1. Global health challenges
BVA GE2-v6
"MiMi” Violence Prevention with Migrants for Migrants – Capacity Building for refugee women and girls in Germany
Global health challenges – Creating peace, wellbeing and prosperity by improving Health Literacy and Capacity building
Ramazan Salman - Ethno-Medical Center Germany Prof. Dr. Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
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2. MiMi Violence prevention Main objectives Work packages and measures
AGENDA
Background and issues
MiMi Violence prevention
Main objectives
Work packages and measures
Preliminary results
Lessons learned

3. “Health in all policies”
Violence Prevention for Refugee Woman as Global Health Chalenge
Source: IOM 2015

4. The problem is evident
refugee women are experiencing diverse forms of (psychological, physical and sexual) violence in their home countries, during flight and in the host countries.
there are victims of violence by males (relatives and/or other refugees) in war zones and – referring to our findings – also by staff in refugee shelters 

5. Ressource for Future
Migrants, specially woman embody a great potential for change and productivity.
They do not accept stagnation and they are ready for calculated risks.
By their belonging to their home countries and the European World the migrants can develop a capacity for cultural diversity as an essential pre-requisite for long-term success in a globalizing world.

6. We have an idea to make this resource blossom…
Research …
Campaignes …
Capacity Building…
Empowering…
Building Networks…
Create/ Implement Services

7. Family and Community Life Participation Active Citizenship
Supporting Integration Processes…
Labour and Training
Family and Community Life
Participation Active Citizenship
Health
Education

8. MiMi Key Technology for Social Integration
Intersectoral co-ordination charges the mediator system (and vice-versa)
Statutory Health Service
Information events for migrants and ethnic minorities
Health guides
15 Languages
Local, regional and national level
Capacity Building
Barriers
Informations,
Empowerment,
Health Literacy
Public social and integration Services and integrations officers
Transcultural mediator system; Executive Education
Companies, CSR, Stakeholder (political, economical, civil society)
Data,
Compliance,
Integration
NGO´s Universities Associations

9. The Intercultural Project: Elements
Doctors, experts, health care services
Element 4
Public realtions and networking
Element 1
Element 2
Element 3
Training of mediators
Information events
Guidebooks - Handouts - Slide kit - CD
Advisory board and networking
Migrants, communities, organisations
Element 5
Evaluation

10. MiMi Sustainability 2400 Mediators trained
BVA GE2-v6
2400 Mediators trained
Über Partipants Information events
indirectly reached (Family members, Materials)

11. MiMi for all communities!
Campaigns in mosques, (christian) community centers, synagogues, associations, schools, chancelery ...

12. 1. Background and Issues 1. Background and Issues
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a big challenge for populations which are affected by armed conflicts and an increasingly important field of action in view of recent migration flows.
Violence against female refugees is likely to become more frequent with the increasing influx of refugees to GER and EU
Lack of supportive, cultural sensitive measures to inform and empower refugee women
Lack of cooperative networks between refugee women and the support system

13. lack of knowledge about women’s and children’s rights,
1. Background and Issues
1. Background and Issues
Few affected refugee women make use of existing support structures due to:
lack of knowledge about women’s and children’s rights,
lack of information on existing services,
insufficient language skills.

14. 2. MiMi-Violence Prevention
1. Background and Issues
Start: Regions of Intervention: 11 Federal States
Coordination HUBS:
Berlin
Dresden
Gütersloh
Hamburg
Hannover
Mannheim
Marburg
München
Stuttgart
Hamburg 
Berlin
Hannover  
Gütersloh  
Dresden
Marburg 
Mannheim 
Stuttgart 
Munich 

15. 3. Main Objectives Capacity building for refugee women
Develop cultural appropriate primary and secondary prevention offers/information
Involve professional staff
Improve access to support services
By…

16. 4 . Work packages and measures
1. Background and Issues
II. Information sessions
Information sessions for female and male refugees on violence prevention
Trainings
III. Guide books
V. Dissemination and PR activities, networking
Mediator trainings for females and males
Trainings for professionals and multipliers
Multilingual information brochure for potentially affected
Guide book for mediators/multipliers/ professionals on intercultural violence prevention
Focus groups and questionnaires involving mediators, participants in information sessions and professionals
IV. External Evaluation

17. 5. Preliminary results 1. Background and Issues
12 mediator trainings in 10 German federal states (+ 2018: 10)
255 mediators trained
663 information sessions with 7,408 (+ 2018: 800 / ) participants (settings: refugee shelters etc.)
20 information sessions for 254 male refugees (+ 2018: 200 / 2.000)
15 trainings for professionals with 528 participants (+ 2018: 15 / 500)
1 mediator training for male refugees with 18 participants ( / 120)
110,000 multilingual information brochures for refugees printed
3,300 guidebooks for experts printed
2 conferences with around 800 participants

18. 6 . Lessons learned
The „MiMi“ key technology is very effective in empowering refugee women
Refugee women show great interest in becoming highly motivated actors in the field of GBV prevention
It is important and has proven to be very successful to built networks with the support facilities
It has been shown that it is crucial and at the same time highly promising to include male refugees in preventive measures

19. “Providing migrant women and ethnic minorities with the tools to
6 . Lessons learned
“Providing migrant women and ethnic minorities with the tools to
understand their medical and psychological needs is essential to
helping them achieve the highest state of well-being.”

20. Here we are!

21. MiMi reaches migrants from all cultures!
Ethno-Medizinisches Zentrum e.V. • R. Salman • • 0511/

22. Thanks! Mille Grazie! Vielen Dank! Teşekkürler! Merci! Obrigado!
Questions
Mille Grazie!
Vielen Dank!
Teşekkürler!
Merci!
Obrigado!
Please approach me to talk more!
Thanks!
Ramazan Salman (Executive Managing Director)
Ethno-Medizinisches Zentrum e.V. HANNOVER
Ethno-Medical Center BERLIN
Königstr. 6 / Hannover / Germany