The project contributes to primary health care workers in defining their active role in this issue, through the identification, documentation and comprehensive access to adequate intervention, suppression and prevention of violence in general, and in particular of partner violence. The project has contributed to a better understanding of the problem of violence against women, the need for a holistic access to interventions provided to women victims of male violence and the necessity of introducing a single mode and standards in documenting the health consequences of violence.
Within the program of development of good practices in the field of domestic violence, in April 2006 AWC started the project "Start from yourself" which is intended to inform young people about gender-based violence.
The project is part of the regional program "Combating Gender-Based Violence in the Western Balkans", which is implemented in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
The aim of the project "Start from yourself" is a contribution to the establishment of effective ways of prevention and protection of young people from gender-based violence (in a partner relationship, family and institutions). Project activities are financially supported by CARE BiH.
Cooperation with institutions in the establishment of mechanisms for monitoring and intervention in domestic violence
Project For a life without fear II was implemented in 2005 in all 16 Belgrade municipalities in cooperation with the City Center for Social Welfare Belgrade and the Secretariat of Internal Affairs of Belgrade. The participants of the project were 225 professional workers from the Department of Social Welfare and 98 police officers. The project was implemented with financial support from DFID and HIVOS.
The project Domestic violence - whose responsibility? is designed to enable proper implementation of legislation in the field of domestic violence through coordinated action of all relevant institutions in the community, and in order to achieve an efficient and comprehensive protection from violence. It was implemented in the period from July 2005 to April 2006 in 16 departments of the City Center for Social Welfare. The project is supported by Freedom House.
The project was implemented in cooperation of Autonomous Women's Center, Women's Center Uzice, Women in Black (Belgrade) and supported by the Ministry of Health of Serbia.
The project “From good intentions to good practice - creating good practices in the work with domestic violence”, was carried out in the period from December 2003 to January 2005, in cooperation with the City Center for Social Work Belgrade and nine departments, as well as partner organizations and with financial support from the Social Innovation Fund, the Ministry of social Affairs. It is the continuation of the activities that the Autonomous Women's Centre started in 2002. with the project “Life without fear - cooperation with institutions in the establishment of mechanisms for monitoring and intervention in the field of domestic violence”, in order to begin to build a model of coordinated actions of local communities in the prevention and resolution the problem of domestic violence. The positive results of this cooperation have conditioned its continuation, partners were directly involved in the planning and implementation of activities during the project and in the decision-making process on all amendments and supplements.
The research survey of the Autonomous Women's Center “Violence against women and its health consequences” was conducted in 2003, on a sample of 1,456 women, in Belgrade. Research is an integral part of the WHO study on violence against women, conducted in several countries of the world, and presents the first study of this type in Serbia.
Project For a life without fear - cooperation with institutions in the establishment of mechanisms for monitoring and intervention in domestic violence was implemented during 2002/03, in cooperation with the City Centre for Social Work and Civic Internal Affairs, with the support of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and with financial support of the European Commission Delegation to Serbia and Montenegro and the Netherlands Embassy.
Healthcare education and support for women in Serbia is a project that was completed in 2001 and 2002. With this project, we have enabled women in 12 towns in Serbia to become more familiar with their health and affect others about the importance of health care for women through seminars, workshops and public forums.
