A holistic approach to tackling VAWG requires a long term coordinated action at all levels and across all sectors to achieve and sustain results. The various actors involved in addressing VAWG represent a chain whose actions are more likely to be efficient if they are coordinated. For this reason, cooperation mechanisms set up among them is helpful to optimise the intervention of each of these actors, facilitate the prevention of violence and protection for women at risk of violence. Different changes, be they legal, institutional or changes of social norms, behaviours, and practices, take different time to be achieved. Involvement of women´s rights organisations in such cooperation also helps the States to be more efficient in their responses.
In the index countries, existent mechanisms imply a series of actions and measures that form a system of cooperation among different actors. In Algeria there are cooperation mechanisms for referring VAWG cases and an institutional information system on violence against women is established. In Egypt, cooperation between police, hospitals and ministries on the referral level is established. In Jordan, there is cooperation for receiving complaints, between Family Protection Department, ministers and CSOs shelters.
In Lebanon, in 2013, a service order has been issued by the government about the different measures that have to be taken by different actors dealing with women at risk of violence.
In Morocco, the government established a protocol for the cooperation mechanisms between police, shelters, hospitals, courts/ judiciaries, ministries, and civil society on exchange of information on cases of violence.
In Palestine, a referral level is established between police and hospitals. The police also has a specialized department in charge of responding to domestic violence cases and ensuring coordination between different institutions.
In Tunisia, multi-sectorial protocols have been signed for protecting women victims of VAWG among relevant ministries
