The project aims at creating prevention and response mechanisms in the rural communities of 10 panchayaths in Thiruvananthapuram District. The project focuses on primary prevention interventions to address the factors and drivers of GBV. The organisation has been working with the proposed 10 panchayath for many years in different areas of Thiruvananthapuram and have strong grass root support for the intervention related to Gender based violence response mechanism. In this context, the Malankara Social Service Society(MSSS),the official social work agency of the Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum, planned to start a project to address Gender Based Violence by Promoting Response Mechanism in 10 panchayats of Trivandrum district Kerala and approached Caritas India seeking help to provide a financial assistance to support this project. The project amines in creating prevention and response mechanism in the rural communities of 10 panchayats in Thiruvananthapuram District. The project focuses on primary prevention interventions to address the factors and drivers of GBV. MSSS has benne working with the proposed 10 panchayats for many years in different area of Thiruvananthapuram and have strong grass root support for the intervention related to Gender Based Violence response mechanism
The MSSS has taken considerable efforts in doing this project in the 10 panchayats of the Trivandrum district. Conducted base line survey in the 10 panchayats and identifies that 85 % of people doesn’t know anything about the gender-based violence. As per the survey conducted 20 trainings and 20 awareness classes in the 10 panchayats.
The trainings and awareness were conducted with the help of Kudumbasree District Gender desk and Snehitha Cell. The GBV training was a program that imparted knowledge about various types of violence against women in the society today, how to respond, how to intervene, legal and non-legal solutions. Conducted 40 training and awareness classes at different places of the selected panchayats. In the end of the project conducted the end line survey to know about the status of the people after the trainings and awareness and found out that above 70 % of the people in the panchayats become aware about the Gender based violence issues in these 10 panchayats.
