Strengthening community security and prevention of violence against women in Tajikistan

The project is designed to contribute to the reduction of domestic violence (DV) against women and girls in three target districts of Tajikistan by: (a) strengthening the identification of, and response to, DV cases (through supporting the coordination and monitoring of police reform processes; bolstering community policing and the capacity of community policing partnership teams (CPPTs); providing conflict and gender sensitivity training to the police, CPPTs and gender-based violence (GBV) service providers; raising awareness on DV and GBV at community levels; and increasing access to GBV services through referral mechanisms) and (b) enabling CPPTs and communities to identify, challenge and address harmful gender norms, behaviours and relationships that perpetuate gender inequality and violence (through participatory conflict and gender analysis (including using Saferworld’s Gender Analysis of Conflict Tookit), gender transformative workshops, and the development and implementation of action plans, resourced through small grants, to challenge, advocate against and address harmful gender norms and behaviours).