Building a team to stop gender-based violence in Sport

Elda Moreno

Head of Children’s Rights and Sport

Values Department

#EldaMorenoCoE

04/03/2017

what?

how? with whom?

Standard Setting

Monitoring

Assistance

Ministerial Conferences

Joint projects

Promote CoE values through Sport

Defend CoE in Sport

Develop cooperation and dialogue

States (37 members)

Sports Mouvement

Other Council of Europe actors

Other international organisations

Gender-based violence is everywhere. Sports is no exception

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Fighting gender-based violence:

a strong framework!

Prevention Protection Prosecution Participation/cooperation

Ministers of Sport Resolution on the prevention of sexual harassment and abuse of women, young people and children in sport, 2000

Committee of Ministers Recommendation on gender mainstreaming in sport, 2015.

Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy 2014-2017

BALANCE IN SPORT 2016: Joint project Council of Europe-EU • Aim: Identifying, testing and implementing generally agreed

gender equality indicators in sport

• Result: • Indicators in 5 strategic areas : leadership, coaching,

participation, gender-based violence and the media coverage of women and men practising sport

• 4 Pilot countries for the data collection campaign on the indicators: Finland, France, Romania, Spain

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE INDICATORS

• Existence of policies and / or programmes that prevent and combat gender-based violence in sport implemented by the organisation (and brief description where appropriate)

• Tools and concrete measures implemented / available in

this area (and brief description of the most important one) (where appropriate)

Challenge: How to collect quantitative data on gender-based violence and know prevalence and incidence in sport?

• Next Steps on gender equality: • Strengthen partnerships with sports

organisations and public authorities,

• Extend the data collection by completing the basic set of indicators with data from external sources,

• Carry out a feasibility study on the development of a self-assessment tool,

• Continue to collect more good practices from sports organisations and update the handbook,

• Organise seminars to train the gender equality officers from Ministries and sport organisations

• Launch “BIS+” project in 2018

• Project to prevent and respond to sexual violence against children in sport

Sexual violence against children in sport • Lack of data, but has serious impact,

is widespread and underreported,

• Need to strengthen the normative, policy and institutional frameworks to ensure • Prevention • Protection • Prosecution • Participation/cooperation

• Important to look at specificities in the field of sports , raise awareness and build capacity

Balance in Sport – Follow -up

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Objective Raise awareness, provide technical assistance and support capacity building, so that stakeholders can better recognise, prevent and respond to sexual violence against children in sport.

Activities • Take stock and inventory normative

and policy frameworks , initiatives and tools

• Develop and share resources to empower stakeholders, children and their carers

• Organise awareness raising activities and training courses

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Target Groups • Public authorities

• Sports organisations • Children and their carers

Outputs • Guidelines, strategies,

training modules, collection of good practices, experts networks and tools

• On-line resource center

Let’s team up!

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More info:

www.coe.int/epas

@EPAS_APES

@EldaMorenoCoE

THSNKS THANKS !!!