, the National Technical Task Force to end GBV in Lebanon (NTTF), and other relevant national stakeholders including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (MoI), the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), and the GBV sector in Lebanon, Dr. Jean Kors completed the development of the first draft version of the national GBV SOP through a participatory and dynamic methodology that ensured proper consultation with all main stakeholders. The GBV SOP includes actions and commitments for duty bearers at all public and civil levels, all aimed at the mitigation of GBV prevalence and impact. This emphasizes the need to steer all stakeholders to strengthen not only their internal systems and services, but most importantly their accountability and commitment to collaboration, coordination and excellence. To ensure the best interests of the targeted groups, all interventions, starting from this process itself and to the creation and implementation of all procedures and policies, the following guiding principles were adopted and practiced: Compliance with all applicable human research regulations and ethical conducts related to human research Participation and involvement Non-Discrimination Social value Do not Harm / Protection from physical, mental and emotional harm Collaboration and information Respect for persons Best interests of GBV survivors Survivor-centered approach Access to information Scientific validity Accountability Several meetings took place between ABAAD and MoSA, resulting in correspondence with the main representatives form a steering committee. The expert conducted a desk review of the material and conducted 29 semi-structured interviews to gather specific qualitative information. He also analyzed the feedback/data that was collected through mixed methods from the qualitative research in order to come up with the SOP. The first draft of this SOP has now been finalized and sent to MOSA and the steering committee for review. In parallel to this, the consultant, with the support of NASEEJ’s team, conducted mapping for all available GBV service providers and all GBV-related actors and front-liners (ISF, judges, NGOs, INGOs, ministries, hospitals, health facilities, etc…) that can be used for the referral pathway to be developed in line with the centralized helpline that ABAAD is managing. The consultant has also designed a survey as an instrument to examine the availability and/or lack of adequate services provided to GBV survivors both by service providers and relevant agencies that have been identified in the earlier mapping exercise. This survey will be sent to the identified actors providing services for GBV survivors who will be asked to fill in the survey with proper data to the best of their knowledge. List of interviewees, and NTTF and steering committee memo for this activity & copy of the first completed draft of the SOP are attached in Annex # I. To note that this National GBV SOP is the broader umbrella of the GBV SOP in Emergency setting document that was developed by the GBV Task Force sector and printed with the support of the RDDP project and transformed, with support from Diakonia and RDDP into a mobile application for humanitarian responders to GBV in Lebanon entitled RESPOND!
GBV-SOP document
GBV-SOP document
LB-MOI-497-ABAAD18-19
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Naseej: Strengthening National Prevention, Protection and Response Mechanisms to GBV in Lebanon (Phase I)
“Naseej” works on developing sustainable response structures to GBV prevention by means of enabling multi-sectoral governmental intervention strategies and engaging all major stakeholders in society, including ministries, local and national GBV service providers, UN Agencies, as well as NGOs responding to the Syrian Crisis. “Naseej” focuses on: - Engaging women and men from host and refugee communities in instilling concepts of non-violence, respect and partnership - Enabling skill-sharing between experts in different domains and front-liners working towards better response for survivors of violence - Working with decision-makers and legislators to strengthen forms of prevention of and protection from GBV What comprises “Naseej?” - equipping National inter-sectoral structures to respond to the GBV needs of women on the medium and long-term - enhancing gender-sensitive and quality media coverage on issues related to women in conflict/post conflict setups - Improving access to quality and inclusive services for women, men, and children survivors of, or at risk of GBV - Enhancing access for youth to knowledge and services platform to positively discuss sexual education, including SRHR, Clinical Management of Rape (CMR), and Child Marriage.
“NASEEJ” is the translation of mechanisms in need of strengthening on both national and grassroots levels with the goal of ensuring social and protective structural cohesion, whilst simultaneously strengthening partnerships with stakeholders in the GBV sector prevention. “Naseej” aims to respond to structural gaps in the GBV sector prevention in order to ensure a better quality of life, free of violence, for all women and children in Lebanon. To this end, this project mainly aims to strengthen national prevention, empowerment and protection mechanisms, as well as inter-sectoral partnerships with the respective ministries (such as the Ministry of Social Affairs, MoSA, the Ministry of Public Health, MoPH, and the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, MoI), and other local and national organizations and bodies working in this domain in Lebanon.
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Outcome 2: Enhanced gender-sensitive and quality media coverage on issues related to women in conflict/post conflict setups, namely women survivors of GBV
Activity 1 – ABAAD will develop and produce a Code of Conduct between Media institutions/personnel and Women NGOs on gender-sensitive media coverage in conflict/post conflict situation. This CoC will be collectively developed with relevant official and civil society actors and entities. Activity 2: development of a toolkit on gender-sensitive media coverage in conflict/post conflict situation that would include issues related to how to conduct media interviews with GBV survivors, how to deal with trauma affected populations (namely women and children) Activity 3 - Organizing three national capacity building workshops with around 75 media personnel on the produced toolkit, to ensure gender-sensitive reporting of cases on GBV. Activity 4 - Organize 6 self-care sessions for around 90 media personnel namely those exposed to conflict situation, or used to report from conflict zones. These self-care sessions will be designed based on rapid-needs assessment, and will be provided in-line with the developed tool in the previous activity. Activity 5 - Initiate a partnership with local and/or regional media institutions to conduct a workshop for around 25-30 journalists on investigative reporting, while initiating a call for gender-sensitive investigative reporting to financially and technically support five (5) quality investigative reporting models/initiatives using gender-sensitive approach. Activity 6 - Produce a platform/ on-line interactive portal that will produce first-hand gender sensitive reports and media pieces around women’s and gender issues in conflict situations.
