Legal and para-legal services to survivors and vulnerable
programmes that group has been facilitating. The programme, for this reason, working closely with women groups’ leaders. The programme addressed context specific gender-based violence as well, a) climate change induced violence; b) landownership induced violence; c) environment defenders and violence; d) violence against dalit women and girls.
Programme has been working both at prevention and respond sides by implementing tested tools and methods. To make it happen, Badabon Sangho has been working in two strategies i.e., a) creating movements (i.e. protests, rallies and press conference) in favors of survivors to pressure the vested interested groups and b) providing and standing beside the survivors with medical, legal and transportation supports. Tools and methods included following:
- Para-legal services to survivors and vulnerable women and girls
- Mental counselling to women and girls’ survivors during rehabilitation
- Provide 100% legal and medical support to survivors
- Facilitate training and coaching to group leaders on VAW and legal aid
- Facilitate folksongs against VAW for wider public awareness
- Implement GBV reporting tool within the vulnerable communities like fisher-folk and climate induced women migrant in urban settlements
- Organise collective actions (rallies, protest, assembles) against VAW
