Promoting Equality, Putting An End to GBV in the Belizean Military
In 2019, Our Circle was approved funding from Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition to create an enabling environment for change in the Belize Defence Force by addressing gender and diversity issues. This project aims to assist the Belize Defence Force in conducting a review of welfare policies which already exist not only from a gender equality perspective, but also a sexual orientation and gender identity approach. Beyond doing the review, the women of the Belize Defence Force will be educated and supported to create a Human Rights Training with particular focus on inequalities which exist within the Belize Defence Force.
This Training will be used to identify a cohort of peer educators in order to be able to educate the lower echelon. Strengthen the capacity of the leadership and systems of the Belize Defence Force to foster and contribute to the development of a safe, empowered and responsive environment within the Force for gender based issues thereby addressing a major human rights infringement within the Belize Defence Force.
With the execution of this project, the Belize Defence Force will then be equipped with the guidance and the data to revise and evolve its stagnant policies in regards to gender inclusion and diversity, allowing the Force to be more progressive as it prepares for a new generation of women in the Belize Defence Force.
This Training will be used to identify a cohort of peer educators in order to be able to educate the lower echelon. Strengthen the capacity of the leadership and systems of the Belize Defence Force to foster and contribute to the development of a safe, empowered and responsive environment within the Force for gender based issues thereby addressing a major human rights infringement within the Belize Defence Force.
With the execution of this project, the Belize Defence Force will then be equipped with the guidance and the data to revise and evolve its stagnant policies in regards to gender inclusion and diversity, allowing the Force to be more progressive as it prepares for a new generation of women in the Belize Defence Force.