Improve the services provided to women survivors of domestic violence in the Municipality of Gjirokastra
The project successfully strengthened the local reintegration ecosystem for women survivors of domestic violence in the Municipality of Gjirokastra. Its most important results included: the first comprehensive evidence-based needs assessment map of the social, economic, and rights-access barriers faced by survivors during reintegration; the establishment of a sustainable peer-to-peer counseling network, where former integrated survivors supported women still struggling with social and emotional disruption; and the empowerment of Municipal Social Services with the first tailored accountability improvement framework for domestic violence survivor support.
Additionally, the intervention produced and publicly published a policy-oriented report documenting real-life reintegration challenges and providing actionable recommendations for designing needs-based services, improving rights access, and strengthening institutional cooperation. As a direct outcome of the project, the Municipality continued to expand and operationalize the peer support groups, using the report as an official reference tool for improving survivor-centered local services and scaling community-driven accountability and inclusion mechanisms.