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      • Principles
        • Principle 1: Prioritising victim safety
        • Principle 2: Adopting a victim-centred approach
        • Principle 3: Taking a gender-specific approach
        • Principle 4: Adopting an intersectional approach
        • Principle 5: Considering children’s experiences
      • Steps
        • Step 1: Define the purpose and objectives of police risk assessment
        • Step 2: Identify the most appropriate approach to police risk assessment
        • Step 3: Identify the most relevant risk factors for police risk assessment
        • Step 4: Implement systematic police training and capacity development
        • Step 5: Embed police risk assessment in a multiagency framework
        • Step 6: Develop procedures for information management and confidentiality
        • Step 7: Monitor and evaluate risk assessment practices and outcomes
    • Risk management principles and recommendations
      • Principle 1. Adopting a gender-specific approach
      • Principle 2. Introducing an individualised approach to risk management
      • Principle 3. Establishing an evidence-based approach
      • Principle 4. Underpinning the processes with an outcome-focused approach
      • Principle 5. Delivering a coordinated, multiagency response
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      • Gender Equality Training
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        • What is Gender Equality Training
        • Why invest in Gender Equality Training
        • Who should use Gender Equality Training
        • Step-by-step guide to Gender Equality Training
            • 1. Assess the needs
            • 2. Integrate initiatives to broader strategy
            • 3. Ensure sufficient resources
            • 4. Write good terms of reference
            • 5. Select a trainer
            • 6. Engage in the needs assessment
            • 7. Actively participate in the initiative
            • 8. Invite others to join in
            • 9. Monitoring framework and procedures
            • 10. Set up an evaluation framework
            • 11. Assess long-term impacts
            • 12. Give space and support others
        • Designing effective Gender Equality Training
        • Gender Equality Training in the EU
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      • Gender Impact Assessment
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        • What is Gender Impact Assessment
        • Why use Gender Impact Assessment
        • Who should use Gender Impact Assessment
        • When to use Gender Impact Assessment
        • Guide to Gender Impact Assessment
          • Step 1: Definition of policy purpose
          • Step 2: Checking gender relevance
          • Step 3: Gender-sensitive analysis
          • Step 4: Weighing gender impact
          • Step 5: Findings and proposals for improvement
        • Following up on gender impact assessment
        • General considerations
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      • Institutional Transformation
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        • What is Institutional Transformation
          • Institutional transformation and gender: Key points
          • Gender organisations
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          • Gender mainstreaming and institutional transformation
          • Dimensions of gender mainstreaming in institutions: The SPO model
        • Why focus on Institutional Transformation
          • Motivation model
        • Who the guide is for
        • Guide to Institutional Transformation
            • 1. Creating accountability and strengthening commitment
            • 2. Allocating resources
            • 3. Conducting an organisational analysis
            • 4. Developing a strategy and work plan
            • 5. Establishing a support structure
            • 6. Setting gender equality objectives
            • 7. Communicating gender mainstreaming
            • 8. Introducing gender mainstreaming
            • 9. Developing gender equality competence
            • 10. Establishing a gender information management system
            • 11. Launching gender equality action plans
            • 12. Promotional equal opportunities
            • 13. Monitoring and steering organisational change
        • Dealing with resistance
          • Discourse level
          • Individual level
          • Organisational level
          • Statements and reactions
        • Checklist: Key questions for change
        • Examples from the EU
            • 1. Strengthening accountability
            • 2. Allocating resources
            • 3. Organisational analysis
            • 4. Developing a strategy and working plan
            • 5. Establishing a support structure
            • 6. Setting objectives
            • 7. Communicating gender mainstreaming
            • 8. Introducing methods and tools
            • 9. Developing Competence
            • 10. Establishing a gender information management system
            • 11. Launching action plans
            • 12. Promoting within an organisation
            • 13. Monitoring and evaluating
      • Gender Equality in Academia and Research
