ZA-NPO-036-515-Alliance2012
GENDER LINKS
The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance
Synopsis
The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance and Partnerships portfolio is a flagship programme of Gender Links providing “links” to the organisation’s core programmes; contributing to holding governments accountable and empowering citizens to claim their rights using the SADC Gender Protocol with 28 targets to be achieved by 2015.
Following the successful campaign for the signing of the Protocol in 2008, GL coordinates the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance. The Alliance is a “network of networks” which began as a loose coalition. It now comprises 15 country focal networks; eight theme and two interest group clusters led by organisations with comparative advantage in their respective area. The Alliance organisational chart and partners are attached at Annex A of this report.
Objectives
The Alliance seeks to:
• Hold Southern African governments accountable for the achievement of gender equality through signing, ratifying, and implementating the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, a sub-regional roadmap for MDG 3 (gender equality).
• Lobby Southern African governments to be to adopt an Addendum to the SADC Gender Protocol on Gender and Climate change.
• Strengthen the capacity of civil society, especially gender NGOs, to demand that governments deliver on commitments to gender equality.
• Empower citizens especially women, to become aware of the SADC Gender Protocol, engage critically with governments to claim their rights; and demand effective and responsive governance.
Activities
In 2011/2012 the Alliance:
• Held eight reference group meetings to validate the findings of the SADC Gender Protocol Country Barometers.
• Produced the 2011 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer, introducing the Southern African Gender and Development Index (SGDI). The report also featured 44 case studies demonstrating the SADC Gender Protocol @ Work. The Alliance launched the Barometer in Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and Angola.
• Held the Alliance annual meeting in August 2011, conducted a SWOT analysis of the institutional mechanisms and Programme of Action. A strategy session identified two regional campaigns to focus on in 2011/2012: the Fifty-fifty as well as gender and climate change campaigns. The meeting elected an Alliance Think Tank to work with the Secretariat in guiding its work.
• Assisted two countries, Namibia and Seychelles, to develop costed Gender Action Plans aligned to the SADC Gender Protocol. Seychelle is the first SADC country to align its Gender Policy to the 28 targets of the SADC Gender Protocol.
• Tracked implementation of the key provisions of the Gender Protocol through the monthly e-newsletter, Roadmap to Equality: Southern Africa Gender and Development Barometer.
• Held 143 village meetings.
• Disseminated over 6000 simplified versions of the SADC Gender Protocol in SADC’s three main languages (English, French and Portuguese) as well as 23 Indigenous languages.
• Strengthenied the institutional base the Alliance Network: Three more country networks signed MOUs. Strong lead organisations have emerged for the faith based and men’s sector. Theme clusters have started to take the lead in their areas (see ISS example below).
Peace and security regional theme cluster
Since the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) took the lead on gender, peace and security within the Alliance, four national working groups have been established in Zimbabwe, Malawi, DRC and Madagascar. These are all countries experiencing characterised by political conflict and violence. Each of the country focal points has convened at least one meeting as part of replicating the structure at national level. In Madagascar, this culminated in a National Conference on Gender, Peace and Security in November 2011. Early results include increased awareness on Article 28 of the SADC Gender Protocol; successful lobbying and advocacy by clusters for development of national action plans on UNSCR 1325 by SADC countries; increased women’s representation in the peace and security sectors at regional and country level. ISS comments: “The Alliance needs more strategic planning exercises – one once a year is not sufficient. We will continue to work with Gender Links to strengthen the Alliance. The formation of an alliance think tank, when operative should go far in consolidating the work.” For full profile go to http://www.genderlinks.org.za/page/sadc-gender-protocol-partners
The SADC Protocol @ work – Gender and climate change
At the launch of the 2010 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer, Alliance partners in Mozambique pointed out that the SADC Gender Protocol is silent on sustainable development and climate change. In 2011, the Alliance embarked on a campaign calling for an Addendum to the SADC Gender Protocol on Gender and Climate Change as a way of influencing regional policy building on past successes.
The October 2011 Gender Ministers meeting in Winsdhoek noted the importance of integrating gender into climate policies. In November 2011 the Alliance regional Secretariat gave technical inputs at the Gender/Women’s Affairs Ministers and Senior Officials meetings to engender the SADC Regional Strategy for the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework for the Convention on Climate Change (COP 17). Building on the momentum of COP 17 the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance has launched a petition calling on SADC governments to adopt, as matter of urgency, the principle of an Addendum or amendments to the Gender Protocol – see http://www.genderlinks.org.za/page/sadc-climate-change. The Gender and Climate Change petition campaign is up on the GL website as another way of enlisting citizens to support the campaign for an Addendum to the SADC Gender Protocol on Gender and Climate Change, with 100 signatures so far.
Outputs
• The 2011 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer.This features the SGDI and 44 case studies of the SADC Gender Protocol @ Work.
• A gender policy (Seychelles) and gender action plans aligned to the SADC Protocol in Namibia and Seychelles.
