Experiences on the relevance of institutional anchorage of dealing with sexual violence and HIV/AIDS in international cooperation, Monika Christofori-Khadka, Swiss Red Cross
1) The document discusses the relevance of institutional anchorage for addressing sexual violence and HIV/AIDS in international cooperation work. It outlines the strategic and policy frameworks of the Swiss Red Cross and how they translate into practices in emergency relief, development, and rehabilitation.
2) Key gaps and inconsistencies are identified, such as sexual violence being insufficiently addressed in strategies and concepts. Implementation challenges include a focus on prevention but lack of health services for victims of sexual violence.
3) Next steps proposed include increasing awareness of sexual violence and HIV, reviewing concepts to include their relationship, improving monitoring, and considering their relevance in rehabilitation work.
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For more information on this session go to www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual6
#SRHR #sexualhealth #reproductiverights #familyplanning #womenshealth #LGBT #genderequality #SDGs
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This is the Abstract Presentation of Zahra Fathi Geshnigani which took place as part of Sixth session of 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR10) Virtual, on 31st August 2020, on the theme of "Innovative financing for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Asia and the Pacific".
SESSION CHAIR
Dr Ashish Bajracharya
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Quazi AKM Mohiul Islam
former Director General, Directorate General of Family Planning, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
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For more information on this session go to www.bit.ly/apcrshr10virtual6
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Experiences on the relevance of institutional anchorage of dealing with sexual violence and HIV/AIDS in international cooperation, Monika Christofori-Khadka, Swiss Red Cross
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Experiences on the relevance of
institutional anchorage of dealing with
sexual violence and HIV/AIDS in
international cooperation
Monika Christofori-Khadka; Health Adviser
Outline of the Presentation
1) The Swiss Red Cross
2) Relevance of sexual violence and HIV
3) What does institutional anchorage mean?
4) Sexual violence and HIV - strategic framework
5) Sexual violence and HIV - policy and conceptual
framework
6) Translation into practise - with examples
7) Gaps and inconsistencies
8) Next steps
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The Swiss Red Cross within the ‘Movement’
• The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) is the National Red Cross
Society of Switzerland and has its headquarters in Bern.
• Founded in 1866 and is the oldest and largest humanitarian
organization in the country.
• Member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) which forms the worldwide
Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (commonly called
‘the Movement’).
• Three working areas: emergency relief, rehabilitation/
reconstruction and development cooperation.
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World Wide Engagement
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Relevance of sexual violence and HIV
• Sexual violence is a major public health issue:
between 15% and 71% of women ever in a relationship
experienced physical or sexual violence by their intimate
partner (WHO multi-country study already in 2005).
• Sexual violence is increasing, even though under-
reporting is pertinent
• Vulnerability increases in situations of conflict and crises
• Not only women are victims, also men and children
• The issue of ‚sexual violence‘ may arise unexpectedly
within Primary Health Care or/and SRH projects
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Two way process:
• Sexual violence being the cause of becoming HIV positive
According to research in South Africa, “An estimated
16% of all HIV infections in women could be prevented if
women do not experience domestic violence from their
partners” (SVRI)
• Being HIV positive becoming a victim of sexual violence
According to a case study of HIV positive Jamaican
women Canadian Cross)
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What does institutional anchorage mean?
• Having adequate strategic and policy frameworks in place,
which build the legal foundation for concepts, interventions and
actions.
• Having adequate concepts in place, which outline the
operational depth and width of interventions and actions
thematically and geographically
• Having access to, developing and using specific guidelines,
standards and tools and expertise for putting actions in place
• Having assessment and monitoring systems in place to
measure change and document best practises.
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Overview of the institutional strategic and conceptual hierarchy
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IFRC Strategy 2020
SRC Strategy 2020
SRC Strategy 2020 for International Cooperation
Policy framework: thematic concepts Strategic framework: strategic plans
Health Policy
Disaster Management Concept
Concept Rehabilitation and Reconstruction
Cross cutting concepts: LRRD, Partnership,
Knowledge management
Thematic concepts: Blood security, Eye Care,
Health in Emergency, HIV/AIDS
4 Continental strategies: Africa/
MENA; Latin America and Caribbean;
Asia and Europe
26 Country strategies
Strategic framework
Strategy 2020 IFRC Strategy 2020 SRC and SRC IC
Mission:
The SRC fosters healthy living and improved
disaster management capacities
among particularly vulnerable people and
communities
Objectives:
Particularly vulnerable and deprived people
and communities:
• receive appropriate support to meet
emergency needs;
• have the capacity to prepare for and respond
to disasters appropriately and are in a
position to adapt to climate change;
• have access to good quality health care;
• are able to have an impact on health deter-
minants and to demand their right to health.
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Strategic framework: strategic plans (excerpts)
• All Continental strategies have included the aim to prevent, care
and treat the locally most infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS,
malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhoea, pneumonia, chagas, dengue
• only Latin America and Caribbean has explicitly included the
Integrating the “Promoting peace, non-violence and dialogue
culture” component
By addressing violence as an important element with ever-growing influence in the
vulnerability of Latin America and the Caribbean through highlighting communication
and non-violent conflict resolution, as well as through specific non-violence promoting
projects, dialogue and psycho-social support with anti-domestic violence
components as part of a primary healthcare programme and in collaboration with
IFRC and ICRC for the implementation of the regional violence prevention strategy
in Central America.
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Policy framework: thematic concepts (excerpts)
• Only the Health Policy (2012-2016) emphasises
Prevention, care and treatment of the locally most prevalent infectious
diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia,
chagas, dengue.
