HIRA
Despite the existence of a legal and institutional arsenal to repress and protect adolescent girls, gender-based violence remains high in Senegal, posing a major challenge for public authorities in meeting their national and international commitments, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals, which call for no one to be left behind. At the same time, recent studies show that adolescent victims of gender-based violence face multiple challenges, including a significant deficit in the enjoyment of the right to health. Solutions have been proposed and implemented, in particular to care for these victims, but so far these have shown their limitations.
Under the responsibility of LASPAD at the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, the HIRA project aims to produce an integrated alternative model for housing, providing services and empowering adolescent victims of sexual violence and multiple exclusions, through a multi-actor platform that includes young people. This model, which integrates the interactions between gender-based violence and the health rights of adolescent girls, is being developed and tested with the Kullimaaroo shelter in Ziguinchor. The HIRA project aims to empower adolescent girls by giving them access to information and services, mentoring and coaching to help them improve their health. The institutions and players involved in this process are provided with new knowledge and a reference model enabling them to respond more adequately to the needs of adolescent girls. More broadly, HIRA aims to encourage the collective and constructive development of a Senegalese model for caring for girls and women who are victims of sexual violence.
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