Project ‘Justa’: Planning and Paying for Local Action Plans to Address GBV
Background
Project ‘Justa’ has taken a holistic approach to creating transformative community change in Villa El Salvador, a historically disadvantaged neighborhood in Lima, Peru. This includes a participatory process to develop and budget for a Local Action Plan to prevent gender-based violence (GBV), along with empowering a network of women leaders, providing psycho-social support and mutual aid, ongoing outreach to the general public and working with the private sector and arts organizations to design public spaces for non-violence.
The project has had influence beyond Villa El Salvador. It inspired ‘No Estás Sola’, the most successful awareness-raising campaign on ending GBV in Peru, which reached an estimated audience of 11 million people. Other districts in Peru have also replicated the ‘Justa’ model, because of the project’s combination of strong partnerships with public and private sectors and its rigorous evidence on the benefits of a participatory local plan on mental health, economic empowerment, and GBV prevention. This started with Cajabamba in the last quarter of 2021 and the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations has also adopted the model.
Knowledge Products and Videos:
- Knowledge Product: Addressing GBV in Villa El Salvador via the district instancia
- Knowledge Product: Local governance to address GBV through community action
- Knowledge Product: The Cost of No Prevention: Analysis and recommendations
- Video: Justa Experience in Villa El Salvador
- Video: The Cost of Not Preventing
- Video: Summons to non violence
- Video: Empowered women Villa El Salvador