Interviewing SGBV Survivors

Aiming to qualify potential facilitators to deal with violated Syrian Refugees through workshops arranged by ACCTS in Madaba.

9 June 2016

Madaba, Jordan (ACCTS-AWT) – ACCTS has coordinated a three-day training for 20 representative heads of associations and social events. The training is a part of a nine-month program designed for the purpose of qualifying potential facilitators to deal with violated Syrian refugees through workshops.

Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) was the topic presented and conducted by the Jordan River Foundation, and entitled “Interviewing SGBV Survivors.” The training took place during the period 7 June to 9 June, 2016 in Madaba, the second to be held for the same group there.

The training was practical where the participants could engage in some learning activities. The training was augmented with lively counseling practice interviews where equipped facilitators had the chance to live the role of giving basic one-to-one counseling to hypothetical cases of Syrian violated women.

The Program aims to assess core issues, empower, raise awareness, and provide support. Main discussions focused on how to deal with Syrian violated women: what to say and what not. Besides knowing their basic rights, and understanding that there isn’t any excuse for violence.

Topics such as The Art of Communication and SGBV were addressed through the workshops. Other organizations were involved in the program along with ACCTS and covering five governorates.

Cases are transferred, classified and directed

to specialists to provide therapy

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ACCTS Program for refugees is designed to provide and ensure assistance to refugee families in areas, such as distribution of food and non-food items, medical assistance, and psychosocial workshops. To know more about our humanitarian work with Syrian refugees who live outside the formal camps in the northern cities and villages of Jordan, and which has been going on since 2012, go through the above links.