The DoNNE Project

The project adopts an ecological approach, which does not intervene only on the person who suffers or commits acts of violence, but it involves the entire institutional and socio-cultural system in which violence is exercised or legitimized. The project’s main components include: a) capacity building of local health, social and educational services also in terms of strengthening the identification, support and care programmes and b) strengthening prevention and protection through awareness-raising, trainings, individual and community empowerment.

The earthquake has had a profound impact on the family structure and on the traditional division of man-woman roles. This has negatively affected the balance within the couple / family already aggravated by the temporary housing situation in which many people still live. The loss of the traditional role (work, autonomy, social position) especially for men has often resulted in the need to reassert this role also through forms of abuse and violence against women. The crisis of traditional roles has therefore generated, in many cases, interpersonal tensions, manifestations of abuse and / or pathological dependence, behavioral control disorders, increased couple separations, manifestations of verbal and non-verbal violence.