Summaries of Awarded Project Proposals 1 (Daphne 2011-2012)

Summaries of Awarded Project Proposals[1] (Daphne 2011-2012)

List of priorities and the corresponding codes:

Rights of victims of violence (RoV)

Violence linked to harmful practices (VHP)

Children as victims and perpetrators of violence (CVP)

Perpetrator programmes and interventions (PpaI)

Training programmes (Tpfp)

Empowerment work at grass-roots level (EW)

Media violence, particularly violence linked to new technology and social networking tools (MV)

Application Number: 4000003286

Applicant's Name: Leeds Metropolitan University

Country: GB

Title of the Application: ADDRESSING SEXUAL BULLYING ACROSS EUROPE

Priority: EW Project Description:

The project addresses Daphne III priority 4.1.6 Empowerment work at grass-roots level. It focuses on sexual bullying among young people, which is increasingly prevalent throughout Europe, leading to ill health, school absence and at times suicide (Hammarberg, 2011; Kane, 2008; Duffy, 2004). Of particular concern is the use of mobile phones and instant messaging, which allow such abuse to remain ‘private’ or hidden, and social networking, which facilitates its happening in full view of large audiences (Livingstone et al, 2011). Working in partnership with young people (aged 13-18 in urban & rural areas) the project will develop resources for culturallyrelevant peer-led empowerment workshops across Europe. The aim of the workshops is to empower young people to recognise and addresssexual bullying - from overt sexual violence, demands that individuals engage in sexual activity against their will, and the control and manipulation of sexual partners, to sexually focused ‘name-calling’, including homophobic insults. The workshops will empower young people to protect themselves and their peers by identifying sexual bullying in their own present and future relationships, andin relationships between members of their peer group.
The project will begin from and build on grass-roots experience. A Young People Advisory Group (YPAG) in each partner country will be set up to work with the consortium to design, implement, disseminate & evaluate the project. 120 young people will participate in empowerment workshop development events & a further 120 will evaluate the pilot empowerment programme. The project will thus benefit from young people’s knowledge, expertise and creativity, as well as their direct and vicarious experience and understanding of the problems of sexual bullying and abuse. Training packages will be developed to train young people in delivering empowerment workshops and adults in supporting them. During the project, 20 young people will be trained to deliver empowerment workshops (with the support of 10 trained adults). This grass-roots empowerment will continue after the project as the trained group cascade their knowledge, skills and experience to the next group of young people and adults. In thisway the project will create a sustainable means of spreading peer-led empowerment workshops on sexual bullying and abuse throughoutMember States to effect change at a pan European level.
The development of the empowerment programme will draw on mapping research with 240 young people, conducted using focus groups and questionnaires, to create a European level understanding of the awareness and experiences of sexual bullying and abuse in this target group and their views on how to address it. The mapping research will include focus groups with 40 relevant professionals about best practice in combatting and preventing sexual bullying among young people.
The project, its findings and the empowerment programme and resources will be publicised widely within and beyond Member Statesto maximise the project’s benefits. Key dissemination and exploitation tools include the project website, brochures and leaflets; social media, and a final conference in the UK for key stakeholders, such as the EC, policy-makers, local authorities, schools, educational- and community-based groups, and research institutions.
Led by LMU in the UK, the project brings together expertise from NGOs in Italy, Slovenia, the UK and Bulgaria, and the Foundation Social Service's Agency (LV). Together the partners have significant experience of managing complex international projects. They also have extensive professional expertise in working with young people and with sensitive personal and social issues; developing training resources in relation to sexuality, bullying and conflict; developing innovative new and social media tools; conducting narrative and participatory action research, and of delivering training packages to adults and young people.

Application Number: 4000003092

Applicant's Name: International Parenthood Federation …

Country: BE

Title of the Application: "KEEP ME SAFE": EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE

Priority: EW

Project Description:

