Counselling, Counselling Training & Organisational Capacity Building Project (Funded by CIDA’s Gender Equality Program)

The goals of this project were to:

  1. Educate and empower people to adopt peaceful and non-violent means for resolving conflicts in their lives and to pursue healthy relationships based on mutual respect and appreciation of human rights, and
  2. Make a significant contribution in rural areas of Guyana to a reduction in the incidence of domestic and gender-based violence and to extending the availability of assistance to victims.

Project activities comprise:

  1. The expansion of our counselling services to Moruca and Leguan
  2. Building the organisational capacity of 2 Berbice-based NGOs, namely FACT and Comforting Hearts
  3. Providing counselling training to the Essequibo coast-based NGO, Hope for All

The project was originally to run for 6 months (July 2009 - January 2010), but counselling in New Amsterdam was extended to 15 March 2010 and in early April additional funding of $1.3m was provided, which would enable the continuation of counselling services for a further 2 months.

Reports of the project handover were in the Stabroek News, the Guyana Times and the Guyana Chronicle of 17 July, 2009

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Project Application101.2 KB
Project Agreement985.92 KB
Project Approval Document358.04 KB
Project Budget623.45 KB
Press Release 16 July 200931.48 KB
GEP Project - Counselling Training M&E Report70.04 KB
GEP Project - Counselling Training Trainers' Report72.7 KB
GEP Project - Evaluation of Comforting Hearts Capacity Building Workshops80.51 KB
GEP Project - Evaluation of FACT Capacity Building Workshops78.71 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report July-August 200933.38 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report September 200985.67 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report October 200972.87 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report November 200977.1 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report December 200975.73 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report January 201073.14 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report February 2010 81.92 KB
GEP Project - Moruca Counselling M&E Report78.35 KB
GEP Project - New Amsterdam Counselling M&E Report83.05 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report July 2009 to Jan 2010137.24 KB
GEP Project Narrative Report January to May 2010139.01 KB
GEP Project Financial Report50.08 KB