SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

PROJECTS: PREVENTION

SUMMIT AND AWARDS

28 – 30 MARCH 2011
KOPANONG HOTEL, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH
AFRICA
“365 DAYS OF LOCAL ACTION TO END GENDER
VIOLENCE: HALVE GENDER VIOLENCE BY 2015”

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 HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING
THIS PROBLEM?
Women Against Rape
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• Working with abused women and children

since 1993:counseling, shelter, legal advice
• Lack of social and legal support to rape
victims
• Mandate revised to address all forms of
violence
• Baseline study in Maun August 2010

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 IS THIS ISSUE IMPORTANT?
• VAW mitigates against women’s full
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

participation and integration in the

development process of the country
• VAW is a violation of Human Rights
• VAW affects the health of women: HIV and
AIDS teenage pregnancy, disability,etc.

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 HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUT ADDRESSING
THI S PROBLEM?
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

Transforming gender relations through positive,

benefits-based programming
• Power within (start)
• Power over (awareness)
• Power with (support)
• Power to (action)
First Stop Members, Community Activists,
School clubs
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 WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THE
PROJECT?
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• Raising Voices: April 2010-December 2013

• The approach will be continued into the
future through community ownership –
striving to halve gender violence by 2015

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 WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO IS
INVOLVED? ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY
INVOLVED?
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• Key target: the community- Maun and

Ngamiland; men and women
• Stakeholders- police, hospitals,
courts

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 PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THE
PROJECT
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• Partnership with Raising Voices: April 2010-

December 2013
• Government stakeholders – police, hospital,
social services, public prosecution, ward
leaders, Women’s Affairs Dept
• Other NGOs – Emang Basadi, Women’s
shelter, Genderlinks Gaborone
• Men – Men in Action, Men Sector, Sunday
Soccer clubs

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 WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• Mapping the community to identify assets

• Baseline surveys of the Maun community
• Localised case management
• Case reporting to WAR: 713 counselling sessions in 2009 vs 804 in 2010

• Partnership with the community and

increased visibility

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 IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOL
TARGETS)
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• Article 20-25: Gender Based Violence and

Article 27: HIV and AIDS
• Review the laws and lobby the Government
to amend laws e.g.Domestic Violence Act
2008, Children’s Act 2009
• Creation of public awareness on the social
ills of power imbalance between men and
women

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 EFFECTIVENESS
• Based on inclusiveness of men and women
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• Community participation and ownership

• Introspection on self and how we use power
within us in relation to others
• Rights based approach

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 SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION
• Adequate written material on the
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

programs:
– The SASA! Toolkit
– The Life skills Training Manual
– The First Stop Members Booklet
– The How to form GLOW clubs Booklets
and wall poster
– Stories of courage from survivors
SASA! Can be replicated in any community
setting
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 LESSONS LEARNED
PROJECTS: PREVENTION

• The involvement of men and women as

Community Activists and First Stop
Members in our community
• Socialisation of children, school programs
• Prevention of violence on women calls for
social behaviour change and this has to
come from the people; the community

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PROJECTS: PREVENTION

THANK YOU……

ANY QUESTIONS?

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