CENTRO DE ORIENTACIÓN E INVESTIGACIÓN INTEGRAL (COIN)

The prime recipient for this grant is the Centro de Orientación e Investigación Integral (COIN).

The Integral Orientation and Research Center (COIN) is a social interest institution in the Dominican Republic, created on November 28, 1988 by a multidisciplinary team of people with shared experience in community and health work. COIN obtained the benefit of legal incorporation through Decree No. 63-89 issued by the Executive Power on February 20, 1989.

COIN was born as a result of the emergence of the HIV / AIDS epidemic, human trafficking and smuggling in the Dominican Republic. Since then, the COIN has focused its efforts on implementing educational programs for prevention and health care, addressing discrimination social conditions to which groups in social conditions of vulnerability are subjected, as a way to implement strategies of innovative approaches, effective with these groups, and in turn contribute to their empowerment. COIN promotes the integration of the community in the processes of identifying their needs and problems, and with them, work policies and their execution, are defined.

Since its inception, COIN has advocated for a regional strategy to represent and serve vulnerable populations in the Caribbean. Originally motivated by the mobility of sex workers and their clients, this COIN initiative has expanded over the years, addressing the problem of discrimination and vulnerability by a growing number of marginalized groups in the region.

Currently, COIN collaborates with allies and partners throughout the Caribbean, conducting research and implementing projects targeting sex workers, men who have sex with men, youth in difficult situations, substance users, former prisoners, victims of trafficking and smuggling, and the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.

A member of the of Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, and a partner in multiple regional networks, COIN works closely with international institutions, national organizations, local groups, and members of the populations themselves. To date, COIN has collaborated with trainings, regional conferences, campaigns, and projects in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Guyana, among other nations.

Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia Inc is an advocacy organisation in Saint Lucia, started in 2012, registered as a non profit in 2017. We advocate and provide quality, compassionate and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in women and children experiencing gender-based violence and lead the struggle to end this gender based violence through advocacy and community education and awareness.
Through a 20,000 USD grant, Raise Your Voice will consult with service providers to update protocols and processes guide, and train social services personnel, to ensure uniformity across social services agencies and NGO’s that provide support services to gender-based violence victims.

Founded in 2007, Fondation TOYA is a non-profit organization that aims to promote human rights through the fight for gender equality in Haiti. Its mission is to strengthen the capacities and leadership of women and girls through sexual and reproductive health services including the prevention of teenage pregnancies; psychosocial support for women victims of violence and advocacy against social discrimination and risks likely to hamper the development and fulfillment of women and girls. To achieve this, TOYA has set up 26 clubs in three departments (West, South and South-East); a Youth Library providing access to books and technology to young people (mixed) and a leadership development space for young women. These structures constitute the channels through which TOYA contributes to the construction of a new generation of young leaders committed to the transformation of the Haitian social environment.

ORG Bahamas is a nongovernmental organization in The Bahamas which focuses on accountable governance, economic development, and education reform through ORG Education. ORG Education promotes the social development of education stakeholders with programs focused on the agency and empowerment of youth, community and education professionals.
Through a 20,000 USD grant, “Me, You, Us Youth Saloon” will recruit 20 youth from diverse backgrounds to work collaboratively in teams of five (5) to generate four interventions to change attitudes that conduce to GBV in their communities.

Through a 20,000 USD grant, National Organization of Women of Barbados, with their project “Operation Safe Space”, will strengthen civil society organizations (CSOs) and family lawyers’ ability to work more effectively with victims of GBV and increase their knowledge on GBV legislation, specifically CAP 130A.

The Núcleo de Apoyo a la Mujer, NAM, was founded in 1987 and its mission is to contribute together with other social actors to confront violence against women, girls, boys and adolescents through intersectoral coordination, education, research, advocacy for human rights, communication and the offer of comprehensive care services.
NAM implements this project in a consortium with 4 other organizations:
Cactus is a non- profit organization whose objective is to contribute to the training, education and guidance of families in the Great Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Cactus prioritizes the work with girls and women in a situation of vulnerability and violation of their fundamental rights, fighting for an environment that is free from all forms of violence.
CIPAF is a feminist non-governmental organization (NGO), a pioneer of the rights of women and girls since 1980 in the Dominican Republic, Central America and the Caribbean. It has assumed as a historical mission to support the development of the women's movement, stimulating actions that support its constitution as a social subject, cultivating the capacity for proposal and management, incorporating the importance of women in actions to achieve full equality of women and men, social justice, and promoting women as fundamental for the alternatives of Development and Democracy.
Legal Services Center for Women (CENSEL) is a non-profit NGO, whose general objective is to contribute to the eradication of all forms of social, legal, economic and political discrimination against women and their families, facilitating access to socio-legal training and the defense of Rights. Human Women.
Through an 80,000 USD grant, their project “Impulso de Paz” will be implemented in the Dominican Republic. It will train 80 GBV service providers to strengthen the services they provide, build the capacity of community leaders to be agents of change and will reach over 600 women, men and youth in the communities, schools and universities to change attitudes conducive to GBV and promote a new masculinity.

