Addressing violence against women: a global approach (part 2),

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:51:26 +0000

by Ceri Hayes

[this is the second part of a blog entry addressing the ways to tackle Violence Againt Women. Part 1 is here].

Co-ordination between and the commitment of different actors in the community is extremely important if interventions to address violence against women are to succeed.

Integrated community approaches

In Ghana, the Nkyinkyim project has a strong focus on working with traditional and religious leaders - and engaging the whole community in its efforts to tackle the pervasive problems of domestic violence. Partners in the project have created COMBATS or Community-Based Action Teams to work with local leaders in rural areas -where access to legal support and formal justice systems can be very limited - in order to resolve individual cases of domestic violence and to establish locally appropriate sanctions such as public ‘naming and shaming' of perpetrators.

This approach has fostered a sense of ownership of the project amongst the whole community that has resulted in not only the incidence of violence against women decreasing, but also a reduction in other types of intra-familial violence. Read the rest of this post...

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