Introduction of CSAGA

Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender- Family- Women and Adolescents (CSAGA) is a non- profit, non- government organization working for rights and developments on women and children. CSAGA was founded on July, 1st 2001 under the registration No 101 DK/KHCNMT of Hanoi Department of Science, Technology and Environment.

CSAGA’s main concerns:

- Gender- based violence (mainly concentrate on domestic violence and trafficking in women and children)

- Physical and emotional punishment against children at home, at school and in community

- Chid labor

Approaching methodologies:

Acknowledging people from culture aspect is chosen as the basic to solve all social issues.

Culture- based approach and rights- based approach are our main approaching methodologies.

Vision:

By 2015, CSAGA will be recognized by its local and international partners as a leading organization in developing and transferring diversified and effective models in order to promote implementing rights of women and children that affected by stigma and violence in Vietnam through designing psychological influence processes, networking and resource mobilization.”

Mission:

CSAGA mission is to promote implementing the right of women and children that is affected by stigma and violence in Vietnam through creative approaches.”

Strategies:

- CSAGA strategy is developing and transferring successful models of promoting the implementation rights of women and children that is affected by stigma and violence

Value:

Values that CSAGA always wants to achieve are: Honest - Learning - Cooperation - Responsibility

Professionals:

Training:
CSAGA has many experiences in designing and organizing training courses in increasing capacities and changing awareness of such subjects as local authorities, unions, women and children who are affected or at high risk of becoming victims of domestic violence, trafficking in persons

Strengths in training:
- There is a clever application of theory to a 13- year experience in intervention and research in gender, preventing domestic violence, anti- corporal punishment against children and anti human trafficking.

- Professional aspect in training is shown from analyzing demands to designing and evaluating a training course.

- Art and creativeness- a new approaching methodology in Vietnam - contribute to increase strengths of discovery and corporation between trainees. This helps to change value, relationship and create the effectiness of work.

- Lessons are designed basing on experimental cycle, taking full advantages of trainees, creating a safely, cooperatively and essentially training environment which helps trainees to get all knowledge provided.

Main training fields include:
+ Gender
+ Preventing domestic violence
+ Preventing human trafficking
+ Children’s issues
+ Managing meetings and workshops
+ Training for trainers
+ Self- management and development skills
+ Training for psychological and emotional counselors
+ Designing and managing projects.

Counseling:
CSAGA has 13 years experiences in emotional and psychological counseling, in which many professionals are trained carefully by both internal and international experts. These professionals include knowledge and counseling skills in preventing gender- based violence, domestic violence and counseling for victims of human trafficking.

Forms of counseling: face to face counseling, counseling via telephone, private counseling, group and community counseling.

Normally, CSAGA does private counseling by seeing customers directly or via telephone. Counselors are officers of universities, colleges, or MA, BA graduated from psychological, sociology or medicine. Counselors have taken part in many specific training courses on counseling skills and increasing professional knowledge on preventing violence, trafficking in persons, and anti corporal punishment against children.

Besides, other forms of counseling such as group or community counseling also given basing on demands of local partners and communication purposes of organization.

Researching:
CSAGA concentrates on intervening researches, using culture and right- based approaches. Researches focus on domestic violence, gender equality, living value of young people, and reality of corporal punishment against children.

In the next time, CSAGA orients to carry out researches deeply concentrating on finding causes.

Communication:
CSAGA pays much attention to communicating to increase awareness and changing behaviors towards domestic violence, gender inequality and violence against children. Contents of communication are knowledge on increasing understandings and ways of preventing these issues mentioned above. These contents are shown in different forms such as reportages, seminars, newspapers, and other mass media: radio, television, internet, leaflets and automatic information lines. Besides, CSAGA also carries out many other broadcasting programs in community such as holding poem’s competitions, composing plays, performing plays, singing and dancing

Designing and managing programs:
CSAGA has been designing and managing many programs as:
+ Preventing corporal punishment against children;
+ Preventing domestic violence
+ Supporting victims of human trafficking
+ Increasing awareness on human trafficking
+ Increasing capacities of locally social organizations in preventing violence.

ORGANIZATION MECHANISM:

Chairwoman of Foundation Committee - hold Executive manager: Nguyen Van Anh: MA of Social Science and Humanity.

Deputy Director of promoting women's right section: Le Thi Hong Giang – MA of Social Science of Medicine.

Deputy Director of Fund raising and media section: Nguyen Thi Thu Thi – BA of Linguistic

Departments and sections:

- Manager of promoting women's rights Section: Le Thi Hong Giang – MA of Social Science of Medicine
- Manager of Children’s Section: Pham Thanh Giang: BA of Social Science and Humanity
- Manager of Accounting and Administration: Vu Thi Thu Trang: BA of Management
- Manager of Fund raising and media Section: Nguyen Thi Thu Thi: BA of Linguistic