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: Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean (Barbados)
: 2012 - 2013 , Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean (Barbados) (MCO)
: Longtitudinal Evaluation of Grenada Man to Man Batterer Intervention Programme
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Recommendation: 1. Recommendation - Generally, the curriculum seems to be too heavily focused on knowledge, at the expense of skills. A balance should be sought. Review and revise the curriculum based on the session reviews provided in the report. Most importantly, a. Modify the process for facilitating the Personal Development Plan to make it more central and systematic. As it is, it appears to be an unrelated add-on to the end of each session. It could also become a routine discussion point in the weekly Recap. Consideration should also be given to sharing the Personal Development Plan with the Court upon programme completion, as an indicator of progress as well as future intention. b. Strengthen the skills development aspects of the Anger Management and Conflict Resolution sessions, as well as the Relapse Prevention session, offering and practicing multiple strategies and techniques. Skill development should be revisited throughout the Programme. c. Pay special attention to the sessions for which the expected outcomes were not fully achieved, and make curricular improvements in the sessions that addressed these areas. d. Consider streamlining some of the knowledge-based sessions to make time for the additional skills development activities.
Management Response: UN Women Response Working with the team of regional experts and a consultant UN Women MCO will revise the PfP curriculum in light of the above recommendations and will summarise the recommendations coming from the Evaluation and ensure these are made available to future users of the tools;
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Working with the team of regional experts and a consultant UN Women MCO will revise the PfP curriculum in light of the above recommendations and will summarise the recommendations coming from the Evaluation and ensure these are made available to future users of the tools; Christine Arab UN Women MCO Representative 2014/12 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: 2. Recommendation - Given the central role that alcohol seems to play in these abusive relationships, consider an adjunctive programme to deal specifically with substance abuse.
Management Response: UN Women Response:This is beyond the remit of UN Women?s programme of work in the Caribbean but it was discussed with the implementing partners in the Region ? all of whom deal with aspects of alcoholism ? and noted as a concern.
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None Christine Arab UNWOMEN MCO 2014/12 No Longer Applicable
Recommendation: 3. Recommendation - Identify or develop an appropriate evaluation tool to provide a specific measure of the knowledge and skills expected to be learned by the participants.
Management Response: UN Women Response: UN Women is supporting the development of an evaluation tool, which will be part of the revised curriculum and will be shared with all previous and current implementing partners for use.
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UN Women Response: UN Women is supporting the development of an evaluation tool, which will be part of the revised curriculum and will be shared with all previous and current implementing partners for use. Christine Arab UN Women Caribbean MCO REpresentative 2014/12 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: 4. Recommendation - Consider developing a long-term follow up with participants to assess behavioral change. Some of the expected behavioral change might take more than 16 weeks to develop, particularly if the environmental/contextual conditions remain the same.
Management Response: UN Women Response: This is beyond UN Women?s remit of work but is the responsibility of the government bodies implementing the Court-mandated project. Please note that in 2010-2012, UN Women piloted an ?after support? programmes for the perpatrators who have undergone the behavioural change programme, and there was very poor success rate with this after-support work. The vast majority of men did not attend the after-support sessions, despite having previously committeed to do so. This may be due to the fact that it was no longer part of their court-mandated bail and reparations for the crimes committed. With this experience in sight, and being mindful of UN Women?s comparative advantage in supporting long-term psychological support, there are limits the extent to which this recommendation can be supported in six countries. However, this finding was shared with the government bodies now implementing the Partnership for Peace/Man to Man work. Any governments undertaking to use the tools in the future will be informed of this recommendation.
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Inform Governments adopting PfP tool of recommendations Christine Arab Representative UN Women MCO Caribbean 2017/12 No Longer Applicable
Recommendation: 5. Recommendation - Consider strategies for involving the women who were abused in the use of the project tools, where appropriate. Alternatively, consider developing a voluntary ?parallel? programme or service for the victims.
Management Response: Within UN Women MCO?s four year strategic plan a specific behavior and prevention support tools will be developed and piloted.
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Within UN Women MCO?s four year strategic plan a specific behavior and prevention support tools will be developed and piloted. Christine Arab Representative UN Women MCO Caribbean 2015/07 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: 6. Recommendation - Continue to explore possibilities for an aftercare support system for programme graduates. Several suggested approaches were offered, ranging from community service to individual sponsors.
Management Response: UN Women Response This is beyond UN Women?s remit of work but is the responsibility of the government bodies implementing the Court-mandated project. Please note that in 2010-2012, UN Women piloted an ?after support? programmes for the perpatrators who have undergone the behavioural change programme, and there was very poor success rate with this after-support work. The vast majority of men did not attend the after-support sessions, despite having previously committeed to do so. This may be due to the fact that it was no longer part of their court-mandated bail and reparations for the crimes committed. With this experience in sight, and being mindful of UN Women?s comparative advantage in supporting long-term psychological support, there are limits the extent to which this recommendation can be supported in six countries. However, this finding was shared with the government bodies now implementing the Partnership for Peace/Man to Man work. Any governments undertaking to use the Partnership for Peace tools in the future will be informed of this recommendation.
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Inform governments implementing PfP tool of recommendation Christine Arab Representative UN Women MCO Caribbean 2017/12 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: 7. Recommendation - Provide more regular updates to the Court. Review the current update format and schedule, and revise as needed.
Management Response: Update format to be reviewed at the same time as the curriculum review. However implementation of this will rest with implementing partners and will not be monitored by UN Women as it is no longer the direct financial or technical supporter of governments in this process. As mentioned above, UN Women will seek to ensure all tools are made available to future users; and will continue to convene the Regional Group of Implementing Partners and Experts for sharing of knowledge and experiences, but UN Women will no longer be supporting the implementation of these tools at the national level.
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Update format to be reviewed at the same time as the curriculum review. Christine Arab. Representative UN Women MCO Caribbean 2014/12 Overdue-Initiated
Recommendation: 8. Recommendation - Provide programme information to the Grenada Ministry for Social Development and/or other agencies that might also be providing social services to the programme participants or their families. The information should be programmatic and not person-specific.
Management Response: UN Women Response This action rests with the implementing partners, as since 2012, UN Women is no longer directly responsible for LACC?s continued work under ?Man to Man?. However, the UN Women Representative has briefed the Minister responsible for social development, along with the Permanent Secretary and head of the Gender Bureau on the ?Man to Man? project.
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none Christine Arab. Representative UN Women Caribbean MCO 2014/12 No Longer Applicable