A Code of Conduct document between media institutions/personnel and Women NGOs on gender sensitive media coverage in conflict/post conflict situation is produced
Outcome 3: Women, men and children (boys and girls) survivors or at risk of GBV, including SGBV, have improved access to quality and inclusive services
Activity 1 - ABAAD plans to centralize and produce systemic help-line services for women survivors of SGBV, through increasing the human capacity of help-line operators by recruiting four social workers, and produce relevant tools (data-base, log system, documentation and referral sheets, as well as analysis data production). Activity 2 - ABAAD plans to increase the service hub for men with abusive behaviors, through up-scaling/replicating the current Men Center Model that is run by ABAAD since late 2011. In this activity, ABAAD plans to collaborate with relevant centers such as Red Cross and Social Development Centers affiliated with the Ministry of Social Affairs, and equip them to provide engendered psycho-therapy sessions for men and male youth with abusive behaviors. This up scaling process will target three governorates in Lebanon besides Beirut, thus covering North Lebanon, South Lebanon and Bekaa area. To do so, ABAAD will sign MOUs with relevant referral entities such as ISF, general security offices, courts among other to institutionalize referrals for the Men Center. Moreover, an additional 6 psychotherapists will be recruited to cover the increase in demand and service provision; two will operate in the three additional areas, besides the current two psychotherapists at ABAAD Beirut Based Men Center. It is to be noted that bi-monthly meetings will be held among the 8 psychotherapists, and quarterly follow-up meetings will be also maintained for ensuring quality of mental health services provided. Activity 3 - ABAAD plans to hold 8 community-based training programmes with around 120 male youth and boys on active-non violent attitudes and behaviors. These training programmes will include the provision of the sessions, and accompany the youth groups to implement peer-to peer education/actions in their communities. Activity 4 - ABAAD plans to upscale the multi-sectoral services provided at the three Mid-Way transitional Houses with an additional component/services, socio-economic empowerment/livelihood that is. For this end, ABAAD plans to equip the current three MWH each with computer labs, and relevant space for language acquisition classes. These will mainly benefit women and girls survivors of GBV who are seeking shelters at ABAAD three Mid-way Houses. Moreover, ABAAD wants to ensure continuous training and capacity building for MWHs team and other GBV and Child Protection partners on issues related to how to deal with difficult scenarios within safe sheltering programs, such as mental health cases, suicidal attempts, cases of death in the family, trauma-affected women, etc... Hence, a total of 8 training sessions will be held throughout the project targeting social workers and frontlines. lastly, it is very important to maintain an emergency fund that would cover medical needs, medications, as well as forensic doctor fees namely for women survivors of sexual assault/rape or sexual violence from all nationalities. Activity 5 - ABAAD will continue to provide women survivors of SGBV with multi-sectoral services namely legal education sessions, psycho-therapy sessions, as well as CMR services. These services will be provided for women referred to the MWH or the 8 Model Centers for Holistic Care (run by ABAAD) or those who reached ABAAD through the help-line center over the course of two years. Activity 6 - As per ABAAD 5 year strategy related to the provision of women and girls survivors of GBV with GBV multi-sectoral services, ABAAD in this project would like to upscale/establish a new facility/space specifically tailored for women and girls (teen adolescents) who have mental health challenges. For this end, ABAAD will consult with many international and national institutions and ministries for the best modality to establish this specialized service facility (such as Hospital De La Croix, Ministry Of Public Health/National Mental Health program, John Hopkins University). Once established, this facility will be accredited, certified, equipped, furnished, and equipped with the needed human and material resources to serve women with mental health cases. It is expected that around 250 women and girls (who don't have access to any of the long-term shelters in Lebanon due to inclusion/exclusion criteria) will be accommodated and served at this new facility. Activity 7 - ABAAD plans to launch a nation-wide media campaign to promote GBV holistic services namely the central helpline, the Men Center up-scaled services, as well as those for women with mental health issues. For this end, ABAAD will engage with the right-holders and beneficiaries, and will produce baseline assessment, media tools, and IEC materials, and lead on a national social and street media campaign. It is expected that this campaign will reach out to more than 100,000 people, while it will specifically target women and girls survivors of GBV as well as men with abusive behaviors.
2000 calls received and digitally documented on ABAAD GBV 24/7 helpline system per year
Outcome 4: Youth have enhanced access to knowledge and services platforms to positively discuss sexual education among which is SRHR, CMR and child marriage
Activity 1 - ABAAD plans to hold 8 training workshops targeting 324 ISF members on issues related to the Clinical Management of Rape and proper referral pathways. ISF members were assigned by the national implementation mechanisms of the new law 293, to act as one of the frontline entity to respond to women survivors (including women survivors of sexual violence) protection needs, and ensure proper implementation of the law, through maintaining proper referral pathways. ABAAD has assessed an extensive need of the ISF Officers’ Training Institute to build their capacities on gendered applications of the new law 293. Hence, this activity will aim at equipping the ISF centers with CMR PEP kits (post-exposure procedures in the incidents of rape/sexual assaults and foster their role in the referral mechanisms. Furthermore, 4 training of trainers will be organized targeting midwives to widen the scope of trainers on CMR in Lebanon and strengthen midwives role in identifying and referring cases of SGBV in Lebanon. Activity 2 - ABAAD plans to produce an interactive toolkit on sexual education in Lebanon in Arabic, to ensure access to knowledge for male and female youth to sexual education and issues related to SRHR, child marriage, child sexual abuse, cyber safety commercial exploitation and intimate partner violence. For this end, a specialized interactive tool will be developed based on rapid KAP survey and then validated and produced with the participation of teen adolescent girls and boys (Lebanese and Syrian). This interactive tool will be introduced for endorsement and mainstream from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Health, MOSA and the GBV sector for ultimate use and dissemination of the tool. Moreover, three induction/training workshops will be held targeting service providers in three governorates on the use of these tools and how to engage boys and girls on issues related to sexual education and SRHR. ABAAD plans to roll-out the produced tool on sexual education in Lebanon in Arabic, through organizing a total of 64 sessions over the course of the project in 2017 and 2018 targeting around 1280 young women and men in refugee and host communities. Activity 3 - ABAAD plans to launch a nation-wide media campaign to announce for ISF due-diligence and accountable role in addressing GBV issues and in responding to the GBV needs of women. Another campaign will be held during the 16 Days of Activism that comes each year between November 26 and December 10 to shed light on the combatting GBV efforts in Lebanon in partnership with relevant ministries and national organizations.
