The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, traveled today to the city of Dodro to preside, together with the mayor Xabier Castro, the constitution of the Interinstitutional Coordination Table against Gender Violence in the municipality.
The deputy delegate and the mayor wanted to reinforce Dodro’s commitment in the fight against gender violence, pointing out that with the incorporation into the VioGén system the now with the constitution of this coordination table “Dodro makes use of all the tools that the Government makes available to act gender violence.”
There are 42 tables constituted in the province with the incorporation of today, but they add up to a total of 52 municipalities, since 3 have a supramunicipal character.
Throughout this year there are already 5 new tables constituted: Narón, Cedeira, Mancomunidad de Ordes, Pontedeume and Dodro; shows the commitment of the Government to the fight against gender violence and, also, shows the institutional collaboration in a subject as sensitive as this.
The deputy delegate recalled that, to date, there are 2,667 active cases in the VioGén system in the province of A Coruña, women who need and have some kind of protection from the Security Forces and Corps.
According to the data, “we have to continue working from all the institutions to offer the victims and their families all the available resources”, in this sense he recalled the importance of the municipalities, as is the case of Dodro, being part of the VioGén system, stressing that “the proximity of the local police is a great attribute in the joint work of protection of the victims”.
For this reason, he encouraged all municipalities that have local police to join the VioGén System, and recalled that there are already 28 municipalities that are part of this system of protection for victims of gender violence.
In her speech, María Rivas pointed out the good harmony between the two administrations, describing as essential institutional collaboration to work for a more aware, more egalitarian society and free of male violence. “From the Government we have a commitment to the victims: to continue working tirelessly to protect them; and for that we need to work together and in coordination: to prevent and detect cases, and of course to provide support and combat them”
The subdelegate highlighted the activities carried out under the State Pact against Gender Violence, as another example of the collaboration between the Government of Spain and the municipalities so that since 2018 Dodro received 17,663.17 euros, for training, awareness and prevention actions that are carried out locally and that are very necessary to advance social awareness.
The city of Dodro also currently has the Travelling Suitcase against Gender Violence (MAVI), to reinforce the activities carried out around November 25 .
Constitutive session
Dodro’s coordination table is made up of representatives from all the municipal areas involved in the fight against gender violence. This first meeting also included the participation of the Director General of the Xunta de Galicia, Roberto Barba, in the fight against gender violence.
In view of the next calls for proposals, it is made up of the Councillor for Works and Culture, the Councillor for Social Services and Equality, the dynamizer and the psychologist of the CIM of Padrón, the director of the CPI Eusebio Lorenzo Valeirón, the director of the Rural Center Grouped of Dodro-Padrón, the director of the Day Center, representatives of the political formations that make up the municipal plenary, representatives of the Andean Association and of Amipa-Association of people with disabilities, the associations of mothers and the country of violence, the women’s association.