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Empowering girls in residential care against violence against women is a 2 year European project funded by the Daphne III
Program of the European Commission lasting from January 2013 till
December 2014.
Empowering Care is developed, under the coordination of SURT.
Fundació de Dones (Catalonia), by a multidisciplinary and transnational
partnership comprising organisations from
Bulgaria (Animus
Association),
Cyprus (Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies),
Finland (University of Oulu) and
Italy (Tampep).
Empowering care project aims, on the one hand, at increasing knowledge on the prevalence and characteristics of experiences of violence
and abused against girls aged 14-18* in residential care* and under the
legal responsibility of public authorities in 5 EU Member States:
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Italy and Catalonia/Spain.
On the other hand,
the project aims at empowering young girls in residential care to protect and prevent themselves and their peers from violence.
In order to reach these aims, first of all, the partnership of the project carried out a qualitative research
on the experiences of violence and abuse, perceptions of gender roles
and intimate relationships of 14-18 aged girls in residential care in Catalonia, Bulgaria, Italy, Finland and Cyprus. Secondly, and on the basis of the comparative research results,
an empowerment program will be elaborated and pilot tested with girls
in residential care centres in the partner countries.
As a result of
these activities, a Manual for professionals will be published and
disseminated among professionals.
As said, the first activity of the Empowering Care project has been the conduction of a EU-wide
qualitative research on the prevalence and characteristics of
experiences of different types of violence and abuse against girls in
residential care, both before and after entering care
institutions, as well as their beliefs regarding gender roles and
stereotypes, and sexual and affective relationships.
Each partner of the
consortium has carried out the research in its country. With the
results obtained with the analysis of the fieldwork, each organisation
elaborated a country research report.
The reports are available, both in
English and in each national language (Bulgarian, Catalan, Greek,
Finnish and Italian), in the website of the project
(www.empoweringcare.eu).
This Comparative report has been elaborated on
the basis of the country research reports and constitutes the EU-wide
product of this first project activity.
The first chapter of the Comparative report includes
the Theoretical Framework of the project and it sets the key
definitions and approach to Empowering Care topics.
The second chapter on the Legal and Political Framework describes the legal and policy contexts concerning VAW and children’s rights at international, European and country levels.
The third chapter presents the methodological
framework set up by the partnership and used during the research. In
this third chapter the feminist approach of the Empowering Care research
is defined.
Moreover, the target groups, the selection criteria as well
as the ethical issues that were taken into account are also explained.
Finally, chapter 3 also describes the methods and techniques used in the research as well as the fieldwork process in each country.
The fourth chapter contains the Comparative Analysis
of the fieldwork carried out in the partner countries with girls in
residential care centres and with professionals.
Finally, there is a last chapter that summarises the main findings of the research.
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