364 stakeholders (ISF and Midwives) who have received training on CMR
Outcome 1: National inter-sectoral structures are better equipped and capable to respond to the GBV needs of women on the medium and long-term
Activity 1 - Produce a GBV-SOP document nationally endorsed by relevant official entities in Lebanon, to standardize the provision of GBV services in Lebanon for women survivors of GBV (not in emergency settings). This will entail the following steps: Commissioning a local lead senior consultant/pool of consultants/entities to draft the national GBV SOP, through publishing a Terms of Reference (TOR) validated and finalized by official stakeholders (i.e. MOSA, NTTF, WAM) Content development process of the GBV-SOPs through conducting bilateral meetings, FGDs and individual interviews with relevant stakeholders (ministries, service providers, front-liners, GBV practitioners, etc..) Develop and Finalize all related forms and procedures, namely related to inter-sectoral referral pathways among involved entities (NGOs, MOSA, MOPH, ISF, Judges, etc..) Pilot-testing of the developed materials, for validation and finalization Design and printing of the documents Activity 2 - Conduct 12 roll-out training sessions (two in each governorate) with relevant inter-sectoral referral agencies (i.e. ISF, MoSA - SDCs, NGOs, MoPH, among others) on the use and application of the developed SOPs and related referral pathways Activity 3 - Translate the English version of the GBV Case Management Training Curriculum that was produced in 2016 by ABAAD in close coordination with GBV sector in Lebanon. This Arabic version to be produced will be validated and endorsed by the GBV sector through creating a peer-review committee comprised of technical experts, t training experts as well as language experts. Activity 4 - Once the training curriculum is translated, edited, finalized and endorsed, ABAAD will seek accreditation for this product by major academic institutions in Lebanon ((mainly USJ and LAU)) to be also endorsed as a referential document in the faculty of social work. Activity 5 - Conduct four (4) national TOTs on the produced tool targeting at least 100 trainers, GBV practitioners, Case Managers and Social Workers in Lebanon. The aim of this training will be creating a pool of training experts on the use of this tool. It is to be noted that the process of validation and production of the tool, as well as the capacity building will be conducted by and through the inter-ministerial collaboration as well as inter-sectoral consortium namely (the Ministry Of Social Affairs and Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon, as well as the Women Affairs Ministry, and the GBV sector in Lebanon) Activity 6 - Produce a national self-care curriculum to be produced by a steering group/committee that will include relevant entities (Tabyeen, WHO, syndicate of psychotherapists in Lebanon, MOPH, psycho-therapists etc..) the aim of which is to produce a national endorsed program for the self-care of front liners working with SGBV survivors in Lebanon Activity 7 - Roll-out of 108 self-care sessions on a monthly basis for front-liners in each of the six governorates, targeting a total of 1620 GBV and CP front-liners/social workers dealing with difficult situations/GBV cases Activity 8 - ABAAD will produce a national toolkit/curriculum on the psychological considerations while dealing with couple dynamics in cases of Intimate Partner Violence or GBV. More specifically, this training curriculum will shed light on the needed background knowledge of the psychological profiles of men with abusive behaviors as well as women survivors to know how to best deal with them. This curriculum will be used to train ISF members (please see below activities under the third objective) and mainstreamed in the curricula of the ISF training academy. Activity 9 - A national inter-disciplinary platform/event is planned to be held towards the second year of the project, where GBV practitioners, along with Mental Health practitioners will be gathered to think of synergies, and how to best complement the work for the benefit of women survivors and share scientific model of operation with both interacting sides of the violent dynamic.
A national unified GBV SOP document and all related tools and documents among which are referrals pathways are produced, validated, endorsed and launched for the GBV sector in Lebanon.
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ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Naseej: Strengthening National Prevention, Protection and Response Mechanisms to GBV in Lebanon (Phase II)
As a systemic and structural issue, gender equality requires a systemic and structural response. ABAAD, through this project, aims to “sew” together the multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary social and structural response mechanisms to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) by adopting a holistic and systemic approach. For this reason, this project was titled NASEEJ (the Arabic word for sewing). It operates through three different on-the-ground service structures: Mid-Way Houses (MWH), Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS), and the Men’s Center (MC). On a broader scale, it works in three interconnected frameworks toward gender equality: direct/responsive service provision for individuals, responsive structural efforts, and proactive structural efforts. I. ABAAD Structures : MWH: ABAAD has maintained three safe shelters—also known as the Mid-Way House (MHW) for women, girls, and children at risk for or survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)thus filling in a national gap for temporary safe housing. Available in three different governorates in Lebanon (North, Bekaa and Mount Lebanon), these anonymous safe houses aim to provide holistic services for the most vulnerable survivors of GBV yearly through case management which may entail psychotherapy, Clinical Management of Rape (CMR)/forensic health care, legal consultation and follow-up, among others as well as mental health services. The MWH in the North region is supported by this project. WGSS: The WGSS are safe spaces located across seven governorates and aim to provide mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services for GBV survivors, including case management and socioeconomic empowerment for women and girls, as well as Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights ( SRHR) and gender sensitization for men, women and youth and fostering social stability in its surrounding communities Men’s Center: To ensure a holistic approach to gender equality, ABAAD has continued and improved services related mainly to provision of gendered Mental Health (MH) services for men and boys within the Men Center. II. Project Framework : As ABAAD works on programmatic base rather than project base, NASEEJ II functions as a successor and a structured continuation of NASEEJ I, therefore capitalizing on the delivered outputs and outcomes realized in the previous phase of the project, which then directly feeds into the three main pillars of ABAAD’s strategy in achieving gender equality. Direct/responsive service provision: This framework allows ABAAD to respond directly to women and girl’s needs. Through this project, ABAAD has scaled up protective services at our MWH in the northern Governorate, five WGSSs, Men Centers and partner centers in addition to providing legal counseling and education sessions, psychosocial support (PSS) activities, and life skills training, as well as Clinical Management of Rape (CMR) and forensic services. To this end, this framework has improved the direct protective services in Lebanon for vulnerable women and girls by contributing/addressing recent funding cuts and donor fatigue in Lebanon. Structural response: this framework works on a broader level by responding to structural issues in Lebanon, such as the lack of gendered training for security officials, GBV front liners and media personnel, as well as lack of tools and education related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for adolescents. During the reporting period, this project planned to fill those gaps by working directly with Internal Security Forces (ISF) on gender & SGBV sensitization, endorsed a mandatory service note on human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women, intends to conduct training of trainers (ToTs) for high-ranking security officials, as well as with media officials on gender sensitization specifically for the media on dealing with women and children survivors/at risk for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Additionally, this project had developed a national Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) related to dealing with survivors/victims of SGBV in parallel to the development of a national GBV case management (CM) curriculum for case and social workers in Lebanon. In fact, NASEEJ II intends to launch the above mentioned tools in close collaboration with the concerned ministries. Moreover, the project in its second phase intends to widen its scope of work by collaborating with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) generally and the CERD specifically, to mainstream gender in the national educational curricula and thereby conduct a national situational analysis study on “HOW TO MAINSTREAM GENDER INTO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUMS IN LEBANON “….. Proactive Structural Efforts: to complement the responsive efforts, ABAAD also employs proactive efforts in order to employ solutions at the grassroots level. This project has facilitated the implementation of a national media campaign (“16 Days of Activism” campaign on sexual assault awareness). In addition, the program contributed to the National Mental Health Program by mainstreaming gender issues in their campaign.