• An additional four MOUs between Gender Links as the Secretariat and Alliance focal organisations from Angola (Platform for Women Action), Tanzania (Tanzania Gender Networking Project) and Zambia (Women in Law Southern Africa – Zambia) and with Botswana Council of NGOs as regional theme cluster lead for the Education Sector. This brings the total number MOUs signed to 21.
• A draft Addendum to the Protocol on Gender and Climate Change.
Outreach
Direct beneficiaries: GL held 143 village level workshops (three more than the target number). GL also held six country reference group meetings for the Barometer and five launches. In total the programme reached 5103 people directly: 3202 (63%) women and 1901 (37%) men.
Indirect beneficiaries: The programme reached an estimated 55,245 beneficiaries through indirect methods. These include: website hits (the alliance website (www.sadcgenderprotocol.org) received 35 701 unique hits from March 2011 and February 2012). The Alliance also used the GL list-serve, new media channels, media outreach, GL publications, ten issues of the Roadmap to Equality e-newsletter; the pamphlet on the Alliance in English, French, and Portuguese and 6000 additional copies of the SADC Gender Protocol in indigenous languages to reach a wide audience.
Ripple effects: The SADC Protocol in Chiredzi
A team of GL staff arrive an hour late for a meeting with the Chiredzi Centre of Excellence (COE) for Gender in Local Government, but the 46 women gathered under a tree continue with their monthly 50/50 campaign meeting. The community mobilisers in this sugar-growing hub of south east Zimbabwe are engrossed in the Shona and Ndebele pamphlet on the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development provided through the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance.
Several interest groups explain enthusiastically how they have been applying the sub-regional instrument with 28 targets by 2015 (the same year as the Millennium Development Goals) in their daily lives. They include aspiring councillors (Zimbabwe is due to hold elections later this year); widows; caregivers; informal traders; unemployed women; survivors of gender violence; those fighting trafficking to neighbouring South Africa and sex workers. The hot button issue is a petition led by the council’s gender champion, Bernadette Chipembere, for the release of dozens of women rounded up by police during a crack down on sex workers. The women argue that police should also target the male clients of sex workers.
One of the winners in the 2010 Gender Justice Local Government Summit, Councillor Chipembere (see profile:http://www.genderlinks.org.za/article/bernadette-chipembere-2012-05-28) has made sure her council develops a gender action plan; monitors local police action on gender violence, helps widows fight legal battles, and promotes women’s economic empowerment. Inspired by the national launch of the 50/50 campaign as part of the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance governance cluster activities (http://www.genderlinks.org.za/page/sadc-thematic-clusters), Chipembere vowed to take the campaign door to door in her community, targeting the poorest neighbourhood (known as majarada) where families share rooms and toilet facilities. “As a councillor I cannot just sit there and say, ‘I do policy’ when things are not right on the ground,” says Chipembere. “If you do not get on the ground, you cannot be effective.”
Outcomes
Commitment: The SADC Gender Protocol officially went into force in August 2011 after South Africa ratified the Protocol. Malawi could be next. Tracking continues through the Annual Barometer and the Roadmap to Equality e-newsletter.
Momentum to get the last two member states to sign: The Gender Links Mauritius Office working with MWO-GEMSA, the Alliance focal network in Mauritius, played a pivotal role in the passing of the Local Government Act providing for a quota of 30% women in elections scheduled for July. This necessitated a constitutional amendment removing a key stumbling block to Mauritius signing the Protocol – see http://www.genderlinks.org.za/article/a-giant-step-towards-gender-equality-local-government-act-provides-for-legislated-quota-2012-05-29. The Alliance focal point in Botswana led by the Botswana Council of NGOs (BOCONGO) has crafted a strategy for putting pressure on the Botswana government to sign.
Holding governments to account through the SGDI: The third Barometer produced in 2011 helps the region establish a monitoring and evaluation mechanism against which progress can be measured. The innovation, the Southern Africa Gender Development Index introduced in the 2011 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer provides a measurement towards attainment of gender equality against the SADC Gender Protocol 28 targets. Based on 23 indicators across six sectors, the SGDI puts SADC at 64% of where they need to be towards meeting the 28 targets 2015.
Implementation: Seychelles developed a draft gender policy which is the first to be completely aligned to the SADC Gender Protocol targets set for 2015. Namibia officially adopted its policy. Namiia and Seychelles have blazed the train in SADC by drafting gender action plans that are aligned to the SADC Gender Protocol.
Namibia realigns its gender policy
By: Emily Brown
Under the theme “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures”, young boys and girls of pre-school age commenced proceedings to celebrate International Women’s Day, 8 March 2012, with a song conveying a message of love. Together with a strong representation of NGO’s, civil society, the Diplomatic corps and governmental agencies, Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare Doreen Sioka set the tone for the event when she said: “This is no ordinary day!”
Speaking at the launch of the revised National Gender Policy (2010 – 2020), President Hifikepunye Pohamba said that the Policy is one of the Namibian Government’s most important interventions to address injustices caused by gender imbalance in society. According to Namibia’s Head of State, the implementation of the Policy would create synergies for the achievement of national development objectives. The President informed the audience that it is his belief that the people’s enjoyment of freedom is compromised when threatened by gender-based violence. Lives, he said, are frequently disrupted by such acts. President Pohamba said, in light of this social reality, mechanisms have been put in place to empower women. This, he said, required of Government to ensure that the Gender Policy remains current.
