Table 2. Community interventions to prevent violence against women and girls.
1 | Community mobilisation and group formation | |
Community organisers | • Identify community members who want to join groups of women, men, and
young people |
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• Convene and facilitate groups | ||
• Share experiences and deliver modules on gender norms, understanding
violence against women and girls, vulnerabilities to it and appropriate responses, rights, and negotiation skills |
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• Identify women who want to become volunteer sanginis | ||
2 | Crisis intervention, counselling and legal support for survivors | |
Community volunteer sanginis | • Identify incidences of violence against women | |
• Assess safety, provide initial counselling and information on rights and law to
survivors |
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• Record incidents, negotiate action, and intervene to ameliorate conflict | ||
• Arrange referral to SNEHA. | ||
• Organise temporary shelter and childcare | ||
• Support survivors in accessing family interventions and police or health services | ||
• Locate perpetrators of violence and negotiate with them and families | ||
• Conduct community follow-up | ||
Community organisers, officers, coordinators | • Support sanginis in their field activities | |
• Provide support to survivors of violence and coordinate family interventions | ||
• Arrange referral to SNEHA, police, or health services | ||
• Coordinate and undertake community follow-up | ||
• Act as main contact between community and counselling teams, and
communicate with stakeholder networks |
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Groups of women, men, and young people | • Identify incidences of violence and inform sanginis and community officers | |
• Intervene to ameliorate conflict | ||
• Arrange referral to SNEHA | ||
• Support survivors of violence in accessing family interventions and police or
health services |
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• Locate perpetrators of violence and negotiate with them and families | ||
Counsellors | • Provide crisis counselling and intervention services | |
• Counsel survivors of violence and their families | ||
• Make home visits for crisis intervention, family discussions, and follow-up | ||
• Organise referral to police, health and legal services and negotiate with them | ||
• Assess survivor mental health and refer for therapy | ||
3 | Community action and system liaison | |
Community organisers, officers, coordinators | • Organise and participate in community campaigns and support visible collective
action |
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• Liaise with police and health providers and negotiate with community bodies | ||
Groups of women, men, and young people | • Participate in community campaigns and contribute to visible collective action | |
• Liaise with police and health providers and negotiate with community bodies | ||
• Negotiate with municipal representatives for infrastructure and entitlements | ||
Community volunteer sanginis | • Support and participate in community campaigns and contribute to visible
collective action |
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• Liaise with police and health providers and negotiate with community bodies |