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Description
The daily practice of supporting women survivors of domestic violence (DV) & their children in Greece, presents lack of coordination & networking of competent bodies, lack of a common protocol for handling the incidents, deficiencies in professionals’ training etc. For combating DV many systems are involved, which act sequentially, without interconnection & activated only after survivors’ specific actions. This systems’ chain activation negatively affects the response time & quality of the protection/support survivors receive; also leads to great under-reporting of DV because survivors are reluctant to resort to Authorities; but even when they do resort, protection is not guaranteed because if the process fails at a critical or early point of the chain, the entire protection scheme collapses.
The project’s objective is to build a multi-agency substantial partnership between police, justice & support services with the aim to strengthen the support & protection of women & children suffering DV in Greece, in accordance with the standards of the Istanbul Convention & through building on good practices, tools, experience & know-how of the Icelandic Police & other competent authorities & NGOs of Iceland.
Activities
- Identify factors that impede effective support & protection of DV survivors in Greece
- Establishment of an interdisciplinary/intersectoral Greek DV Task Force with representatives of police, justice & support services
- Exchange good practices between Iceland & Greece
- Development, pilot testing & evaluation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the involved agencies
- Capacity building of professionals
- Advocacy
Beneficiaries are the women survivors of DV & their children & target groups are the organizations & staff of police, justice & support services.
Coordinator is EAVN, the Icelandic Police is expert partner, The Smile of the Child is expert partner in child protection; competent authorities participate as stakeholders & also external experts.