Rifka Annisa women's crisis centre
country: Indonesia
The Rifka Annisa women’s crisis centre aims to prevent violence, including domestic violence, against women and to help its victims. It works closely with police and health services to do so.
Following two years of strong lobbying, the mayor of Yogyakarta has issued a bye-law describing the responsibilities of the various government services concerning gender-based violence. Via networks, efforts are now being made to get this bye-law introduced in other places.
Results 2009
Rifka Annisa Supported 634 women, who survived GBV (480), violence during a date (60), rape (37), sexual harassment (42), domestic violence (15) and trafficking (2).
Furthermore, 67 women received legal assistance and the Crisis Center offered shelter to 10 women.
Plans 2010
Obviously, Rifka Annisa will continue to support women survivor of violence in various ways. Furthermore, perpetrator counselling will be extended and counselling for couples will be initiated. Lastly, a long-cherished dream of the organisation will come true: in 2010, it will start its own training centre to train staff of similar organisations.
Toolkit
In 2009, major progress has been made in developing the toolkit for tackling Gender-Based Violence, consisting of a counselling and a training manual. The toolkit was piloted in Indonesia and South Africa. Additional expertise in the field of counselling men was brought into action.
At the end of 2009, this intervention was nominated for the PSO Innovation Award 2010.
Partner consultations resulted in a ‘linking and learning’ learning process aimed at improving the quality of aid to male perpetrators within a strengthened organisation.
Lessons 2009
Developing and implementing an aid programme for male perpetrators by women’s organisations implies major organisational changes, which also has implications for WPF ’s work.
Plans 2010
Early in 2010, the pilot results will be assessed and incorporated in the Training and Counselling Manual as the last step towards the definitive counselling programme for male perpetrators. In 2010, a great effort will be made towards further distribution of the so-called. ‘Male Counselling Toolkit’, and improvement of the couple counselling interventions will be initiated.
>> Domestic Violence is a war zone (in which Nur Hasyim of Rifka Annisa is interviewed.) Article in Jakarta Post, 9 march 2010.
