Economics of Our Movement Workshops
Economic Empowerment of Women Survivors in South Africa
Synnov Skorge
Workshop 10I
Date & Time: Thursday, 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
The Saartjie Baartman Centre is a one-stop centre providing a range of services for abused women and children including two shelters, legal intervention, counselling, community outreach work, research, advocacy and lobbying. Central to the Centre’s service development and provision is the economic empowerment programme. The session will describe the context of gender-based violence in South Africa, and the relationship between gender-based violence and poverty. Over eleven years, the Centre has built up job-skills training, income-generating opportunities and job placement programmes for women living in the shelter so that they can empower themselves economically and become financially independent.
Learning Objectives: The presentation is focused on the economic empowerment of women survivors of gender-based violence living in shelters as a result of leaving their abusive male partners. The services that a woman living in the shelter requires to successfully leave the abuser will be described – safe accommodation, counselling, legal intervention, second-stage housing – with a particular focus on the economic empowerment programmes provided by the Centre.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Housing for Survivors/Victims, Program/Shelter Services, Program/Shelter Sustainability, Working with Underserved Communities
Country: South Africa
Job Empowerment of Domestic Violence Victims
Fernanda Tarica and Ruth Victoria Teubal
Workshop 3A
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Room: Maryland Ballroom
We´ll share the experience and vision of the implementation of a program focused on job development and economic empowerment of women in an NGO that provides an integral approach to victims of domestic violence. Achieving financial independence is an important and necessary condition for the recovery of the victims.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn how the job empowerment program is an important feature in the general recovery of victims. (2) Learn how job empowerment should intertwine with other aspects of recovery, taking into account the specific needs of each woman.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment
Country: Argentina
Getting Down to Business: Economic Empowerment and Violence Prevention
Bersabeh Beyene
Workshop 9H
Date & Time: Thursday, 9:50 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 3
The purpose of this session is to share IRC’s experience with an innovative program model called EA$E (Economic and Social Empowerment) that gives women access to financial resources and provides opportunities to both women and men to create more equitable and safe gender dynamics within their households.. Through small group discussions and interactive activities his session will give insights on how economic programming for women can be used to achieve not only economic but social outcomes such as reducing women’s vulnerability to domestic violence.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Research/Evaluation
Country: United States of America
Financially Empowering Victims of Domestic Violence
Helle Østergaard and Dorte Fredskilde Braad
Workshop 2A
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11:25 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
Room: Maryland Ballroom
“Advice for Life” is a project led by The Mary Foundation – HRH Crown Princess Mary’s Foundation, providing financial and legal counseling to women at Danish Women’s Shelters by voluntary professionals. Another project within the main focus area of Domestic Violence, is “Backpacks – for children at women’s shelters”. The backpacks are customized different agegroups and are stuffed with materials addressing basic needs (like towels and toothbrushes) as well as providing an opportunity to address the violence in conversation with the children. This workshop gives you an insight into our projects and ways of working, focusing mainly on the content of the “Advice for Life” project and an insight into the untraditional partnership behind.
Learning Objectives: (1) A Danish example of a program giving financial, legal and social advice to women at shelters. (2) An example of innovative partnership engaging new partners in the strive to reduce social isolation among battered women.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment, Innovative Partnerships
Country: Denmark
Feel Free to Act! Iceland Stretches the Limits of Gender Equality
Guðrún Jónsdóttir
Workshop 8D
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4:10 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 6
Icelandic women have taken on the task of stretching the limits for acceptable ways to reach Gender Equality. Guided by solidarity, empowerment and belief in justice, they have joined forces. In 2010, 50,000 women went on strike and gathered in the Centre of Reykjavik demanding a society free of violence with equal pay for women and men. Encouraged by the demonstration, all kinds of activism has flourished. Women have been awarded for being provocative, for raising their voices and for taking action to make a path for women in general. Forgetting all about expected feminine behaviour, filled with joy and sometimes dancing on the edge of legally accepted behaviour, women feel free to do what it takes for Iceland to become a real paradise for Gender Equality. A trailer from the Women´s strike and from the operation, “Big sister!,” will be shown in the workshop.
Learning Objectives: Gain inspiration, empowerment, solidarity and joy.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness, Economic Justice/Empowerment, Sexual Violence, Grassroots Work
Country: Iceland
Fundraising Basics for Women's Organizations
Lesley Ackrill and Ashleigh Saith
Workshop 5G
Date & Time: Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Room: National Harbor 2
Tired of raising money through bake sales, raffles and runs? This workshop will explore fundraising tactics and best practices tailored for use in women’s shelters. We’ll talk about organizational readiness, strategies you can use to get money right now, building and maintaining your program, and other fundraising activities.
Learning Objectives: (1) Learn new strategies for raising funds. (2) Learn how to communicate with donors and stakeholders.
Keywords: Communication/Public Awareness; Program/Shelter Sustainability; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Fundraising
Country: Canada
U.S. Advocacy and Community Engagement for Survivor Economic Justice
Krista Del Gallo, Kalyn Risker, Ilene Stohl, and Jennifer Quiroz
Workshop 11I
Date & Time: Thursday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
Room: National Harbor 4
This workshop will explore how using a lens of survivor economic prosperity can meaningfully shape prevention, advocacy and policy efforts aimed at reducing intimate partner violence. Panelists will describe effective responses to the current economic crisis and family financial instability through community engagement and employing safety centered financial literacy, micro-entrepreneurship and matched savings programs.
Learning Objectives: (1) State and national (US) policy examples of promoting survivor economic stability. (2) Basics of economic safety planning. (3) Strategies to effectively engage current community partners and stakeholders while simultaneously reaching new partners.
Keywords: Economic Justice/Empowerment; Working with Community, Funders, other Stakeholders; Financial Literacy
Country: United States of America
Freeing Victims from Abuse Through Employment
Workshop 3F
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Room: Chesapeake G
This workshop addresses the importance of employment for combatting domestic violence. Victims of violence often live with abusers for fear of putting themselves and their children on the street; those who manage to escape to a temporary shelter are soon faced again with being turned out or returning to their abuser.
Learning Objectives: (1) Review the model of Second Chance Employment Services, the first and only comprehensive employment agency in the U.S. for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. (2) Learn how Second Chance is replicating this model across America through a partnership with Manpower, the largest employment placement agency in the world. (3) Learn how Second Chance leverages web-based technology to securely manage, track and measure client service delivered in geographically disbursed locations and across its partner network.
Country: United States of America