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        • WHAT
          • What is a Gender Equality Plan?
          • Terms and definitions
          • Which stakeholders need to be engaged into a GEP
          • About the Gear Tool
        • WHY
          • Horizon Europe GEP criterion
          • Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
          • Why change must be structural
          • Rationale for gender equality change in research and innovation
          • GEAR step-by-step guide for research organisations, universities and public bodies
            • Step 1: Getting started
            • Step 2: Analysing and assessing the state-of-play in the institution
            • Step 3: Setting up a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 4: Implementing a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 5: Monitoring progress and evaluating a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 6: What comes after the Gender Equality Plan?
          • GEAR step-by-step guide for research funding bodies
            • Step 1: Getting started
            • Step 2: Analysing and assessing the state-of-play in the institution
            • Step 3: Setting up a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 4: Implementing a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 5: Monitoring progress and evaluating a Gender Equality Plan
            • Step 6: What comes after the Gender Equality Plan?
          • GEAR action toolbox
            • Work-life balance and organisational culture
            • Gender balance in leadership and decision making
            • Gender equality in recruitment and career progression
            • Integration of the sex/gender dimension into research and teaching content
            • Measures against gender-based violence including sexual harassment
            • Measures mitigating the effect of COVID-19
            • Data collection and monitoring
            • Training: awareness-raising and capacity building
            • GEP development and implementation
            • Gender-sensitive research funding procedures
          • Success factors for GEP development and implementation
          • Challenges & resistance
        • WHERE
          • Austria
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      • Gender-sensitive Parliaments
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        • What is the tool for?
        • Who is the tool for?
        • How to use the tool
        • Self-assessment, scoring and interpretation of parliament gender-sensitivity
          • AREA 1 – Women and men have equal opportunities to ENTER the parliament
            • Domain 1 – Electoral system and gender quotas
            • Domain 2 - Political party/group procedures
            • Domain 3 – Recruitment of parliamentary employees
          • AREA 2 – Women and men have equal opportunities to INFLUENCE the parliament’s working procedures
            • Domain 1 – Parliamentarians’ presence and capacity in a parliament
            • Domain 2 – Structure and organisation
            • Domain 3 – Staff organisation and procedures
          • AREA 3 – Women’s interests and concerns have adequate SPACE on parliamentary agenda
            • Domain 1 – Gender mainstreaming structures
            • Domain 2 – Gender mainstreaming tools in parliamentary work
            • Domain 3 – Gender mainstreaming tools for staff
          • AREA 4 – The parliament produces gender-sensitive LEGISLATION
            • Domain 1 – Gender equality laws and policies
            • Domain 2 – Gender mainstreaming in laws
            • Domain 3 – Oversight of gender equality
          • AREA 5 – The parliament complies with its SYMBOLIC function
            • Domain 1 – Symbolic meanings of spaces
            • Domain 2 – Gender equality in external communication and representation
        • How gender-sensitive are parliaments in the EU?
        • Examples of gender-sensitive practices in parliaments
          • Women and men have equal opportunities to ENTER the parliament
          • Women and men have equal opportunities to INFLUENCE the parliament’s working procedures
          • Women’s interests and concerns have adequate SPACE on parliamentary agenda
          • The parliament produces gender-sensitive LEGISLATION
          • The parliament complies with its SYMBOLIC function
        • Glossary of terms
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      • Gender Budgeting
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        • À qui s’adresse cette boîte à outils?
        • Pourquoi la budgétisation sensible au genre des Fonds de l’UE relevant de la gestion partagée est-elle importante?
          • Trois raisons pour lesquelles la budgétisation sensible au genre est essentielle dans les Fonds de l’UE
        • Qu’est-ce que la budgétisation sensible au genre?
          • Présentation de la budgétisation sensible au genre
          • En quoi la budgétisation sensible au genre est-elle liée aux réalités vécues par les femmes et les hommes?
          • En quoi consiste la budgétisation sensible au genre dans la pratique
          • Budgétisation sensible au genre des Fonds de l’UE
