On the past April 5th, the Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization, Mariana Vieira da Silva, presided over the signing of two protocols about the new generation for the territorialization of the national support network for victims of domestic violence. This moment took place at the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission, in Faro.
These protocols involve seventeen municipalities and more than seventy partner entities from different government areas: citizenship and equality, education, employment, security forces, justice, social reintegration, health and social security. In this way, the whole algarvian territory will have specialized responses to victims of violence against women and domestic violence.
This new generation of territorialisation protocols is part of the national strategy for equality and non-discrimination and arrives in the Algarve with the creation of three support offices for victims, resulting from this commitment and whose coordinating NGOs are APAV (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima) and TAIPA (Organização Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento Integrado), and involve an investment of 268 thousand euros, guaranteed by the Government and municipalities.
The Algarve Municipalities involved are Albufeira, Alcoutim, Aljezur, Castro Marim, Faro, Lagoa, Lagos, Loulé, Monchique, Olhão, Portimão, São Brás de Alportel, Silves, Tavira, Vila do Bispo and Vila Real Santo António and, in Alentejo, the municipality of Odemira.
