Increasing access to justice for rural women in Sierra Leone

The project will seek to increase rural women’s access to justice by protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of women and girls who suffer as a result of violence perpetrated against them. The objective is to support individual women survivors of violence to access justice; change attitudes in communities towards violence against women; and ensure that all women understand their rights and how claim them and that those who have a responsibility to protect and promote those rights do so. This will be done by using a number of strategies including specific awareness raising activities with different community stakeholders (traditional/opinion leaders, CBOs such as women’s and youth groups, etc) on basic human rights principles ,providing legal, medical and other support to survivors while they access justice. This project is co-unded by Womankind (through the DFID PPA) and The Sigrid Rausing Trust and the costs published represent only the Womankind PPA component.;