            • La budgétisation sensible au genre comme moyen de se conformer aux exigences juridiques de l’UE
            • La budgétisation sensible au genre comme moyen de promouvoir la responsabilité et la transparence dans la planification et la gestion des finances publiques
            • La budgétisation sensible au genre comme moyen d’accroître la participation des femmes et des hommes aux processus budgétaires
            • La budgétisation sensible au genre comme moyen de favoriser l’égalité de genre pour les femmes et les hommes dans toute leur diversité
        • Comment pouvons-nous appliquer la budgétisation sensible au genre des Fonds de l’UE relevant de la gestion partagée? Outils pratiques et exemples des États membres
          • Outil 1 — Relier les Fonds de l’UE au cadre réglementaire de l’UE en matière d’égalité de genre
            • Base législative et réglementaire des politiques de l’UE en matière d’égalité de genre
            • Exigences concrètes pour la prise en considération de l’égalité de genre dans les Fonds de l’UE
            • Conditions favorisantes des Fonds de l’UE
            • Autres ressources
          • Outil 2 — Analyser les inégalités de genre et les besoins liés au genre aux niveaux national et infranational
            • Étapes concernant l’évaluation et l’analyse des inégalités de genre et les besoins liés au genre
            • Étape 1 — Recueillir des informations et des données ventilées sur le groupe cible
            • Étape 2 — Recenser les inégalités de genre existantes et leurs causes sous-jacentes
            • Étape 3 — Consulter directement les groupes cibles
            • Étape 4 — Tirer des conclusions
            • Autres ressources
          • Outil 3 — Mettre en œuvre l’égalité de genre dans les objectifs politiques (dans les accords de partenariat) et les objectifs/mesures spécifiques (dans les programmes opérationnels)
            • Étapes de la mise en œuvre opérationnelle de l’égalité de genre dans les accords de partenariat et les programmes opérationnels
            • Orientations générales sur la mise en œuvre de l’égalité de genre lors de l’élaboration d’objectifs stratégiques, d’objectifs spécifiques et de mesures
            • Liste de contrôle pour la mise en pratique du principe horizontal de l’égalité de genre dans les accords de partenariat
            • Liste de contrôle pour la mise en pratique du principe horizontal de l’égalité de genre dans les programmes opérationnels
            • Exemples d’intégration de l’égalité de genre en tant que principe horizontal dans les objectifs stratégiques et les objectifs spécifiques
          • Outil 4 — Coordination et complémentarités entre les Fonds de l’UE pour favoriser l’équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée
            • Étapes à suivre pour améliorer la coordination et la complémentarité entre les Fonds
            • Étape 1 — Alignement sur les objectifs de l’engagement stratégique pour l’égalité de genre
            • Étapes 2 et 3 — Recenser et élaborer d’éventuelles interventions en faveur de l’équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée
            • Étape 4 — Suivi à l’aide d’indicateurs au sein des systèmes de suivi et d’évaluation
            • Étude de cas fictive 1 — Concilier travail rémunéré et garde d’enfants
            • Étude de cas fictive 2 — Concilier travail posté et garde d’enfants
            • Étude de cas fictive 3 — Équilibrer les soins pour soi-même et pour les autres
            • Étude de cas fictive 4 — Concilier la garde des enfants et des personnes âgées avec le travail posté
            • Autres ressources
          • Outil 5 — Définir les partenariats et la gouvernance à plusieurs niveaux — Identifier les partenaires pertinents, le rôle des experts sur les questions de genre et la composition des comités de suivi
            • Étapes pour la définition des partenariats et de la gouvernance à plusieurs niveaux
            • Autres ressources
          • Outil 6 — Élaborer des indicateurs quantitatifs et qualitatifs pour faire progresser l’égalité de genre
            • Étapes pour l’élaboration d’indicateurs quantitatifs et qualitatifs
            • FEDER et Fonds de cohésion (mêmes indicateurs communs)
            • Fonds social européen plus
            • Fonds européen pour les affaires maritimes et la pêche
            • Autres ressources
          • Outil 7 — Définir des critères de sélection de projets sensibles au genre
            • Étapes à suivre pour favoriser l’élaboration et la sélection de projets sensibles à la dimension de genre
            • Liste de contrôle pour guider la préparation des appels à propositions de projets
            • Liste de contrôle pour les critères de sélection des projets
            • Outil complémentaire 7.a — Conventions tenant compte de la dimension de genre avec les personnes responsables de l’exécution des projets
          • Outil 8 — Contrôler les allocations de ressources en faveur de l’égalité de genre dans les Fonds de l’UE
            • Ensuring gender relevance in EU Funds
            • The tracking system
            • Steps for tracking resource allocations on gender equality
            • Step 1: Ex ante approach
