NET-CARE

This project is financed by the European Union, within the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (REC-AG-2018/REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2018) and has as its main objective the optimisation of resources and professional actions in the intervention with immigrant and refugee women and children who are victims of gender violence. According to international agencies, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Commission of Refugee Women (WRC), among others, many refugee or migrant women, girls and minors have been exposed to different forms of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, both in their countries of origin and on their journey to Europe and even here. 

 

Tackling this gender and sexual violence requires the involvement of key national and international bodies to establish a coordinated response system that protects women and children.The Net-Care Project aims to strengthen a multisectoral support and care system for migrants and refugees who are victims of violence. The aim of this project is to facilitate their access to existing services in Greece, Italy and Spain, considering three key aspects: the risk of under-representation in statistics of real cases needing assistance, the distrust they feel own previous experiences lived, and the low level of assistance to care and protection services.

To this end, this project makes available to health, social and legal services (including anti-violence centres, anti-trafficking agencies, reception centres, hospitals, emergency rooms, community services, legal offices and police stations), the creation of a network through which a list of key professionals involved in these three countries will be drawn up. In each of them, 30 cultural mediators will be selected who will be trained in the optimal intervention in various cases of gender violence, including anti-trafficking and sexual violence, always starting from the detection of the needs of the victims and following a confidential procedure defined in common following the international protection standards.

 
The partner organisations in this project (in Spain, the Association for Employment and Social Integration -ASEIS- and the University of Jaén) intend to involve key service providers, strengthen their collaboration and promote a defined and structured use of the cultural mediation service as a fundamental strategy to reach the target group and extend the emergency response in GBV to immigrant and refugee women and children. 

Once this training is completed (it will be officially accredited through the UJA) it is foreseen that the trained mediators/cultural mediators will organize at local and regional level direct interventions on awareness raising on protection and support to gender and sexual violence, to sensitize and orient immigrant and refugee communities on the existing services in the network and reference channels. This project is financed by the European Union, within the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (REC-AG-2018/REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2018) and has as its main objective the optimisation of resources and professional actions in the intervention with immigrant and refugee women and children who are victims of gender violence.

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According to international agencies, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Commission of Refugee Women (WRC), among others, many refugee or migrant women, girls and minors have been exposed to different forms of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, both in their countries of origin and on their journey to Europe and even here.

 
Tackling this gender and sexual violence requires the involvement of key national and international bodies to establish a coordinated response system that protects women and children.

The Net-Care Project aims to strengthen a multisectoral support and care system for migrants and refugees who are victims of violence. The aim of this project is to facilitate their access to existing services in Greece, Italy and Spain, considering three key aspects: the risk of under-representation in statistics of real cases needing assistance, the distrust they feel own previous experiences lived, and the low level of assistance to care and protection services.

To this end, this project makes available to health, social and legal services (including anti-violence centres, anti-trafficking agencies, reception centres, hospitals, emergency rooms, community services, legal offices and police stations), the creation of a network through which a list of key professionals involved in these three countries will be drawn up. In each of them, 30 cultural mediators will be selected who will be trained in the optimal intervention in various cases of gender violence, including anti-trafficking and sexual violence, always starting from the detection of the needs of the victims and following a confidential procedure defined in common following the international protection standards.

The partner organisations in this project (in Spain, the Association for Employment and Social Integration -ASEIS- and the University of Jaén) intend to involve key service providers, strengthen their collaboration and promote a defined and structured use of the cultural mediation service as a fundamental strategy to reach the target group and extend the emergency response in GBV to immigrant and refugee women and children. 

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Once this training is completed (it will be officially accredited through the UJA) it is foreseen that the trained mediators/cultural mediators will organize at local and regional level direct interventions on awareness raising on protection and support to gender and sexual violence, to sensitize and orient immigrant and refugee communities on the existing services in the network and reference channels. ​