This project is in line with three of the strategic objectives of the Lebanon Country Response Plan (LCRP) for the Syrian Crisis: first, to ensure the protection of vulnerable populations; second, to provide immediate assistance to vulnerable operations; and third, to support service provision through national systems. Through the first and second objectives, ABAAD provides “tailored provision of protection and other services” (e.g. CM, shelter, helpline, etc.) to women and children survivors of/at risk for SGBV, as well as provide capacity building for vulnerable communities, regardless of nationality or socioeconomic background, and taking into consideration the effects of the Syrian crisis on SGBV. Corresponding to the third objective, ABAAD provides protection of the “most vulnerable, especially children and women” and provision of “referrals and a full package of services,” as well as, on a larger scale, strengthening government ownership through our partnerships with ministries and government workers. In other words, this project was designed to respond to the structural gaps that exist in the GBV sector, while simultaneously addressing the aforementioned needs in ensuring an accessible, sustainable, holistic, interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral response to GBV in Lebanon.
Women and children survivors or at risk of GBV/CP violations , Men with abusive behaviors, Host and refugee communities, Media personnel, reporters and Journalists, Official stakeholders (government), NGO actors and civil society practitioners, and the Internal Security Forces (ISF) in Lebanon.
ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality
Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2876558
2088176
1915899
Copy of ABAAD_Netherland_Project Financial report- 2019 2021 format29 03 2021 (2)
OUTCOME 1: Refugees and vulnerable host communities are better protected against violence and abuse
Outcome indicator 1.1: Increasing access of refugees and vulnerable host communities to appropriate services (m/f, r/hc)
Percentage of population covered by social protection floors/systems, disagregated by sex, and vulnerability
Output 1.1: Holistic GBV service provision is ensured to women and girls survivors or at risk of GBV in life threatening situations (ABAAD and AFEL)
Output inidcator 1.1.1: Number of cases benefited from legal services (women and girls/children)
Output inidcator 1.1.2: Number of women attending psychotherapy sessions and psychiatric evaluation (women and girls/children)
Output inidcator 1.1.3: Number of forensic examination and CMR services (women and girls/children)
Output inidcator 1.1.4: Number of rgiht-holders of GBV survivors or at-risk of GBV (m/f, r/hc) receieving PSS (women and girls/children)
Output 1.2: Emergency safe shelters for GBV survivors and their children and those with mental health disorders are running safely and effectively (ABAAD)
Output inidcator 1.2.1: Number of women and children receiving specialized multisectoral services from ABAAD and their partners (ABAAD and AFEL)
Output inidcator 1.2.2: Percentage reporting satisfaction from services
Output 1.3: Men with abusive behaviors have improved access to quality engendered psycho-therapy or PSS services and act as GBV change agents
Output indicator 1.3.1: Number of men with abusive behaviors who receive engendered psychotherapy sessions
Output indicator 1.3.2: Percentage of change in Men's perception on masculinities
Output 1.4: Women, girls, men and boys have improved access to quality MHPSS and GBV services
Output indicator: 1.4.1: Number of calls received and digitally documented
Output indicator 1.4.2: Number of dashboadrs produced on national GBV trends
Output indicator 1.4.3: Number of universities endorsing/accrediting the GBV CM training program and the selfcare training program
Output indicator 1.4.4: Number of front liners receiving ToTs on GBV CM and the selfcare programs
Output indicator 1.4.5: Number of front liners attending self-care/peer to peer support sessions
Output 1.5: General public have improved knowledge on gender-sensitive issues (ABAAD and Fe-male)
Output indicator 1.5.1: Number of media campaigns to promote GBV holistic services
Output indicator 1.5.2: Percentage of change in knowledge and perception of targeted population towards gender-sensitive reporting
Output indicators 1.5.3: Number of media personel attending self-care sessions
Output 1.6: Enhanced & sustained capacity of local authorities enabling vulnerable rights holders to enjoy rights and access to quality protection services
Output indicator 1.6.1: Number of ISF officers receiving trainings on GBV, CMR, PEP and othe relevant topics
Output indicator 1.6.2: Percentage of change in knowledge and perception of targeted population towards gender-sensitive procedures
OUTCOME 2: Increased quality SRHR education among refugees and host communities
Outcome indicator 2.1: Percentage increase in knowledge of front-liners and educators participating in the SRHR, CPP & SGBV prevention training
Percentage of population living in households with access to basic services
Output 2.1: Protection for young women and men in refugee and host communities is strengthened through better accessibility to SRHR Knowledge (ABAAD)
Output indicator 2.1.1: Number of female and male youth sensitized on issues related to GBV and SRHR
Output 2.2: Educators and social workers have improved capacity on Sexual Education, SRHR & SGBV prevention (ABAAD)
Output indicator 2.2.1: Number of specialied interactive materials on sexual education, CPP, SRHR, and SGBV prevention are produced
Output indicator 2.2.2: Number of GBV and CP service providers staff recieving training on SRHR, CPP & SGBV prevention
Output indicator 2.2.3: Percentage increase in knowledge of frontliners participating in the SRHR, CPP & SGBV prevention training
Output indicator 2.2.4: Number of educators recieving training on SRHR
Output indicator 2.2.5: Percentage increase in knowledge of educators after participating in the SRHR training
Output indicator 2.2.6: number of GBV frontline workers receiving self care sessions
Output 2.3: General public have improved knowledge and awareness on sexual assault (ABAAD)
Output indicator 2.3.1: Number of national public advocacy campaigns on sexual assault laws in Lebanon
Output indicator 2.3.2: Percentage of general public who are in favor of campaign objectives
Output indicator 2.3.3: Number of women and girls reporting sexual abuse incidents as a result of the campign
Output indicator 2.3.4: number of IEC tools to promote digital safety
LB-MOI-497-US-EIN-13-2890727-001
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Dissemination of the Guttmacher- Lancet Commission Report on SRHR in Lebanon-Please refer to activity identifier LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21
In response to the need to develop a national policy report to support programming and policy recommendations to move forward with the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights agenda in Lebanon, Abaad, in partnership with Guttmacher-Lancet Commission are developing a Briefing Note to tackle this issue. The purpose of this Briefing Note is to initiate discussion among key stakeholders about the current situation of the sexual and reproductive health and rights in Lebanon and address local, regional, and international recommendations around the topic. In the first stage, Abaad conducted key informant interviews with key stakeholders to gather their input and suggestions regarding the nature, size and underlying factors of the issue and the proposed recommendations. Then, a national technical consultation meeting on the subject of “Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’ Policies in Lebanon” took place on February 13th, 2020. Attendees included governmental bodies, including multiple ministries, UN agencies, international NGOs, local NGOs, and academic institutions. The Briefing Note will serve as the starting point for off-the-record deliberations involving those who will be included in or affected by decisions related to this topic, to spark insights about and generating action and a specific set of national recommendations on this pressing health challenge. The technical consultation results and the national recommendations (programmatic & policy) will be used as means to harmonize SRHR efforts in the country.
