TARGET GROUP
Trainers.
WHEN TO APPLY
Prior to and during the training course.
AIM
· Understand IPV and sexual violence concepts and their determinants.
· Analyse causal factors from a gender perspective.
· Understand physical, psychological and social effects of mistreatment on women’s and children’s health.
· Understand the types of abuse and be able to perform early detection by identifying risk factors, vulnerable situations and symptoms of IPV and SV in women.
· Understand the ethical and legal regulations regarding gender violence, in the environment where the training activity occurs, and the resources available.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
Selected relevant articles, guidelines and protocols, access to web pages of interest (e.g. WHO Violence, local web pages), PowerPoint presentations..
TIME REQUIRED
1 hour.
DESCRIPTION
Prior to the training:
A week before the workshop, participants should be sent documents or links to selected online material for prior reading.
The trainers could then explain briefly the different updated theoretical aspects relevant in IPV and SV and adapted to the professionals participants, regarding:
· Concepts.
· IPV and SV as a public health problem.
· IPV and SV and its determinants (magnitude).
· Male and female socialisation.
· Mistreatment in the partnership: types, origin and cycle of violence.
· Vulnerability factors (socio-cultural, familial and individual) and predisposing factors for the maintenance of IPV and SV.
· Approach to IPV and SV prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
During the training:
· To facilitate an exchange of statistics, depending on the demographics of the participants, that could be interesting (e.g. prevalence, consequences, figures of disclosures, deaths).
· Explain how the data can be transferred to the practical and everyday aspects of their daily work. For example correlating the actual prevalence in their environment /country with the possible prevalence in the population attended.
· Ask questions that serve as a reflection on the aspects that will be exposed and facilitate participation in training from participants.
12 September, 2015