Integrated community-based psycho-social support and violence
prevention
• Only the Health in emergencies’ concept considers possible
intervention strategies in
Provision of care, drugs and medical commodities and specifies PEP
in emergency settings
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Translation into practise
Sexual violence and HIV in SRCs three working areas
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Emergency
Relief
Development
Cooperation
Rehabilitation/
Reconstruction
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Emergency Relief
Standards, guidelines and tools Translating into these measures
Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards
in Disaster Response (Sphere Standards)
Public Health Guide in Emergency (John
Hopkins University and the IFRCS)
IASC Guidelines for addressing HIV in
humanitarian settings
Health in Emergency Concept
• Settlement planning/camp and shelter set-up
(allocation of tents, distance to sanitation,
lights, secured places for women)
• Identifying the most vulnerable, in particular
women, when distributing goods
• Anonymous telephone helpline and reporting
of sexual violence
• Clinical management of sexual violence as
part of minimal initial service package
(including rape kit)
• HIV prevention, treatment and care; including
PEP
• Psycho-social support and counselling
services
• Training human resources (professionals and
volunteers)
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SRC Action
SRC
Collaboration
Development Cooperation
Standards, guidelines and tools Translating into these measures
Stepping Stones/Paso a paso
Community Action for Health Approach
Conflict management and mediation
Appreciative inquiry
Community Based Health and First
Aid/Domestic violence module (CanCross for
IFRCS)
Breaking the taboo (EU)
• Adolescent health education, life-skills and
empowerment on sexual violence,
HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancies etc.
• Addressing mostly domestic violence
through local health actions and action
groups against alcohol abuse, self-help
groups
• Addressing communal practises or
‘traditions’ of sexual violence (e.g. bride
kidnapping; Sugar-Daddy)
• Addressing violence against women
• Revealing and tackling problems of sexual
violence and abuse of elderly women.
• Telephone hotlines and help-lines
• Psychological and medical support through
professionals in specialised center
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All Latin America,
Kyrgystan, Nepal,
Romania, Swaziland
Kyrgystan,
Swaziland
Kyrgystan, Nepal,
Romania
Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Honduras
Ecuador
Development Cooperation (contd)
Standards, guidelines and tools Translating into these measures
• Collaboration with and referral to
specialised health and social care agencies
including VCCT and ART
• Sexual violence prevention as cross-cutting
issue in other thematic interventions, e.g.
WASH.
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SRC Action
Paso a paso in Ecuador
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Violence Prevention against women in Ecuador
Training and orientation of the health
promoters in the indigenous Quichua
communities to prevent, reduce and eliminate
violence against women.
Topics include:
- Physical abuse, mental abuse and sexual
violence.
- Who is affected by violence?
- Vicious circle of violence
- Addressing violence in the family,
community, organisation.
- Whom can we turn to for help and get our
rights? Women's and Family Commission,
Police, National Comisaría and local
Defense Office.
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Breaking the taboo
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Rehabilitation/Reconstruction
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Assessments and monitoring systems
• Issues of sexual violence arise within on-going programmes after a
level of trust and rapport was established and thus ‘assessments’ are
rather informal or ad-hoc.
• Evaluations, change and best practises often only possible to do in
development cooperation programmes, in mostly qualitative manner.
• Monitoring extremely difficult. What are really reliable indicators that
document change?
Problems:
Causal relationship between sexual violence and HIV
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Gaps and inconsistencies
At strategic, policy and conceptual level
• Is gender-based/sexual violence addressed sufficiently in the SRC IC
given that the strategic aim 3 of the IFRCS is subsumed under
‘healthy and safe living’?
• Is sexual violence realistically reflected in the country strategies and
continental strategies? Possibilities to widen the scope?
• Concept or internal working guidelines on psycho-social support and
violence is inexistent.
• Concept on HIV/AIDS is outdated and does not consider sexual
violence.
• Concept Rehabilitation/reconstruction has no link to health issues,
psycho-social support, HIV/AIDS, violence or others.
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At practical implementation level
• Focus is on prevention of sexual violence and HIV.
• Only few sexual violence related health services are in place. It
requires a scale-up according to context and needs including specific
training for field staff in health care and psycho-social support.
• Alliances and collaborations with relevant NGOs and
stakeholders, who have ample experience with sexual violence and
HIV for referral or building up own capacities (Danish Red Cross,
Terre des Hommes, Terre des Femmes, MSF etc.) are only slowly
developing.
• How to prevent/tackle sexual violence and HIV during the
displacement? How to tackle human trafficking?
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Next steps
• Increase awareness of importance of gender-based violence/sexual
violence and HIV within the SRC IC in Headquarters as well as in the
field.
• Take the ‘fear’ out of sexual violence by sharing case studies, tools
and good practises (within Movement; 16 ideas of WHO/UNICEF
2013; etc.)
• Review concept on HIV/AIDS including aspects of sexual violence
and HIV.
• Look for good monitoring practises.
• Dare to open the ‘black box’ and think about relevance and strategies
of sexual violence and HIV in rehabilitation/reconstruction.
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Conclusion
• Sexual violence and HIV is relevant for the Swiss Red Cross and
supposedly will grow in relevance in the future.
• Having been ‘forced’ to look specifically into the issue of sexual
violence and HIV as an organisation proved worth-while to do a
reality-check, detect good practises, scopes and gaps.
• Strategic, policy and conceptual groundwork is done, but requires
adaptation and expansion of scope.
• Experiences in the field are patchy, but needs are evidently growing
with projects have put actions in place or created innovative actions
to prevent and create awareness against sexual violence and HIV.
Be sensitive as an organisation towards sexual violence and HIV, their
relationship, and create innovative actions to meet the needs of women
and men in all age groups.
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