Policy

Crime Prevention and Improvement of Confidence in Law Enforcement: School Based Interventions in Gua

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project focuses on crime prevention linking communities and government institutions through school-based...

Improving Victim Assistance for Extortion Cases

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project seeks to improve services for extortion victims in Guatemala City. This project is focused on caring for...

Prevention of Violence through Inclusive and Participatory Methodologies

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project seeks to implement a citizen security program with a community approach in urban areas of the Department...

A Gender-Based Approach to Justice: Training Judges in El Salvador

E EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following the recommendation of the Law for a Life Free of Violence and Discrimination among Women (LEIV in Spanish),...

Civic Technology for Citizen Security: EspantaCacos in the Northern Triangle

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Improving the quality of crime data is a top security priority for the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador, and...

Primary Prevention: School Interventions in Comayagua, Honduras

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project seeks to increase knowledge and skills related to violence prevention among youth ages 13-18 in the...

Crime Prevention in Tegucigalpa: Hotspots Interventions in Schools

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project will intervene in educational centers located in the most dangerous neighborhoods of Tegucigalpa to...

Reducing Prison Overcrowding: Interventions with Public Defenders

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project will equip public defenders with the tools necessary to increase conditional releases ordered by judges...

Increasing Access to Justice for Vulnerable Groups: an Intervention with Judicial Facilitators in Ho

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vulnerable groups usually lack information and knowledge of laws and fundamental rights, which creates barriers to...

Violence Against Women: A Citizen Security Problem

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Although El Salvador has made progress in passing legislation that protects women's rights and seeks to prevent...

Coexistence in Schools: Towards a Peace Culture

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project seeks to develop and implement primary prevention programs in four schools in the Central District of...