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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 GENDER
VIOLENCE: HALVE GENDER VIOLENCE BY 2015”
Empowering women at grass root level to combat GBV
PROJE
CTS:Women
Emp
owerment
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HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING THIS PROBLEM?
• Continuous work at grass root level
• unequal power relationships the source of all GBV cases
• mission statement : excel at service delivery
• Ensure that the services and facilities provided by the Council areequitably distributed
•Need for provision of Gender sensitive services to Promoteoverall quality of life
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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IS THIS ISSUE IMPORTANT?
• Gender inequality inhibit social development
• To be empowered -access to financial, human and social resourcesequal standpoint
• Women stereotyped as the primary care givers -increased need for
basic services like:
• education,
• sanitation
• ,
• transportation facilities.
•
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
Empowering women at local level to
combat GBV
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HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUT ADDRESSING THIS
PROBLEM?
• organisation of various targetted activities
• Maximising service delivery
• Investing in capacity building through maximum use of infrastructues
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
Empowering women at local level to
combat GBV
•Women
following literary
courses
organized at
Stanley
municipal social
hall
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Investing in capacity building programmes
• Easy access to IT facilities to
gain knowledge for
life long
employability in cyber age
• 5 minicyber centres
• Appropriate opening timeUsing internet facilities at newly
inaugurated mini-cyber centre
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Successful micro-projects:-permanent and decent work away to decent lives
Operation of tuck shop Small scalefloral shop
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Supporting women programs-salesexhibitions
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WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THE PROJECT?
• Ongoing:
• Yearly calender of activities to monitor programs for women
Associations
• Operation of a nursery on a six days basis
- Cleaning of barelands through a daily programme of work
- Provision and maintenance of street lighting and lighting of all public
places
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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Maximising service delivery
• Striving for a safer environment through cleaning of bare lands andmaintenance of street lighting
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WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO IS INVOLVED? ARE WOMEN AN D MEN
EQUALLY INVOLVED?
• Women organisations of the township, and through theseorganisations ultimately housewives, school-going girls.
• Unfortunately involvement of men is lesser than that of women,
awareness campaigns are meant to sensitise men equally of
their important responsibility in promoting gender equality.
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THE PROJECT
• Partnership with
• Ministries, police and other NGOs of the region have beendeveloped:
- Federation of women associations
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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RESOURCEFULNESS: WHAT FINANCIAL, HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES WERE
MOBILISED?
• Funding from central government
• Minor revenues generated from issue of licences and permits
• Committed man power at the level of council
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• Budget Monitoring all activities of federation of women
• Statistics on number of complaints received at the information service centre
Regular maintenance of street lighting network
• Daily program of work cleaning of barelands and streetlighting
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
• An increased number of women are applying for trade licences to trade within the
township
• Awareness of their rights is also increasing
• Seek more and more information of legislations impacting their lives
• Enhanced quality of life
• Safer environment
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOLTARGETS)
• Projects are helping to attain objectives of articles 14-19 self-dependency
• ,
• economic empowerment of women,
•
• easy mobility from one place to another as the roads are in good condition well
lit, offer security during transportation.
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOW
ERMENT
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EFFECTIVENESS
• Increased participation in local politics
• Increased awareness of their right to Gender sensitive service delivery
• Enhanced quality of life
• Creating job opportunities for women of our township
• Economic independence- THE WAY FORWARD TO SELF DEPENDENCY
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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Working in
municipal
market
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SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION
• Job creation /promoting local women entrepreneurship
highly sustainable
• Concept of empowering women can be replicated
across other local Authorities other private organisation
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
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LESSONS LEARNED
• Need for a Gender Focal person
• However budget constraints- no gender specific code item in our budget
• Sex disaggregated data to effectively monitor gender related issues
PROJECTS
: WOMEN
EMPOW
ERMENT
Empowering women at local level to combat GBV
To empower a woman is to
empower a whole family and strive
towards a better society.
Women empowerment is the
responsibility of one and all, the
decision makers, the legislators as
well as the civil society, NGO's etc.
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PROJECTS: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
Empowering women at local level to combat
GBV
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