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Women's Support Center — Armenia's Only National Shelter Network for Domestic-Violence Survivors

Armenia · Yerevan · See the Armenia profile · See the Yerevan profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 26% 85/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Founded in 2010, Armenia's Women's Support Center is the country's only organisation running full-time shelters for domestic-violence survivors, growing from about 50 beneficiaries a year to over 1,000, twice funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.

829
Women and children directly served (to Dec 2022)
+50%
Rise in hotline calls during COVID-19 lockdown
Women's Support Center — Armenia's Only National Shelter Network for Domestic-Violence Survivors

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Women's Support Center (WSC)
Period
2010–present
Keywords
gender-based violence, shelter services, legal aid, social services

Context

The Women's Support Center (WSC) in Yerevan is Armenia's only specialised organisation running full-time shelters for domestic-violence survivors, coordinating with ten regional support centres that lack shelters or in-house lawyers of their own.

Results

As of December 2022, WSC had directly served 829 women and children, with 176 in its 24-person-capacity safe houses. Under a UN Trust Fund-supported project from April 2021, it reached close to 800 women and girls including 450 internally displaced people, and recorded a 50% rise in hotline calls during COVID-19 lockdown.

Conclusions

WSC remains the country's only full-shelter provider — a single-point-of-failure risk for a country of Armenia's size; the underlying UN Women evaluation report was not accessible for independent methodological review.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
case managers, psychosocial and legal counsellors, safe-house staff

Conditions for success

  • coordination with ten regional support centres lacking shelters of their own
  • repeat UN Trust Fund grant support

Common failure modes

  • single national provider of full shelter services is a concentration risk

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