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Elimination of violence against women through research and education

The project was funded by USAID under the PROWID program through the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the Center for Development of Population Activities (CEDPA)

The project was implemented in 1998 and beginning 1999 by the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation in cooperation with Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights (MAHR) and the Bulgarian NGO Gender Project for Bulgaria Foundation (GPF).
This was the first project involving research in the field of violence against women.

The main results of the project were:

• raising the awareness about violence against women and gender discrimination in Bulgarian society;
• creating the basis for pro-active research with the purpose of legislative changes;
• establishing the basis of gender education in Bulgarian schools;
• establishing of partnerships between Bulgarian and American NGOs.

As a result of the implementation of the project a publication on the legal aspects of domestic violence and on the gender education programme was produced in Bulgarian and in English by the BGRF.
The project contributed to a great extent to the future successful projects and programmes of the BGRF.

01 January 1999