Gender Based Violence programme wins PSO Innovation Award
28 January 2010
WPF and her partner organizations Mosaic (South Africa), Rifka Annisa (Indonesia) and Perempuan Women Crisis Centre Bengkulu (Indonesia) have won the Dutch PSO Innovation Award 2009.
Male involvement
The project is entitled Male Involvement in the context of intimate partner violence.
Judgement
The jury referred in her judgment to the project and presentation as "Clear in identifying what needed to be changed. The presentation showed the innovation in terms of changing the intervention strategy, as well as the implications for the capacity of partner organizations. There was also a focus on learning for the wider community on this topic."
PSO
PSO is an association that consists of sixty Dutch development organisations. The association focuses on capacity development at civil society organisations in developing countries. It is the second time that PSO is offering the Innovation Award.
Innovation Award
“The Innovation Award is without any doubt a great recognition of our intense, courageous and exciting process leading to not only a counseling program for men in order to stop violence against women, but simultaneously to a strengthened organization”, according to Rachel Ploem, Technical Advisor Women’s health of WPF.
Men can change
Essential to the success of the program is the belief that men can change their violent behaviour. For the involved women’s organizations and counselors, this new approach involves a radical change of perspective. Counselors are trained to listen without judgment and to challenge men to help to find a solution to end the violence and not the relation. A Male Counseling’s Toolkit is under development.
Film
Watch the powerful and moving film The Heart of the Matter on our Dutch mybody.nl-website. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to 'Heart of the Matter' and click on the link. The film is made by Aernout Zevenbergen.
For more in depth information on the project please contact Rachel Ploem.
>> Factsheet Gender Based Violence Programme
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