When a community leads the conversation
With the International Solidarity Foundation, CAYO ran community-led awareness sessions and training on violence against women and girls and on harmful traditional practices.
Preventing violence against women and girls starts where attitudes are formed: in the community itself.
Community-led prevention · with the International Solidarity Foundation
CAYO implemented Community-Led Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls and Harmful Traditional Practices through Awareness Sessions and Training with the International Solidarity Foundation (ISF) of Finland. The project is completed.
The approach was community-led. Awareness sessions and training brought community members together, in their own communities, to address violence against women and girls and harmful traditional practices.
The work belongs to one of CAYO’s 8 thematic areas, the prevention of and response to gender-based violence, and it carries forward in our Safe Communities programme.
No individual accounts, by design. CAYO never identifies people who have experienced violence: no names, faces, voices or details that could identify them. To raise a concern, see Report a concern.
At a glance
- Project
- Community-Led Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls and Harmful Traditional Practices
- Partner
- International Solidarity Foundation (ISF)
- Implemented by
- CAYO
- Status
- Completed
- Approach
- Awareness sessions and training, led by the community
Community champions, kebele by kebele.
Safe Communities builds on this work: community-led prevention of violence against women and girls, carried by people the community already trusts.
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