Social services in response to intimate partner violence : a case study of Yangon, Myanmar | |
| Author | Khet Khet Shein |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GD-12-08 |
| Subject(s) | Women--Violence against--Myanmar--Yangon Social services--Myanmar--Yangon |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. GD-12-08 |
| Abstract | Social services provided for the Intimate Partner Violence victims are insufficient in Myanmar. Moreover, there was no research for the assessment of these existing services. This research tries to explore the service availability for the IPV victims, the victims‟ access to these services and the effectiveness of these existing services targeting the Northern District of Yangon as a study area. The constraints in providing services by the service providers and the barriers of the victims to access these existing services were also identified in this study.Qualitative research type was chosen for this research. As primary data, key-informant interview with ten service providers and in-depth interview with twenty intimate partner violence victims were conducted in this study. Secondary data were also collected from related government andnon-government organizations. Observation was also added in the interviews with respondents. Qualitative data analysis was used based on the both of primary and secondary data.IPV victims approached different service providers for their different needs. The main service providing organization which solves IPV case is MWAF. This study mainly focuses on the MWAF services as the victims were selected from MWAF‟s list. The other service providers were also conducted for this study because most of the victims approached more than one service agencies or organizations. Community committees, the police, lawyers and medical doctors were also the related service providers of IPV cases. Victims went to MWAF as MWAF mostly solved for IPV cases with free of charges. They went to community committees because community committees are the nearest authorized organizations in their community. They requested help from police tostop their partners‟ violence. They approached lawyers when their cases needed to be solved legally. They went to medical doctors when they got physical injury from their partners‟ violence. Service providers could not provide their services effectively because there is no special service for IPV victims. They have no knowledge for providing service for IPV case and there is a lack of coordination with among service providers. IPV victimsfaced with constraints in the approach to service providers. In MWAF, they were not provided equal and effective services. In community committees, their cases were not settled down and they referred to other service providers. In approaching the lawyers, the hiring cost was high and the lawyers could not consider the case socially. When they went to medical doctors, the victims were provided only partial treatment and doctors usually neglected to solve of IPV cases. The main constraints in access of social services were the lack of domestic Violence Law in the Myanmar, lack of special service for IPV victims such as shelter, medical care and legal advice, the lack of coordination among service providers, insufficient funding of GOs and NGOs in Myanmar and insufficient information to access the existing services for the victims. These requirements are set as the recommendations of this study for the victims‟ better access to social services and the effectiveness of the social services. |
| Year | 2012 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GD-12-08 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Gender and Development Studies (GD) |
| Chairperson(s) | Doneys, Philippe; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Kusakabe, Kyoko;Soparth Pongquan; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency (TICA); |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2012 |