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Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland

Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland

On 15 May 2019, was held the first Steering Committee Meeting of the project “Reinforcing the Fight against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in Kosovo*- Phase II”, co-financed by Norway and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe.

  1. members of the Steering Committee are key beneficiary institutions in the field: the National Coordinator against Domestic Violence, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, the Agency for Gender Equality, the Academy of Justice, the Ombudsperson Institution and the Victims Advocacy and Assistance Office.

In this first Steering Committee meeting, the Council of Europe project team presented the project, its aims and expected results, thus noting lines of cooperation with each beneficiary institution. The members discussed concrete activities deriving from the work plan and acknowledged the support of the Council of Europe to strengthening Kosovo*’s institutional capacity to counter violence against women and domestic violence.

More specifically, the project aims to:

  • Increase the knowledge of legal professionals in fostering reporting, support for victims during proceedings, compensation and accountability of perpetrators, through targeted trainings under HELP programme, and ToT on VAW DV.

  • Enhance capacities of relevant institutions to effectively provide support services to victims of violence against women and domestic violence and encourage development of quality Guidelines for Shelters;

  • Assess needs for quality standards on perpetrators programmes; and

  • Raise awareness through established guidelines on effective campaigning for combating violence against women and domestic violence through knowledge-based approach to Council of Europe Istanbul Convention standards and provisions.

* All references to Kosovo, whether the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo

 

Pristina 15 May 2019
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Fifty practitioners to enhance skills in provision of occupational therapy

Following the adoption of the Guidelines for Occupational Therapy (OT), as well as the Training of Trainers (ToT) on OT that took place in January 2024, three 2-day cascade training sessions were organised in the course of February and March 2024.  Fifty professionals, mainly from the Prison Health Department, along with representatives from the Correctional Services, Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, and the Special Institute for Persons with Mental and Physical Disabilities, were trained on this important form of therapy.

To complement the theoretical aspects and provide the trainees with practical knowledge, some of the sessions were conducted in the Dubrava Prison, in a section which houses prisoners with both mental and somatic problems. This on-site training allowed the participants to observe and understand the application of OT principles in a real-life setting, thus enhancing their learning experience by connecting theory and practice.

These cascade training sessions allowed the participants to further improve their skills in applying the OT Guidelines and tools in prisons and other closed institutions, a concept which was thus far not utilised in a structured manner. Furthermore, training healthcare and correctional professionals together helps them further strengthen the inter-institutional cooperation in the treatment and rehabilitation of some of the most vulnerable members of the society.

Each of these sessions were facilitated by two trainers who had participated in the ToT in January and were supervised and mentored by a Council of Europe consultant who has been involved in the process since the very beginning, thus further strengthening institutional capacity to provide training.

The activity was conducted under the auspices of the Council of Europe project “Improvement of the treatment of persons deprived of liberty”.

 

 

*All references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions, or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United National Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.

Istog/ Istok 26 March 2024
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