CARE SVG has been in operation officially since 2008 and continues to fight for sexual reproductive health and rights for all. CARE prides itself in exclusivity and confidentiality.Its programme is Client-Centred using a holistic approach and has included men who have sex with men and females who exchange sex.CARE provides psychosocial support, outreach, advocacy, self development, adherence counselling and distribution of food packages to the client. Through a 20,000 USD grant, Care St Vincent will focus on changing attitudes conducive to GBV through workshops with 400 adolescents and also with 120 adults, as well as a media campaign across several social media platforms and on radio and TV. They will also implement a helpline to provide information to people living with HIV that are suffering from GBV.

IHO is a registered Nonprofit Company under the Antigua & Barbuda’s Companies Act. Its mission is to promote and facilitate community, ecological and social-emotional well-being through programs, education, consultancy, research, and community capacity building for improved individual, social and ecological health.
Under the Caribbean United Against GBV their project focuses on changing attitudes conducive to GBV and will train 50 men and boys, addressing socio-cultural attitudes that lead to GBV, teach social-emotional skills, and 50 girls and women to promote their empowerment, leadership, and provide social-emotional learning. Also, it has a youth mobilization component in which the youth that were trained will sensitive communities against GBV.

The Garden of Rebirth is located in St. Kitts and Nevis. In 2015, it was registered as a non-governmental organization (NGO) and founded by Mrs. Etsu Bradshaw-Caines. It is a women’s empowerment center, which assists women and their children who are sufferers of
gender-based violence, to reach their full potential in a safe, nurturing, and empowering environment. The center is dedicated to advocating for all victims and related issues around gender-based violence.
GofRb will provide Trainings in psychological first aid (PFA) and GBV for 50 males and 50 females as well as sign agreements with government agencies and train 100 CSOs and government agency personnel to increase their capacity to provide GBV services.

TransWave is a non-governmental organization working to advance the health, welfare, and well-being of the transgender community in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Founded in 2015, it started as an advocacy initiative in the form of a blog.
Their initiative under the Caribbean United against GBV Project focuses on improving available data on individual local community GBV prevention and survivor services and on trans people’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices in Jamaica. With the results of the research, they will work on sensitizing the communities and local stakeholders, and service providers regarding GBV and transgender people.

Jamaica AIDS Support for Life was first established in 1991 as Jamaica AIDS Support (JAS), and was the first NGO specifically responding to HIV. JASL aims to be a world class leader creating and utilising best practices in the delivery of services to persons living with and affected by HIV and AIDS in Jamaica and participating in the fight against the spread of HIV and AIDS in Jamaica in an enabling environment.
Their project aims to reduce socio-cultural attitudes that lead to GBV by providing: GBV sensitization and Empowerment Sessions with 45 girls & women, Gender Sensitive Sensitization to 45 youth & men. Out of these, the 15 most outstanding men who show potential for being community influencers to reduce GBV will be taken through a more detailed training and certified as GBV Reduction Influencers. The project also works to Strengthen civil society organizations (CSOs) and local governments’ abilities to improve access to GBV survivor services by Training 10 CSO Representatives, 5 Managers of Domestic Violence Intervention Centers and 10 healthcare workers.

Grenada Planned Parenthood Association (GPPA) aims are to provide the population with the knowledge and the means to choose whether, when, and how many children to have. To improve the health and well-being of men, women & children.
and, to work towards a balance between human numbers, human needs and Grenada’s natural resources.
The AGenTAR project (A Gender Transformative Approach) seeks to engage men and boys in comprehensive sexuality education to change GBV social norms as well as create a protocol and Training service providers and lay volunteers in the use of the GBV protocol for mobile and remote service delivery.

Santa Rosa Firsts Peoples Communities in Trinidad and Tobago is the only organized area of Amerindian Survival in Trinidad and Tobago. They were formally recognized as representative of the Indigenous Amerindians of the twin-island state by the National Government in 1980, although they have existed since the early Spanish period.
Through their project "Unmasking Myths" they will Strengthen civil society organizations (CSOs) and local government's abilities to improve access to GBV survivor services, to achieve this, they will train 45 people to reduce socio-cultural attitudes that lead to GBV by providing intervention activities aimed at, women, man and or youth, through the radio and also in person, and using Innovative methods of training to reach 180 men through activities like sports and recreational activities.