DOM DUGA – PROJECT / PROJECT LEADER
(updated January 14, 2024)
1. Safely to work with Duga
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: European Social Fund
EU IPA IV: “Establishing Support in Social Inclusion and Employment of Disadvantaged and Marginalized”
Project duration: 04.09.2013. – 03.12.2014. (15 months)
Project value: 109,367.90 EUR
Partners:
- City of Zagreb
- Croatian Employment Service, Zagreb regional office
- Institute for Labor Market Development
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
The project was implemented in the area of the city of Zagreb, Zagreb County, Sisak-Moslavina County, Varaždin County, Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and Zadar County. The project’s overall objective was to promote the social inclusion of long-term unemployed beneficiaries of social welfare and assistance by supporting their access to the labour market. The project activities specifically aimed at training social service institutions for victims of domestic violence to provide in-house support to their beneficiaries in accessing the labour market and achieving economic independence. The primary target group of the project were women victims of domestic violence accommodated in the “Duga-Zagreb” home who are long-term unemployed or at risk of unemployment and children of women accommodated in the “Duga-Zagreb” home who are final year primary school students or students of secondary vocational schools.
2. S4S – Support for Safety (Support and safety for children of victims and perpetrators of violence)
Project leader: WWP EN (our umbrella professional organization – European Network for Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence)
Funding: WWP EN
Project duration: October – December 2020.
Project value: 4,000.00 HRK
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
S4S – Support for Safety, was focused on developing and implementing policies and procedures within member organizations of the network aimed at strengthening child safety (“Child protection policy”). Activities such as training for experts, individual mentoring support and study visits were carried out. An assessment of the level of development of the child protection policy was carried out in the form of a 1.5-hour interview, feedback on the level of development of the child protection policy (via an online meeting of 1.5 hours), and the development of a child protection policy development plan to implement it into the regular work of Dom Duga-Zagreb. The ultimate goal is the adequate implementation of the child protection policy and confirmation that our institution in every aspect is working to combat domestic violence, both through perpetrators and victims, and through the protection of children according to the highest available professional standards.
DOM DUGA – PARTNER IN THE PROJECT
1. Education and empowerment – one step closer to employment
Project leader: Women’s Room – Center for Sexual Rights
Funding: Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy of the Republic of Croatia
Duration of the project: 01.06.2017. – 31.05.2020.
Project value: 200,000.00 HRK
Partners:
- Brod Association – women’s human rights group
- Center for Civil Society Support and Development – Delfin
- Social Welfare Center Sl. Brod
- Social Welfare Center Požega
- Home for children and adults victims of domestic violence “Duga-Zagreb”
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
General goal: Development of an employment model for women victims of domestic violence through active strengthening of collaborative relationships between all key stakeholders.
The program was created based on recognized needs in society and based on years of experience working with victims of domestic violence, and it contributed to the development of a new and comprehensive model for empowering GBV survivors for reintegration into the community, through empowerment and employment. Also, the program “Education and Empowerment – A Step Closer to Employment” encouraged employers to use Active Employment Measures for Victims of Domestic Violence by conducting research and establishing cooperation between all stakeholders, and ensured the inclusion of organizations from rural areas in the provision of social services.
2. Systemic Approach for Perpetrators
Project leader: Regione del Veneto – UO Cooperazione Internazionale, Italy
Funding: EU REC-AG-2017: Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme
Project duration: 01.10.2018. – 30.09.2020. (24 months)
Project value: EUR 385,000.00
Partners:
- Association “Association NAIA”, Bulgaria
- Una Casa per l’Uomo Società Cooperativa Sociale, Italy
- Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, Bulgaria
- Gruppo R scs, Italy
- City of Zagreb, Croatia
- European Network For The Work With Perpetrators Of Domestic Violence EV, Germany
- Home for children and adults victims of domestic violence “Duga-Zagreb”
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the project was to define and implement a model for integration of intervention methods applied to victims and perpetrators of gender-based violence in order to promote an effective prevention and network contrast.
Activities included:
- research of work models and legislation in 3 countries (Bulgaria, Croatia and Italy) on services for victims and perpetrators and their integration;
- research on working models carried out in other EU Member States on the same issue;
- defining the experimental operational protocol; testing the protocol;
- designing and implementing an evaluation system to measure the impact of the protocol;
designing a final operational protocol and policy guidelines; - dissemination of project activities and model dissemination results.