            • Step 2: Ex post approach
            • Examples of Step 2a
            • Annex 1: Ex ante assignment of intervention fields to the gender equality dimension codes
            • Annex 2: The EU’s gender equality legal and policy framework
          • Outil 9 — Intégrer l’égalité de genre dans la conception des projets
            • Étapes pour intégrer l’égalité de genre dans la conception des projets
            • Étape 1 — Alignement sur les objectifs et indicateurs en matière de genre des accords de partenariat et des programmes opérationnels
            • Étape 2 — Élaboration et demande de projet
            • Étape 3 — Mise en œuvre du projet
            • Étape 4 — Évaluation du projet
          • Outil 10 — Intégrer une perspective de genre dans les processus de suivi et d’évaluation
            • Étapes pour intégrer une perspective de genre dans les processus de S & E
            • Autres ressources
          • Outil 11 — Rendre compte des dépenses de ressources en faveur de l’égalité de genre dans les Fonds de l’UE
            • Suivi des dépenses pour l’égalité de genre
            • Autres ressources
          • Références
          • Abréviations
          • Remerciements
      • Gender-responsive Public Procurement
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        • Who is this toolkit for?
          • Guiding you through the toolkit
        • What is gender-responsive public procurement?
          • How is gender-responsive public procurement linked to gender equality?
          • How is gender-responsive public procurement linked to gender budgeting?
          • Five reasons why gender-responsive public procurement
          • Why was this toolkit produced
        • Gender-responsive public procurement in practice
          • Legal framework cross-references gender equality and public procurement
          • Public procurement strategies cover GRPP
          • Gender equality action plans or strategies mention public procurement
          • Capacity-building programmes, support structures
          • Regular collaboration between gender equality bodies
          • Effective monitoring and reporting systems on the use of GRPP
          • Tool 1:Self-assessment questionnaire about the legal
          • Tool 2: Overview of the legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks
        • How to include gender aspects in tendering procedures
          • Pre-procurement stage
            • Needs assessment
            • Tool 3: Decision tree to assess the gender relevance
            • Preliminary market consultation
            • Tool 4: Guiding questions for needs assessment
            • Defining the subject matter of the contract
            • Choosing the procedure
            • Tool 5: Decision tree for the choice of procedure for GRPP
            • Dividing the contract into lots
            • Tool 6: Guiding questions for dividing contracts into lots for GRPP
            • Light regime for social, health and other specific services
            • Tool 7: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
            • Tool 8: Guiding questions for applying GRPP under the light regime
            • Reserved contracts
            • Preparing tender documents
          • Procurement stage
            • Exclusion grounds
            • Selection criteria
            • Technical specifications
            • Tool 9: Decision tree for setting GRPP selection criteria
            • Award criteria
            • Tool 10: Formulating GRPP award criteria
            • Tool 11: Bidders’ concepts to ensure the integration of gender aspects
            • Use of labels/certifications
          • Post-procurement stage
            • Tool 12: Checklist for including GRPP contract performance conditions
            • Subcontracting
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            • Tool 13: Template for a GRPP monitoring and reporting plan
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          • Principle 1: Prioritising victim safety
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          • Principle 5: Considering children’s experiences
          • Step 1: Define the purpose and objectives of police risk assessment
          • Step 2: Identify the most appropriate approach to police risk assessment
          • Step 3: Identify the most relevant risk factors for police risk assessment
          • Step 4: Implement systematic police training and capacity development
          • Step 5: Embed police risk assessment in a multiagency framework
          • Step 6: Develop procedures for information management and confidentiality
          • Step 7: Monitor and evaluate risk assessment practices and outcomes
      • Risk management principles and recommendations
        • Principle 1. Adopting a gender-specific approach
        • Principle 2. Introducing an individualised approach to risk management
        • Principle 3. Establishing an evidence-based approach
        • Principle 4. Underpinning the processes with an outcome-focused approach
        • Principle 5. Delivering a coordinated, multiagency response
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Master’s course in gender violence improves professional practice

