Successful Launch of the ATJW II Project on Minimum Standards and Referral Guidelines for GBV Survivors!
17 February 2017
On 08 February 2017, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs launched the Referral Guidelines and – jointly with the Ministry of Health – the Minimum Standards for Basic Counseling for Women and Girl Survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
These tools were developed and tested with technical support of the MoWA-GIZ-ATJW II project, which is jointly funded by the two Governments of Germany and Australia.
The ATJW II project’s aim is to support the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and concerned government institutions as well as civil society organizations in the prevention of GBV. ATJW II supports women and girl survivors of GBV to receive high quality legal, social and psychological services.
The Minimum Standards for Basic Counseling will increase awareness and assist service providers and health practitioners to improve the quality of service delivery to women and girl survivors of GBV. They promote a common set of principles to ensure privacy, confidentiality, safety, and respect for the rights of the survivors. The Minimum Standards pave the way towards a holistic and comprehensive response to GBV through a survivor-centered human rights approach. Service providers are professionally trained in order to implement the Minimum Standards through effective services to survivors with respect and care.
It is the expectation of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) and Ministry of Health that the Minimum Standards for Basic Counseling will serve as guidance for all service providers to be implemented in their daily work.
The Referral Guidelines are to be used by relevant service providers, including GBV Networks and Judicial Police Agents/Officers (JPAs/JPOs) of MoWA, to improve the effectiveness of service delivery to women and girl survivors of GBV. Referral Guidelines were developed in order to provide high quality services through a system of case registration, assessment of and referral to services based on the individual needs and agreements of the survivors.
The launching was presided over by the Minister of Women’s Affairs, H.E. Dr. Ing Kantha Phavi, and H.E. Dr. Tan Vuoch Chheng, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Health, who delivered opening remarks along with the Ambassador of the Australian Embassy in Cambodia and the Counselor of the German Embassy in Cambodia.
This event was attended by approximately 200 guests representing Line Ministries, Government Agencies, Embassies, Development Partners, NGOs, and other Interest Groups.
We congratulate all partners involved in the successful launching!
The Civil Peace Service of GIZ in Cambodia supports the “Forum on the Developments of ECCC’s Proceedings and Reparations in Case 002/02”
16 February 2017
On Thursday, 9 February 2017, the Victims Support Section of the ECCC in cooperation with the Civil Party Lead Co-Lawyers organised a forum on the developments of the ECCC’s proceedings and reparations in Case 002/02. More >>>
The Civil Peace Service of GIZ in Cambodia supports the “Forum on the Developments of ECCC’s Proceedings and Reparations in Case 002/02”
16 February 2017
On Thursday, 9 February 2017, the Victims Support Section of the ECCC in cooperation with the Civil Party Lead Co-Lawyers organised a forum on the developments of the ECCC’s proceedings and reparations in Case 002/02.
More than 150 survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime participated in the event, and received detailed information about the current Case 002/02 and the Appeal Judgment in Case 002/01 against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan. As a symbolic acknowledgement of their meaningful contribution to the proceedings, the published Appeal Judgment was handed over to the Civil Parties in a small ceremony.
Furthermore, the participants exchanged information about the thirty-five reparation projects currently implemented or planned under the reparations mandate of the ECCC which aim at acknowledging the sufferings of Civil Parties and to help to restore their dignity and wellbeing.
The Civil Peace Service supports the activities of the Victims Support Section of the ECCC to ensure that victims of the Khmer Rouge regime can receive justice and redress through meaningful participation as Civil Parties in the judicial proceedings before the ECCC.
Life of contract farmer in Cambodia: Growing organic, glowing income
27 January 2017
Ms. Ing Sarun
Since Ms. Ing Sarun grows organic vegetables for Khmer Organic Cooperative, she smiles more often.
Ms. Sarun, 58, grows rice and vegetables on her family’s land of 0.92 hectare in Kampong Nung Village in Kampot Province, Cambodia. She cultivates rice and grows vegetables such as cucumber, bitter gourd, eggplant, pumpkin, and long bean for a living. She has six members in her family including her husband and four children, two boys and two girls. More>>>
Discussing IDPoor with beneficiaries and implementers at village level
16 January 2017
Cambodia’s Senior Minister of Planning, HE Chhay Than, and other IDPoor management staff visited Kampong Preah commune in Battambang province to see for themselves the outcomes of round 10 of the identification of poor households. They were shown around by the commune chief and 4 other local implementers of IDPoor – all of them women! More>>>
