Summary:
The project aims to strengthen regional responses to technology-facilitated violence against women (TF VAW) through research, multi-stakeholder roundtables, training and mentorship for media professionals and awareness campaigns across IPA-beneficiary countries. It will foster cross-sector
collaboration, build ethical and survivor-centered journalism capacities, and raise public awareness through monitoring, advocacy, and large-scale outreach.
Donor
UN Women through EU 4 Gender Equality: Women’s Economic Empowerment and Ending Violence against Women project, funded by European Commission
Overall Objective:
The overall objective is to strengthen regional response to technology-facilitated violence against women through ethical journalism and cross-sector collaboration.
Specific Objectives:
- Strengthened cross-sectoral collaboration between media, civil society and institutions in addressing TF VAW;
- Enhanced capacities of media professionals to identify, report on and counter TF VAW through ethical and survivor-centered journalism;
- Increased public awareness and advocacy around TF VAW in Western Balkans
Target Groups
The project targets women journalists, survivors of gender-based violence and digital rights advocates, while engaging and increasing capacities of editors, journalists and media outlets.
Main Implementer
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN Hub)
Partners
Kosovo Women’s Network
BIRN Albania
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina
BIRN Kosovo
BIRN North Macedonia
BIRN Montenegro
BIRN Serbia