COURSE

Survivor-Centered and Community-based Response to Gender-based Violence

INFORMATION

This workshop series will provide community stakeholders the ability to support survivors of gender-based violence and create changes in the community discourse of violence and help-seeking behaviors.

The new normal should include responding to gender-based violence with survivor-centered care. Our communities must encourage help-seeking behaviors that can lead to quality care, action, and healing.

To do this, IPG will help people understand how gender-based violence is an extension of uneven and unfair gender power relations, and how it is exacerbated by socio-economic inequality. We will empower ordinary people with the ability to create safe physical, virtual, and emotional spaces for gender-based violence survivors. We will facilitate the creation of a community support plan that leverages the various abilities, interests, and roles that members of the community have, and ensure that community actors are recognized and supported by the relevant local authorities.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Provide an orientation on gender power relations and intersectional identities and oppressions
Provide an orientation on a feminist, survivor-centered and healing response to gender-based violence
Empower people with the ability to create safe spaces (physical, virtual, emotional) for survivors and for supporters
Provide an orientation on relevant laws on VAW and GBV, especially those laws and policies related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Capacitate women volunteers as community paralegals for victims of GBV
Create a system for support, safety, and intervention

COURSE OUTLINE

Community Kwentuhan: Sex, Gender and Violence Discussion and Workshop
Laws on VAW and GBV, especially policies related to COVID-19
Paralegal Training
Feminist Care Orientation: As the New Normal Response to Gender-based Violence
Mapping of Support Structures and Options

Zoom link:
Topic: Online Course on: Survivor-Centered and Community-based Response to Gender-based Violence

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84850001149?pwd=WEdUbTBvakxaaHgzdE90NHBWSktLUT09

Meeting ID: 848 5000 1149

Passcode: 959511

Facilitator

Atty. Hermilia C. Banayat

Atty. Hermilia Banayat or Mimi is a managing partner at Belmonte, Sison and Banayat Law and Consultants, and a private counsel for administrative, civil and criminal cases in Philippine courts with special focus on domestic violence cases. She is also a Resident Consultant: Legal and Advocacy Specialist of the IPG. She finished her Juris Doctor at the University of the Philippines College of Law.

Ms. Sabrina Gacad

Economist by training, feminist at heart, Sabrina or Inna is presently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Women and Development Studies, at the College of Social Work and Community Development in UP Diliman. Her research interests include Filipino sexuality, and reproductive health behaviours and policies.She also maintains a meditative movement practice that includes yoga and dance improvisation, and shares this in private classes. Inna was an Australia Awards scholar and received a Master of Economics from the University of Sydney in 2019.

Course syllabus