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FEM-UnitED, a research project that aims to prevent Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Domestic Violence (DV) related femicide by focusing on a community-based response, held its stakeholder meeting on Monday 21 June 2021 and welcomed local stakeholders, who included attendees from fields such as law, public health and social services, to further discuss the aims, outcomes and activities of the project.The University of Malta, through its Department of Gender and Sexualities organised the meeting together with the Women's Rights Foundation as the other local partner. Dr Marceline Naudi is the UM academic responsible for this project.Dr Naudi explained that FEM-UnitED started off by developing research tools to gather data on femicide, which will be used to develop evidence-based policy and practice.“We are ultimately hoping to strengthen the capacity of police, prosecutors, social workers, health professionals, NGOs, victim support services and the general public on how to prevent femicide”.In doing so, the research tools and data can act as a framework for EU countries within the context of dealing with DV/IPV and improving immediate responses to ensure early intervention and prevention of femicide.The discussion largely focused on how institutions can improve in the handling of DV/IPV cases, as well as how the project can address needs that are specific to Malta’s situation of femicide. The conversation offered various perspectives rooted in the response to DV/IPV, creating a clearer picture that will allow researchers to accurately identify where institutions and policy intersect with the issue of femicide. The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (Cyprus), the Cyprus University of Technology, the Institute for Empirical Sociological Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Bavaria, Germany), the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and the University of Porto (Portugal) are the international partners of the project.
