Grants and Contributions

These campaigns target boys, young men and girls, adolescent girls, and young women in selected areas with girls, adolescent girls, and young women-led, faith-based organizations and mass media.

This project directly benefits over 40,000 girls, adolescent girls, and young women in the provinces of Ayacucho, Piura and San Juan de Lurigancho district (Lima).

Expected activities include:
� training health staff and increasing supervision of specific procedures related to COVID-19 including prevention measures, referral-systems and management of gender-based violence cases;
� supporting access to mental health services for health workers under stress directly related to the pandemic response; and
� disseminating information to the public related to COVID-19 using radio, sound trucks, SMS platforms, and social media in partnership with local organizations.

Project activities include: (1) enabling 20 civil society organisations to map protection issues for women and provide grants for protection projects serving 2,000 community members; (2) developing protection action plans with relevant ministries and civil society organizations; (3) providing legal aid to 3,100 survivors of gender-based violence; (4) providing formal psychosocial counselling for 3,000 women; (5) training 180 female volunteers as community-based educators to raise awareness of gender-based violence and facilitate referrals to services; (6) providing income opportunities to 500 women and offering vocational apprenticeships to 600 women; and (7) reaching 160,000 community members through awareness and media sensitization on women’s rights and empowerment issues, including targeted sensitization for 3,500 men.

TransCare+ will: 1) Develop a public-facing executive summary of the project's plan for engaging in community-based research that includes the findings from the comprehensive baseline data collection, 2) Synthesize research findings into accessible graphics, visual fact sheets, and educational social media posts/videos for wider distribution, 3) Develop and deliver a youth-led recommendations-for-practice document that includes an analysis of research findings and action steps, 4) Create an e-learning module based on research findings for each of the groups: RLQGD youth/survivors, secondary survivors & GBV service providers, 5) Work with the youth community outreach and research facilitators to engage RLQGD youth in knowledge-sharing, and 6) Host a virtual knowledge-sharing symposium for rurally located GBV service providers, to share information on the research findings.

The peer-reviewed research findings will be published by the CCPA and disseminated through mainstream and social media channels, drawing on the expertise of the CCPA communications strategists.

Policy briefs will be developed and adapted for the general public, media, and governments; a strategy grounded in Indigenous practices will be devised to address violence against Indigenous women and girls; and the project’s policy strategies will be showcased in a one-day symposium.