Create Brazilian network to fight domestic abuse

Summary

Organizational training for the dozens of women's organizations located in northeast Brazil to teach them to work together, reduce duplicative efforts, and increase their impact.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Northeast Brazil is the most violent region of a country where a woman is beaten every 15 seconds (70% of cases occur within the home). In response to this problem, dozens of small, grassroots women's organizations have been created to provide a wide range of direct services for abused women. Each has worked independently of the other, and can have a more strategic impact by joining together in a network, increasing both outreach and the quality of services provided.

How will this project solve this problem?

Grassroots women's groups will come together at regional workshops to exchange information, share best practices, and receive training in improving the structure of their organizations and systematizing their knowledge for optimum learning.

Potential Long Term Impact

Diverse women's groups will improve their internal structure, increase their capacity to provide direct services, and identify areas of strategic collaboration with other groups, resulting in more success in the battle to end domestic violence.

Project Message

By offering training in systems, organizational structure, and social justice issues, these groups do better work for women who have suffered from violence.
- Renata Couto, Communication and Development Officer

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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