Project Report – Fiji 2010 - Pacific Health Voices

III: COMPONENT 3 OF THE VAW PROJECT FIJI 2010 – STAKEHOLDERS’ WORKSHOP TO
DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF COMPONENTS 1 AND 2
A workshop was conducted on 16 th December 2010 at the Tanoa Plaza Conference room, Suva
for 30 participants representing the various VAW stakeholders. These included the FWCC, Fiji
Women’s Action for Change, Soqosoqo Vakamarama, Ministry of Women and Social Welfare,
Church and religious groups, PCASS, Ministry of health, Fiji School of Nursing, Fiji School of
Medicine/College MNHS and World Health Organization.
The objectives of the workshop were attained.
The detailed information of this activity is in Annex 4
10. CONCLUSION
The VAW disease burden is in existence in the MOH health facilities in the 3 Divisions. A lot of
insights on VAW from the three perspectives: VAW patients, assailants and the clinical service
providers have been revealed. Health staff have made self impressions and assessments on
their practice and identified interventions strategies to improve their clinical management in
the service provision for VAW patients.
Ten (10) new original and dynamic BCC VAW materials were developed and now available for
printing and dissemination.
Detailed results on findings and discussions were shared in the VAW Stakeholders workshop
held on 16/12/10.
11. RECOMMENDATIONS
The recommendations are mainly Issues identified to improve the clinical management of VAW
patients more effectively by the health professionals such as to:
WHO or donor agency
1. Conduct a more in depth secondary analysis of this existing data to triangulate and cross
tabulation with literature review data from the FWCC and FPF.
2. Conduct further VAW related researches given the findings of this baseline study
Ministry of Health
1. Establish a specialized counseling unit within the health facility premises where a counselor,
social worker, religious personnel and others can be available 24 hours to attend to VAW
patients.
2. Develop VAW policy and clinical management guidelines in MOH in a holistic approach
3. Develop & maintain a proper information system integrating it within the existing HIS in
MOH on timely and accurate records at health facilities to effect wholesome treatment and
to assist in behavior change interventions for patients and perpetrators, health care
workers, violence and gender-based NGOs, government and the general public.
40 | P a g e