1. Planning Meeting of Asia Network on Women
Shelters
Taipei, Taiwan
3-5 September, 2012
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2. GIZ
• 130 countries
• 17.000 employees > 60% national staff
• Headquarters in Eschborn & Bonn
• Work on behalf of Federal Ministry for
Ecomomic Cooperation and Development
(BMZ: www.bmz.de)
• Since 01.2011: merger between GTZ, DED,
InWent to GIZ
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3. GIZ in Pakistan
• Since 1961
• Present portfolio:
1. Education (Punjab, KP, FATA)
2. Health (KP, FATA)
3. Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency
4. FATA Livelihood Programme
5. Statistics (Federal Buero of Statistic)
6. Geohazard Assessment Northern Pakistan
7. DETA (KP, Malakand)
8. Governance (KP, Malakand)
9. Gender Responsive Policing (nation-wide)
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5. Governance Programme
3 Components
Administrative Tax Gender
Reform Reform Reform
• enhance the • strengthen the • to improve
capacities of services of
capacities and
Pakistani Inland government and
improve the
Revenue for non-
procedures for
implementing the governmental
raising efficiency in
new legislation and actors for the
local administration
levying a refomed prevention of
and elected councils
value added tax on violence against
of KP
goods and services women in
KP/FATA
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6. Governance Programme
Implementing counterparts:
• Local Government and Rural Development Department, GoKP
• Povincial Reconstruction, Rehabilitaton and Settlement
Authority/Provincial Disaster Management Authority, GoKP
• Social Welfare & Women Development Department, GoKP
• Federal Bureau of Revenue, Government of Pakistan
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7. Prevention of violence against women
4. Impact: 1. Analysis:
-Improved services - Data on VaW
for female victims of - National strategy
violence - Legal situation
- SW, SE, WED,
KP:
2. Planning: Human resources
3. Monitoring - Improve services in
- Access to services women shelters
- Training on VaW with
counterpart/law, police etc
- Systematic data collection
- Media campaign
- Cooperate with CSO
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8. GIZ programme and interventions
Capacity Development of Govt. Officials
Provincial and district levels
Improving the response mechanisms for survivors
Renovation of shelter homes
Provision of socio-economic support
Capacity development of staff in shelter homes
Improvement in organizational and management structure
and procedures of the shelter home to ensuer effective and
standard service delivery
Strenthening the referral mechanisms at provincial level
 Implementing the guidlines for Darul Amaans and GBV
SOPs (developed by GBV sub cluster)
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9. GIZ Programmes and Interventions
Review of Exiting Laws
Provincial Commision on the Status of Women
Law inforcement agencies
Civil Society Organizations
Women empowerment wings
Social Welfare and Women Development Dept.
Media Campaigns on Awarness raising
on GBV
Documentry on shelter homes
Data Collection on GBV
First consultation with Unwomen, UNFPA, Govt.
Line dept

10. Competitive advantages of GIZ
Trained and experienced technical staff members
Presence at the national and provincial level
Trust and long term partnership approaches
Good reputation at national and provincial levels
Guidelines and SoPs (scaling-up approach)
Secure funds
Balance ratio and mix of national and international
technical staff
Outcome-Orientation

11. Support to GBV survivors and referral process
1.GBV definition and understanding.
2.Kind of support entailed for GBV survivor.
3.Essential pre-requisites of the support extended.
4.Minimum support service structure required.
5.In-house and extended referral support services
mechanism/strategies.
6.Follow-up support for a fixed time frame.
7.Shelter rehabilitation
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12. 1. GBV DEFINITION AND UNDERSTANDING
Gender-based violence (GBV) is an umbrella term used for
any harm that is perpetrated against a person’s will and that
has a negative impact on the physical or psychological
health, development, and identity of the person.
The violence is the result of gender-based power inequities
that exploit distinctions between males and females, among
males, and among females.
GBV may be physical, sexual, psychological, economic, or
socio-cultural.
(Source: Overview of Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: Protection-
Prevention and Response UNHCR Geneina, West Darfur)