Taking stock of what had been achieved through the previous Gender Policy (1997), President Pohamba pointed out that through its implementation progress had been made in terms of a significant increase in the enrollment of girls in primary and secondary school. He said Namibia is on track with regard to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), and that such achievements should make us proud.
However, the President cautioned that, despite the existence of progressive laws, the evil of gender-based violence continues in Namibian society. President Pohamba said that when women are empowered, nations are empowered and that this translates into a better and safer world. He added that a gender perspective must consistently be reflected in all our policies and programmes. In this regard, he said, a gender Task Force/Advisory Board on Gender has been established. Furthermore, he stated that the Policy must guide action and the mainstreaming of gender in the National Development framework. This, he said, should lead to gender equality in Namibia.
Section 42 of the revised Gender Policy, which focuses on ‘Gender Education and Training’, states in paragraph 4.2.17 that the government shall “ensure that curricula, textbooks and all teaching/learning materials are free from gender–stereotyped references and illustrations at all levels of education, including teacher training programmes”.
As a media trainer, the launch reminded me of how much we have to do to ensure women’s equal voice in the media.
Prior to the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup in South Africa, governments in SADC, especially, started to assess the implications of such an event – especially for women and children. In the region we started to see a great deal more coverage of human trafficking and gender violence. Namibia, for example, is one of the countries to have ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, as well as the additional Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Humans, especially women and children, in 2003. Act No. 29 of 2004 – The Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA) – which criminalises trafficking in persons was also enacted.
According to the “Baseline Assessment of Human Trafficking in Namibia” (Ministry of Gender and Child Welfare, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, June 2009), limited reporting suggests Namibia may be a source and destination country for trafficked children. But, the magnitude of this problem is not entirely known, even though it is suspected that most of the trafficking victims are children. In a US Department of State Report entitled “Trafficking in Persons” (TIP) (June 2008), Namibia has been designated a “Special Case” because there is insufficient reliable information on the country’s trafficking circumstances, even though a trafficking problem is suspected. In terms of the Namibian Study, many of the respondents were completely unaware of any existing legal framework to deal with human trafficking, though some knew of the Labour Act.
Pushing the envelope: Significant progress has been achieved towards the adoption of an Addendum to the SADC Gender Protocol on gender and climate change. The idea is firmly on the agenda of SADC Ministers responsible for Women’s Affairs/Gender. This is evidenced by the adopted minutes in November 2011 at a United National Conference of the Parties (COP17) preparatory meeting and per the White Paper prepared by the SADC Secretariat. The Alliance has drafted an Addendum that will be canvassed with civil society before taking to national governments to lobby for language. Gender Links led the Alliance partners in giving inputs into the SADC Regional Strategy on Climate as agreed by the SADC Climate Change Positioning Workshop to ensure that the strategy was gender sensitive. These suggestions were forwarded to the Senior officials meeting and adopted by the Ministers meeting.
Strengthening civil society: GL has contributed to strengthened capacity of civil society, especially gender NGOs to demand that governments deliver on commitments against the provisions of the Protocol through signing a total of 23 MOUs with Alliance focal networks in 15 SADC countries National Focal. Of these eight are sector MOUs as targeted in 2011.
Fact file: Civil society’s distinctive contribution
• In 2005 regional gender NGOS led by GL conducted an audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development that led to a paper on why the Declaration should be elevated to a Protocol.
• Civil society joined the task force formed by SADC Gender Unit responsible for drafting the SADC Gender Protocol and made substantial inputs into the seven drafts of the Protocol.
• In 2008 the Alliance made a major push for the adoption of the Protocol by SADC Heads of State meeting in Johannesburg.
• Soon after the adoption of the Protocol, the Alliance developed a range of IEC materials including pamhplets in 23 languages, radio materials and posters.
• By 2010 all SADC except Botswana and Mauritius had signed the Protocol. In August 2010 South Africa became the ninth country to ratify the Protocol, resulting on the instrument going into force.
• Country focal networks of the Alliance have mounted campaigns for Botswana and Mauritius to ratify the Protocol.
• While governments have only submitted one set of reports on their performance agains the targets of the SADC Gender Protocol, the Alliance has produced three issues of the SADC Gender Protocol and Developed the SADC Gender and Development Index to press for change.
• The Alliance convened an expert group meeting together with SADC GU and UN Women to develop a methodology and process of costing the SADC Gender Protocol. This has been tested in two SADC countries – Namibia and Seychelles. At the time of writing six other countries had committed to aling their national action plans to SADC targets.
• The Alliance has single handedly put the issue of Gender and Climate Change on the regional gender agenda.
Movement for change: The SADC Gender Protocol is creating momentum for change in many sectors across society, including Faith Based Organisations.
