Tag: gender-based

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.

ACDC and the Organization of Persons with Disabilities (OPD) collaborated to host a training session on the subject of preventing gender-based violence against persons with disabilities in Quang Tri province on March 16 and 17, 2023. More than 41 representatives from communal health stations, legal aid offices, OPDs, and women's unions from districts including Huong Hoa, Dakrong, and Hai Lang attended the course. The program was designed to increase participants' understanding of gender-based violence against women with disabilities as well as their capacity to identify, screen for, and handle such situations.

On March 14th - 15th, 2023, in Thua Thien Hue province, ACDC in collaboration with the Project Management Unit and relevant agencies organized “Training on gender-based violence for women with disabilities and their caregivers” with the participation of 60 participants from two districts of Phu Loc and Nam Dong.  

“This training course is superb. I had no idea what gender was or what the distinction between gender and sex was. Now I understand these concepts and know how to protect myself from gender-based violence. I would like to say thank you to the facilitators and the project.” – That is a sharing from Ms. H.T.C, a woman with a disability in Dakrong district after the “Training on gender-based violence for persons with disabilities”.

Due to many objective and subjective factors, persons with disabilities, especially women and girls with disabilities, are at high risk of gender violence. To strengthen knowledge and skills to support persons with disabilities with gender violence to relevant agencies, on November 29-30, 2022 in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province, a training course on "Prevention of gender-based violence against persons with disabilities for relevant agencies" was held.

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.

On July 10, 2022, in Quang Nam, with the support of the Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC), the Red Cross and the Youth Union of Dien Ban commune coordinated to organize the Communication Event for Prevention for gender-based violence in the family with the theme "Protecting persons with disabilities in family". The event aims to promote the role of authorities at all levels, mass organizations and social organizations, promote the prevention of gender-based violence in the family, towards the protection of persons with disabilities.

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”.

“I have been looking forward to a training course like this for a long time, and when I was invited by the commune official, I agreed to attend immediately. I hope this training course is widely disseminated so that women with disabilities have knowledge about gender-based violence and know how to prevent and protect themselves." That is the sharing of Ms. C.T.L, Tra Duong commune, Bac Tra My district during the training course “Prevention of gender-based violence for persons with disabilities and their families”  in Quang Nam on June 8 & 10, 2022.

From 2 to 4 June, 2022, the project “Social Assitance and Independent Living” organized home visits to persons with disabilities who are at risk of gender-based violence in Hue City, Phu Vang and Phong Dien districts, Thua Thien Hue province. The Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) in collaboration with the Division of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Women’s Association and the Associations of Persons with Disabilities in districts implemented the activity.

Nowadays, women in general and women with disabilities in particular have been experiencing at least one form of violence such as sexual violence, mental and financial violence,… Therefore, on May 30-31, 2022, in Thua Thien Hue province, the Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) coordinated with the Provincial Project Management Unit to organize a training course on "Gender-based violence issues for persons with disabilities and caregivers”.

From May 16 to 19, the course "Training to improve the capacity of source lectures on gender-based violence prevention and peer counselling skills in supporting victims of gender-based violence" was held at Hoi An city, Quang Nam province. The activity was organized by ACDC in collaboration with the Association of People with Disabilities, Agent Orange Victims, Sponsoring People with Disabilities and Protecting Children's rights in Quang Tri province; The Association of People with Disabilities - Sponsoring People with Disabilities and Orphans in Thua Thien Province and the Association of People with Disabilities in Quang Nam Province.

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.