Grants for fighting violence, including gender-based violence.
Priorities and funded actions
The fourth strand of CERV programme aims to fight violence including gender-based violence.
Objectives:
- To prevent and combating at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls and domestic violence, also by promoting the standards laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention);
- To prevent and combat all forms of violence against children, young people, as well as violence against other groups at risk, such as LGBTQI persons and persons with disabilities;
- To support and protect all direct and indirect victims of such violence, such as domestic violence exerted within the family or violence in intimate relationships, including children orphaned by domestic crimes, and supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence
Structure:
- Combating gender-based violence
- Combating violence against children and other groups at risk (LGBTIQ persons, persons with disabilities)
- Supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of such violence
Among financed actions:
- Awareness-raising and empowerment activities;
- Capacity-building and training for professionals;
- Design and implementation of protocols, development of working methods and tools, coordination platform and groups;
- Design of services and measures improving access to victim support services;
- Exchange of good practices, mutual learning;
- Creation and implementation of data collection strategies and systems