So we can keep our newsletter short and good to read for you, we compile further information on interesting content here. Simply follow the links below and enjoy the information we gathered for you!

• FRA Open Call for Tender (deadline 20 June): The overall objective of the contract is the implementation of the survey on violence against women (VAW II)
• ENoMW event (23 June, 14-16:30 CET): "Undocumented Migrant Women in Europe: A Neglected Chapter in Fundamental Rights Protection"
• Call for Contributions (deadline 31 July): Boys at the Crossroads: Insights and Innovations in Young Masculinities - A multidisciplinary conference-event on working with boys and young men around
  masculinity, violence and mental health (Register here to participate in the event)
• Women Fund “Sukhumi” monitoring report: “The importance of perpetrator’s behavior change program at an early stage and existing best practices” on perpetrator work in Georgia
• FVGS publication of the Swiss national statistics on perpetrator work 2021 (GER)
• European Commission publication: "Incels: A First Scan of the Phenomenon (in the EU) and its Relevance and Challenges for P/CVE"
• UN Women "Intersectionality resource guide and toolkit": This publication aims to help both organisations and individual practitioners and experts to address intersectionality in policies and programmes
• Registration is still open for the Criminal Justice Summer Course on "Response to Sexual Violence" (5-8 July, Barcelona): More information and registration
• Child Online Safety Toolkit for policymakers

MiC

On 19 May, project partners held the final conference of the Men in Care (MiC) project in Berlin. More than 60 participants from different European countries had the opportunity to see first-hand the conclusions of the project and the progress we made in recent years. We were able to share experiences of companies and organisations that are advancing men's work-life balance and greater involvement in care work.

We would like to thank the Men In Care project partners, the EU Commission and MiC officer Irma Borde who joined us, the speakers at the conference, and all participants who contributed and made the conference an insightful and engaging event.

Fathers Rock

As a starting point for the Fathers Rock project, our partners are conducting needs assessments, including focus groups with professionals in the field of perinatal care, early childhood care or early childhood education, professionals working with perpetrators and victims, and (becoming) fathers and mothers. These focus groups will generate valuable information and insights for the project's further development.

CONSENT

Our CONSENT partner Blanquerna presented the CONSENT project in the symposium "Comprehensive sexuality education: A global learning and sharing symposium on health, well-being, values, and equity", which took place 1-3 June. The symposium brought together 500 young participants to promote dialogue on education for health, well-being and positive values on sexuality.

• CoE publication on Art. 14 of the Istanbul Convention: Preventing Violence against Women through Formal and Informal Education
• CoE publication on Art. 4 of the Istanbul Convention: Ensuring non-discrimination in responding to violence against women
• Conference registration open: 2022 Annual Conference of the European Network on Gender and Violence, 8-10 June in Copenhagen
• European Commission 2022 Report on Gender Equality in the EU
• EFJCA Conference registration open: "Intimate terror, a very severe form of gender-based violence", 7 June in Rotterdam
• European Commission Proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence: Commission proposes EU-wide rules to combat violence against women and domestic violence
• EIGE job opening: Researcher gender mainstreaming (Closing date: 20 May 2022)
• EIGE job opening: Research Officer – Gender Equality (One year contract) (Closing date: 3 May 2022)

STOPP

We are conducting a Capacity building programme for perpetrator programmes in Western Balkans within the STOPP project. More than 100 professionals from the Western Balkan region have strengthened their skills in conducting survivor-safety-oriented perpetrator work. Five training days on cooperation between perpetrator programmes and survivor support services, risk assessment and management, and cyber violence, as well as the webinar on guidelines for standards in perpetrator work, have already been conducted. Find out more about the programme and register for the upcoming webinar on "Perpetrator work in Covid-19, learnings from online service provision" that will take place on 28 April 2022.

The STOPP project is implemented within the framework of the UN Women programme "Ending violence against women in the Western Balkans and Turkey: Implementing Norms, Changing Minds", funded by the European Union.

