GENDER SENSITIVE APPROACH TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN : BUILDING CAPACITY OF POLICE AND COMMUNITY PARTNERED DELIVERY SYSTEM

The project has collaborated with a multi-sectoral platform of police and community-partnered NGO, institutionalised as the Community Policing Resource Centres (CPRCs) at the Punjab State and District levels to address Violence Against Women (VAW). The CPRCs provide a range of citizen services including a victim assistance and grievance redressal cell, but have yet to incorporate the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act. The project was undertaken in a three-phased process. A gender analysis of CPRC and functionaries (including health, education, women and child, panchayat, SC and OBC Departments, civil society members and NGOs) of the delivery system contextualised in the backdrop of the Domestic Violence Act formed an evidence-based documentation to evolve training instruments for civil and police functionaries and basis for dissemination of information for the community on gender-friendly support services and the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act for women