We were delighted to have such a great turn-out at our first in-person Implementation Networking Event in 2022 in the beautiful venue of the Great Hall of Queen's University Belfast on 14th June. Our excellent speakers delivered insightful and engaging presentations on 'Tackling Gender-Based Violence: Implementing good practice on the ground.'

1. Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Implementing good practice on the ground
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23rd meeting of the Implementation Network of Ireland and Northern Ireland
14th June 2022

2. Chatham House Rule
Chatham House Rule applies
I.e., participants are free to use information received at these
meetings, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the
speaker(s) may be revealed
➢ Encourage openness, sharing of information
➢ Create ‘a safe space’ for honest dialogue and learning
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3. Agenda
Item Time
Tea/Coffee and Networking
Meet other members of the Implementation Network
10.30 - 11.00
Introductions and Network updates 11.00 - 11.10
Welcome from QUBSU Student Officer, Equality & Diversity 11.10 – 11.20
Input from PSNI
Improving the PSNI response to Domestic Abuse
11.20 – 11.35
Input from Women’s Aid
Amplifying Women’s Voices
11.35 – 11.50
Input from Men’s Development Network
Partner Support Service
11.50 – 12.05
Input from The Executive Office
Update on Northern Ireland Strategy on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
12.05 - 12.15
Panel – Implementation Discussion 12.15 – 1.00
Close 1.00 – 1.15
Lunch and Networking 1.15 – 2.00
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4. Membership of the Implementation Network
What does membership involve?
• Opportunities to connect with implementation
colleagues by attending Network meetings
• 2 Network meetings a year (Spring, Autumn), plus
other events
• Several ‘Implementation Update’emails a year
• Access to up-to-date resources and publications
on Implementation Science
• Sharing your name, job title, and organisation, as part
of a members list, with other members at
Network meetings
• No fee/charge
How to become a member?
Sign up by emailing:
cohagan@effectiveservices.org
Implementation Network of Ireland and Northern Ireland 4
#ImplemNetwork

5. Contributors
• Niamh Oddy, Queen's University Belfast Student Union, Student Officer, Equality &
Diversity
o Welcome to Queen's University Belfast
• Anthony McNally, Detective Chief Superintendent, PSNI
o Improving the PSNI response to Domestic Abuse
• Sarah Mason, CEO, Women's Aid
o Amplifying Women's Voices
• Sean Cooke, CEO, Men's Development Network Ireland
o Partner Support Service
• Claire Archbold, Director, and Geraldine Fee, Assistant Director, Ending Violence Against
Women and Girls Strategy in The Executive Office
o Update on Northern Ireland Strategy on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
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6. Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Implementing good practice on the ground
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23rd meeting of the Implementation Network of Ireland and Northern Ireland
14th June 2022

7. Chatham House Rule
Chatham House Rule applies
I.e., participants are free to use information received at these
meetings, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the
speaker(s) may be revealed
➢ Encourage openness, sharing of information
➢ Create ‘a safe space’ for honest dialogue and learning
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8. Agenda
Item Time
Tea/Coffee and Networking
Meet other members of the Implementation Network
10.30 - 11.00
Introductions and Network updates 11.00 - 11.10
Welcome from QUBSU Student Officer, Equality & Diversity 11.10 – 11.20
Input from PSNI
Improving the PSNI response to Domestic Abuse
11.20 – 11.35
Input from Women’s Aid
Amplifying Women’s Voices
11.35 – 11.50
Input from Men’s Development Network
Partner Support Service
11.50 – 12.05
Input from The Executive Office
Update on Northern Ireland Strategy on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
12.05 - 12.15
Panel – Implementation Discussion 12.15 – 1.00
Close 1.00 – 1.15
Lunch and Networking 1.15 – 2.00
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9. Membership of the Implementation Network
What does membership involve?
• Opportunities to connect with implementation
colleagues by attending Network meetings
• 2 Network meetings a year (Spring, Autumn), plus
other events
• Several ‘Implementation Update’emails a year
• Access to up-to-date resources and publications
on Implementation Science
• Sharing your name, job title, and organisation, as part
of a members list, with other members at
Network meetings
• No fee/charge
How to become a member?
Sign up by emailing:
cohagan@effectiveservices.org
Implementation Network of Ireland and Northern Ireland 9
#ImplemNetwork