Fathers Rock

Earlier this year, we launched the Fathers Rock project, which focuses on preventing gender-based violence by men who are (becoming) fathers through collaboration with key services. The project aims to improve men's social and emotional capacity and their skills in dealing with parenting and to enhance the skills of services to involve and support men in parenting to minimise the risk of violence and increase accountability. 

CONSENT

We have begun working on the CONSENT project, which will tackle the premature hypersexualisation of youngsters and promote healthy gender roles and consensual behaviour among peers. Through the tools developed by the partners, parents, carers, teachers, and educators will learn about kids' easy access to sexually explicit material. Informed about the negative impacts of pornography and with an increased capability to detect and tackle online abuse, they will be able to support the safe and healthy development of the children in their care. 

MOVE

The MOVE project aims to end men's violence against women and girls, including honour-related violence and oppression while acknowledging that men and boys have an essential role in violence prevention. The MOVE project focuses on increasing the readiness and skills of frontline professionals and specialised perpetrator programme staff to effectively identify, refer, and work with male perpetrators of gender-based violence with a migration background. The project will use an anti-racist, inclusive, and culturally sensitive approach while considering the Covid 19 pandemic.

ASAP 2.0 

This month, we had the kick-off meeting to begin the ASAP 2.0 project, which aims to increase the effectiveness of treatment programs for perpetrators through the implementation of a systemic approach. ASAP 2.0 will develop and upscale the work done within the project ASAP, by training partners' staff members, through mutual capacity building activities. During the ASP 2.0 project, partners will use the Impact toolkit to create a shared knowledge base to improve and update the effective practices and tools for perpetrator work in multiagency cooperation.

Alive 

WWP EN Executive Director Alessandra Pauncz and Training and Capacity Building manager Sandra visited Albania last week to support the local perpetrator programmes WtW, CLMB, Vlora and Another Vision as part of the ALIVE project. These perpetrator programmes are working to improve their cooperation with survivor support services, risk assessment and management, and partnerships with local communities. 

We were immensely grateful to have the opportunity to meet our partners and have a good time together, allowing us to build better cooperation.

Click here to see pictures from our visit

Letizia and Elena are both facilitators of perpetrator programmes in Italy. The organisations they work for have been using the IMPACT Toolkit for several years now. This month, they were nice enough to "sit down" with us and discuss their experiences with the toolkit. You can read everything about it here.

The effectiveness of work with men who use violence is a much-debated topic. Quality assurance is crucial for responsible and safe perpetrator work. But how can perpetrator programmes make sure that they are offering safe, impactful and innovative interventions?
At WWP EN, our colleague Berta is responsible for everything related to research. She took some time and shared her thoughts on quality assurance in the work with men who use violence. Read her article here

• Job opportunity: Berlin perpetrator programme searching for Arabic speaking psychologist
• Recordings: International Conference on Men and Equal Opportunities Day 1
• Recording: DRIVE Webinar on perpetrator mental health after COVID-19 lockdown
• Report: Masculinities and COVID-19
• Resources: Perpetrator work during COVID-19
• Toolkit: Incorporating Intersectional Gender Analysis into Research
• Toolkit: Anti-racist Organisational Change
• Website: Perpetratr work in virtual reality
• Article: Identifying femicide locally and globally

Since 2018, WWP EN has been working alongside ASL Frosinone and Italian partners on the CONSCIOUS Project. CONSCIOUS is aimed at reducing rates of recidivism amongst perpetrators convicted of sexual and domestic violence. The practical work on the project takes place in prisons in Italy. Earlier this year, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we work and live and, consequently, work on the CONSCIOUS Project had to evolve to adapt to this challenge.

