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This project aims to influence institutional change and increase gender sensitivity in the treatment of refugee and asylum-seeking women by allowing the women themselves to identify the problems they currently face through community-led action research and training.
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Beneficiaries
Situation
There is a need for professionals working with refugee and asylum seeking women to have a deeper understanding of gender related violence and trauma and how this in turn results in the need for gender specific provisions.
Solution
In keeping with IARS’ ethos of community-led social problem solving, this project enables refugee and asylum-seeking women in London to explore, design and deliver a training program for key policy makers and professionals working with refugee and asylum seeking women. The training, which is going to be launched in February 2014, will raise awareness of the impact of gender-related trauma and violence and promote gender sensitive treatment of refugee and asylum seeking women.