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Artistic expression and theater in particular can be used to address specific social issues. The Indian NGO Mittika has developed a singular training that will serve to question police officers in the state of Bihar about the dynamics of violence and systems of domination, and, beyond that, about gender stereotypes. FID’s funding will enable the project team to evaluate the gender-sensitization training program by conducting surveys with police officers and victims and study the changes in prevailing social norms induced by the program with regard to gender-based violence.
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The eastern Indian state of Bihar has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the country, and policy measures to address this reality are very limited. As a result, women’s level of trust in institutions is very low: cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) are rarely registered with the competent services, perpetrators go unpunished, and situations persist.
In an attempt to curb the growing curve of gender-based violence, the training developed by Mittika aims to sensitize police officers on this type of violence through techniques that combine expressive arts and theater combined with knowledge from behavioral science.
The program includes approximately 35 hours of training. Sessions are conducted with groups of up to 25-30 officers. Each session is led by two expert-facilitators in teaching expressive arts.
Through FID’s funding, DAI Research & Advisory Services, in partnership with the state of Bihar, will conduct a randomized control trial in 387 police stations and 12 districts. The evaluation will assess the impact of the training on police performance, mindset of officers, and measure how these changes may improve women’s experience with institutions
Surveys to be conducted with police officers, victims and women will measure attitudinal changes in terms of soft skills (empathy, change in norms, quality of interaction between women and officers), technical knowledge of laws and procedures, and legal performance generated by the training provided on gender-based violence. The project will evaluate the impact of the intervention on the following outcomes.
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