General BSACC-ME project information

Last updated: 2024-08-14 18:02

Project name

Belgian Sexual Assault Care Centres: Monitoring and Evaluation

Project abbreviation

BSACC-ME

Project code

HDBP0242

Primary organization that oversees implementation of project

Institute for the equality of women and men

Partner organization participating in project

National Institute of Criminology and Criminalistics

Organization that commissioned this project

Not available

Organization providing monetary or material support

Institute for the equality of women and men

Brief project description

Belgian Sexual Assault Care Centers (SACCs) have been established at the end of 2017 in three Belgian hospitals (UMC Brussels, UZ Gent, CHU Liège). SACCs offer holistic care to victims of sexual violence, including medical and psychological care, a forensic examination and the possibility to report to the police at the SACC.

The main objectives of the BSACC-M&E project are :

to facilitate the epidemiological follow-up of sexual violence by monitoring the profile of victims of sexual violence and the characteristics of the sexual violence
to ensure good quality of care to victims by monitoring the effects of sexual violence on the physical, sexual and reproductive and mental health of the victims, and the care/treatment provided at the SACC and in other hospital services linked to the SACC.

Regulatory framework of this project

Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, 2011, ratified by Belgium in 2016

Conventions between the Institute and hospitals (for 2022):
- Overeenkomst met Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen met betrekking tot het Zorgcentrum na Seksueel Geweld te Antwerpen (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-04)
- Convention de subvention avec le CHU Saint-Pierre concernant le Centre de Prise encharge des Violences Sexuelles à Bruxelles (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-01)
- Convention avec le CHU Charleroi concernant le Centre de Prise en charge des Violences Sexuelles à Charleroi (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-06)
- Overeenkomst met UZ Leuven met betrekking tot het Zorgcentrum na Seksueel Geweld te Leuven (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-05)
- Convention de subvention avec le CHU Liège concernant le Centre de Prise en charge des Violences Sexuelles à Liège (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-03)
- Overeenkomst met Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg A.V. met betrekking tot het Zorgcentrum na Seksueel Geweld te Limburg (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-08)
- Convention de subvention avec Vivalia–Cliniques du Sud Luxembourg concernant le Centre de Prise en charge des Violences Sexuelles à Arlon (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-09)
- Convention de subvention avec CHRSM-Site Meuse concernant le Centre de Prise en charge des Violences Sexuelles à Namur (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-10)
- Overeenkomst met UZ Gent met betrekking tot het Zorgcentrum na Seksueel Geweldte Oost-Vlaanderen (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-02)
- Overeenkomst met AZ Delta VZW met betrekking tot het Zorgcentrum na Seksueel Geweld te West-Vlaanderen (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-07).
With ICRH: Addendum bij de overeenkomst met nummer S/Cabbis/LS/MW/21-01 met betrekking tot de ondersteuning van het Instituut voor de gelijkheid van vrouwen en mannen in de opvolging van de Belgische Zorgcentra na Seksueel Geweld (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/LS/MW/21-02)
With NICC: Convention pluriannuelle établie dans le cadre du rapportage et de l’analyse des données enregistrées en lien avec l’activité des Centres de Prise en charge des Violences Sexuelles (Institute’s reference: S/Cabbis/MW/22-29)
A law about the SACCs is currently under preparation to be presented in 2023. There are also two circulars COL that will be ready in 2022.