Churches follow the government lead
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“Church leadership is slowly realising that it is up to them to put meat to gender policies, operationalise them and demonstrate to political and other leaders how these issues of gender should be tackled. The church in Zambia is still grappling with how exactly to amplify its voice on issues of gender. We need to start with a baseline study of women in leadership in churches. Women are in churches and they are serving diligently, but we do not see them in leadership. Recently the church mother bodies in Zambia met to discuss how the church could take up MDG 3 on gender equality and specifically address GBV. The church has begun to actively engage on various thematic areas such as quota systems, GBV policy and gender policies.” - Reverand Rosemary Nsofwa, Zambia. Read more on:
http://www.genderlinks.org.za/article/rosemary-nsofwa---zambia-2012-06-06
Challenges
The Alliance has remained a loose “coalition of the willing” meaning that commitments to the campaign are not binding and dependent on the will of the Network members. Because the Alliance is not a formally registered Network resource mobilisation is a challenge. While a number of theme cluster leaders have managed to raise resources for the work related to the cluster, much of the responsibility rests with the regional secretariat.
Next steps
• Work with five more countries to develop costed National Gender Action Plans in the coming year.
• Rroduce the fourth edition, 2012 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer, as a measure of government’s progress towards realising the 28 targets.
• Collect case studies of the SADC Gender Protocol @ Work.
• Canvass the campaign for an Addendum to the SADC Gender Protocol on gender and climate change.
• Produce 12 issues of the Roadmap to Equality e-newsletter.
• Strengthen institutional mechanisms and partnerships within the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance and with other strategic partners.
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ZA-NPO-036-515-Media2011
GENDER LINKS
Gender and Media
Synopsis
Gender equality in and through the media captures the essence of GL’s media programme work since the organisation’s formation in 2001. The media programme has remained GL’s flagship programme covering 14 SADC countries. The SADC Protocol on Gender and development has added impetus to the programme, which has continued to grow over the years. This programme brings together media decision-makers, media workers, media trainers, media consumers, and media regulators. The Media Programme works in close collaboration with the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC).
Working with 100 SADC newsrooms, through its Centres of Excellence (COEs) for gender in the media project, this programme is key in transforming gender relations in and through the media. This involves offering media houses a full gender-mainstreaming package that includes on- the- job support and training through a ten-stage process. This process brings together research, advocacy, policy and training sections of the media programme.
In 2011, GL reviewed its media interventions to come up with a comprehensive approach that brings together the different components of the programme for more impact. The results of the Glass Ceilings, Women and Men in Southern African Newsrooms Study and the Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS) sequel to the 2003 baseline study provided vital evidence for the need for a complete overhaul of the project. For example, the GMPS revealed that there had only been a two- percentage point increase in the proportion of women sources from 17% to 19% in the seven years after the Gender and Media Baseline Study (GMBS). The Glass Ceiling Study showed that women constituted less than one third of managers, and less than 5% of top managers in SADC. This showed that the programme needed to go beyond policy development to a more sustained approach that involved capacity building and strengthened M and E systems. Borrowing from the experience in the governance programme, GL sought to work at institutional level, through inviting media houses to sign up as Centres of Excellence for Gender in the Media. The media programme also built on the experience of the Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV and AIDS and Gender that resulted in 80% of newsrooms in the SADC region adopting gender aware policies for addressing the pandemic.
Objectives:
• GL’s media programme aims to contribute to the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development’s target of gender equality in and through the media by 2015.
• This is through mainstreaming gender in media practice and content. The media has a critical role to play as an agent of change and agenda setter. If properly, harnessed media can influence public opinion.
Activities
Gender in media regulation
The overall objective of this project, which has been running since 2007, has been to provide support to regulatory authorities in developing gender policies, using research and tools developed as part of GL’s policy and research portfolio. The Press Council of Botswana (PCB), which adopted its gender code of ethics in February 2011, has continued with work to ensure full implementation of the code. The regulator has been working to integrate the gender code into the already existing Code of practice. GL has supported PCB on this initiative and a draft-merged code will go before the PCB membership for approval. GL is also in consultation with the new Seychelles Media Council on integrating gender into the council’s code of ethics.
Gender and economic reporting
As part of on-going efforts to publicise the economic justice provisions of the SADC Gender Protocol, the media programme, with funding from Diakonia conducted a training workshop for Angolan and Mozambican journalists in Luanda. The workshop coincided with the SADC Heads of States Summit. This workshop served to strengthen the Lusophone Opinion and Commentary Service, launched by the GL Lusophone office in Mozambique in March 2011. GL has distributed the stories written by journalists through the GL service.
Media COE project
The media COE project is a ten-stage process, which is an expansion of the six-stage gender- policy development process employed under the MAP project and later the gender development process. The new process incorporates capacity building to ensure policy implementation. – DL YOU HAVE THE GRAPHIC FOR MEDIA COE; CAN WE PUT THE LOGO IN THE CENTRE? THANKS?
In May 2011, GL brought together the media country facilitators to discuss and review the COE concept. This included reviewing the existing six stages of the policy development process to a ten-stage process. This led to the development of the media COE pamphlet and MOU template. Facilitators agreed on a new handbook Making Every Voice count: Media COE to replace ‘Diversity in Action: HIV and AIDS Policies in Newsrooms’. The department produced the book in August 2011. Further consultations led to the COE training manual in January 2012. GL has made steady process in rolling out the COE project in the SADC region with 108 media houses and 27 MOUs at the time of writing. As 30 of the newsrooms did not participate in the GMBS, GL undertook baseline studies of these media houses to benchmark progress.
