The InSupport project aims to contribute to improving the protection and support for victims and survivors of sexual violence in Greece. The project comes to address:
- the need for more targeted and suitable training of law-enforcement staff and frontline services professionals on the provision of gender-sensitive and specialized support for victims of sexual violence/rape
- the limited interagency cooperation and gender-sensitive operational and referral procedures on supporting victims of sexual violence
- the lack of holistic protection and specialist support for women and girls who have experienced sexual violence
- the limited awareness of/information for women victims of sexual violence/rape about their rights and the support that is available.
More specifically the project activities, implemented in Greece aim to:
- enhance interagency cooperation on supporting victims of sexual violence, through the establishment of an interagency response mechanism
- enhance victim response and support procedures of law-enforcement and frontline services, through the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- strengthen the skills of (at least 1.320) law-enforcement and frontline professionals on sexual violence/rape issues and gender-sensitive victim support, through capacity building
- raise the awareness and access to information of women victims of sexual violence/rape about their rights and the support that is available (incl. victims exposed to intersectional discrimination), through the creation of an info mobile application.
This will be achieved through the following main activities:
- Mapping of all relevant stakeholders
- Development of cooperation protocol and set up of a cooperation/response mechanism
- Development of Protocol/set of gender-sensitive SOPs for law-enforcement’s intervention with regard to sexual violence
- Development of Protocol/set of gender-sensitive SOPs for medical/healthcare services/system professionals for the admission, examination, care and further referral of victims of rape/sexual violence at national level
- Development of Guidelines for setting up rape/ sexual violence referral structures for providing victims of sexual violence with holistic and comprehensive support
- Development of e-learning platform
- Capacity Building Programme
- Creation of information mobile application
- Online awareness raising campaign
During its 24-month lifetime, InSupport will directly and indirectly positively impact:
at least
500
staff of the 14 General Police Directorates
at least
10
organisations/institutions participating in the interagency cooperation/response mechanism
4000
persons reached through all dissemination activities
at least
700
health professionals, medical & nursing staff of hospitals/clinics, students of medical/health universities/colleges doing their practical training etc., across Greece
at least
120
psychosocial support staff/professionals of the 14 Counselling Centres staff KETHI, of the other 30 Counselling Centres (members of the nationwide network of support structures of the General Secretariat for Equality and Human Rights), the SOS line 15900, and/or other professionals of NGOs/support services providers
InSupport at a glance
- Stakeholder Mapping Report
- Mechanism Cooperation Protocol
- Protocol/SOPs for law-enforcement and healthcare services
- Guidelines for setting up rape/ sexual violence referral structures
- 25-hour training seminar for police staff
- 25-hour training seminar for health professionals
- 20-hour training seminar for psychosocial support staff/professionals
- Information Mobile Application
- E-learning platform with digital modules of the capacity building curricula
- 1 Launch Event
- 6 Presentations of the project at external national and/or international events, such as conferences, workshops, seminars, relevant projects events etc.
- 1 Final Conference
