Programa Nacional para Prevenir, Atender, Sancionar y Erradicar la Violencia contra las Mujeres

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Key Information

Programa Nacional para Prevenir, Atender, Sancionar y Erradicar la Violencia contra las Mujeres (PNPASEVM) or the National Program for the Prevention, Attention, Sanction and Eradication of Violence against Women, was designed to intervene in the main causes of gender based violence and seek strategies to reduce them to increase the wellbeing of all Mexican women and girls.Under the program's four primary objectives it is important to highlight the focus to "reduce violence against women through the implementation of preventive measures to address risk factors". Under this objective is Priority Strategy 1.2: "Promote actions in educational processes to contribute to eradicating acts of violence." This includes action points such as (among others): 1.2.1 Promote in the national educational policy the mainstreaming of gender perspectives, intersectionality, interculturality, and human rights of women to prevent, address and eradicate violence against girls, adolescents, young people, and women. 1.2.2 Incorporate gender, intersectional, intercultural perspectives, human rights, and a culture of peace in curricula at all levels, fostering equal relationships between women and men. 1.2.3 Ensure that the training of teaching staff, school management, school supervision, and other educational agents includes content on the causes and consequences of violence against girls, adolescents, young people, and women and their right to a life free of violence.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Mexico

Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean

Mexico

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2021 - 2024

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Government of Mexico, Gender Commission (Comisión Nacional para Prevenir y Erradicar la Violencia Contra las Mujeres)

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Other cultural practices
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • N/A

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • Brothers
  • Fathers
  • Other community members - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Curricula, teaching and learning materials are free of gender-bias and stereotypes
  • Education sector plans, budgets, policies, and data systems are more gender-equitable
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)