Five priorities for the year 2022:

1. Large-scale and long-term transnational actions to tackle gender-based violence, in particular  domestic violence, harmful practices, violence and harassment in the world of work and overcoming gender stereotypes;
2. Combating and preventing violence linked to harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and forced sterilisation, early and forced marriage and other harmful practices against women and girls;
3. Primary prevention of gender-based violence, in particular changing social norms and behaviour, in order to end tolerance of all forms of gender-based violence;
4. Supporting and improving national data collection on violence against children,
5. Strengthening responses that prevent and support child victims of violence by reinforcing child protection systems at national and local level.

This call for proposal is intended to support the following EU policy strategies:

• EU gender equality strategy;
• EU strategy on the rights of the child;
• EU strategy on victims’ rights.