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Sexual harassment creates a hostile work environment for individuals and groups of employees who are the targets of harassment, and often, for those who choose to report harassment. Workers affected by it feel insecure about their work; they are more frequently absent and may even be unable to work, with consequent impacts on productivity and corporate and public costs.

As violence and harassment in the workplace deprives people of their dignity and represent a threat to equal opportunities and to safe, healthy and productive working environments, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has recently created the Violence and Harassment Convention 2019, which recognizes the right of everyone to a world free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence and harassment.

SET THE TONE project aims to impact employers and employees’ mind-set and daily behaviours practiced at the workplace towards gender stereotypes, sexual harassment, including cyber-harassment, through their active engagement as positive key players in preventing and reporting sexual harassment cases. The project activities aim to target both possible victims and perpetrators at workplace making them aware about the impact of their actions as well as the rights to be defended.

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Objectives

Understand workers knowledge and perception of gender-based violence

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Collecting information directly from the enterprises through a survey to assess their level of knowledge about different kind of GBV and the specific needs of the enterprises.

Encourage exchange of experiences and competences among enterprises

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Organising peer reviews with the support of regional and local authorities as well as trade unions and employers.

Train managers to counter prejudices and norms that condone sexual harassment

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Empowering managers by training to counter prejudices and norms that encourage or condone sexual harassment.

Empower workers at making them aware of sexual harassment

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Empowering by training employees to counter prejudices and norms that encourage or condone sexual harassment.

Facilitate the recognition of symbolic violence at workplace

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Developing a Charter of Engagement for enterprises with the support of Trade Union, to define protocols and to test new methods and tools.

Engage private sector, trade unions and public authorities

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Evaluating the impact by realising logbooks for each worker describing their experience in terms of attitudes and behaviours changed or not changed.

Raise awareness to tackle prejudices and gender stereotypes

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Developing a dissemination kit and awareness campaign to sensitise employers, employees as well as the general public.
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TARGET GROUPS

The project actions involve employers and employees with a specific role in assuring health and safety at workplace and other employees, both men and women, potential victims and perpetrators; among the employees, particular attention will be paid to newly hired and those in internship who are supposed to be more vulnerable.

PARTNERSHIP

Set The Tone project partners are part of the social economy ecosystem in Europe: consortia and federations of social economy enterprises, training, advisory and support organisations for the social economy, social business and social innovation.

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Diesis Network – Belgium
Diesis network supports the development of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social innovation in Europe through the implementation of knowledge-based activities, such as training, project design, consultancy and advisory services, technical assistance and research.
Contact: vesa.latifi@diesis.coop
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Forma.Azione – Italy
FORMA.Azione is a VET and AL Centre accredited to the Region of Umbria. It is involved as scientific supervisor of the training contents and the implementation of the pilot training with the enterprises. As FORMA.Azione specific competence is in the Training Cycle it operates in different economic and professional sectors, by cooperating with experts and practitioners on the fields.
Contact: liuti@azione.com
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Consorzio Meuccio Ruini (CMR) – Italy
CMR is a consortium with a cooperative structure, operating since 2009 in the sphere of the General Association of the Italian Cooperatives.
Contact: consorziomeuccioruini@agci.it
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Confederación Española de Cooperativas de Trabajo Asociado (COCETA) – Spain
COCETA is the organisation which represents worker cooperatives in the Spanish State. It works for emphasizing the figure of the cooperative worker for over 30 years. In 1997, COCETA created “a department of women” to promote the development of public policies for women. Contact: info@coceta.coop
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Foundation for Improvement of Employment Possibilities (PRIZMA) – Slovenia
Through innovative approaches, PRIZMA creates development opportunities for companies and organisations, discovers and upgrades employment and career potentials of individuals and contributes to the sustainable development of society.
Contact: m.karnicnik@fundacija-prizma.si
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Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) – Poland
The IPA is a leading Polish think-tank and an independent centre for policy research and analysis informing public debate on key Polish, European and global policy issues such as social policy, social dialogue & industrial relations, gender equality, climate change, civil society, migration and development policy. It analyses, promotes and mainstreams gender equality issues in Polish public sphere.
Contact: malgorzata.kopka@isp.org.pl
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