10. Contributors
• Niamh Oddy, Queen's University Belfast Student Union, Student Officer, Equality &
Diversity
o Welcome to Queen's University Belfast
• Anthony McNally, Detective Chief Superintendent, PSNI
o Improving the PSNI response to Domestic Abuse
• Sarah Mason, CEO, Women's Aid
o Amplifying Women's Voices
• Sean Cooke, CEO, Men's Development Network Ireland
o Partner Support Service
• Claire Archbold, Director, and Geraldine Fee, Assistant Director, Ending Violence Against
Women and Girls Strategy in The Executive Office
o Update on Northern Ireland Strategy on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
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11. Implementation Network of
Ireland & Northern Ireland
Tackling gender-basedviolence -
What have we learnedfrom
implementing goodpractice onthe
ground?
Amplifying women’s voices!
Sarah Mason, CEO

12. PROLOGUE ONE
J’S STORY
If peoplecouldsee through these eyes,let me see you
change,spreadthesewords,
wordsof fire…..
Celeste– ‘HearMyVoice’

13. Why do we need a Violence
Against Women and Girls
Strategy in NI?

14. Presentation focus…
• Provide brief overview of context of Northern Ireland
• Outline our work in Northern Ireland
• Working through Covid-19 Pandemic
• Highlighting ‘Hear Her Voice’ Research

15. Domestic abuse in Northern Ireland
• A domestic abuse incident is reported, on average every 17 minutes of every day.
• In 2020/21 PSNI responded to 31,196 domestic abuse incidents. This was an
increase of 621 from 2019/20.
• This presents an average of 85 domestic abuse incidents per day.
• 16 domestic abuse incidents and 10 domestic abuse crimes per 1,000 population.
• Domestic abuse crimes represented 20.2% of all police recorded crime in 2020/21.
• The number of domestic abuse crimes recorded in 2020/21 was 19,036, an increase
of 408 on the previous twelve months.
• There were nine murders with a domestic abuse motivation in 2020/21, compared
with four during 2019/20.
• There have been 13 women murdered since March 2020.

16. • Natasha Melendez
• Elizabeth Dobbin
• Emma Jane McParland
• Patrycja Wyrebek
• Katie Simpson
• Susan Baird
• Karen McClean
• Stacey Knell
• Kathleen “Katie” Brankin
• Ludmila Poletelova
• Katrina Rainey
• Caoimhe Morgan
• Alyson Nelson
Let’s take a moment…………

17. Why do we need a Violence
Against Women and Girls
Strategy in NI?

18. Women’s Aid in Northern Ireland –
We are small but we are mighty!

20. Why do we need a Violence
Against Women and Girls
Strategy in NI?

21. Impact of Covid-19
Our responsive approach…

22. Survivor engagement - The Hear Her Voice project sought
to capture the lived experiences of survivors of domestic
abuse. Through focus groups with over 90 women engaged
in the eight Women’s Aid groups across Northern Ireland
during 2021, survivors shared their stories of domestic
abuse and its lasting impact on their lives, families and
future. The findings were launched 25th November 2021 –
attended by many of our ‘experts by experience’

23. What did the 91 women tell us?
Unfortunately, very
similar lived
experiences to those
outlined in Bringing
It Out in the Open,
research conducted
30 year’s earlier

25. How did they tell us?
• Words – sharing
their lived
experience
• Creative writing
• Kintsugi
• Their Journey
through Art
• Photography
• AND
• VOICE!!!

26. This was a familiar sight
in many rooms of the
house when his temper
went.
I’m busy fixing up
these holes and fixing
my life again

29. How did we use it?
Influencing & Shaping Policy: A seismic shift!
• Domestic Abuse & Civil Proceedings Act
• Section 28 – DomesticAbuse Waiver (Family
Courts)
• The Justice (Sexual Offences & Human
Trafficking) Bill:
• Abolishes ‘Rough Sex’ defence
• makes non-fatalstrangulationa specific crime
• threating to publishimage-based violence a crime
• Enhanced legal protections for domestic abuse
victims
• The Protection from Stalking Bill
• Domestic Abuse (Safe Leave) Bill

30. How did we use it?
Bringing the lived experience into External
Training:-
• PSNI
• PPS
• DOJ Global Online Package
• Health Trusts
• Education Authority
• Guardian ad litem

32. What did we learn?
The power of the lived experience shaping
policy, practice and service provision
This is only the start of this journey of
positive change ………