13. “Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or
is likely to result in physical, sexual or
psychological harm or suffering to women,
including threats of such acts, coercion or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring
in public or in private life (UNESCO 1999 p.53)”
(Article 1 of the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
(DEVW), proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in its resolution 48/104 of
20 December 1993, defines the term “violence against women” )

14. Government run Women shelters in Pakistan
45Women shelters
( 05 in Khyber Pakhtun khwa and 01 half way
house, 34 in Punjab, 04 in Sindh and 01 in
Baluchistan), 21 women centers set up by
MoWD ( 11 in Punjab, 5 in Sindh, 3 in
Baluchistan and 2 in KPK) to protect women
and girls in distress form physical and
psychological abuse.
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15. Guidelines for Women Shelters
No guidelines and SOPs for government run
shelters (Government is leading in providing
shelters to Women).
In 2007, Guidelines formulated with the TA of GTZ.
The Police Department, Health Department,
lawyers and NGOs, such as the AURAT
Foundation, Shirkat Gah, Dastak and Médecins du
Monde also gave their invaluable inputs for
establishing these new standards
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16. Guidelines at KP shelter, with GIZ TA (capacity
building of the institutions) for implementation of
these guidelines.
Guidelines will ;
•Women Shelter management
•Training of shelter staff
•Referral services
•Working days and hours
•Attitude and interaction with residents
•Code of conduct of women shelters
•Dealing with residents
•Rules & regulation for residents
•Discharge of the residents
•Records and documentation for residents
•Monitoring of women shelters
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17. 2. KIND OF SUPPORT ENTAILED FOR GBV
SURVIVOR
•Information and referral source
•Psychosocial counseling and help
•Legal support
•Safe shelter
•Seeking help for reporting
•Immediate medical support
•Facilitation in collecting adequate documentation
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18. 3. ESSENTIAL PRE-REQUISITES OF THE
SUPPORT EXTENDED
a.Confidentiality
b.Maintaining dignity & respect of
survivor and her choices
c.Safety and security of the survivor
and those helping her
d.Non-discrimination
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19. 5 STEPS FOR ALL RESPONSES TO GBV
Let the client tell her story (listen) and
assess any danger
i. Assess the client’s needs and give
relevant information
ii. Help the client develop an action
plan and/or a safety plan that
addresses her needs
iii. Help the client implement the plan
iv. Follow-up and case closure
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20. MINIMUM SUPPORT SERVICE STRUCTURE
REQUIRED
a) A Facility; to report (other than
Police), get information/assistance for
the GBV survivor- (Drop in Center as
first contact point).
b) Emergency support provision
c) Extended support processes
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21. 5. IN-HOUSE AND EXTENDED REFERRAL SUPPORT
SERVICE MECHANISM/STRATEGIES required and
GIZ, NGOs are working on it in partnership with
Government of Pakistan
i. Referral networks: in case management at various levels in
situations such as:
 Complete services are not available in-house
 To fulfill statutory requirement
 Where government and judicial intervention is required
 For difficult cases - going public. (Within ethical parameters
and principles) e.g. exposing it in media or involving
networks to exert pressure on the opposing party or
government to take action including.

22. CONT…
ii. For social Rehabilitation/re-integration: in case of
reconciliation:
• Family counseling and mediation
• Mediation counsels (strictly regulated)
• Skill and vocational training
• Employment sources/opportunities
• Educational institutions for education and
boarding
• Foster home
• Financial support and sponsorship
• Visiting community support groups

23. 6. FOLLOW-UP SUPPORT FOR A FIXED TIME
FRAME
 Starting from frequent monitoring of
situation to gradual phase out.
 Building and linking community
support groups.
 Structured follow-up programs.

24. 7. SHELTER REHABILITATION
 Has a complete program and protocols of
its own.