The project called “Marielle - Never stop rising” derives from the desire to start a process of exchange of good practices and both personal and professional enrichment of operators who work with vulnerable women, victims or subject to episodes of violence or discrimination and at risk of social exclusion. The idea of the project name came up on the first death anniversary of the Brasilian civil rights activist Marielle Franco, killed by unknown murderers: inspired by her, we want to continue and spread her commitment to promote women's rights and empowerment in Europe. The countries involved in the project are Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Georgia, a partner country of the programme. All the partners have an extensive experience on the topic at local level and they have carried out different projects with various types of institutions. However, for many of them, this project represents an opportunity to internationalize their activities, given that they have no previous experience in European project management and implementation. The project aims, as a general objective, to contribute to gender empowerment and to the prevention of violence against women at risk of marginalization. Its specific objectives are: - to foster the achievement by educators and social workers of specific skills in order to support to women at risk of marginalization, victims of violence and gender discrimination through an exchange of good practices; - to raise the level of awareness and the development of life skills in women at risk and victims of violence in order to support them in the process of emancipation from marginality and oppression conditions; - increase the commitment of organizations in empowering and preventing discrimination and violence against women by creating a European network that could act locally and internationally through the use of active methods. The project includes three short term joint staff training events on the following topics: - economic empowerment of women; - socialization and self-esteem as a tool for self-efficacy; - social tailoring as a tool to make gender-based violence emerge and to acknowledge the importance of the relationship between the target groups and the urban environment in which they live. After each training, the partners will implement laboratories at local level in order to test the methodologies learned. The project participants will be: Target group: 42 educators and operators working with partner organizations. Direct beneficiaries: 180 women, victims of discrimination and violence and at risk of marginalization. Indirect beneficiaries: volunteers from organizations that will support the development of local activities and all members of the educating community who will participate in local initiatives and dissemination events. The whole project will transversally experience the application of the following methodologies: - mutual learning; - peer education; - cooperative learning and active learning methods; - intercultural education; - non-formal education. The target group involved will have the opportunity to maximize the potential of empowerment practices in use and to acquire new work tools. Through the meeting and confrontation with other professionals, a peer support network will be created, committed to the fight against discrimination, violence and social exclusion of women at risk of marginalization. The project will also give a European dimension to the work of organizations, creating and strengthening cooperation between partners, exploiting the potentials and the contacts of the organizations and networks to which they belong, qualitatively valuing their contribution in projects addressed to women. Women, direct beneficiaries of the project, will have the chance to experience new methodologies that will influence their levels of empowerment. At the end of the project, to disseminate the results achieved, a video story and a booklet of good practices for operators with a specific focus on the emergence and management of violence will be produced. In a long-term perspective, the project will allow the increase of knowledge and skills in the field of experiential methodologies to encourage and support gender empowerment. These knowledge and skills will be enriched by new ideas and suggestions, thus improving the quality of individual local interventions. In general, we hope that the dissemination of results will be sufficiently wide to make the materials produced usable and workable in multiple contexts.
The main objective of the project was to contribute to gender empowerment and prevention of violence against women at risk of marginalization. With this in mind, the following specific objectives were pursued, - to foster the acquisition of specific skills of educators and social workers to support women at risk of marginalization, victims of violence and gender discrimination through an exchange of best practices; - increase the level of awareness and development of life skills in women at risk and victims of violence to support them in the process of emancipation from the condition of marginalization and oppression; - increase the engagement of organizations in empowerment activities and prevention of discrimination and violence against women by creating a European network that acts locally and internationally using active methods
The project "Marielle - Never Stop Rising" was ispired from the desire to start a path of exchange of good practices and personal and professional enrichment of professionals working with vulnerable women, victims of violence or discrimination and at risk of social exclusion. About 14 million women, included in an age range of 18 to 74 years, within the EU have experienced physical violence. In recent years, in Europe, to cope with such incredible barbarities, in addition to the advocacy and field work carried out by NGOs, fundamental has been the emergence of several movements from below (#metoo #nonunadimeno #8marzoglobalstrike) as well as the emergence of several prominent female figures. One of them precisely was Marielle Franco, a Brazilian civil rights activist. Inspired by her, we wanted to carry forward her commitment to women's rights and empowerment in Europe. The countries involved in the project were Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Georgia, the latter a program partner. All partners had extensive experience on the topic at the local level and had implemented various projects with different types of institutions.