ACTSAFE – Women’s performing art and advocacy for SAFEguarding against gender-based violence

Thematic: Preventing and Combating Gender-Based Violence
Project Duration: 12 months
Budget: 57,843.13€
Country: Greece
Location: Attica

The project addresses gender-based violence by leveraging the power of performing arts and advocacy. Targeting women’s empowerment, it includes educational workshops, advocacy campaigns, and artistic performances. It offers tools like a specialized toolkit for performing arts as a method of intervention and publishes findings to promote policy improvements. Through the dissemination of findings and policy recommendations, it aims to foster a preventive and supportive environment.

Target Groups:

The primary target groups include women over 18, men or gender-nonconforming individuals, educators, health professionals, civil society organizations, policymakers, artists, and academic researchers. The project focuses on creating awareness and providing tools to these groups for recognizing and combating gender-based violence. It also emphasizes collaboration among community stakeholders, leveraging the performing arts to inspire societal change and engage diverse audiences in advocacy efforts to promote gender equality.


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