Asociacion de Mujeres Oyanka
OYANKA - Oyanka Women Association - Jalapa
NI021G www.oyanka.org
The Association of Women Against Violence in Jalapa, OYANKA, was constituted in 1993, founded by women who worked in the peasent women program within the CCAJ Cooperative (Cooperativa de Conjuntos Campesinos Activos de Jalapa), as a need to give specific answers to women members of the Cooperative that were suffering situations of violence and exclusion from their husbands and life partners and with the purpose of preventing intrafamiliar violence. In September 1997 it was legally constituted as an NGO, "La Asociación de Mujeres de Jalapa Contra la Violencia OYANKA". Up to now OYANKA is the only organization of Civil society in Jalapa that develops a prevention task and provides legal advisory and psychological attention services to persons affected by gender violence and sexual abuse. It counts with a shelter for women who live in situations of violence and provides accompaniment in police and judicial processes. This project has the particularity of being a joint proposal that includes two more organizations, the Itza and March 8 collectives. Both organizations were also supported by Hivos individually. The purpose of this union is to carry out one single project with three organizations that have similar objectives, but respecting each center´s autonomy and independence, such as the particularities of their strategies, focuses, methodologies and political goals. This common project for three years represents an important effort to maximize human and financial resources in the struggle against violence that women and girls experiment in Nicaragua.
NI021G www.oyanka.org
The Association of Women Against Violence in Jalapa, OYANKA, was constituted in 1993, founded by women who worked in the peasent women program within the CCAJ Cooperative (Cooperativa de Conjuntos Campesinos Activos de Jalapa), as a need to give specific answers to women members of the Cooperative that were suffering situations of violence and exclusion from their husbands and life partners and with the purpose of preventing intrafamiliar violence. In September 1997 it was legally constituted as an NGO, "La Asociación de Mujeres de Jalapa Contra la Violencia OYANKA". Up to now OYANKA is the only organization of Civil society in Jalapa that develops a prevention task and provides legal advisory and psychological attention services to persons affected by gender violence and sexual abuse. It counts with a shelter for women who live in situations of violence and provides accompaniment in police and judicial processes. This project has the particularity of being a joint proposal that includes two more organizations, the Itza and March 8 collectives. Both organizations were also supported by Hivos individually. The purpose of this union is to carry out one single project with three organizations that have similar objectives, but respecting each center´s autonomy and independence, such as the particularities of their strategies, focuses, methodologies and political goals. This common project for three years represents an important effort to maximize human and financial resources in the struggle against violence that women and girls experiment in Nicaragua.
Type of organisation |
Community based organization |
Sector |
Gender, Women and Development |
Country |
Nicaragua |
Founded |
1997 |
Hivos partner since |
1997 |
Website |
http://www.oyanka.org |
Proyecto Común : Atencion Integral y Prevención de la Violencia Intrafamiliar y de Género
| DAC-sectors: | Human rights |
|---|---|
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Beneficiary: | not relevant/other |
| activity | Fortalecimiento Institucional |
| Direct outreach | 80 - Policy level/ institutional |
| Indirect outreach | 2000 - Beneficiaries: poor and/or marginalised women and men |
| activity | Incidencia, comunicación y divulgación |
| Direct outreach | 135 - Policy level/ institutional |
| Indirect outreach | 5350 - Beneficiaries: poor and/or marginalised women and men |
| activity | Formación, organización y movilización |
| Direct outreach | 2800 - Beneficiaries: poor and/or marginalised women and men |
| Indirect outreach | 2800 - Beneficiaries: poor and/or marginalised women and men |
| activity | Atención Integral |
| Direct outreach | 1100 - Beneficiaries: poor and/or marginalised women and men |
| Indirect outreach | 2200 - Beneficiaries: poor and/or marginalised women and men |
| Contract total: | 295.000 |
| Contractperiod: | 01-07-2009 until 30-06-2012 |
| Description: | |
|---|---|
| NI021G08 - Common Project : Integral Attention and Prevention Of Intra -family and gender violence The elaboration of this joint project Oyanka-Itza-8 de Marzo, was a collective construction whose objectives and expected results were in concensus by the three organizations since its mission, vision and strategic plans. With this joint project the three organizations have to coordinate and plan some joint actions. The objective of the project is to promote individual and collective empowerment of women, adolescents and youth of both sexes so that, through the defense of human rights, they can impact in the prevention and elimination of violence based on gender and generations, and to construct equal human relationships in the private and public spheres. The project has four strategic action lines corresponding to each one of the four specific objectives. 1. Integral Attention: it envolves a series of interventions conceived as a model of attention that, when applied, contributes to the empowerment of women in situations of violence. 2. Community formation, organization and mobilization: it implies the development of formation/training workshops for goal groups, promoters, defenders and/or leaders in working methodologies, community organization and political impact. 3. Impact, communication and dissemination: in local and national communication means to carry out a permanent denunciation of violation of human rights of women, adolescents and young boys and girls. 4. Institutional strengthening: with technical training for programatic, administrative personnel, directors from the strengthening of personnel, specially in the area of monitoring and evaluation. It is estimated that around 90% of the direct and indirect goal population of women from OYANKA live in the rural area and 10% in the urban area of Jalapa. On the other hand, around 85% of the direct and indirect goal population of ITZA and 8 de marzo reside in Managua. |
MYHIVOS LOGIN
