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The main aim of the project is to provide necessary interventions to empower children, including children with disabilities, of all gender identities, to participate meaningfully in decision-making processes and to be protected from all forms of violence.

The project aims to reduce gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities in Nghe An province by enhancing the capacity of women and girls with disabilities and their communities to address gender-based violence, and by strengthening legal counseling and support for women and girls with disabilities.

Gender-based violence is accepted as“normal” “I always think that persons with disabilities suffer from gender-based violence because they have disabilities. Moreover, this is a private family matter, so if other people know about it, they will laugh at it, and the women might even be beaten more by their husbands for being big mouths”. This is what V.T.T.T., Duy Thu Commune’s OPD, Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province, said.

Lan Phuong came down with scoliosis in grade 3. From then on, her family embarked on a new chapter of endless hospital visits. Her self-consciousness prevented her from stepping a foot outside. She was afraid of the curious look of everyone and the pointing fingers of children as they called her names like "Liu Yong" or "Hunchback Prime Minister". Those were the times Phuong wished to disappear from her life so that she would never have to hear such hurtful words again. Seeing her parents struggle and feeling self-conscious, she gave up on her dream of becoming a teacher and dropped out of school to help her parents.

From September 27-28, 2022, in Hanoi, a training course for the TOT group on prevention and response to gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities in the online environment" was held. The activity is within the framework of the project “Enhancing the information accessibility for persons with disabilities and organizations for persons with disabilities” funded by CBM.

On the afternoon of August 9th, 2022, in Thua Thien Hue province, ACDC in collaboration with the Department of Labour- War Invalids and Social Affairs organized a conference "Sharing survey results of gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities”.

On July 28, 2022, the Workshop on “Reporting survey results of gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities” took place in Quang Tri. The activity was jointly held by ACDC and the Organization of Persons with Disabilities, Agent Orange Victims, Protecting Persons with Disabilities and Protecting Children's Rights.

Due to many objective and subjective factors, persons with disabilities, especially women and girls with disabilities, are a group at high risk of gender-based violence. According to the Impact Assessment Report on gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities of the project "Strengthening opportunities and enhancing the status of persons with disabilities – phase 2", a significant proportion of women and girls with disabilities have experienced gender-based violence in various forms. This report also points out that the skills of stakeholders to support women and girls with disabilities experiencing gender-based violence still have certain limitations; inter-sectoral coordination to prevent gender-based violence has not yet been highly effective.

Gender-based violence is one of the issues that has been receiving much attention from the whole society, especially gender-based violence against disadvantaged groups. As part of a series of activities to enhance the prevention of gender-based violence against persons with disabilities, on June 16-17 in Thua Thien Hue province, the ACDC collaborated with the Project Management Unit to organize a training course on “Gender-based violence against persons with disabilities for health staff and legal staff”.

On May 5th -6th, 2022,ACDC coordinated with Quang Tri Organization of Persons with Disabilities, Agent Orange Victims, Protection of persons with disabilities and Children's Rightsto organize 02 training classes on Conduct training on GBV issues for persons with disabilities and their caregivers” in Quang Tri province. The activity attracted the participation of more than 60 persons with disabilities/caregivers, including 26 women with disabilities from Cam Lo, Trieu Phong, and Dong Ha districts.