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On 30 March 2023, the Community Care and Development Center and its Essential Services Program for Women, Girls, and Adolescent Victims-Survivors of Violence was launched at the premises of the former Magaly Ruiz health center in La Chorrera.
Essential services are a set of quality basic services provided in an articulated manner by public institutions in the health, social, police and judicial sectors to protect the rights, safety and well-being of any woman, girl or adolescent who experiences domestic violence. gender.
These services are provided under the principles of inter-institutional coordination and articulation and are offered comprehensively in the same place, day, and time, facilitating the referral, counter-referral, accompaniment and monitoring of victims-survivors of gender-based violence.
This project is led by the Community Development Directorate and the Gender Office of the Municipality of La Chorrera, with the participation of the Ministry of Women, the Ministry of Health, the Secretariat of Children, Adolescence and Family, the Public Ministr and the National Police.
On the other hand, the Community Care and Development Center of the Municipality of La Chorrera has the purpose of consolidating spaces for the integration and articulation of initiatives, programs, projects and services aimed at caring for the population in conditions of social vulnerabilit, as well as the development of communities in the Municipality of La Chorrera, with broad social and multisectoral participation. This Center is member of the IntegrHa-bitat network, which is a global network of centers that promote the social integration of refugees and migrants with host communities; IntegrHa-bitat was born out of the Inclusive Cities project,
The event was attended by the mayor of the Municipality of La Chorrera, Tomás Velásquez; the governor of the province of Panama Oeste, Sindy Smith; the minister of women, Juana Herrera; the minister of social development, María Inés Castillo; and the resident coordinator of the United Nations system in Panama, Ana Patricia Graça. Personnel from different United Nations agencies, the community care and development center and municipal personnel also participated.