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Good practice
Šalis: Spain
Section:
Domestic Violence
Temos:
Health, Violence
Period:
2006 - 2014
Publication date:
05 Kovas 2015
Abuse and Gender Violence. A Multidisciplinary Vision (Malos tratos y violencia de género. Una visión multidisciplinar)

In brief

The launch in 2006 of the master’s degree course on Abuse and Gender Violence. A Multi­disciplinary Vision was not without problems, but it was pushed through by persistence on the part of the teaching staff. Since then it has grown to be one of the top-rated courses among students.

The course takes a multidisciplinary approach, and considers the issue from the educational, psychological, sociological, medical, media, social assistance and judicial viewpoints. It also takes the effects of violence on groups of women such as women with disabilities, migrants, minors and teenagers into account and has won an award for this. The course consists of 10 obligatory curses plus an optional one involving 700 hours of research work.

One of the keys to its success is that it uses an online platform, which allows students from all over the world – mainly Spain, but also the rest of Europe, America, and even one student from Asia – to take part. It also brings in expert professionals as trainers, meaning that it can attract high-level professionals such as judges, senators, policemen and psychologists as students, and that these can then apply what they learn in their working lives. This means it has a real impact on the way gender-based violence is dealt with by the various institutions.

With an intake of between 220 and 370 students each year, the course has so far attracted 1,800 students from different areas of Spain and other countries.

From domestic violence to gender-based violence

The Organic Law on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence,[1] approved in December 2004 and coming into effect in January 2005, is the cornerstone of the Spanish approach to fighting gender-based violence. The law addressed gender-based violence for the first time in Spanish legislation, as opposed to the former domestic violence approach. The new legislation defines gender-based violence (GBV) as a manifestation of discrimination, inequality and power relations of men and women. It covers aspects ranging from preventive, educational and social to care and aftercare for victims, and it tackles GBV from a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach. This is the law’s most noteworthy feature.

According to the mandatory evaluation of the application of the law, published in December 2009,[2] the law has led to an unprecedented deployment of measures and actions and the mobilisation of major resour­ces. Since this law came into force, the Spanish govern­ment has invested almost €800 million in policies to prevent and fight gender-based violence.

Specific support institutions, such as an information and legal advice helpline and health care units specialising in gender-based violence, have been set up, along with special courts and public prosecution offices as well as specialised security services. Specialists in violence have been hired in healthcare and forensic services, and res­ources have been allocated to help women escape from violent situations.

The principles of the strat­egic approach, as stated in article 2 of the law, are:

  • awareness-raising with the aim of prevention in the fields of social services, education, health, and media and publicity;
  • guaranteed access for victims to a comprehensive system of support services, including economic support;
  • strengthening of the legal framework in order to ensure the comprehensive and rapid protection of victims of GBV.

Additionally, the focus on vulnerable groups, such as immigrant and women with disabilities, has resulted in the approval of a specific plan, the Plan against Gender-based Violence in the Immigrant Population (2009-2012).[3]

Changing the working practices of influential professionals

In 2006, Spain’s national distance learning university, UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), based in Madrid, launched a master’s degree course entitled Los malos tratos y la violencia de género: una visión interdisciplinaria (Abuse and Gender Violence: an Interdisciplinary Vision).

The course is interesting because it brings a multi-dimensional and holistic approach to domestic violence into a formal university curriculum. It attracts a lot of students, and the number has increased over the years it has been taught. More than that, it attracts students who can make a difference. It has a significant impact since the students, who include judges, senators, lawyers, policemen, social workers and psychologists, can apply the knowledge they have learnt, from practising professionals, in their own professional lives.

The course has a strong basis in human rights and gender analysis as well as a clear, appropriate and comprehensive definition of domestic violence. These are presented in a well-developed and multi-level course, which benefits from specialist expert trainers who deal day to day with the issues involved. The mix of online and on-site activities contributes to its reach and to its efficiency.

Students learn how to implement methodologies and practices in order to improve the protection of women at risk of domestic violence, which contributes to gender equality. Groups that stand to benefit professionally include judges, senators, prosecutors, lawyers, psychologists, teachers, social workers and police officers. With between 220 and 370 students a year, the course has so far involved 1,800 students from different areas of Spain and other countries.

The specific outcomes in terms of gender equality are indirect. However, the master is a key instrument in developing the day-to-day work of professionals involved in fighting domestic violence such as police officers, psychologists, judges and lawyers. It transforms their traditional practices in favour of a different and more sensitive approach, helps them to decide the correct action and raises awareness on the subject at the highest levels. An important feature is that the course approaches gender-based violence from an interdisciplinary standpoint, which improves the quality of the actions taken to tackle it. The master also influences individual attitudes towards gender violence.