Training on covering GBV
There have been collaborative efforts between local government and media COES to enhance the organisation’s community reach. In November 2011, media and governance came together to plan for Sixteen Days of Activism on Gender Violence activities as well as linking the media with vital personnel in the communities. This training resulted in media COEs covering the activities of local government COEs. Journalists produced 56 stories on GBV as part of this initiative.
Cross cutting issues
The SADC Protocol, with its 28 targets on different thematic areas, has been the anchor of GL’s programme work since its adoption in 2008. The media programme has tailored its media training initiatives around these targets, which include a diversity of cross cutting issues. Stage seven – backstopping the work of journalists - covers the following areas:
• Constitutional and legal rights
• Governance
• Education and training
• Productive resources, employment and economic empowerment
• Gender based violence
• Health and HIV and AIDS
• Peace Building
• Media, information and communication
• Implementation
Outputs
• Gender inputs into the Draft Code of Conduct for the Botswana Press Council.
• Business Unusual training workshop in Angola: 22 participants; seven stories.
• Media COE handbook and training manual.
• Media Centres of Excellence (COE): 108 centres; 90 gender policies developed and adopted; 28 draft policies; 30 MOUs.
• GBV: 56 GBV stories written.
Outreach
Working with the media yields a range of multiplier effects. GL views the media both as target - a site for transformation – and as a tool for change. Media practitioners link who go through GL training link into a variety of channels for producing and disseminating gender aware content. Journalists have access to many communication channels of their own through which they yield considerable influence. Their work is affirmed through the Gender and Media Awards, as illustrated in this extract from GL’s “Changing Lives” series:
Ripple effects: Story of gender and media activist
“I was very happy when my commentary piece on the adverse impact of domestic work on girl child education in Tanzania appeared in a special supplement produced by Tanzanian journalists after I had attended a Business Unusual training workshop organised by Gender Links in 2008.
At that course, I received my first real practical training on gender and the media. I learned many good things from the training, like the importance of multiple sources. GL CEO Colleen Lowe Morna asked some of participants to go back in the field to ensure that their stories had credible and multiple sources.
Eventually GL rewarded our efforts as it got our stories published in a special pull out in the daily newspaper. That was one of the most fulfilling moments of my life. I realised that even though I was a broadcast journalist, I could write for print media. The training helped to boost my personal confidence as well as my professional capacity.
Later that year, my vision soared when I won an award for my story: “Proactive initiatives increased girls university enrolment” at the Gender and Media Awards. The award gave me an opportunity to make my first visit to South Africa as well as to meet and establish networks with journalists from SADC region. Back home the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation recognised my achievement on air. Curious colleagues clamoured to write for the GL Opinion and Commentary Service.” -Bestina Magutu, Tanzania
Read more on http://www.genderlinks.org.za/article/bestina-mogutu-2012-06-06
The interface with the GL Local Government programme has improved the quantity and quality of Sixteen Day coverage. Through transforming the media, GL ensures that the message of gender equality gets down to communities. Instead of having a Gender and Media Summit in 2012, GL is opting to have one Gender Justice Summit that brings together the local government and media work in 2013, preceded by eight country summits. The intention is to ensure that the various programmes work together to fulfil one of GL’s core mandates: to make every voice count.
GLalso works in close collaboration with training institutions that have worked with the organisation on media literacy programmes (see Gender and Media Diversity Centre) that have a wide outreach. GL will work with training institutions on the COE verification process.
Outcomes
Advancing the SADC Gender Protocol target of gender equality in and through the media: In August 2011, GL conducted further monitoring for media houses participating in the COE project. Whilst the GMPS study gave 19% as the proportion of women sources in SADC news, the additional monitoring showed that the proportion of women sources is now 22%.
Women in the media making a difference: GL is in the process of compiling up to date information on newsroom composition to contribute more effectively to the 50/50 campaign within the media. Qualitative evidence suggests that there is a new cadre of bold and assertive media women that are claiming their space as a result of the sustained work on gender and media over the years:
“GL has done so well in many areas of gender and media work. From the time that I partnered with the organisation, it has helped me grow in many ways and has helped me build confidence within myself, which I proudly apply in my work. It has also helped to have vast networks with many organisations and individuals not only in Zambia but across the world. I have been mentored” Perpetual Sichikwenkwe, Journalist and Media Policy Facilitator, Zambia
Gender built into policy and practice in media houses: The development of gender policies are significant in the transformation of gender relations in the media as well as creating an enabling environment for gender to flourish. The media programme is moving closer to achieving this target.
Poacher turned gamekeeper? The Voice in Botswana
Gender Links and The Voice newspaper began their relationship on a volatile note with the publishing of a headline, ‘Have you had sex with this lady?’ back in 2001. Ironically, The Voice would become the first newspaper to launch its gender aware HIV and AIDS newsroom policy back in August 2007. The owner of the newspaper, Beata Kasale, is GL’s Gender and Media Policy Facilitator in Botswana.
