About the project
This project is part of the Daphne II program.
What is the Daphne II programme?
The Daphne II programme runs from 2004 until 2008 with a budget of EUR 50 million. It aims at supporting organisations that develop measures and actions to prevent or to combat all types of violence against children, young people and women and to protect the victims and groups at-risk. Read more about Daphne II program on the offical website.
Project title
Prevention of Intimate partner violence - a public health approach
Full project description (pdf)
Project description
The project aims to contribute to interpersonal violence prevention in a domestic context.
The project specific purpose is focusing male violent behaviour towards an intimate partner through analysis, development and training in treatment programmes for violent men and counselling and support of victims; women and children. Main beneficiaries will be women, children and young people. Main target groups will be men with violent behaviour,professional staff and public authorities/NGO’s.
Activities in the project; model development, analysis and implementation of perpetrator treatment programmes,support and treatment programmes for women and children, education and training of staff.
Rationale behind the project
Freedom from violence is a human right. Violence is exposed in various forms and intimate partner violence is a common threat to health in every society. Preventive measures must be concerned as a public duty. The project is needed because in the three countries concerned, intimate partner violence is an issue with great impact on public health and individual wellbeeing. In additon there is an economic dimension (WHO, 2002,2004).
Possibilities to PROMOTE freedom from violence and PREVENT intimate partner violence will increase with shifting focus from principally support of victims,mainly women and children,and penalty for perpetrators, to development of co-ordinated programmes aimed to increase violent men to change behaviour and further development of support programmes for victim’s; women and children.
Specific objective of the project
The project will contribute to an increased knowledge on public health focus on intimate partner violence.
Professionals will be better off with knowledge and skills to take preventive measures for perpetrators, as well as for victimized women and children.
Directly expected results
The expected results; the four participating regions will focus on the the public health aspect to prevent violence between partners and will share and use gained knowledge from the project. Hindering key issues will be identified.
Devon will have reached out to 25 families involved in domestic violence offering them a multisciplinary community program.
In Hampshire a number of school children will be trained through their teachers in respectfully relationsships and also how to solve conflicts without violence. In Styria the preventive work concerning men’s violence against women will be better coordinated through a special networking process. In Värmland health care staff will be better educated to meet and treat victims, witnesses and perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
