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Objectives

The BSAFE Project’s general objective is to prevent all forms of gender-based violence by tackling its root causes and to protect and support the victims of GBV.  On a more concrete note, its specific objectives are:​

  • to strengthen the capacity of professionals through training to identify, address and prevent SGBV;

  • to raise awareness among refugees on SGBV and empower individuals to act as multipliers; and

  • to stimulate bystander response and raise general public awareness.

Its activities are articulated around 5 interrelated work packages as follows:

coordination
WP1.  COORDINATION
improve
WP2.  IMPROVE
WP3.  EMPOWER
empower
intervene
WP4.  INTERVENE
monitoring, evaluation and dissemination
WP5.  MONITORING, EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATION
WP1. Management & Coordination

Ensures the achievement of envisaged project objectives and results and contributes to the overall quality and coherence of project activities and outcomes through administrative and financial management, coordination of the workflow and facilitating exchange between work packages.

improve
WP3. Empower

To empower and inform refugees, migrants and asylum seekers on SGBV through an awareness-raising campaign, and give them a leading role in the prevention of SGBV within their communities.

  • Development and dissemination of informational materials in their own language, running information sessions for refugees on the prevention of SGBV.

  • Training refugee women on countering SGBV to act as reference points for women from their communities (community “antennas”), empowering them to actively engage in countering and preventing SGBV.

  • Develop a mobile phone application with information on what to do if in danger, as well as where to turn for help if in need of assistance.

intervene
WP 5. Monitoring, Evaluation & Dissemination

Covers two key elements that will contribute to the successful achievement of the project objectives, namely, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) to ensure that project objectives and results are achieved and that activities are carried out according to the workplan; and Dissemination and Communication ensuring that project findings reach key stakeholders.

management and coordination
WP2. Improve

To build the capacity and knowledge of professionals through specialised trainings, workshops and capacity-building seminars. They will be expanded to include key stakeholders (law enforcement agencies, police force, health service providers, customs officers…)

  • Increase the capacity of professional to address issues relative to GBV towards refugees and migrants.

  • Strengthen prevention responses to violence against women, in particular to those most vulnerable.

Contribute to the extension of structures for the prevention of SGBV against refugees and migrants by promotion cooperation or relevant agencies and professionals.

empower
WP4. Intervene

To inform, educate and stimulate bystanders into action and raise awareness among the general public and local and national authorities of the risks that refugees are exposed to.

  • Implement information and awareness-raising campaigns at community level to sensitise and educate the public on gender bias, gender-based discrimination and violence, especially against women refugees.

  • Develop a set of materials to inform bystanders and the general public on how to detect signs of SGBV and what to do, when to intervene and where to turn for help.

  • Encourage both the willingness to intervene and the likelihood of intervention, in the presence of sexual violence or harassment.

monitoring
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