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VOT Country Programs: Global Initiative
Capacity Building for Foreign Treatment Centers
Implementing Partners: Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
Funding Period: September 2000 - June 2004
Amount: $2,061,000
Purpose: Strengthen the capacity of 15 treatment centers located in Africa, Asia, the Near East, Latin
America, and Eastern Europe. Enhance their organizational and financial sustainability, clinical
capacity and services, and advocacy campaigns.
Objectives:
- Assess the needs of participating treatment centers.
- Provide technical assistance to participating treatment centers
on topics relevant to their needs, such as clinical advances and issues, fundraising,
organizational development, and advocacy programming.
- Strengthen networks and capacities of treatment centers through
periodic regional workshops.
- Support treatment centers through operational and technology grants.
- Build and maintain a Web site to facilitate communication
among participating organizations, CVT, and experts in the field.
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The Center for Victims of Torture works locally, nationally, and internationally to heal the
wounds of torture. Founded in 1985, CVT provides care and rehabilitative services to survivors
of government-sponsored or politically motivated torture and members of their families. Care is
provided on an outpatient basis and is tailored to meet each clients needs. This frequently
includes medical treatment, psychotherapy, support in the political asylum process, assistance in
finding a safe and stable place to live, and basic living necessities.
CVT is using VOT funding to help provide practical, hands-on counseling supervision and
ongoing, culturally appropriate training programs for refugee mental health paraprofessionals in
Guinea and Sierra Leone. Through the International Capacity-Building Project, CVT is providing
training and technical assistance to 15 treatment centers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South
Africa, Uganda, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, West Bank/Gaza, Peru,
Guatemala, Romania, and Bulgaria. Under an extension of its existing cooperative agreement,
CVT will add three new overseas treatment centers to the project this year.
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