3. National Women’s Empowerment Campaign “Sofia” – prevention and suppression of violence and greater employability of women
Project leader: Association for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights “Sofija”
Funding: European Social Fund
Intermediary body: Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy, Croatian Employment Service – Office for Finance and Project Approval
Managing Authority: Ministry of Labor and Pension System
Project duration: April 2020 – October 2021 (20 months)
Project value: 1,420,506.41 HRK
Project partner: Association “Blue Phone”
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
As part of the National Women’s Empowerment Campaign “Sofia”, free workshops (20 of them) were held for unemployed women victims of domestic violence. The “Duga-Zagreb” Home was a partner in this project, specifically in training for experts who work with victims of domestic violence as well as with perpetrators. The activities of the national campaign “Sofia” covered the whole Croatia and were held in all counties (21 locations) for two target groups: unemployed women victims of violence and experts who work with the aforementioned group, which were implemented through 3 components:
- social skills improvement workshops
- self-defense workshops
- education of experts.
4. Center for Integration
Project leader: City of Zagreb
Funding: European Social Fund; Program “Expanding the Network of Social Services in the Community” PHASE 1.
Intermediary bodies: Croatian Employment Service, Finance and Contracting Office
Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family and Social Policy
Project duration: May 2020 – April 2022 (24 months)
Project value: 1,499,439.10 HRK
Project partners:
- House of Hope – an association for supporting the homeless and other socially vulnerable groups
- Psychiatric Hospital “St. Ivan”
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the project was to improve the prospects for social inclusion for victims of domestic violence (especially elderly victims of domestic violence), homeless people and persons with addiction (especially veterans) through the Integration Center of the City of Zagreb, phase 1 of its development through this project, integrating the capacities of key stakeholders and transferring knowledge and services to underdeveloped counties. The role of Dom Duga in the project was to develop a social integration service for shelter beneficiaries and the development of a new SOS hotline service for elderly victims of domestic violence.
5. Advisory and psychosocial support and assistance to women victims of domestic violence after leaving the shelter
Project leader: BaBe Association Be active. Be emancipated
Funding: Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy of the Republic of Croatia (today’s Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family and Social Policy of the Republic of Croatia)
Project duration: June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2023.
Project value: 180,000.00 HRK
Partners:
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
The project aimed to ensure the social integration of victims of domestic violence after leaving the safe house through psychosocial and legal support activities, empowerment workshops and active job search, monitoring of procedures before institutions, as well as activities on a wider social level. The implementation of the program strengthened the capacities of victims to live without violence and developed the role of the community in combating domestic violence. Successful integration of victims contributes to the process of deinstitutionalization, i.e., to the reduction of the number of people in the institutional care system.
6. ATTITUDE – real change starts with me
Project leader: Association “Krugovi” – Center for Education, Counseling and Humanitarian Action
Funding: Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family and Social Policy
Duration of the project: 1.1.2022. – 31.12.2022.
Project value: 150,000.00 HRK
Partners:
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
We participated in the project as partners with other primary and secondary schools, with the Social Welfare Centers in the City of Zagreb and Karlovac County, and in cooperation with the Anzip Center. The goal of the project was to provide counseling assistance to victims of domestic violence – by organizing psychological/psychotherapeutic and legal counseling activities. All of the above was carried out by experts at the Counseling Center for Children and Adult Victims of Domestic Violence “Duga-Zagreb” at Ozaljska 93 and Ninska 10 in Zagreb. Through direct legal and psychological counseling activities, indirectly through education of other stakeholders in working with victims of domestic violence, and workshops in schools, the Association “Krugovi” as the leaders of this project acted curatively and preventively on children, direct or collateral victims of domestic violence.
The “Duga-Zagreb” Home provided the following services in its two counseling centers during the project:
7. ATTITUDE
Project leader: Association “Krugovi” – Center for Education, Counseling and Humanitarian Action
Funding: Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family and Social Policy
Project duration: 1.5.2023. – 30.04.2024.., project extension: 1.5.2024. – 31.08.2024.
Project value: EUR 27,670.00
Partners:
- Elementary School Mladost Zagreb
- Hospitality and Tourism College Zagreb
- Sesvetska Sopnica Elementary School
- in collaboration with the Center for the Application of Integrated Knowledge Anzip.
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
The “Duga-Zagreb” Home was involved in the following activities during the project:
- Two hours of monthly psychosocial counseling for victims of domestic violence at our counseling centers;
- Three hours of legal advice per month;
- Booklets – written by a psychologist from the shelter – for victims in the shelter and those who come to the counseling center, reprinting of 1,200 booklets and 350 leaflets; distribution in institutes for social work
- Two-day training conducted by a social worker and psychologist from the shelter and a psychologist from the treatment of perpetrators of violence
- Contributed to and spoke at the final conference of the project.