Guttmacher Institute
Guttmacher Institute
ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality
14165.95
12914.9
14165.95
14165.95
12914.9
12914.9
Briefing Note on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Lebanon
The purpose of this Briefing Note is to initiate discussion among key stakeholders to examine the current situation of the sexual and reproductive health and rights in Lebanon and provide a general overview of key recommendations utilized locally, regionally and internationally to address issues related to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The response and the discussions in dissemination meetings, the focus groups dialogue and the national consultation event
LB-MOI-497-XM-DAC-7-PPR-4000003882
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
NASEEJ 2- Improving prospects for refugees and vulnerable host communities
ABAAD has been implementing NASEEJ-2 according to plan and with few disruptions for most of the project period from its inception until recent developments related to the global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Following minimal disruption to direct services (e.g. the WGSS, MWH, and Men Center) in the light of the political instability of October and November 2019, direct services were able to resume normal operation. Furthermore, following the formation of a new government, ABAAD resumed the coordination with the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) for the launching of the GBV National SOPs as well as the Case Management Curriculum in addition to the self-care curriculum for GBV and CP front-liners.
In this request for adjustment, direct services are to continue; ABAAD is proposing to adapt its service delivery modality for a period of 6 months in addition to provide food transfers to the most vulnerable families in Lebanon.
The project’s overall objective (improve protection prospects for refugees and host communities in Lebanon) and outcome remains unchanged at both outcome 1 (Refugees and vulnerable host communities are better protected against violence and abuse) and outcome 2 (Increased quality SRHR education among refugees and host communities); it is at the output-level that will change, detailed below.
This project will aim to target vulnerable individuals, with a special focus on women and girls, with a 50-50 split between host and refugee communities.
ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality
Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1124366
1112742.39948867
DMFA-ABAAD Final Financial report till Nov 2020 (3) (Autosaved)
OUTCOME 1: Refugees and vulnerable host communities are better protected against violence and abuse
Outcome indicator 1.1: Increasing access of refugees and vulnerable host communities to appropriate services (m/f, r/hc)
Output 1.1: Holistic GBV service provision is ensured to women and girls survivors or at risk of GBV in life threatening situations (ABAAD and AFEL)
Output indicator 1.1.1: Number of cases benefited from E-Awareness sessions (women and girls)
Output indicator 1.1.2: Number of rightsholders of GBV survivors or at-risk of GBV, receiving E-PSS (women and girls)
Output indicator 1.1.3: Number of GBV survivors benefited from Emergency Cash Assistance (women and girls)
Output indicator 1.1.4: Number of GBV survivors benefited from E-Counseling and E-case management for women survivors
Output 1.2: Emergency safe shelters for GBV survivors and their children and those with mental health disorders are running safely and effectively (ABAAD)
Output indicator 1.2.1: Number of women and children receiving safe sheltering and GBV specialized multisectoral services from ABAAD
Output 1.3: Men with abusive behaviors have improved access to quality engendered psycho-therapy or PSS services and act as GBV change agents
Output indicator 1.3.1: Number of men and boys with abusive behaviors who receive engendered E-Psychotherapy sessions
Output 1.4: Vulnerable HHs have improved access to food security
Output indicator: 1.4.1: Number Vulnerable HHs receiving socio-economic support in form of one-time food aid/assistance (standard of 5 persons per household)
Output indicator 1.4.2: Number beneficiaries receiving socio-economic support in form of one-time food aid/assistance
OUTCOME 2: Increased quality SRHR education among refugees and host communities
Outcome indicator 2.1: Percentage increase in knowledge of front-liners and educators participating in the SRHR, CPP & SGBV prevention training
Output 2.1: Educators and social workers have improved capacity on Sexual Education, SRHR & SGBV prevention (ABAAD)
Output indicator 2.1.1: Number of front liners receiving Training sessions on GBV CM and the selfcare programs
Output 2.2: Enhanced & sustained capacity of authorities enabling vulnerable rights holders to enjoy rights and access to quality protection services
Output indicator 2.2.1 Number of ISF officers receiving E-trainings on GBV and response/referral mechanisms
LB-MOI-497-GB-COH-04105827-AIDDIRECT
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Towards a Gender Equitable Society-UKAID-Mannion Daniels
The project aims to reduce the risk of GBV including sexual violence & improve the prevention & response mechanisms in
close partnership with existing national & governmental frameworks to ensure sustainability of the national system for GBV
prevention and response. The project encompasses the following 2 main pillars: Service delivery through WGSSs and
MWHs, and 2) Shifting cultural and social norms related to VAWG, GBV, and traditional gender norms through a TV
component.
ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality
Women and girls survivors of GBV have safe and adequate access and shelter at the Midway House.
Number of survivors of SGBV and their dependents who receive sheltering
Number of women and girls accessing PSS services in the MWH
Number of women and girls receiving psychotherapy sessions in the MWH
Quality psychosocial support and case management services are provided for women and girls at high risk for and survivors of SGBV at WGSS.
