Irish Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence
The Irish Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence comprises Irish human rights, humanitarian and development organisations, Irish Aid and the Defence Forces, all working together to address gender based violence. Its overall aim is to promote the adoption of a coherent and coordinated response to gender based violence (GBV).
The consortium’s objectives are:
- To ensure that actions to prevent and respond to gender based violence are visible and systematically addressed in the policies, procedures and programmes of all member agencies.
- To develop and strengthen skills and capacities of member organisations for more effective prevention of, and response to, gender based violence, at programme level.
- To inform, effect and monitor policy implementation to improve actions on prevention of and response to gender based violence.
Published on December 1st, 2011 and listed in News
Speakers at the event included: Nata Duvvury: Co-Director, Global Women’s Studies Programme, NUI Galway. Lori Michau: Co-Director, Raising Voices, Kampala, Uganda (via video link). Carol Wrenn: Gender Equality Programme Officer, Trócaire. Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2011. Location: Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1. Nata Duvvury speaking at the event. Lori [...]
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Published on September 13th, 2011 and listed in News
The focus of the Consortium’s 2011 Annual Seminar was addressing gender based violence in fragile states. Also at the event, the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore launched the National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; Women, Peace & Security. Speakers on the day included: Mary Robinson, was the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997), former United [...]
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Published on June 9th, 2011 and listed in News
KODE (Kimmage Open and Distance Education) launched a new course: *Understanding and Addressing Gender Based Violence in Development Contexts*, on July 6th 2011. This eight week distance education course focusses specifically on: * Gender Based Violence against Women. * Non-Emergency Development Settings. * Lower Income Countries. Please see KODE website for more information on the [...]
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