Read the interview here

• Webinar Recording: "How to Help Someone Victimized by Coercive Control" (organised by the Partner Violence & Mental Health Network)
• BISC-MI Archives of Oregon Tri-County Batterer Intervention Provider Network Meetings: Archive of debates from the past 20 years
• Webinar Recording: "Cybermisogyny during Time of COVID 19 and Beyond" (organised by YWCA Canada & LEAF)
• Video: What is Stalkerware? (Coalition Against Stalkerware)
• Free access to special issue of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence on Domestic violence: New directions in policy and practice in Europe (until 30 June)
• International Conference on Childhood and Adolescence: Call for Abstracts (deadline: 20 July)
• Article: Conducting research on sensitive and traumatic topics during a pandemic
• Toolkit: Anti-Racism as Violence Prevention (compiled and developed by Futures Without Violence)

Italy was the first European country to go into full lockdown. The team of the Florence-based Centro di Ascolto Uomini Maltrattanti (CAM) sat down and answered some questions about how they dealt with the challenges posed by COVID-19.

Read the interview here

• European Council: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025
• GREVIO: Baseline evaluation report on Serbia
• GREVIO: Baseline evaluation report on the Netherlands
• GREVIO: Baseline evaluation report on Italy
• Call to Action: A Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Strategy for England And Wales
• WWP EN Expert Paper: "Addressing sexualised violence in the work with perpetrators"
• Kaspersky: The State of Stalkerware in 2019

For the ENGAGE Project, which concluded in December 2019, organisations from Spain, France, Italy and Germany developed a roadmap and training for frontline professionals interacting with male perpetrators of domestic violence.
Heinrich Geldschläger, from the Spanish project coordinator CONEXUS, agreed to sit down with us and share some of the central project outcomes and lessons learned.

Read the interview here

In this interview, Rus Ervin Funk shares insights from decades of experience working with men who perpetrate sexualised violence, his view on pornography and thoughts on overcoming one's fears of addressing sexualised violence.

Read the interview here.

ENGAGE

The ENGAGE project will be ending in December 2019, but there have been and will be many occasions for us to spread the word on how to train frontline professionals in recognising violent behaviour and addressing it with abusive men. At the ECDV Oslo, Alessandra Pauncz had the pleasure to present the roadmap and the training package, which is now freely available on our website. At our upcoming annual conference, Heinrich Geldschläger, from project partner and WWP EN Member CONEXUS, will be presenting a workshop on the project and for those unable to participate, we will have the pleasure of hosting a webinar to increase knowledge on training frontline professionals.

MiC

Since the last newsletter, a lot has been happening with MiC. Firstly, the project website is now officially live, complete and beautiful (www.men-in-care.eu). Then, in July, the first project event took place in Madrid hosted by project partners UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and Fundación 1 Mayo. Over 40 participants from 13 different Spanish companies took part, considering important questions related to paternity leave and work-life balance. Participants discussed: the organisation of work within their companies when a father takes paternity leave; the advantages and disadvantages of part-time paternity leave; the advantages and disadvantages of splitting up the 8 week allowance; how company policies can foster co-responsibility when fathers return to work after paternity leave. In a few weeks we will be heading to Madrid for the next project meeting, where we’re excited to discuss next steps for MiC in depth.

CONSCIOUS

In July, the intermediate project conference took place at the headquarters of Regione Lazio in Rome. Our Director Alessandra attended as a speaker, representing WWP EN. The day was split into two sessions. In the first session, the discussion focused on European Policies to fight violence, as well as the intermediate results of the CONSCIOUS project. The second session focused on restorative justice and models of treatment. Additional news from the conference: we will be adapting our IMPACT outcome measurement toolkit so it can be used to evaluate interventions in prisons!

For any Italian speakers interested, a video from the conference can be found here (https://bit.ly/2lDToM6).

