Seven members received funding to work on their practice and increase their team’s capacity in areas critical for survivor safety. Each project was different and unique to the organisation that developed it, ranging from training judges and prosecutors, working on improving child safety and conducting the first study on child protection in perpetrator programmes in Bulgaria, to designing a curriculum for a residential programme to increase programme availability for perpetrators from remote areas.

Through these grants, we hope to support our members in offering safer, more effective perpetrator programmes and to make a difference in local communities around Europe.  

The new call for grants in 2024 will be open in early January and available to all WWP EN members. Look out for information in our e-mails and on our website.

If you have any questions about our grants, you can e-mail Ola Kurowicka, our Grants Officer.

All the Best,
Alessandra

• Programa Contexto (Spain) - Focused intervention protocols: Addressing perpetrators' risk factors
• Association NAIA (Bulgaria) - Applying a child-focused approach in working with perpetrators in Bulgaria
• League of Open Men (Czech Republic) - Improving Work with Perpetrators of Violence in the Czech Republic
• Men's Development Network (Ireland) - Using the Choices Programme for Residential Weekends for Male Perpetrators: A pilot project
• Relazioni Libere dalle Violenze (Italy) - Re-live the Network
• Society for Psychological Assisstance (Croatia) - Responding to increased need for victim-safety oriented perpetrator work in Croatia
• Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (Bulgaria) - Good practices, challenges and proposed solutions in practical work with perpetrators in Bulgaria
• Links & information

In the past seven months, the team at League of Open-Minded Men in Prague have been hard at work training their facilitators to work with young men using violence and preparing the groundwork to form an association of Czech perpetrator programmes. When asked to describe their granted project in three words, they chose "Opportunity", "Respect" and "Anchoring".

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John Doyle is the Director of Services (Client Support) at the Men’s Development Network in Ireland. In this interview, he discusses their grant with which they developed a programme that improves access for men who cannot join their weekly sessions: a weekend, residential version of their programme.

Petra Kremenjaš, psychologist at the Society for Psychological Assistance, shares how the 2023 WWP EN grant has helped them innovate perpetrator work across Croatia and improve survivor safety.

The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation is working to ensure that legal changes in Bulgaria benefit survivors of domestic violence and that they are implemented correctly by judges and prosecutors. When asked to describe their granted project in three words, they chose "Law", "Children" and "Training".

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• Read the newly published "European Standards for Perpetrator Programmes"
• Watch the recording of the launch event for the European standards
• Read our press release "Addressing Men´s Violence Against Women within Migrant Communities- Launch of Guidance for MOVE Multiagency Collaboration"
• Read the Guidance for MOVE Multiagency Collaboration
• Watch the recording to our event "Survivor-safety-oriented perpetrator work in Europe - Mapping promising practices and critical issues"
• See campaigning resources developed during our #ResponsibleTogether23 campaign