Over the years, GL has referred to the image and published the controversial headline in its training toolkits and other publications. Yet, as if to prove that from storming comes norming and then performing, the two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in August 2011 to work together in promoting greater voice and access for women to the mainstream media. The Voice is one of seven media COE’s in Botswana.
The relationship between GL and The Voice has been mutually beneficial. GL has conducted capacity-building workshops on a broad spectrum of topics for management and staff at The Voice. These include Sixteen Days of Activism, gender based violence, gender mainstreaming in the media among others. Among other engagements, The Voice, in conjunction with Gender Links, conducted a reader survey both on print and online, mainly run by the online department.
The Voice was one of the first media houses in the region to launch its gender aware HIV and AIDS newsroom policy. Developed under the banner of the Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV and AIDS, this pilot project aimed to work with 80% of newsrooms in the region to develop and implement HIV and AIDS policies. The Voice’s bold presentation of news has brought the attention the paper to critical issues such as HIV and AIDS. HIV and AIDS remains one of the biggest threats to Botswana’s economic and social development. The Voice has taken a bold step to bring the subject of HIV and AIDS out for public discussion. As part of implementing its HIV and AIDS policy, The Voice continues to work closely with people living with HIV and AIDS.
The COE project will see The Voice personnel go through a ten-stage COE process to develop and implement a gender policy. The policy will cover the whole media house and not just the newsroom. According to Kasale, The Voice staff and management have benefitted immensely from Gender Links’ gender and media literacy projects and initiatives such as the ‘I’ stories.
The paper has shared its experiences at Gender and Media Summits including a presentation on the “Tabloidization of the Media” where the newspaper shared its views based on its experiences as a ‘tabloid’. The creative tension between GL and the Voice over its “page three girl” continues. But in its main pages the paper has gone a come a long way in reflecting the daily struggles of women, such as poverty and gender based violence.
Challenges
So far, GL has relied on workshop evaluations for feedback on effectiveness of the different interventions. Feedback has shown that beneficiaries appreciate the work that GL is doing with them, with most scores in the eighties (see programme report card) except for outputs at 77%. This may be because the COE process is still in its nascent stages.
From a low base of 19%, GL has set itself an ambitious target of at 30% women in the media houses that it is working with by 2014. This requires a concerned campaign during the crucial stage seven or backstopping phase of the COE process.
Next steps
• In-house monitoring using the self-monitoring tool in August to determine if there has been any progress in women sources.
• High level visits by GL staff and managers to media houses to set targets ahead of the Gender Justice Summits in 2013.
• Tangible evidence of change through the Gender and Media Awards.
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“Well-behaved women” seldom make history - or News!
By Patricia A. Made – Ideally one page
Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s opening paragraph about “well-behaved women...” in one of her scholarly articles published in 1976 has found its way into popular culture, and still makes one contemplate what women really have to do just to be seen and heard, especially in the media.
Zimbabwe’s print media landscape over the past two years is a case in point. A flurry of print media – newspapers and magazines – have burst onto the scene, giving a ray of hope that a new range of voices and perspectives, especially the voices of women, and women and men citizens in all walks of life, can find expression on the news events and issues of the day.
A good attribute of the Zimbabwean print media landscape is that newspapers are attracting women columnists, as well as offering space for articles on gender equality and women’s rights and empowerment. One local organisation working on gender equality and women’s rights in the economic sphere has regular space in a major daily and in a weekly Sunday paper.
Editors and journalists are reaching out more to engage with organisations working on gender equality and women’s empowerment, other than just on the special days when the media needs these organisation’s paid-for advertorials.
Many women within the media ranks also are using their columns to write on gender equality and women’s rights in the Zimbabwean context. And, the public is engaging through Letters to the Editor on the news and issues that carry a ‘gender tag’.
Some of the Zimbabwean media houses also are engaging with the Centres of Excellence in Gender Mainstreaming, a Gender Links pioneering process underway with media houses across the region, to develop, adopt publicly, and put into practice gender editorial and employment policies.
As the Zimbabwean media grapples with ways to correct the sexism and gendered silences that permeate media houses’ newsroom and editorial content, one fundamental step is to stay reflective on the age-old journalism questions: ‘What is news?’ And ‘Who are the news makers?’
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For example, a story in a major daily on March 30th headlined Females demand 50-50 representation, was national news on the first Gender and Local Government summit held in Zimbabwe organised by GL and the Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ). But the reasons for why this summit was covered as news illustrate a long-standing struggle with the news media. The Minister of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development and the mayor of Kadoma are the two voices in the news story; the two men are the newsmakers; the tellers of the story of females demanding 50-50 representation.
Rigorous reporting and editing would have directed the reporter to the voices and perspectives of the many women and men “participants” who would have contextualized the issues and gave meaning to ‘why’ this issue, and the summit, is important for all citizens in Zimbabwe. Every story on gender equality and women’s rights and empowerment provides the media with the opportunity to ‘make sense’ of the information and issue for readers.
