Sexual and domestic violence is pervasive across cultures, socio-economic status, ethnicity and age groups, with no boundaries. Women and girls suffer in silence, without knowing their rights, available resources, or how to access legal and psychosocial services. How can we, as RPFs and Rotarians, support women and girls to lead lives free of violence? Presenters shared program models from Bolivia, India, and Australia.

1. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMS
Women and Girls Building Peace: Prevention of Violence
Amanda Martin, Elsa DSilva, Rebecca Tolstoy AM | 31 May

2. Etta Projects
Amanda Martin

3. • Public Health Non Profit
Organization
• in Bolivia since 2003
• Collaborate with
communities in health
promotion, disease
prevention
• Women´s empowerment
• Prevention of violence

4. •Globally: 1/3 of women and girls
suffer physical and sexual abuse
•Bolivia: #1 in latin america for
physical and sexual violence
against women
•53% of women affected by violence
•17% of adolescent girls quit school
due to pregnancy
The Situation in Bolivia

5. Bolivian Laws Against
Violence
•Law 342 (2012):
Criminalization of political
violence and harassment of
women.
•Law 348 (2013): Guarantees
women a life free of violence
•International treaties signed:
ICESCR, CEDAW, CRC

6. Women’s Rights Promoters
•Since 2015: Training women and
men to promote women’s rights
in their communities
•6 month Program
•Coordinated with Public
Defender’s Office
•Accompanying Victims
throughout complex legal
process
•Connecting Victims with legal
and psychosocial services

7. Community Collaboration
•Community stated needs, requesting
the Project
•Community participation at all levels:
designing, planning, execution,
monitoring, and evaluation
•Community selects program
participants
•Community organizes events,
logistics for workshops
•Community leaders involved and
supportive

8. Themes
• The Law and Available resources
(public defenders’ office, shelters,
legal and psychosocial services)
• Self esteem, gender
• Empowerment and power dynamics
• How to promote attitude and behavior
change in the family (gender roles)
• Values (alternatives to violence,
problem solving)
• Violence: what is it? What is perceived
as violence by local people? Physical,
emotional, economic…

9. Activities
• Health fairs to engage
community members with
games, prizes, posters and
parades
• Promoters design campaigns to
address gender based violence
in their community
• Visit public defenders’ office,
meet staff, share materials and
coordinate efforts
• Organize and teach workshops
on gender equality in local
schools

10. Challenges
• Income generation and
economic Independence for
women
• Lack of funding for public
defenders’ office
• Complex legal system requires
money and time to follow
through
• Societal pressure to maintain
status quo
• Fear and taboo of addressing
VAW

11. Results
• 20 Women’s rights promoters
trained in 3 communities
• Data collected throughout the
Project to compare changes in:
perception of violence,
incidence and prevalence of
violence, actions taken,
awareness of rights, etc.
• Increased knowledge of law,
rights, resources, and concepts
• 22 promoters accompanied 180
victims of violence in the 2 years
following their training course.

12. Phase II: Adolescent Girls
“Choosing Your Own Path”
• Etta Projects partners with the
University of Minnesota: 2
month course
• Know your rights
• Find your voice
• Seek help from safe sources
• Capacity to aspire*: Explore
options for the future, break the
cycle of violence
*Arjun Appadurai (2004) in Culture
and Public Action

13. Phase III: Gender Equity & Boys
• Adolescent boys participate
in a 2 month course
• know your rights as a child
• gender roles: explore,
define, experiment
• Behavior norms and culture:
peer pressure, violence, and
fear
• Action: attitude and behavior
change at home and in
school

14. Phase IV: Men Confronting
Violence
• Male community leaders and
selected male participants
• 6 month program
• Explore: Masculinity and
identity
• Machismo and violence
• Leadership style
• Gender roles and behavior
towards women (in the
family and in the community)

15. Scaling Up
• The Pilot projects are
improved based on
monitoring and evaluation
data, participant observations,
and Project staff input.
• The improved Project
proposals are submitted for
funding to foundations.
• New communities will be
included in programming,
with promoters leading
sessions

16. For a Better Future

17. Safecity
ElsaMarie DSilva

19. Non verbal
• Staring / Ogling
• Taking pictures
• Indecent gestures
Verbal
• Commenting
• Catcalls
• Sexual invites
Physical
• Touching / Groping
• Stalking
• Sexual Assault
• Rape

20. • SAFECITY crowdmaps personal
experiences of sexual violence in
public spaces.
• This is aggregated as location based
trends and visualised as hotspots on
a map.
• The aim is to make public spaces
SAFE and equally accessible to all
through
• Individual awareness
• Community engagement
• Institutional accountability

21. Zoom in to the street level

22. Investing in Youth Leadership

23. Safe College Campus

24. Safe Communities

25. Institutional Partners

26. Achievements
12,000
personal
reports
500,000
citizens
engaged
20,000
people
trained

27. Achievements
500
youth
leaders
3
Police
forces
10
Country
Chapters

28. THANK YOU!
ElsaMarie DSilva
elsa@reddotfoundation.org
@elsamarieds

29. A Rotary story…
PATH OF HOPE
Rebecca Tolstoy AM

30. A Rotary story…
Path Of Hope
- Breaking the intergenerational cycle of Family & Domestic Violence.

31. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence
1. Why FDV, Rotary & Salvation Army
2. My Rotary journey
3. Action steps

32. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence

33. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence
+
Building Peace in
The Home.

34. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence

35. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence

36. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence

37. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence
“You are the civil rights movement of today”
Ambassador Andrew Young

38. Rotary Club of Perth, D9455 – Western Australia
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence

39. GLocal Action
- Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Family & Domestic Violence

40. Thank you !
www.pathofhope.org.au
Rebecca Tolstoy AM
Rotary Club of Perth – D9455
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Be the Rotary Champion in your
community….

41. Human Barometer

42. Take a stand:
Please answer each question by either
STANDING or SITTING

43. example: I like wearing
Silk Cotton
(stand) (sit)

44. example: I like
Dogs Cats
(stand) (sit)

45. Has your country signed and ratified the
CEDAW?
(Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
(stand) (sit)
Yes No

46. Signed but not ratified -
USA, Palau
Not signed -
The Holy See, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Tonga

47. (stand) (sit)
Yes No
Does your country have laws protecting
women from domestic violence?

48. (stand) (sit)
49 29
How many countries lack laws
protecting
women from domestic violence?

49. 49 countries

50. (stand) (sit)
5 8
In South Africa, every
xx hours
a woman is killed by her intimate partner

51. 8 hours

52. (stand) (sit)
15 30
In India, every
xx minutes
a woman is raped

53. 15 minutes

54. (stand) (sit)
5700 8700
In Mexico, xx women have gone missing
and have been termed “disappeared”

55. 8700 women

56. (stand) (sit)
12,000,000 12,000
Each year globally,
xx girls
are married before the age of 18 years

57. 12 million girls

58. What can
YOU
do to make the change?

59. Questions?
Meet us outside this room for further discussion