Selangor’s Integrated Safe Community Programme uses communities to prevent violence against women
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2020 01:16 PM MYTThe Integrated Safe Community Programme by the Selangor government, WAO and UNFPA employs a holistic approach to community engagement and prevention. — Picture courtest of Unsplash
The programme employs a holistic approach to community engagement and prevention, facilitated by WAO, the Malaysian NGO that is known for its women’s right and violence against women work since 1982. WAO and the programme’s partners observed that survivors and their children benefited from practices and policies of the state government that are focused on preventing and responding to incidents.“There is an attitudinal shift in the communities we engaged with; there is an increase of intolerance for violence against women, awareness of gender-based violence and how it negatively impacts an entire community,” Melissa added.
Asked how Safe Community reexamines the way domestic abuse cases are managed, WAO stressed on the importance of the One Stop Crisis Centre as a centralised response system for survivors and victims, based on feedback from the ground. This includes reinventing community engagement methodologies, for example, conducting online training and communicating with participants through platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook.
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