To be fair, the print media also puts the news spotlight more and more on the high-level female top government leaders speaking on a range of issues. But the majority of women who each and every day are making news through their stories of struggle, survival, leadership at community levels and in spaces where the majority of women, and men, still cluster, are still far from the front page news. They are so to speak “well-behave”, doing worthy acts that hold communities, homes, families, children and the nation together.
If we interpret “well-behave” as the ordinary women who live extraordinary lives, then their stories are, and should be, news. Capturing these stories require media that do not just follow trends, but media that return to their roots by re-claiming the principles of public-interest media and journalism, as they weed out and discard the practices (and attitudes) that lead to discrimination and sexism.
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The GL Opinion and Commentary Service
The Opinion and Commentary Service is one of GL’s most innovative projects. Under the banner “fresh views on every day news”, the service commissions thirty provocative articles on gender issues from activists and opinion shapers around Southern Africa in English, French and Portuguese each month, and markets these to the media.
The service attempts to address the findings of the 2010 Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS), which showed that women's voices are still grossly under-represented in the media, especially in opinion and commentary, and that coverage of gender issues is negligible. It also builds the capacity of journalists to write gender sensitive articles in all areas of development.
The service is divided into three: Anglophone (anchored at GL headquarters in Johannesburg); Francophone (anchored in Mauritius); and Lusophone (anchored in Mozambique). This section of the report covers the period March 2011 and February 2012.
Anglophone Service
The English service published 157 articles; the highest number during Sixteen Days of Activism period. As shown in the Theme Chart below, the highest number of articles is on sustainable development and “I” stories. During the Sixteen Days of Activism, GL published an online newsletter on the gender and climate justice campaign. On average these stories were reproduced almost six times by the mainstream media. This is based on feedback from editors and other direct tracking that GL is able to do using google media search engines and others. In the age of online media, it is difficult to track with any certainty how often stories get used. However, what is evident over the years is that usage of the English service has improved dramatically. This is the direction that the French and Lusaphone services need to be heading.
Francophone Service
This serves DRC, Madagascar, and Mauritius. The French Service published 96 articles in 2011/ 2012 and of these, 23 were on climate change. On average, the articles were used 2.7 times. The service is now well established in Mauritius, where it has sparked many debates, such as local government and the abortion issue. The service needs greater traction in the other Francophone countries – Madagascar and DRC. The service attracted seven new writers this period. GL has created a separate Francophone list serve and search facility in a bid to grow the service.
Lusophone Service takes off
The floods in Mozambique early this year gave a much needed impetus to GL’s new Lusophone Service, launched on the organisation’s tenth birthday on 17 March 2012. From 24 to 25 March 2012, GL hosted a Gender and Climate change workshop in Namaacha, Mozambique. The workshop served to introduce journalists to the concept of gender and climate change as well as the Lusophone Opinion and Commentary Service.
This workshop organised by Gender Links Lusophone office brought together 24 participants, (ten females and 14 males) representing various Mozambican media houses based in Maputo, and journalism students from Eduardo Mondlane University. The workshop provided a unique opportunity to bring together participants with different views on gender.
Challenges
• Cost recovery: As the Service grows in strength it becomes even more apparent that the Service should be able to generate income.
• Writers’ capabilities to write provocative articles.
• Tracking usage.
• Breaking through in Angola.
• Increasing usage of French pieces and getting new writers for the same.
Next Steps
There is an urgent need to:
• Finalise tracking systems.
• Revise marketing of the service, especially liaising with editors.
• Create templates for French and Portuguese Service articles to be sent out to Lusophone and Francophone list serves.
• Build capacity for writers through giving them feedback, which allows them to improve on the quality of their writing.
• Build GL’s radio networks.
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Gender and Media Diversity Centre
Synopsis
This report gives an overview of the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC) during the period 1 March 2011 until 29 February 2012. Our mission statement is to create “a more representative, responsive, and professional media as well as citizens, women and men, who are empowered to critically engage with the media.” This vision is achieved through the collection, connection, and dissemination of existing knowledge and resources, as well as collaborating on new research and exchanges. Our target users include trainers; training institutions; media practitioners; academics and researchers; students; gender and media activists; and national, regional and international organisations.
Objectives:
The Centre aims to:
• Promote more analytical, responsive, and contextual journalism.
• Produce knowledge products in different multi-media formats and popularise them among its target.
• Use new media to communicate GL’s work as well as ignite gender, media, and diversity debates on social media platforms.
• Provide resources that make the links between media theory and practice.
• Build the capacity of citizens, media and journalism students, media, and journalism educators to understand gender and media literacy concepts.
• Develop a culture of critical media production and consumption.
• Offer citizens a platform to discuss pertinent gender issues in society.
• Support and encourage writers to engage with gender issues.
• Publicise the work of media scholars, students and practitioners.
• Develop north-south and institutional partnerships with strategic organisations.
Activities and inputs
Governance
The GMDC advisory group met in May 2011 in Johannesburg. So far, ten institutions and media NGOs have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Institutions that sign MOUs automatically qualify to become members of the Advisory Group. The rest of the institutions are members of the GMDC. The GMDC also has gender and media activists globally, such as Margaret Gallagher (UK) and Amu Joseph (India) who form part of the international advisory group.