Number of women and girls accessing PSS services in WGSS
Number of women and girls accessing case management services in WGSS
Number of women and girls accessing legal services in WGSS
Number of women and girls receiving psychotherapy sessions in WGSS
Number of psychotherapy sessions held
Number of women and girls accessing medical services in WGSS
Community men and women are engaged in dialogue and/or activities relating to GBV at the community level.
Number of Mobile Unit rounds conducted
Number of women, girls, men and boys sensitized on gender and GBV issues
Number of right holders satisfied with gender and GBV sensitization services
Mini-series/Mini-segments and student short films on issues of VAWG produced and broadcasted
Number of gender-sensitive mini-series/mini-segments produced
Number of gender-sensitive student short films produced
Number of film students and screen writers integrating a gender perspective in their storylines.
Number of film students and screen writers integrating a gender perspective in their storylines.
Media professionals and film students are trained on using media for social change
Number of workshops on media for social change
Number of mentoring and coaching sessions
Number of participants in workshops on media for social change
Number of participants in mentoring and coaching sessions
Women, girls, men and boys have increased access to quality GBV prevention and response services and media has enhanced capacity to produce gender and GBV-sensitive media products in Lebanon.
Number of survivors reporting satisfaction with the response services received
Percentage of women and girls with enhanced knowledge of gender or GBV issues
Number of unique females (women and girls) accessing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) response services
Number of unique total, females, males, directly benefiting from Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) prevention services
Number of film students who have enhanced capacity to produce gender and GBV-sensitive media products in Lebanon
Number of film students and screen writers reporting changed perceptions on gender and GBV issues
Contribute to an enabling environment in which social norms around GBV will be shifted and access to safe and quality prevention and response services will be increased.
% of project participants reporting positive change in perceptions around social norms and Gender Based Violence
LB-MOI-497-MW
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Generation G - Lebanon
The Generation G partnership strives towards the creation of gender-just and violence-free societies with and for young people in their full diversity. The partnership raises public support, advocates for improved policies and laws, and strengthens civil society, all as a way to contribute to gender justice. The partnership addresses three key interrelated challenges: gender-based violence, the unequal division of care, and women’s lack of access to civic space. The Generation G partnership is a collaboration of partners in Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, with a global consortium consisting of Rutgers (lead), ABAAD, Promundo and Sonke Gender Justice.
ABAAD
Resource Center for Gender Equality (ABAAD)
Resource Center for Gender Equality (ABAAD)
Justice Without Frontiers
ABAAD
MEL unit
Mohamad Kallout
mohamad.kallout@abaadmena.org
366484
379335
366484
Approved budget GG Lebanon 21
ABAAD
Gen G Lebanon
51391
Funding GG Lebanon 21
ABAAD
Gen G Lebanon
213315
Expenditures GG Lebanon 21
ABAAD
Gen G Lebanon
379335
ABAAD
Generation G - Lebanon
237088
ABAAD
Generation G - Lebanon
237088
Generation G - Lebanon
Generation G - Lebanon
Indicator 1.1 : Number of laws, policies, strategies and plans adopted, adapted, maintained or blocked, in line with the country programmes priority themes, contributed to by the programme (SDG 5.1.1)
# of laws blocked, adopted or improved to promote womens economic rights, empowerment and entrepreneurship
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
The actual is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
# of governmental policies & strategies blocked, adopted or improved to promote womens economic rights, empowerment and entrepreneurship
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
The actual is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
# of laws blocked, adopted or improved to eradicate all forms of violence against women and girls in public and private life;
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
# of governmental policies & strategies blocked, adopted or improved to eradicate all forms of violence against women and girls in public and private life
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is for the whole programme period : Lebanon National Action Plan on UNSCR1325
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
# of laws blocked, adopted or improved to promote womens voice, agency, leadership, and representative participation in decision making processes in public, private and civic sphere
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
The actual is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
# of governmental policies & strategies blocked, adopted or improved to promote womens voice, agency, leadership, and representative participation in decision making processes in public, private and civic sphere
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is for the whole programme period : National Strategy for women
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
Indicator 2.2 : Number of occasions where young people and/or civil society organizations succeeded in influencing decision making processes that affect their lives/the lives of their constituencies
Long term outcome: Policy and Legal change
# of times that CSOs succeed in creating space for CSO demands and positions on violence against women and girls, through agenda setting, influencing the debate and/or movement building
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is for the whole programme period : 16 days of Activism campaign by ARDD
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
# of times that CSOs succeed in creating space for CSO demands and positions on violence against women and girls, through agenda setting, influencing the debate and/or movement building at subnational level
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is for the whole programme period : Youth based campaign by youth engaged in the programme
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
# of times that CSOs (succeed in creating space for CSO demands and positions on womens voice, agency, leadership and representative participation in decision -making processes in public, private and civic sphere, through agenda setting, influencing the debate and/or movement building
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is for the whole programme period : JWF campaign
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
# of times that CSOs (succeed in creating space for CSO demands and positions on womens voice, agency, leadership and representative participation in decision -making processes in public, private and civic sphere, through agenda setting, influencing the debate and/or movement building at subnational level
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
The actual is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
# of times that CSOs succeed in creating space for CSO demands and positions on womens economic rights, empowerment and entrepreneurship, through agenda setting, influencing the debate and/or movement building
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
The actual is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
# of times that CSOs succeed in creating space for CSO demands and positions on womens economic rights, empowerment and entrepreneurship, through agenda setting, influencing the debate and/or movement building at subnational level
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The target is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
The actual is 0 at this disaggregation level, because the country coalition has not prioritised working in this area.
Indicator 3.3: Number of organizations with strengthened capacity to advance womens rights and gender equality
Long term outcome : Civil society strengthening
# of women led partner CSOs that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
This actual is N/A for 2021 as this indicator was added in 2022.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
# of youth led partner CSOs that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
This actual is N/A for 2021 as this indicator was added in 2022.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
# of partner CSOs (not youth or women led) that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
This target was set retrospectively in 2023.
9 organisations were strengthened on topics of gender.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
# of partner CSOs (both women and youth led) that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
This actual is N/A for 2021 as this indicator was added in 2022.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
The actual is 0 because change is expected to happen later on in the programme.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
These targets will be set by the coalition at a later date.
