United actions against child sexual abuse and exploitation.
A community site to showcase EU-funded projects and other initiatives countering CSAE, raising awareness among professionals, policymakers, governments and citizens.
On 24th July 2020, the European Commission adopted a strategy for a More Effective Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse. The document outlines a broad range of efforts to counter the growing threat of CSA and exploitation in our online and offline communities.
Following the strategy, the EU funded multiple actions to help fight Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE). However, information and outputs are scattered and hard to find for policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders. To help with this challenge, a community of projects has launched this website to capture the most relevant content from across EU-funded projects – compiling them in one place and supplementing them with appropriate resources from other vital initiatives throughout Europe and worldwide.
The primary goal is to help simplify the broad landscape connected with CSAE actions, complementing the EU’s strategy. Like the strategy, the website focuses on three key pillars: prevention, detection & investigation and support to victims and survivors.
Sparks in the Dark combines key reports, news, findings and campaigns from projects in one place to help raise awareness about the critical points needing to be addressed.
The ARICA project kicked off the initiative and set the foundations of this website. Still, the ultimate goal is to include all EU-funded initiatives (ISF and Horizon Europe, Direct Grants, etc.) and build a strong community dedicated to countering CSAE. Currently, the site is administered by PPHS.
Of course, thousands of private and charitable organisations are implementing fantastic work globally. Realistically, having all actions highlighted in one space would be too demanding and cluttered. However, we must acknowledge the tremendous efforts and contributions of the leading initiatives worldwide. Therefore, the Sparks in the Dark community tries to signpost pivotal actions and highlight key outputs, events and milestones in the CSAE space.
The website gathers and presents the most relevant information about CSAE in one place, filtering it and highlighting the most important points in a user-friendly manner. The aim is to present the content in an understandable and simplistic way. Even without a deep knowledge of the subject, the audience should be able to extract vital points.
If you are interested in joining the Sparks Community, please visit this page.
Another goal is to showcase different initiatives (non-EU projects) fighting CSAE. Those actions can highlight their work in easily consumable, bite-sized summaries specifically for policymakers and politicians. Additionally, the social media profiles are meant to be used to make contact with different actions to further disseminate their efforts.
Get in touch with us at projekty@ppbw.pl
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