{"id":235,"date":"2020-03-28T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:15:19","slug":"avahan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/what-we-do\/empowering-women-girls\/avahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping DV &#8211; Project Avahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-235\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-235-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-235-0\" data-stretch-type=\"full-stretched\" ><div id=\"pgc-235-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-235-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div id=\"metaslider-id-779\" style=\"width: 100%; 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width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-782 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2020-05-01 15:12:34\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-Judicial-Colloquium-to-activate-judiciary-to-act-on-DV-cases-min-900x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-779 slide-782 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Avahan - Judicial Colloquium to activate judiciary to act on DV cases-min\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-811 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2020-05-01 15:17:06\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Avahan-1-3-900x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-779 slide-811 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Avahan (1)\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-812 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2020-05-01 15:17:06\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Avahan-2-3-900x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-779 slide-812 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Avahan (2)\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-813 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2020-05-01 15:17:06\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Avahan-3-3-900x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-779 slide-813 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Avahan (3)\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-814 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2020-05-01 15:17:06\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Avahan-4-3-900x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-779 slide-814 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Avahan (4)\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-818 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2020-05-01 15:28:37\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Avahan1-2-900x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"900\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-779 slide-818 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Avahan1\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-235-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-235-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-235-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2><strong><span class=\"dt-highlight\" ><\/span>Stopping Domestic Violence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-235-1-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget_media_video\" data-index=\"2\" ><div style=\"width:100%;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-235-1\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3qzZQWiR5cI?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3qzZQWiR5cI\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/3qzZQWiR5cI<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-235-1-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong>Violence Against Women<\/strong> is an age-old way patriarchy has exerted control over women's bodies and lives. Domestic violence, earlier known as wife-beating and now also called <em>intimate partner violence<\/em>, is one such violence against women where a pattern of coercive behavior is used by one person to gain power and control over another. Over generations socialized by patriarchal norms, values and behaviour, domestic violence has come to be accepted and normalised for most women. 43% of women in our own villages reported being beaten in the past one year.<\/p>\n<p>Project AVAHAN (Against Violence At Home \u2013 Act Now!) is an initiative to challenge this notion and to break the culture of silence around violence. It seeks action from the survivor, the community and the State to stop violence which women suffer within homes. Started in May 2017, the pilot phase of the project aims to reduce incidence of domestic violence in 100 villages of Chirang. The project works at 3 levels to bring about change:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Provide support to survivors of domestic violence.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Changing the Culture of Violence Against Women<\/strong>:<br \/>\nTo get communities empowered to stop DV; build women\u2019s leadership for taking action to stop DV; Sessions with men to sensitise them and build up skills on non-violent means of dealing with stress; forming DV Response Groups; getting village to institutionalise response to DV cases; series of workshops with young boys and girls of high school - to sensitise them regarding gender inequality and violence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advocacy with the government for the support and action for stopping DV<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-235-1-0-3\" class=\"so-panel widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"4\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Change we are witnessing<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Change in patriarchal DNA is slow to come by. But yet, we are slowly but surely seeing some change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>women report cases of physical beating having definitely dropped. In the next phase, we will take it further to stop all kinds of violence at home.<\/li>\n<li>24 families are leading a violence free life for the past one and half years of our intervention.<\/li>\n<li>12 families have reported violence of no sort for the past of 6-10 month.<\/li>\n<li>28 Families shared significant reduction in physical violence but that emotional &amp; verbal abuse persists.<\/li>\n<li>about 64% of men who attended workshops which we organised to teach them to deal with stress and anger has used the techniques they learnt to do their part in solving familial conflicts in non-violent ways. Further, many of the men thus trained report teaching these techniques of anger and stress management to other men in their villages.<\/li>\n<li>response groups made up of men, women and youth now play a key role in resolving instances of violence in the villages we work in. 47 cases have been resolved by them through individual counselling, family counselling, village meetings etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-235-1-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-235-1-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"5\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-jpeg-final-Apr-2020.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-589 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-jpeg-final-Apr-2020-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-jpeg-final-Apr-2020-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-jpeg-final-Apr-2020-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-jpeg-final-Apr-2020-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-jpeg-final-Apr-2020-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Avahan-jpeg-final-Apr-2020-1583x2048.png 1583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-235-1-1-1\" class=\"so-panel widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"6\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-235-1-1-1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Avahan Project Baseline Study report<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Avahan-Baseline-Report-Sept-2018.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This study is part of the ant\u2019s <em>Project Avahan<\/em>, an initiative supported by the <em>Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives<\/em>, Bangalore to reduce domestic violence (DV) in villages of Chirang District in Assam. Quantitative Survey with 1055 randomly selected women respondents followed up with additional study with 455 DV survivors identified through the survey. This study was conducted between August\u2013October 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Avahan-Baseline-Report-Sept-2018.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Avahan-Baseline-Report-Sept-2018<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-235-2\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-235-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Stopping Domestic Violence Violence Against Women is an age-old way patriarchy has exerted control over women&#8217;s bodies and lives. Domestic violence, earlier known as wife-beating and now also called intimate partner violence, is one such violence against women where a pattern of coercive behavior is used by one person to gain power and control&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theant.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}