LB-MOI-497-MC
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
Generation G - ABAAD
The Generation G partnership strives towards the creation of gender-just and violence-free societies with and for young people in their full diversity. The partnership raises public support, advocates for improved policies and laws, and strengthens civil society, all as a way to contribute to gender justice. The partnership addresses three key interrelated challenges: gender-based violence, the unequal division of care, and women’s lack of access to civic space. The Generation G partnership is a collaboration of partners in Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, with a global consortium consisting of Rutgers (lead), ABAAD, Promundo and Sonke Gender Justice.
Rutgers
Resource Center for Gender Equality (ABAAD)
Resource Center for Gender Equality (ABAAD)
ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality
68523
76872
435007
Approved budget GG ABAAD 21
Rutgers
Gen G ABAAD
217504
Funding GG ABAAD 21
Rutgers
Gen G ABAAD
53343
Expenditures GG ABAAD 21
Rutgers
Gen G ABAAD
51391
Disbursement GG Lebanon 21
ABAAD
Gen G Lebanon
366484
Outgoing commitment Lebanon 21
Rutgers
Gen G Lebanon
237088
ABAAD
Gender G - Lebanon
456207
Rutgers
ABAAD
228104
Rutgers
ABAAD
379335
ABAAD
Gender G - Lebanon
59622
ABAAD
ABAAD
Indicator 3.3: Number of organizations with strengthened capacity to advance womens rights and gender equality
Long term outcome : Civil society strengthening
# of women led partner CSOs that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
This target is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022. Target formulation will happen in 2023.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
The organisation will strengthen one partner on GTA.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
# of youth led partner CSOs that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
# of partner CSOs (not youth or women led) that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
# of partner CSOs (both women and youth led) that have effectively applied GTA in their advocacy, campaigning and community mobilisation.
The baseline value is set to 0 as this indicator measures changes implemented by the programme during its lifetime.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
This actual is set to 0 as this is a newly added indicator in 2022.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
The organisation will keep working with the same organisations as previous years.
LB-MOI-497-SCC
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC - Partnership
The Strengthening Civil Courage programme builds on hope, the hope that emanates from the emerging citizens protest movements that reflect civil courage and the inexhaustible and universal desire for peace and fundamental rights. All over the world, people stand up, organize themselves and raise their voices, despite many challenges and obstacles. Democracy and pluralism are under assault in many countries, political violence is rising, violence against women continues, civic space is under attack, arms trade is flourishing, conflicts affect environments and climate change aggravates inequality and strife. The Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance intends to stand with these courageous people and support them. The Alliance consists of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International The Netherlands, DefendDefenders and PAX.
The programme aspires to contribute to more equal power relations for realising inclusive peace and justice. Together with its in-country partner networks, it will defend and increase civic space, transform (local) conflicts, protect human rights, pursue gender equality and work on mitigation of external stress factors like illegal arms trade and unresponsible business conduct.
The alliance works primarily with civil society organisations in the programme countries, victim groups, (women) human rights defenders, local communities, traditional and religious leaders with a special focus on supporting youth and female leadership.
The Strengthening Civil Courage Programme consists of 11 country programmes in Africa and the Middle East, a regional programme in the Sahel and a programme at international level. Country and regional programmes are published as separate IATI activities as well.
ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality
Amnesty International The Netherlands
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LB-MOI-497-SCC-ETH
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC-ETH
After a period of heavy repression of human rights defenders, Ethiopian authorities allowed more freedom to them in recent years. Legal frameworks developed positively. However, in practice the newly gained freedom is fragile and civic space is curtailed. Repressive actions still threaten the safety and security of journalists and others defending or using their rights to freely express themselves, to assemble or to associate. In particular in conflict situations, widely spread in the country, human rights defenders and activists are at risk of violent actions, both from government agencies and from various political, ethnic armed groups. Violence includes arbitrary arrests and detention, enforced disappearances, rape and other sexual and gender-based violence.
The programme aims to support Ethiopian civil society and human rights defenders, including journalists, to strengthen their resilience and capacity to counter civic space constraints and to speak out on human rights issues in safe and secure ways. Trainings and other interventions will e.g focus on physically and digitally safe ways of working, self-care, gender-sensitive reporting and developing strong networks that engage in effective advocacy or dialogues with relevant authorities in Ethiopia or internationally. A second line of work will specifically focus on conflict related human rights violations in the Oromia Region. Applying a community-based approach, the Alliance will work with local civil society to enhance capacities in monitoring, documenting and balanced reporting on human rights violations. Partners will be supported to develop effective ways in using the documented evidence in advocacy for accountability mechanisms and effective actions by government authorities as well as opposition groups to address human rights violations.
The programme will mainly work with (women) human rights defenders, journalists and their networks. In the Oromia region it will focus on cooperation with conflict affected communities and their leaders, women’s and youth groups in particular.
Background The activity is part of a larger programme implemented by the Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance, consisting of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International The Netherlands, DefendDefenders, PAX and their partner networks.
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LB-MOI-497-SCC-IRQ
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC-IRQ
Iraq has been experiencing many years of violent conflict. This has caused a shrinking of civic space, deteriorating human rights situation, unresolved past conflict and gender inequality. The SCC program in Iraq will address the damaged inter-community relations and the relation between state and citizens. Thereby empowering survivors and victims of violence to advocate for their rights with regards to justice and accountability. The main focus of the program lies on the Ninewa governorate, which was hit hardest by ISIL. Capacity-building training will be provided focusing on human rights, gender, dealing with the past, and advocacy.
The main objective is to reach evidence-based advocacy of strong and diverse victim groups and other civil society group in Iraq, that contribute to the realisation of inclusive transformative justice processes and to the nun-recurrence of atrocities. More specifically, the program aims for the victims and survivors of human rights abuses and violent conflict in Ninewa to influence transformative justice and accountability processes to be more inclusive. Secondly, the goal is to reach an increased collaboration between inclusive victim and survivor groups across the political divide, and finally, the programme aims to strengthen international standards and due diligence on arms export control.
The target groups are marginalised survivor and victim groups; Iraqi partner organisations; grantees, such as community-based organisations; a network of advocates; local and provincial authorities; national authorities; and international policymakers.
The activity is part of a larger programme implemented by the Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance, consisting of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International The Netherlands, DefendDefenders, PAX and their partner networks.
