Contribute to the change of social norms that perpetuate violence, promoted by religious leaders and community leaders, with a multiplying effect towards their grassroots organizations, diverse population groups and public and private institutions, in rural municipalities, dispersed areas and where there are conditions of greater vulnerability, through educational processes, critical reflection and mobilizing actions aimed at challenging sexist and discriminatory cultural patterns, harmful practices, unequal and violent gender relations, showing the consequences of the same in the women’s lives, from a gender and human rights approach, as the common denominator and the drive for co-responsibility, concurrence and sum of efforts, beyond a certain religious affiliation, beliefs, statutes, or deficiencies in the implementation of public policy.

OBJECTIVE: Strengthen participation in prevention actions and transformation of cultural patterns in favor of a life without violence and more equitable relationships between men and women by civil society (including organizations defending women’s rights, grassroots organizations, feminists and other CSOs), private organizations and local, departmental and national public institutions.

POPULATION / BENEFICIARIES

Leaders of religious organizations, leaders of grassroots and community organizations (cultural, indigenous/originally peasant)

TERRITORY

50 municipalities in the country

EXPECTED RESULTS

Result 1. Key actors, leaders of religious organizations, leaders of grassroots and community organizations (cultural, indigenous/originally peasant), trained on gender violence.

Result 2. Key actors, leaders of religious organizations, leaders of grassroots and community organizations (cultural, indigenous/originally peasant), have tools to raise awareness among their bases.

Result 3. Communities mobilize against gender-based violence and promote actions to protect people who suffer acts of violence (victims) within the framework of their practices and customs.

SUPPORTED BY

UN WOMEN EUROPEAN UNION