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SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL
GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE
SUMMIT AND AWARDS
28 30 MARCH 2011KOPANONG HOTEL, JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
365 DAYS OF LOCAL ACTION TO END GENDERVIOLENCE: HALVE GENDER VIOLENCE BY 2015
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
PROJECT
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HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYINGTHIS PROBLEM?
This problem was identified due to the high
number of cases reported in the area, that is
the Kabwe Municipality by the local
community leadership, ZNWL , YoungWomen Christian Association (YWCA) and
womens organisation.
PROJECTS
:WOMEN
EMPO
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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IS THIS ISSUE IMPORTANT?
This issue is important as violence infringes
humans rights to participate in leadership,
entrepreneurship and contribute positively
to development. As a result the majority ofwomen shun away from leadership positions
and active community participation like
Resident Development Committees (RDC)PROJECTS
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EMPO
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUTADDRESSING THI S PROBLEM?
We organize women to participation in womens
activities like the Womens Day, 16 Days of
Activism against Gender Violence, keep ZambiaClean Campaign, heroes Day (celebrating
women heroes), Youth Day , World AIDS day,
International Day for the disabled, International
Womens Rights Day.PROJECTS
:WOMEN
EMPO
WERMEN
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THEPROJECT?
The Life span of the project is 6 months
because this is an election year for Zambia.
PROJECTS
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WOMEN EMPWERMENT
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WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO ISINVOLVED? ARE WOMEN AND MEN
EQUALLY INVOLVED? The key target for community work are all
members of the community.The trainings are
conducted with women and men to gain
knowledge on the issues and support. Women and men are equally involved but
womens projects are initiated and led by
women with the involvement of men so that
they serves as training opportunities inleadership
PROJECTS
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PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THEPROJECT
Womens concerns in womens projects are
taken into consideration as it is the core
business of the project to ensure that the
remains well coordinates and focused onissues). The Council has been very
supportive.
PROJECTS
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RESOURCEFULNESS: WHAT FINANCIAL,HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES WERE
MOBILISED?
Financial: CDF is provided to all the local authorities
by the central government. Ministry of Community
Development, Womens project fund under
GIDD,CEEC which we advocated to have simpler
and easier conditions for our local women, Materialsupport. ZCCM IH built market stalls for local women
to conduct business in a safe, clean and hygienic
environment.PROJECTS
:WOMEN
EMPO
WERMEN
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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MONITORING AND EVALUATION
The council assigns officers in the DPHSS to conduct
regular assessment meetings with womens groups,
various community groups, projects and receive
reports and minutes on activities in line with actions
plans. This enables all projects to have a communityownership and be sustainable and increases
accountability. Evaluation meeting are conducted.
PROJECTS
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WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
Increased community awareness on gender violence
Increased collaboration of community members on
projects of common interest
Increased women participation on community projects.
Increased participation of women in leadership
PROJECTS
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WERMEN
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADCPROTOCOL TARGETS)
ARTICLE 20-25 GENDER BASED
VIOLENCE
Enforces the National Gender Policy inall activities with community with the help of
organisations that litigate and support
women in the community.
PROJECTS
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EFFECTIVENESS
Projects being run in the community are
effective due to the participatory approach.
This involves the beneficiaries (women, men
and youth) in planning, development andimplementation of the projects. This ensures
ownership and sustainability. Monitoring and
accountability are also ensured to involvement
of local leaders. PR
OJECTS:SU
BCATEG
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NAME OF GOOD PRACTISE
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SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION
These activities in the community are
sustainable because they have community
ownership and participation from inception to
implementation and great involvement oflocal leaders and can be replicated in other
councils.PROJECTS
:WOMEN
EMPO
WERMENT
WOMEN EMPWERMENT
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LESSONS LEARNED
The main lesson learnt from these activities is
the involvement of beneficiaries in planning
and implementation of projects in the
community as well as involvement of localleaders. Programs are more effective and
owned by the community which in turn enables
them to be issue based and long term
sustainability.
PROJECTS
:WOMEN
EMPO
WERMENT
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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ANY QUESTIONS?
PROJECTS
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EMPO
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