Amnesty International The Netherlands
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LB-MOI-497-SCC-LEB
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC-LEB
Lebanon is facing multiple crises: an economic crisis, refugee crisis, political crisis and a health crisis. On top of that, young Lebanese citizens have been demonstrating for change against state corruption and the lack of accountability of the political elite. At the same time, the rights to freedom of speech and assembly is under pressure due to increasing measures by the government. In addition, the deteriorating context has contributed to an increase in Gender-based Violence (GBV) throughout the country. Therefore, the projection and expansion of civic space is a necessity to push for reforms, hold accountable the political elite and to combat the challenges Lebanon is facing.
The overall objective is that Lebanon’s civic change movement defends its civic space and acts as an inclusive collective to foster gender equality, address community tensions and hold local and national actors accountable for human rights violations. Specifically, the program seeks for activists and civil society to protect their civic space to freely express their concerns; for civil society and the international community to pressure Lebanese and international actors for greater protection of Syrian refugees, and for girls and women to have better protection and expand their influence on their economic, social and political rights.
The target groups are (young) Lebanese activists and activist groups that can mobilise other people into a movement of social change; Lebanese partner CSOs who can create and protect fee and open cultural spaces; Lebanese local and national authorities; international actors; women and girl; men and boys; and, religious leaders that can be of significant importance in increasing the tolerance and acceptance of others in a divided society such as Lebanon’s.
The activity is part of a larger programme implemented by the Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance, consisting of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International The Netherlands, DefendDefenders, PAX and their partner networks.
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LB-MOI-497-SCC-SAH
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC-SAH
Provide a brief but meaningful description of the ‘why’ and the focus of the programme. Write concise and specific. Avoid jargon.
The Sahel has been the scene of large-scale armed conflict since 2012. Jihadist groups, state security forces, international military actors, and community militias and bandits are involved in these armed conflict. The conflict is exacerbated due to conflict between communities and weak state presence. There is economic underdevelopment, clientelism and corruption among elites. The programme in the Sahel will work with civil society actors to address these issues, common security and human rights problems.
The main objective of the Sahel programme is for CSOs and human rights defenders, working in the tri-border region of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, to contribute to greater accountability and more inclusive conflict-sensitive policies through effective monitoring and documentation of human rights violations, advocacy, and inclusive dialogue for peace and justice. More specifically, the aim is for CSOs, female and young human rights defenders and activists to claim their civic space; that state actors increasingly respond to the pressure of citizens to build inclusive communities; and, for national governments and international military actors to adhere to international norms and human rights standards.
The main target groups are human rights defenders that work at national level on civic space, good governance and rule of law; human rights defenders involved in monitoring and reporting conflict-related human rights violations; civilian populations and communities in the Liptako Gourma border region; and, CSO partners from the three sides of the border.
The activity is part of a larger programme implemented by the Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance, consisting of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International The Netherlands, DefendDefenders, PAX and their partner networks.
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Amnesty International The Netherlands
DefendDefenders
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LB-MOI-497-SCC-PAL
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC-PAL
The programme’s wider context include the ongoing occupation of Palestinian land, the increased fragmentation of the Palestinian population and the suppression of civic space, including delegitimization of Palestinian and Israeli human rights defenders and other civil society actors. In this complex context the programme focuses on the violations of the housing and residency rights of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and Area C. Addressing these violations requires commitment and an active role of a variety of stakeholders.
The programme therefore aspires to support human rights defenders and civil society actors in their efforts to counter the repression of civic space (including social media), to prevent specific violations of housing and residency rights, and to address companies in the UN Database and their investors on reducing their involvement in Israeli human rights violations. Interventions may include development of skills and leadership, research, and joint advocacy.
Target groups / reach The programme will in particular work with Palestinian and Israeli (women) human rights defenders, other civil society actors and Palestinian and Israeli citizens. It will address authorities, international duty bearers, companies and financial institutions on their opportunities to contribute to equal rights for Palestinian and Israeli citizens.
The activity is part of a larger programme implemented by the Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance, consisting of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International The Netherlands, DefendDefenders, PAX and their partner networks.
Amnesty International The Netherlands
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LB-MOI-497-SCC-SYR
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC-SYR
General After more than ten years of war Syrian civil society is fragmented, both inside and outside Syria. At the same time political processes related to the future of Syria and processes that intend to pursue justice and accountability are internationally dominated and lack meaningful participation of Syrian citizens. The programme aims to support Syrian civil society – outside of Syria – to develop into an inclusive and non-violent peace movement that takes an active role in transitional processes and in promoting peace in Syria.
Main objectives and/or envisioned outcomes On one hand it provides civil society organisations (CSOs) with support to develop their non-violent strategising skills, their advocacy skills and their ability to build connections and bridges with various actors and communities within Syrian Civil Society at large. On the other hand it facilitates access to relevant in country authorities and international fora, so that concerns and interests of civilians will be heard in political and transitional processes.
Target groups / reach The programme primarily works with Syrian Civil Society and with and for victims and survivors of human rights violations, with a special focus on women and youth.
The activity is part of a larger programme implemented by the Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance, consisting of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International The Netherlands, DefendDefenders, PAX and their partner networks.
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LB-MOI-497-SCC-YEM
ABAAD- Resource Center for Gender Equality
SCC-YEM
After the fall of the Saleh regime in 2011, the country has been drawn into a conflict with national, regional and international actors. The country is facing a tremendous humanitarian crisis. Civic space is very limited, since organisations face a lack of protection, funding, capacity and support. Against this backdrop, the SCC programme in Yemen is crucial to create a safe space for CSOs to act and to play active role towards ending the conflict.
The main objective of the SCC programme in Yemen is for Yemeni civilians represented by civil society play an active role towards building inclusive peace, reducing civilian suffering through arms control and environmental protection, and ensuring accountability at the local, national and international level. The aim is to expand civic space, particularly by women and youth-led civil society, for civil society to gain access to accountability processes, and strengthen international standards and due diligence on arms control.
The target groups are local partner organisations; activists; local councils; small CSOs; national actors; and the international community. A particular focus is on women and youth.
The activity is part of a larger programme implemented by the Strengthening Civil Courage Alliance, consisting of ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality, Amnesty International the Netherlands, DefendDefenders, PAX and their partner networks.
Amnesty International The Netherlands
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18736
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