33. Why do we need a Violence
Against Women and Girls
Strategy in NI?

34. Key factor is that any new
strategy needs appropriate
funding stream to make it work
together with commitment from
government for real positive
change to the lives of women
and girls

36. Why do we need a Violence
Against Women and Girls
Strategy in NI?

37. We have amplified women’s
voices!

38. Thank you for your time
What else would you like to know?
To find out more about Women’s Aid services please visitour website
www.womensaidni.org
Email: sarah.mason@womensaidni.org
Twitter: @WomensAidNI
Facebook: Women’s Aid Federation NI

39. Seán Cooke
Chief Executive Officer
Centre for Effective Services
Tackling Gender Based Violence
Men’sDevelopmentNetwork
14th
June2022

40. CONTENTS
➢ Introduction to Men’s Development Network
a) Brief History
b) Our Vision Mission & Core Values
c) Strategic Objectives
➢ Our Work with Men
a) Programmes
b) Why we work with Men
➢ Our Practice
a) Step in Step up and Step Back
b) Partner Support Programme
• Partner Support Programme
a) What is it?
b) How it works?
c) Innovation attached?
d) Outcomes
e) Challenges
➢ Q&A

41. Brief History
• Established in 1997 in Waterford (25 years in 2022)
• Collection of Fathers looking to support each other
• Developed its key programmes around health and
development work
• Significant input and influence on the Men’s Health Policy and
the Delivery of Healthy Ireland – Men
• Moved into service delivery with MEND Programme
• More recently with the Male Advice Line

42. Who are we today?
An organisation which advocates for transforming
masculinities
with the intention of creating a gender equal society,
through a community development model which
creates better lives for men and boys, their families,
friends, and communities across Ireland.

43. Our Vision,Missionand CoreValues
OUR VISION
“That men play an active part in all aspects of their lives
and be their most authentic selves”
MISSION
“Better Lives for Men, Better Lives for All”
COREVALUES
Equality, Non-Judgemental, Professionalism, Partnership & Love

44. Strategic Objectives
• Creating more spaces for new conversations with men
• Increasing Supports to Men, Women and Families
• Influencing the policy, practice and processes of engaging men
• Advocating for social change and greater gender equality

45. Our WorkwithMen
Programmes
➢ Four National Programmes
➢ ENGAGE National Mens Health Training Programme
➢ MEND Domestic Violence Intervention Programme
➢ White Ribbon Campaign: Men Ending Gender Based
Violence
➢ Male Advice Line (Freephone service)
➢ Health and Development Programmes
➢ Parent Support
➢ MenConnect
➢ FarmConnect
➢ Walk the Talk
➢ Summer School
➢ Leadership Training
➢ Men’s Health Signposting workshops

46. Whywe WorkwithMen?
➢ Challenge the perceptions of what it is to be a man
➢ To allow men be their most authentic selves
➢ This work is called Transforming Masculinities
➢ Strengths based approach to engaging men;
➢ Health
➢ Wellbeing
➢ Gender Equality
➢ Gender-based violence

47. Our Practice
➢ Step in Step up and Step Back
➢ Seeking Support
➢ Seeking Guidance
➢ Listening & Hearing
➢ Responding Positively.
➢ Partner Support Programme (MEND)
➢ Part of Choices NDVIPProgramme
➢ 32 week interventionwith men who are violent
within their intimatepartner relationships
➢ It is deliveredthrough 1:1, and group work.

48. PartnerSupport Programme
What is it?
➢ It is a support service offered to partners or ex-partners of men who are
engaging with the Domestic Violence Intervention Programme.
➢ It is a collaboration between the providers of the DVIP’s and Women’s
Services in localised areas.
➢ Its objective is to protect the women and children from further abuse and
harm whilst the man is on the programme and for some time after.
How it Works?
➢ On the men’s acceptance to the programme:
➢ A partner supportorganisation is identified
➢ The partner supportorganisation will contact the partner and outline the
supportavailable.
➢ Type of supportincludes 1:1 by phone or in persongenerally once a week or
more if required.

