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Country: Mexico
Organization: Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean (CATWLAC)
Sector Focus - Civil society
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2006
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Project URL: http://www.catwlac.org
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - To maker young men aware of their role in the promotion of slavery for commercial sexual exploitation and that they too could be part of the solution.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - The CATWLAC is the firs one that has made visible the demand in Latin America and the Caribbean with solid proposals for a solution, It doesn’t work only in slavery issues but also to foster a better climate between men and women, diminishing the violence and discrimination levels among towards women.
It is an educational project targeting young men and other male groups, to visualize the prostitution demand and consume, embedded in strategies of non-formal education. It was designed for young men from high school to university, and other groups such as taxi drivers who take men looking for paid sex to places with prostitutes (whorehouses, and street prostitutes), and other groups such as policemen, soldiers, etc. Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - The goal is to educate for a responsible and informed exercise of male sexuality. The workshops are carried during school and after school hours, in public and private schools. They were design from a gender and human rights perspective. They explain how traditional masculinity is build and takes on the inequities, violence, power exercise, male initiation rituals, how male sexuality is built, new forms of masculinity and the sexuality arrived at by consensus, fostering equality, mutual respect and democracy values
The methodology includes games, role playing and popular education techniques. They last 12 to 16 hours. They include a manual and a movie: ”My first time”, and 3 multimedia games. How do you plan to grow your innovation? - We plan to organize a regional training for Latin America and the Caribbean, directed to our 25 national networks, to give them the supplies and know how necessary so that they can replicate the initiative in their countries, since it is a model tested and successful.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - We have established alliances with different organizations and institutions at national and international level, through approaching and convincing the leaders on the importance of these courses: - An organization specialized in masculinity: the Group Trodos with them we designed the manuals.
- Union Associations for cabdrivers. - Directors and teachers from 1500 educational institutions (schools, universities). - National Institute of Women in Mexico, who co financed the project. - Coalition Asia Pacific, who initiated this experience in camps with youths. - Foundation OAK (Swiss), - Fokus Teleton of Norway - Woman strong of Norway (organization grouping all the organizations of women of Norway). - Office of the secretary of Public Security of the Government of the Federal District. Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - 5,000 youths from educational institutions and cabdrivers were trained, they took conscience, they compromised and they began to replicate what they learned in their communities.
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - - Number of workshops
- Number of participants - Index of desertion - Database where the efficacy efficiency, quality indices are obtained . - We use pre questionnaires and post courses through which we evaluate: - Attitude Questions to measure if we managed or not to impact in a change of attitude. - Evaluation of the facilitator’s performance, - The content, printed and audiovisual materials, - The place, hourly, assembly, etc. - Number of Signed Commitment Letters. - Formation of a yahoo group for to medium and long term follow up, through the exchange experiences, ideas and doubts.
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation? - 25 million people.
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - We get funding from sponsors such as the OAK Foundation (Swiss) FoKus Teleton from Norway and Women’s Front from Norway, the National Institute of Women in Mexico City and other estates of the country.
If known, provide information on your finances and organization - Annual budget;
Annual revenue generated; Number of staff: Annual Budget: US$300,000 Dlls. Staff: For the initiative: 4 people part time. What is the potential demand for your innovation? - 5 million young men from Latin America through our 25 national networks.
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - the sustainability will be achieved once the project is included in the official educational system. This way the project would be self-sustaining.
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - In 1996 I was sellected as Ashoka Fellow because I was the first woman lawyer to defend women's reproductive and sexual rights in Mexican court. I have designed a community-based program to increase respect for women's rights beyond current legal remedies.
I´ve developed a mechanism to address the gap between the provisions of the law and the practical experience of women by creating an ombudsmanlike-role called "popular women defenders." The defenders integrate community-based crisis services with legal information and problem-solving skills. Since 2004 I am the Regional Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls for Latin America and the Caribbean (CATWLAC). Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material - I am a Lawyer and an educator and I have worked with aboriginal women, from a urban and popular movement, union workers, peasants, etc. I am a specialist in violence and gender discrimination and I have published many papers, researches and studies. I have worked in more than 30,000 rapes of girls and women cases in the Migration Courts of the United States for political asylum and domestic violence, and one case before the Federal Courts of the State of New York in a case of girls kidnapping. I have defended and feed 150 who were wrongly put in jail. In 2005 I was a Peace Nobel Prize Candidate. I am the mother of a 17 years old girls who is my main reason to live and fight for women rights.
Contact Information:
Teresa Ulloa
Regional Director Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean (CATWLAC) (NGO) Discussions about this entry |
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On July 16, 2008, the judges reviewed the entries for the Changemakers “Ending Global Slavery” Competition and would like to pass on the following feedback for your entry. Thank you for applying and for your hard work in the field. We are excited to archive your entry to serve as a leading solution for the worldwide community of innovators who are exposing, confronting and ending modern day slavery. We wish you continued luck with your sustainable, innovative, and socially impactful initiatives.