New projects

MARVOW (Multi-Agency Responses to Violence Against of Older Women)

MARVOW is one of our two new projects. It will run for 2 years and focus on protection and support for eldery victims of gender-based domestic abuse, an underdeveloped area of victim support services. Although elderly women are at high risk of abuse, practitioners are often unsure of how to proceed when it comes to helping them. Elderly women fall into the gap between 2 types of family violence: intimite partner violence (IPV) and elder abuse. Additionally, abusers or victims may have cognitive impairments or psychiatric illnesses, making it even more difficult for professionals to handle the situation. Many professionals working in the sector have never, or rarely, participated in training specific to elder abuse. With Europe’s ageing population, this is an issue which is going to become more prevalent.

FOMEN

The second of our new projects, FOMEN, will focus on innovative approaches to preventing gender-based violence amongst male migrants. Migrants fleeing from war and conflict, as well as economic ruin face a breakdown of social structures and unfamilar living environments; these challenge traditional gender relations, social norms and ties. This can often lead to further violence and discrimination. Studies have shown that women and girls who have fled their home countries have often faced multipal forms of violence as a result of this. FOMEN aims to create a greater awareness of how to handle emotions, build social relations, gender equality and women’s and children’s rights. The project will interact with migrant men directly, providing intervention/education programmes. The goal is to not only interact with migrant men through trainings, but also to have an impact on the social environments of the participants.

• ENGAGE Project: Project Roadmap & Training Package
• RESPECT: Respect Toolkit for Work with Male Victims of Domestic Abuse
• EIGE: Toolkit on gender-sensitive communication
• Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 3(2)
• Texas Council on Family Violence: Webinar "Understanding Reproductive Coercion"

• ProMundo: 2019 State of the World's Fathers
• WHO: policy guideline on Preventing Violence Against Women
• EIGE: report on Understanding intimate partner violence in the EU: the role of data
• End FGM: 2018 Annual Report

• WWP EN: 2018 Annual Report
• University of Bristol: Drive Evaluation Report - Download the executive summary here or the full report here
• WWP EN Expert Paper: Working with(in) Migrant Populations
• Promundo: So, You Want To Be A Male Ally For Gender Equality? (And You Should): Results from a National Survey, and a Few Things You Should Know

Shakhnoza Khassanova from the Kazakh NGO Sana Sezim gives us an insight into their work, as well as the legal and practical situation on domestic violence in Kazakhstan.

Read the interview here.

Michi Gosch, manager of the Styrian women's shelters, and Susanne Pekler, director of NEUSTART Styria, took a moment to answer some questions about their new anti-aggression training for women using violence.

Read the full interview here.

• WWP EN Good Practice Report by Atila Uligaj and Natalia Batenkova
• Paper on Gender by Marianne Hester
• Technology Research Reports for the Non-Profit Sector by Nonprofit Tech for Good
• Report on Masculine Norms and Violence by Promundo
• Handbook and training manual by the “Nordic-Baltic Collaboration in Creating Innovative Training Programme for Adult Educators To Work with Perpetrators, Women and Children who Suffered from Domestic Violence” NORDPLUS ADULT project

Attiya Khan is the co-director and protagonist of the documentary "A Better Man".
The documentary portrays her unique way of healing from decades old trauma and engaging with her abusive ex-partner.

Read the full interview here.

• NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, Issue 13(1): https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnor20/current 
• WAVE Handbook: Prevention and Support Standards for Women Survivors of Violence
•  Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM): Factsheet services for undocumented migrant women
• WAVE: Annual Activity Report
•  Civil Society Strengthening Platform (CSSP): Mapping Report
• Women's Aid Federation of England: Survival and Beyond: The Domestic Abuse Report 2017
• Nonprofit Tech for Good: 2018 Global NGO Technology Report
• Paper on accountability in prepetrator work

• Address of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (find a transcipt here)
• National Resource Center on Domestic Violence: participatory research tool kit for domestic violence researchers
• Photo project on Georgian men in unpaid care
• Interactive map of organisations working with fathers in Russia
• The Civil Society Strengthening Platform