Violence against children with a disability occurs at 1.7 times the rate of violence against non-disabled children and some studiessuggest that 90% of people with intellectual impairments will experience sexual abuse at some point in their life (UN Violence Study 2006). Perpetrators are most frequently family members or others in the child’s close circle (European Disability Forum 1999). Empowering young people with a learning disability (YPWLD) to protect themselves against sexual abuse and violence requires from their carers acknowledgement and respect of their sexuality alongside guidance on protection & appropriate behaviour. This is often lacking due to stigma towards people with learning disabilities regarding their sexuality from both residential staff and families (Grieve, et al, 2008). A number of European sexual and reproductive health organisations have taken up this work successfully and developed evidence based approaches for working both directly with YPWLD and with their carers (families and staff in homes). Due to the prevalence of the problem and the high unmet need for this type of service in many European countries there is now a need for a European wide initiative to share and standardise the good practice already developed and tested in a number of countries.
The project will build the capacity of organisations in 12 EU Member States to empower young people with learning disabilities (YPWLD) to protect themselves against sexual abuse and violence and also create an enabling and protective environment for YPWLD through working with intermediaries (families and institutions for YPWLD). The project brings together 12 IPPF EN Member Associations (autonomous nationalCSOs specialising in sexual and reproductive health and rights) to create a European Partnership for Preventing Sexual Abuse and Violence against YPWLD. The partnership comprises the following three categories of partner:
1. EXPERT Group: 6 partners who have strong expertise and experience in the field: Belgium; Germany; Ireland; Netherlands; Portugal and the United Kingdom.
2. LEARNING Group: 2 partners who have some experience of working in the area but need additional support: Denmark, Latvia and Macedonia (included as an Associate).
3. ENTRY-LEVEL Group: 4 partners who have identified a strong need for provision of this support in their countries but who do not yet have the skills to respond to the need: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania and Spain.
The project will work with the 3 groups to harness best practice, expertise and proven strategies for preventing sexual abuse and violence against YPWLD, disseminate these skills, tools and strategies among the partnership and initiate a strategy to intervene with YPWLD and their carers in6 countries.
The project will be carried out in 5 phases:
1. Mapping of all partnership members’ skills and needs
2. Creation of a technical assistance hub and production of an European Comprehensive Package of tools:
The hub will include Partnership members(from Expert group) and experts in the field. The Comprehensive Package of Tools will include i) two training manuals – one for training partners who work directly with YPWLD and the other for training partners who work through intermediaries; ii) a user-friendlybest practice manual covering best practice, principles of programming and minimum standards.
3. Roll-out of Comprehensive Package, support to Entry-level and Learning Group members:
7 Entry-level/Learning partners benefit from training (using training manuals developed), mentoring, exchange trips and technical support from the TA hub.
4. Provide training and guidance to institutions and families of YPWLD to create a protective environment and empower YPWLD to protect themselves in 5 countries with high needs
5. Dissemination and sharing of tools and best practice
Two meetings of Partners & key stakeholders will take place; tools and approach shared and promoted externally.

Application Number: 4000003237

Applicant's Name: Stichting Movisie, NETH. CENTRE SOCIAL DEVELOPM.

Country: NL

Title of the Application: FAMILY JUSTICE CENTRES IN EUROPE

Priority: RoV

Project Description:

Domestic violence currently costs EU governments billions of Euros every year. Everywhere in Europe domestic violence is a major problem affecting – in particular - women and children on an epidemic scale. In the last decade many countries have developed policiesand programs to combat violence against women. Most of these initiatives are focused on a multi-agency tailored approach, with different organisations working closely together in order to create a dedicated ‘family plan’. Although this multi-agency approach has shown encouraging results, there are still two major obstacles. Firstly, victims - often severely traumatised - are still expected totravel to a variety of organisations to get safety, help and support. Victims experience this as a huge barrier. They also need to relive their painful story over and over again. For many victims this is the reason not to seek help or to withdraw from help seeking attempts at an early stage. Secondly, victims are not routinely involved in drawing up their family safety plan. Organisations often have multiple co-ordination meetings ‘about’ families in trouble instead of talking ‘with’ the family to find a comprehensive solution. Recent research and a wealth of practice based evidence advocates for co-located services, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of an improved violence against women approach. This project would promote, develop and implement co-located services that primary victims and survivors needed, together with accompanying services for extended family members and children, in one building. This would be a place where professionals of all relevant organisations are co-located and work collectively together, with the victims/survivors, to help eliminate the abuse in the most effective way.
In 2005 the first European Family Justice Centre was implemented in England. It became a place where police, civil justice practitioners, medical services, social services and non-profit advocates and (youth-) counsellors came together under one roof. Victims now could access a wider range of services, starting with a danger assessment plan for their immediate safety. This ‘wraparound’ model has been extremely successful in London and has maintained a reduction of 99% in domestic violence homicides over the last 6 years and a 90% reduction in repeated incidents for families receiving support from the centre,however it has not proven possible to offer strategic or development assistance to other European areas wishing to achieve the same results.
The 'European Family Justice Centers' project will create a basis for implementing such innovative and effective domestic violence models through a partnership between Dutch, Italian, Belgian, Polish and German public institutions concerned with public safety and residential wellbeing, law enforcement, police, mental and medical health care and social services. It will work in conjunction with the new European FJC Alliance which is led by the founder and ceo of the UK FJC. The partnership will focus on planning and implementation processes in initial pilot. communities aimed at creating Family Justice Centers in these countries. The project will run 6 pilot initiatives. Each pilot will operate its own infrastructure, based on local needs and institutions.Results of these pilots will be used as an example for other commnities in European countries and will make a major contribution to an effective,efficient, sustainable response to reduce violence against women and their children.
The project beneficiaries are vulnerable families, in particular women and children who are victims of physical and psychological violence in partner-relationships.
The target groups are professionals from governmental, non-governmental organisations and agencies and services responding to the needs of women and children who are victims of violence and abuse.

