Gender-Based Violence Reduction Project (Funded by Women’s World Day of Prayer German Committee)

This project (which for convenience we refer to as our WWDPGC project) began in April 2008 and ended on 31 March 2011. The overall long term objective of the project was to educate and empower women and girls, boys and men to adopt peaceful and non-violent means for resolving conflicts in their lives, it being anticipated that through a community based driven process, awareness about gender-based violence and its root causes would be developed in communities along with local initiatives for resolving such issues through the transfer of skills and appropriate training initiatives and that through these community-based initiatives the level of awareness of gender-based violence and violence perpetrated towards women and girls in particular would decrease and options for the pursuit of a peaceful life free of violence and abuse become a distinct reality. The short term objective of the project was to significantly increase the level of awareness and thereby reduce the high incidence of violence against women, girls and children in general, through public education and advocacy initiatives applied for direct sensitization in four communities within two administrative regions in Guyana.