CIMC RECOGNIZED AS FOUNDER OF FSVAC

Governor for Central Province Rufina Peter has acknowledged the Consultative Implementation and Monitoring Council (CIMC) for the establishment of Family Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC) and the tremendous work on the national response towards ending violence against women since 2000.

Before delivering her official speech at the parliament session Governor Peter briefly mentioned the important role that CIMC has played through the Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC) when the desk was established in 2000 under the previous Government.

“I would like to acknowledge CIMC in championing FSVAC in the early 2000, and with the establishment of GBV strategy which paved way for the establishment of the Parliamentary Committee and so here we are, raising women issues and GBV at the floor of Parliament,” she said.

Governor Peter also commended the Marape Rosso Government for the continuous support toward addressing gender-based violence issues in the country.

“FSVAC was established in 2000 as one of the eleven (11) sectorial committees of the CIMC taking its cue from the CIMC’s mandate and working towards reducing the occurrence and suffering caused by physical, sexual and psychological violence between family members, and towards increasing access to support services and justice for survivors.

First strategy called Family and Sexual Violence in PNG was funded by the British High Commission in 2001 led by CIMC Sectoral Committee on Family Violence, chaired by Priscilla Kare of the Young Woman’s Christian Association.

From 2013 to 2016 the committee took on a more prominent role in the space of GBV providing technical support and strategic direction through its four key focus areas around protection of survivors, advocacy for increased actions to end violence and service provision for survivors of violence.

In 2016 the government endorsed the national GBV strategy 2016 – 2025, a document that CIMC has helped put together through its wider network with assistance from development partners and which now through review process informs the GBV Strategy 2025 – 2030,” CIMC stated.