All the best, The Changemakers Team
“This idea is excellent in that it works on the “supply side” to change attitudes by educating young men and particularly targeting cabdrivers. Considering that the initiative has started small, what are the plans to grow and share the successful model?”
- Changemakers “Ending Global Slavery” Judges: United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking, International Organization for Migration, Design Within Reach, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Humanity United.
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The Changemakers Team
Ashoka's Changemakers
Gracias, por pensar en la mujeres y por marcar la diferencia. Gracias y suerte estoy segura de que tu inciativa será una de las ganadoras, de frente y adelante. Saludos.......................
Maestra Tere,
Sólo una persona como usted que ha dedicado su vida a luchar por los derechos humanos de las niñas y las mujeres y contra la trata y la explotación sexual, puede haber concebido un proyecto que realmente logren cambios en la lucha contra la violencia y la discriminación.
Nos sentimos orgullosas de trabajar con usted en México y que nos brinde la oportunidad de sumarnos a su lucha.
Sabemos que tiene que ganar, porque trabajar con los jóvenes a través de la educación puede lograr cambios sustanciales en la vida de las mujeres y las niñas de nuestra Latinoamérica.
Le deseamos mucha suerte y que gane, aunque sabemos que con premio o sin premio usted seguirá trabajando incansablemente, a pesar de estar constantemente en peligro, usted y su familia.
Con nuestra profunda admiración y respeto,
María, María Elena, Malena, Ana, Lulú, Griselda, Grace, Natalia, María Guadalupe, Marilú y Humberto.
Muchas gracias Rosy, ojalá tengas voz de profeta, necesitamos mucho el premio para apoyar a unas víctimas, pero además para lograr un cambio en nuestra América Latina, invirtiendo en los jóvenes para erradicar la trata y la prostitución.
Una vez más gracias por tus comentarios.
La Tere
Querida Teresa;
Mucha suerte, deseo realmente lo ganes por que lo mereces y estamos seguras cuanto servirá para la lucha que sigues...!!!SIGUE ADELANTE!!
En sororidad
Katya Zamalloa
PPD Flora Tristán Cusco
Voten por Coalicion y arriba Mexico. Suerte Tere y Grace
Adelante, juventud valioso e inigualable regalo pasajero de la vida, en tiempo, la edad es continua.
Salud
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La suma de la unidad nos dará mayores y mejores logros
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La suma de la unidad nos dará mayores y mejores logros
Espero que sea reconocido tu trabajo ante un tema tan complejo, y también ante la resistencia de muchas personas a reconocer este problema. Tu proyecto no sólo habla sino lleva a cabo acciones que permitan construir una nueva vida una nueva humanidad.
Tere espero que tengas los apoyos sufientes para dar continuidad a este proyecto. Un abrazo,
Querida Gloria,
Ojalá nos ayudes con tus redes y contactos, la verdad necesitamos el premio para una víctima.
Tere:
Una excelente iniciativa! Suerte con tu proyecto
Ojalá hayas podido votar, sino, avísame. Tenemos pendiente la Reforma a Ley. A ver si la podemos sacar antes de que termines tu período.
Un abrazo sororal,
La Tere
TERE, Felicidades. es un excelente proyecto!
Pablo Romo
Ojala y podamos contar con tu voto y con el voto de todos tus contactos. Un abrazo sororal,
Un muy buen proyecto
Espero que hayas votado y si no, que nos apoyes con tu voto. Sororalmente,
La Tere
Dear Teresa:
How do you know that the students and taxi drivers (5,000) you've trained are actually applying what they learned in the trainings (talleres)? Besides the pre and post training questionnaires have you done any follow-ups with participants a while after they received it? If so, how long afterwards?
You mention that one of the targets of your work is the dismantling of "the culture of machismo." I'm curious, do you address in your training the possible role that women might play in perpetuating such attitudes, and if so what approach do you use as to not undermine the need for a change in such attitudes ?
By the way, your project is a much needed exercise of empowerment for women and social awareness in Latin America. Thank you. Best of luck and success.
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Aniuska M. Luna
Nova Southeastern University
University Ambassador
Dear Aniuska,
Regarding your first question, we have a yahoo group for those trained and we keep in touch with them, at least every month, we have good and bad experiences exchanges, discussion groups and we organized an annual meeting for follow-up activities.
About the second question, we stress a lot what is the roll received at home and why mothers and female peers replicate the same cultural model for educating and relating with men, as a product of a social system called patriarchy and the need to establish a new way of being man, but also woman and how to interact together as partners and not reproducing gender stereotypes.
This is a very cleaver question, because in all the workshops the boys always point they want to be different but they feel a lot of presure to behave as traditionally their eldest brothers and parents have behave as their reference. Therefore we included a chapter in the Manual devotede to alternative ways of masculinity.
I appreciate a lot your comments and good wishes.
In Sisterhood,
La Tere