Application Number: 4000003229

Applicant's Name: DISSENS E.V.

Country: DE

Title of the Application: EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN PERPETRATOR PROGR

Priority: Ppal

Project Description:

Evaluating the results of programmes for perpetrators of domestic violence (DV) against women and children to determine whether they actually contribute to the safety of women and children victims is essential, both for policy makers to inform funding and other decisions and for practitioners to monitor and improve interventions. However, little is known about the evaluation of perpetrator programmes in Europe. Daphne II project "Work with Perpetrators of DV in Europe" found that very few scientific evaluation studies hadbeen carried out in European programmes and showed great diversity in their outcome monitoring. The project “Evaluation of EuropeanPerpetrator Programmes” strives to fill this knowledge gap and offer solutions towards a harmonisation of outcome monitoring.
Eachof the project’s main objectives will be achieved through the activities of one workstream (WS):
1. PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT PRACTICE OF OUTCOME MONITORING IN EUROPEAN PERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES
Building on the database of European perpetratorprogrammes produced by Daphne II project "Work with Perpetrators of DV in Europe", and using resources of the "European Focal Points for the Work with Perpetrators of DV" and the WAVE network, perpetrator programmes in all European countries will be identified and surveyed in WS1 in terms of their current practice of outcome monitoring and their difficulties and needs related to it.
2. PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH STUDIES EVALUATING PERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES
Based on an overview of both published and unpublished European studies, WS 2 will develop criteria related to scientific robustness and identify realistic approaches and a variety of methods for evaluation. It will also bring together the researchers of the main outcome studies currently being carried out in Europe in a workshop to present and discuss their experiences and proposals for future evaluation practice and research.
3. IDENTIFY POSSIBILITIES AND OBSTACLES FOR MULTI-COUNTRY EUROPEAN OUTCOME RESEARCH STUDIES
WS 3 will achieve this objective building on the results of WS 1 and 2 and by identifying evaluation models and instruments with potential applicability in different countries and contexts, and by investigating the possibilities of a centralised collection and analysis of comparable outcome data.
4. DEVELOP A TOOLKIT AND GOOD PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR OUTCOME MEASUREMENT
WS 4 will produce an evaluation toolkit for perpetrator programmes in different European countries and a web-tool to upload data collected with the toolkit which can then be centrally analysed. The toolkit will offer instruments to directly evaluate – without need of major scientific support – reductions in abusive behaviour and/or to indirectly evaluate (proxy) variables related to reductions in abuse. It will provide a core set of indicators recommended as minimum standard of outcome measurement and additional instruments that can be included for application in a modular way. A manual with goodpractice guidelines on the implementation and use of the instruments including the corresponding legal and professional requirements will accompany the toolkit.
Further main deliverables of this project will be working papers and scientific articles on the results of WS 1, 2 and 3.
The direct beneficiaries of the project’s results are perpetrator programme managers and practitioners, stakeholders, policy makers and researchers. Indirect beneficiaries are, of course, perpetrators of DV willing to change their harmful behaviours by participating in a programme. The most important indirect beneficiaries of this project, however, will be their partners and children who are victims / survivors of DV.
Wide dissemination of the project’s results will be guaranteed through a strategy that is based on a website, specialised European and national networks, workshops and the final conference.

Application Number: 4000003274