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Introduction
PAHO's Gender and Health Unit is coordinating the implementation of a participatory, community-based model for the prevention and care of intrafamily violence (IFV) in 70 municipalities across 10 Latin American countries. Two sub-regional projects are being implemented, one in the seven countries of Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) and another in the Andean region (Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador).
The model, financed by the Swedish and Norwegian governments in Central America, and by the government of the Netherlands in the Andean countries, involves the development of community networks for the provision of care and support to battered women and their families. The network in each municipality plans, implements and monitors its own community based efforts. The goal is to replicate the model at the national and regional levels, involving members from local networks and national organizations in emphasizing policy change and the institutionalization of the model.
This document has two objectives: presentation of the framework and methodology for the construction of a model of integrated and comprehensive care of intra-family violence; and the translation of this framework into a concrete social response, with emphasis given to the pivotal role of the health sector in identifying and addressing the concerns of women affected by intra-family violence.
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