49. InnovationAttached
➢ Collaboration with Independence
➢ New Channels of Communication with a dedicated lead (Safety
Network)
➢ Solving the problem of Risk Management
➢ Holding ourselves accountable to each other .
Challenges
➢ Perception of Duplication among agencies
➢ Although working very well at local level, slow recognition for the sector
to its merits and benefits at national level.
➢ Further resources to develop group work with victims/survivors
PartnerSupport Programme cont’d

50. Outcomes
➢ Greater Safety for Women and Children
➢ Dedicated support to victims
➢ Greater communication between agencies
➢ Appropriate signposting
➢ Greater understanding of the benefits of perpetrator programmes
among partners and women support agencies.
PartnerSupport Programme cont’d

51. Thank You for your time
Any Questions?

52. Contact Information
Men’s Development Network
49-50 O’Connell St, Waterford, Ireland
Tel 051 844 260/1
Website: www.mensnetwork.ie
Email: health@mensnetwork.ie
Social Media: @MensNetworkIE

53. An update on the NI Strategy on
Ending Violence Against
Women and Girls
A presentation to the Implementation Network
14 June 2022
Claire Archbold and Geraldine Fee

54. Is today not supposed to be about practice?
• Yes –this is a preview of forthcoming attractions – there’ll be more
about our strategic work in Dublin in November
• One of the four pillars of effective work in this area is joined-up
service delivery
• We don’t end violence against women and girls by having a paper
strategy, the strategy has to identify and deliver consistent best
practice services to real people
• A key theme of our co-design will be to identify, nurture and spread
best practice

55. What is our mandate?
A TEO-led Cross-Departmental Strategy which is:
• Gender specific
• Intersectional
• Co-designed
• Evidence-based and data-driven
• Ready for public consultationby December 2022
• For rolling forward within PfG

56. What is our vision?
A proposed vision was included in the Call for Views
• Every woman and girl is safe in our communities,feels safe and
can reach their potential
• We have a society in which violence against women is not
tolerated in any form, in which all victims are supported, and
perpetrators are held to account

57. Why does it matter?
• 1 in 3 womenglobally experience violence in their lifetime
• 1 in 5 women in NI experience domestic abuse
• An incident of domesticabuse on average every 16 minutes in NI
• 16% of young people can recognise a coercively controlling relationship
• 1 in 2 womenin GB feel unsafe when out alone at night
• Individual and intergenerational trauma
• Grit in the machine – social and economiccost hampering workof all Departments
• Cracking this wicked problem contributes directly to 10 of 12 ODP outcomes

58. What is the shape of the
problem?
The Pyramid
Model – we need to
tackle the root
causes
Offences – include
sexual offences,
stalking, coercion

59. What can be done to change it?
Four pillars of activity from the Istanbul Convention are
– prevention, protection, prosecution, and co-ordinated
policies:
• Criminal offences – by prosecution and protection
• Unwanted behaviours – by protection and prevention
• Damaging attitudes – by early intervention
preventative measures
• Effectively – by working together and mainstreaming

60. Lots of good strategies, policies and services
• Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy
• Gender Equality Strategy
• Strategy on Women and Girls…in the justice system
• Child Care Strategy
• Gillen Review
• Marrinan Review
• Hate Crime Consultation
• New Beginnings in Employment
• LGBTQIA+ Strategy
• Community Safety Strategy
• Anti-poverty Strategy
• Well-being Framework
…but we need to fill the gaps , join the dots
and work together effectively

61. What is the key determinant of success?
• Engaged relationships for effective
collaborative delivery
• The right people in the right place
• The ability to measure change
consistentlyacross government

62. A whole of government and whole of society
approach
• Working to agreed common principles
• Amplifying communication and engagement across sectors
• Enhancing policy co-ordination and data collection
• Using smart commissioning
• Mainstreaming the issue in all we do
• Stepping out of our silos

63. What are we doing at the minute?
• Response to Call for Views – 661 questionnaires and 91 written responses
• Broad research programme under way
• Preparing cross-sectoral co-design model
• Aiming for a draft Framework Strategy for consultation by December 2022
(subject to resources)
• Seven year delivery programme

64. What themes are emerging?
• Not going to pre-empt the co-design – but some thoughts
about emerging themes in other places
• The need for good data to drive practice
• Public health approach to violence prevention
• Trauma informed policy and practice
• Early intervention and education with a view to culture change
• Perpetrator programmes
• A whole of government and whole of society approach

65. What can you do?
• Sign up for the Social Bystander Model conference on 28 June
• Talk to us!
• Contact claire.archbold@executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk
geraldine.fee@executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk

66. Thank you.
To join the Network, please email cohagan@effectiveservices.org
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