A holistic approach

The topic of gender violence is studied holistically, that is to say from very different viewpoints including the educational, psychological, sociological, medical, media, social assistance and judicial.

The master aims to provide an understanding of gender violence, and to enable participants to identify situations in which it occurs. Many of the students are women who have suffered gender violence and find the course very useful in understanding it in depth. Their participation is really helpful for them, while allowing the rest of the professionals involved in the master to gain a deeper approach to gender violence. Following this approach to the subject, it presents effective measures for the protection and rehabilitation of victims, and tools for prevention. It combines on-site and online activities. Its virtual platform hosts online classrooms, over 100 conferences, newspaper and scientific review articles, statistics and teaching material in pdf format.

It encompass 10 obligatory courses: the origin and transmission of gender violence; language as an instrument of oppression; the victims of gender violence: the offender and the victims; children as victims of gender violence; the persistence of violence against women; the law and gender violence in Spain; the recovery of victims; psychological features of offenders; immigration and gender violence; and disabilities and gender violence. There is also one optional course which includes 700 hours of research work.

The master provides a professional expert certificate for those students who have not attended tertiary education.

One of the university’s best-rated courses

Two different evaluations are conducted every year at the end of the course. On one hand, the university (UNED) launches a survey on global satisfaction on the training provided including the seminars, conferences, teaching material and the virtual platform. This shows that the master has been one of the best UNED courses out of more than 600. The professors also conduct their own internal evaluation, and this comes up with similar results as regards the students’ global satisfaction. Many of them remark how the master has changed the way they understand and tackle domestic violence in their own work. The training material was renewed in September 2014, and includes monthly updated statistics.

Nevertheless two ways of improving the course are frequently mentioned:

  • the virtual platform causes some technical difficulties at first – but they can be rapidly solved with the help of a well-trained technician;
  • it is difficult to organise face-to-face activities such as workshops as the students are spread widely across Spain. However some workshops are already available and the major part of the students can follow them online through the virtual platform. In some cases the master has arranged local workshops with municipalities.

Factors of success

The launch of the course was problematic and its success was due to the efforts of the staff who identified the experts and proposed the course to the UNED Foundation. One of the main problems experienced since then is the selection of students occasionally, male perpetrators of domestic violence enrol in the course in order to control their wives or boycott the course.

The main factors in the course’s success are that it pays attention to the effects of domestic violence on different groups of women (it received the CERMI Award 2011 for its attention to disabled women); the online platform allows it to reach a considerable number of students; it is independent of political and educational entities; students have a high level of responsi­bility and are hence highly motivated; and professors do not belong to the university but are the best experts in each subject taught.

The experience of running the course teaches that:

  • Independence from other politically influenced organisations is a basic necessity.
  • The means and resources have to be adequate.
  • The master boosts open-minded relations, tools and schemes in order to understand the scope of domestic violence. The approach employed throughout the course led to interdisciplinary practices and overturned stereotypes and traditional perspectives.
  • As a diverse range of professionals are involved in the course, their interaction is quite positive and leads to the discovery of alternative solutions to real problems the students experience in their work.
  • The master should be in permanent evolution depending on the profile of the students and professors.

The course has been offered for replication in other universities.

[1] Organic Law 1/2004 of 28 December 2004, on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence. (‘Organic ‘ or fundamental laws are those which have to pass by an absolute majority of the Congress of deputies, rather than by a simple majority.)

[2] An evaluation of the application of organic law 1/2004 of 28 December on Comprehensive Protection Measures Against Gender-Based Violence (2009), Ministry of Equality, Government Delegation for Gender-based Violence.

[3] https://www.msssi.gob.es/ssi/violenciaGenero/Documentacion/medidasPlanes...(2009_2012)_INGLES.pdf

Contacts/Further Information

Contacts

Teresa San Segundo Manuel

Departamento de Derecho Civil

Facultad de Derecho 

UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (National Distance Learning University)

C/ Obispo Trejo, 2. Despacho 5.31

28040 Madrid

Spain

+34 91 398 87 85

tsansegundo@der.uned.es

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