Final Evaluation: Indigenous women ‘My city, my space’: local answers to violence and discrimination (Peru)
Location: Peru
Grantee:Peruvian Women’s Centre Flora Tristán
Grant Period: 1 March 2017 to 29 February 2020
Grant Amount: USD 325,800
From March 2017 to February 2020 the Peruvian Women's Centre Flora Tristán implemented the project “Indigenous women ‘My city, my space’: local answers to violence and discrimination”.Primary beneficiaries included Ashaninkas and Nomatsiguengas who come to Satipo province to work, study or for other reasons. The project sought to:
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ensure that authorities adopt a gender-sensitive and intercultural approach;
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recognize the importance of safe public spaces to increase participation of women and girls in work, education, politics and recreation; and
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facilitate the use and enjoyment of public spaces through safety programmes and infrastructure projects.
Main findings of the evaluation:
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The project exceeded its goal of establishing three institutional mechanisms to protect and defend indigenous women’s rights to non-discrimination and freedom from gender-based violence, with the approval of five such mechanisms.
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By the end of the project, 271 women said they felt safer in public spaces and could access improved mechanisms to confront violence; the proportion of women who said they felt more secure in public spaces increased from 20% in year two to 40% in year three of the project.
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