Project
PROTECTWomen
Promoting prevention of coercive control and psychological violence against women most at-risk
Implementation: Start: 01/04/2025 – End: 30/09/2026
Description
The PROTECTWomen project aims to prevent psychological violence and coercive control and protect women at-risk, including those under 30, individuals with disabilities or health conditions, non-heterosexuals, and those with migrant backgrounds.
This will be achieved by improving the knowledge and skills of social service professionals, increasing availability of effective services, raising public awareness, promoting gender equality and women’s human rights. The project also aims to achieve longer-term outcomes, such as the development of evidence-based policies and practices that respond to the needs of women at-risk.
The PROTECTWomen objectives are the following:
- to enhance the accessibility of information and upskill social services professionals (SSPs) to offer more effective support to women at-risk
- to design and execute awareness-raising campaigns that highlight the gendered nature of violence and recognize the role of gender inequality and sexism
The PROTECTWomen activities:
- Developing training materials for a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) program targeted at Social Service Professionals in English, Greek, Spanish and Lithuanian
- Establishing an e-learning platform to host the CPD programme
- Conducting 4 national piloting sessions in Greece, Romania, Spain and Lithuania involving 40 Social Service Professionals in total who work directly with women at-risk
- Developing impactful awareness-raising materials and an e-campaign with key messages
- Organizing at least 4 consultation meetings to foster cooperation and increase stakeholder involvement
- Creating promotional materials and tools such as videos and a project website
- 4 national awareness-raising workshops with a minimum of 200 participants