8. VIOLENCE – NO AND NO.. -3
Project leader: SOIH – Croatian Association of Persons with Disabilities
Funding: Ministry of Labor, Pension System, Family and Social Policy
Project duration: three days in July, 2023.
Project value:
Partners:
DESCRIPTION AND GOALS:
Experts from “Duga-Zagreb” Home conducted a three-day training for employees and professional associates-volunteers working in the counseling center. The training was conducted on: domestic violence; psychosocial consequences of domestic violence and characteristics of the condition and ways to support the victim, as well as counseling skills training through five modules. The purpose was to gain competencies for psychosocial support services. The focus was education and training for working with women with disabilities who are victims of domestic violence. In this way, they improved the competencies of volunteers for working on the SOIH – SOS hotline for women with disabilities who are victims of violence.
9. puSHEd – protect, understand, support: help the elderly (puSHEd – education, prevention, suppression of violence: support for older women)
Project leader: BaBe Association Be active. Be emancipated
Funding: CERV-2021-DAPHNE (Call for proposals to prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children), Topic: CERV-2021-DAPHNE, Type of Action: CERV-PJG
Project duration: June 2022 to May 2024.
Project value: EUR 208,716.34
Partners:
- BaBe Association – Be active. Be emancipated.
- The “Common Path” Foundation
- City of Zagreb
The project was supported by:
- Public Ombudswoman
- Victim and Witness Support Association
- European Social Network
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the project was to prevent and combat gender-based violence against elderly women by developing gender-specific responses in providing support to victims and building the capacity of relevant stakeholders in the protection and support system. The project also aimed to raise awareness among the general population and improve the community’s response to gender-based violence against elderly women, primarily through increased reporting of violence and its prevention.
The project relied on the Istanbul Convention and aimed to promote gender equality and non-discrimination as key European values and fundamental principles for the eradication of gender-based violence against older women.
DONORS – SPECIAL COOPERATION
RBA Austria dd, headquarters Zagreb and
Raiffeisenbank International and H. Stepic CEE Charity – Association for the support of charity projects in Central and Eastern Europe
1. Childhood without violence
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding:
- RBA Austria dd, headquarters Zagreb, Magazinska 69
- Raiffeisenbank International and H. Stepic CEE Charity – Association for the support of charity projects in Central and Eastern Europe
Project duration: 15.01.2015. – 14.01.2017. (12 months for each donor)
Project value: 50,000.00 HRK
2. Childhood without violence
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding:
- RBA Austria dd, headquarters Zagreb, Magazinska 69
- Raiffeisenbank International and H. Stepic CEE Charity – Support Association charity projects in Central and Eastern Europe
Project duration: 15.01.2017. – 14.01.2019. (12 months for each donor)
Project value: 50,000.00 HRK
3. Therapeutic fitness training to reduce stress in abused individuals
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: RBA Austria dd, headquarters Zagreb, Magazinska 69
Project duration: 01.02.2019. – 31.01.2020. (12 months)
Project value: 50,000.00 HRK
4. Childhood without violence
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: Raiffeisenbank International and H. Stepic CEE Charity – Support Association charity projects in Central and Eastern Europe
Duration of the project: 01.02.2019. – 31.01.2020.
Project value: 50,000.00 HRK
5. Amendment to the financing agreement for the “Childhood without Violence” project due to new needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
Responsible for amendments to the project: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: Raiffeisenbank International and H. Stepic CEE Charity – Support Association charity projects in Central and Eastern Europe
Project duration: one-time payment in February 2021 for the purchase of equipment to adapt to the new need for conducting online classes; purchase of slippers and underwear for children and adults.
Project value: EUR 1,960.00 (HRK 14,810.00)
6. Education – a tool against violence
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: RBA Austria dd, headquarters Zagreb, Magazinska 69
Duration of the project: 1.2.2021. – 31.1.2022.
Project value: 60,262.00 HRK
7. Education – a tool against violence
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: Raiffeisenbank International and H. Stepic CEE Charity – Support Association charity projects in Central and Eastern Europe
Duration of the project: 1 February 2022. – 31.01.2023.
Project value: EUR 8,000.00
8. Care – Help – Empowerment of Victims of Domestic Violence
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: RBA Austria dd, headquarters Zagreb, Magazinska 69
Duration of the project: 1 February 2023. – 31.01.2024.
Project value: EUR 6,000.00
9. Care – Help – Empowerment of Victims of Domestic Violence
Project leader: Home for children and adult victims of domestic violence “Duga – Zagreb”
Funding: Raiffeisenbank International and H. Stepic CEE Charity – Support Association charity projects in Central and Eastern Europe
Duration of the project: 1 February 2024. – 31.01.2025.
Project value: EUR 7,200.00