Action Plan for the Istanbul Convention for 2022–2025

Abstract

The Committee for Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (NAPE) is tasked with preparing a plan for implementing the Istanbul Convention (Finnish Treaty Series 53/2015). The purpose of the Action Plan for 2022–2025 is to promote the national implementation of the Istanbul Convention ratified by Finland in 2015. This Action Plan is the second of its kind. The first Action Plan covered the years 2018–2021.

The preparatory work for the Action Plan took into account the ongoing government-level work closely related to the subject, such as the National Action Plan for the Lanzarote Convention (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health) and the Action Plan for Combating Violence Against Women (Ministry of Justice) and other measures for preventing violence that are based on the Government Programme.

The Action Plan includes long-term objectives and a total of 36 measures to be implemented in 2022–2025. The objectives are largely based on the recommendations issued by GREVIO. The three main objectives aim at strengthening the gender perspective and intersectionality in the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, reinforcing intersectoral and multiprofessional cooperation and improving both the identification of violence against women and domestic violence and intervention in them.

The Committee for combating violence against women and domestic violence monitors the implementation of the Action Plan regularly by means of a separate implementation and monitoring tool. If necessary, the measures of the Action Plan can be specified and complemented.