CAMEROON | AFRICA
Call Centers for Women in Distress
Type of Measure
Services > Social services > Hotline Helpline
Form of Violence
Violence against women and girls
Brief Description
10 reception centres for women in distress with call centres have been opened within the Centres for the Promotion of Women and the Family. The call centres are a model of the "ONE Stop Centre" and are part of the implementation of the national response to gender-based violence. The main objective of this system is to improve the management and prevention of GBV through the implementation of free 24-hour call centres for early warning, listening, dialogue, counseling, information and orientation of victims and survivors. The aim is to
- Providing survivors with a service for reporting and dealing with cases of violence quickly
- Providing an adequate response to survivors in need of listening, counselling, information and referral to appropriate services
- Provide interim counselling for survivors
- Providing survivors with a service for reporting and dealing with cases of violence quickly
- Providing an adequate response to survivors in need of listening, counselling, information and referral to appropriate services
- Provide interim counselling for survivors
Source of Information
Experiencing Violence?