PUBLISHERWAVE – WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE EUROPEEuropean Network and European Info Centre Against ViolenceBacherplatz 10/4, A–1050 Vienna, AustriaManagement and coordination: Rosa Logar, Ute Rösemann, Regina WebhoferAuthors: Ute Rösemann, Branislava Marvanová Vargová, Regina WebhoferEditor: WAVE - Women Against Violence EuropeCopy editor: Daniela Beuren (phoenix)Graphic Design: Leocadia Rump (paneecamice)This report has been drawn up in the context of the DAPHNE programme PROTECT: Good Practice in PreventingSerious Violence, Attempted Homicides, Including Crimes in the Name of Honour, and in Protecting High Risk Victimsof Gender Based Violence funded by the European Commission.Management and coordination of the overall project PROTECT: Rosa Logar, Ute Rösemann, Maria Rösslhumer, ReginaWebhofer (WAVE Women Against Violence in Europe, Austria).Vienna, 2010PROTECT is financed by the European Commission within the Daphne-Programme.PROTECT is co-financed by the city of Vienna: Department of Women´s Issues, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy,Family and Youth,PROTECT is co-financed by the following PROTECT partners: Direccion General de la Mujer de la Comunidad deMadrid, General Directorate for Gender Based Violence Prevention and Youth Reform (former IMRM) and the DomesticAbuse Intervention Centre Vienna, Austria.
Research ReportsII.B. Report on research results related to mapping of 8 countriesconcerning the protection and safety of high risk victimsof gender based intimate partner violence 1The research questions are:• (To what extent) Are empowering services and support available to (young) women and their children as well as girls at riskof serious violence, and what gaps can be identified?• Have core agencies developed and implemented policies, guidelines and multi-agency initiatives to identify, protect andsupport high risk victims?• Do they use risk/danger assessment and safety planning tools? Which instruments do they use, who uses them, what isthe purpose and effect of using such tools, to what extent are such tools used?• Are there any multi-agency good practice models in protecting and supporting high risk victims?• Is there any systematic method of analysing homicides or attempted homicides (including homicides committed in thename of honour) in order to evaluate strengths and weaknesses in the prevention system?Instead of an extensive survey – which would have gone beyond the scope of this project – it was decided to do a mappingof the participating countries. All partners were well aware that the information given does not stand for the whole country,but might describe some facets of many. It is also important to mention that the individual respondents may not represent allagencies, but just their own or even just the department/unit they are working for.The partners in 7 countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Slovakia and Spain) had to choose 10 interviewpartners from 10 core agencies (justice system, police, women’s support services, intervention centres, immigrant women’sservices, social services, health services and child protection authorities). Ideally, different levels should have been addressedalso: organisations operating on the national, state/province, regional/local level. Unfortunately these requirements could notbe fulfilled in every country.The mapping was done on the basis of interviews. These interviews consisted of 3 parts: 1. Identifying high risk victims, 2.Safety measures and planning and 3. Cooperation with other agencies.The interview partners received an outline of the questions in advance. The interview itself was done by phone by an expertin this field of work from the partner organisation.The results of the mapping per country are part of this report.CAADA, our partner in the UK, joined the project PROTECT later on. They jumped in for another organisation. The timelimitations were the reason for not involving CAADA in the UK mapping. Instead they were asked to hand in a short report onthe MARACs and the involvement of the various organisations in them.A comparison between the countries is not possible, because of the differences of the participating agencies, the interviewpartners on different levels of these agencies (director, case worker, manager, educator etc.). The summary of this part of theresearch tries to answer the above questions and give recommendations based on the interview results.1A more detailed version of this report is available at the WAVE Website in the PROTECT Online Resource Centre.P 20 | PROTECT | Good practice in preventing serious violence, attempted homicides, including crimes in the name of honour, and in protecting high risk victims of gender based violence
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