During the year under review, the GMDC participated in an initiative led by UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) to develop gender indicators for the media. The GMDC also took part in the Africa Media Summit. On 19 September 2011, the Africa Information and Media Summit (AIMS), a meeting that brought together the Pan African Conference on Access to Information, as well as the Highway Africa Conference, adopted the African Platform on Access to Information (APAI) in Cape Town. During the year the GMDC held seminars and online debates on the gender dimensions of access to information, winning at least half of the gains that they sought.
Seminars
The GMDC continues to provide platforms for citizens to discuss pertinent gender, media and diversity issues. These seminars are in line with the GMDC’s vision to disseminate and create knowledge; connecting people with the relevant information and promoting collaboration that allows citizens to engage. A total of 624 people 62% women and 38% men attended the GMDC seminars. Themes covered included:
• Fifty-fifty debate on women in politics in the DRC, Mauritius and Lesotho.
• Launches of the Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS) in Swaziland, Tanzania and Mozambique.
• Gender and climate change in Botswana, Swaziland, Mauritius, Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
• Gender, media freedom and Access to Information seminars in DRC; Mauritius; Namibia, Tanzania and South Africa. The Access to Information debates solicited inputs for the draft African Platform on Access to Information (APAI) document submitted to the committee drafting the declaration adopted in September 2011. The GMDC has undertaken a comprehensive audit of the losses and gains in APAI the current issue of the journal, showing that about half the recommendations made it into the document, that otherwise would have been totally gender blind. Below is an example of strong language on gender in the final Declaration:
Gender and Media Diversity Journal
The Gender and Media Diversity Journal (GMDJ) is the bi-annual journal of the GMDC. The journal provides up-to-date and cutting edge information on media diversity in Southern Africa and beyond. It is a space for the dissemination of research findings and projects; case studies; campaigns; policy developments; and opinion and debate on media practice in the region. Each journal covers latest developments but also focuses on a different thematic area identified in consultation with the GMDC advisory group.
GL produced two Journals, Gender, Media, Diversity and Change: Taking Stock and Gender, Popular Culture and Media Freedom, were produced during the 2010/2011 Financial Year.
Gender in Media Education
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The GMDC in partnership with UNESCO has started work on the establishment of Gender Mainstreaming Centres of Excellence in Journalism and Media Education and Training in institutions of higher learning in Southern Africa. The process emerged from the Gender in Media Education Audit. The Audit measured if and how gender is mainstreamed in journalism and media education and training. The research highlighted gaps and good practices in institutions of higher learning across the region.
GL is working with institutions of higher learning through sustained interventions that bring together curriculum review and development; policy development; capacity building; specific training in gender and media literacy; e-learning courses for trainers; monitoring and evaluation; and the sharing of good practices at the Gender and Media Summit that happens every two years.
Specifically, GL is working in partnership with UNESCO on a project that involves
three face to face workshops with journalism and media educators from six Centres of Excellence and Reference. On-line discussions take place in between workshops, through the Community of Practise that has been set up for this purpose. Expected results include:
• Subjects offerings in journalism and media courses that mainstream gender.
• A report on the content and methodology underpinning the training.
• Personal accounts from trainers about the impact of the training and technology on their own learning.
• Courses are publicised and circulated through the COP for other institutions of higher to engage with and utilise.
Gender and Media Literacy Training
The gender and media literacy course is a GL initiative that is undertaken by the GMDC, aimed at creating a critical citizenry that is able to interpret and make informed judgements as media consumers. Citizens are also empowered to create information and their own media messages. In total, 272 women, and men, 51% women and 49% men benefitted from the gender and media literacy course in 2011 and 2012.
The Gender and Media Literacy course utilises the Watching the Watch dogs Gender and Media Literacy Toolkit. The toolkit consists of binder, “core” exercises and notes. Each module allows for maximum participation and creativity on the part of learners, as well as adaptation to local circumstances. The binder format allows participants, at whatever level or in whichever location, to add material based on the numerous exercises and assignments. The materials take account of the Outcomes Based approach to Education (OBE).
The objective of the media literacy course is to develop a culture of critical media consumption among different target groups. The tool kit draws from research and training material developed over a number of years on gender and the Southern African media.
In addition, the course equips participants with gender analysis and a range of communication skills including media monitoring, how to take up complaints, design and cost campaigns, and use new media to leverage these campaigns. Trainers who run gender and media literacy mainstream gender in their courses.
The course has been undertaken with citizens, learners, NGOs, women in politics, educators and journalists. GL undertook the course with journalism and media trainers, students and journalists. In addition, through a partnership forged with loveLife, the GMDC footprint is extending into popular culture.
Outcomes – the benefits of sustained relations
The GMDC has now been in existence for six years, thanks to generous funding from DANIDA and the DFID Governance and Transparency Fund. During that time the GMDC has forged many cross cutting and mutually reinforcing linkages. A comprehensive external evaluation and impact assessment will take place in 2014. As illustrated in the example below of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), there is emerging evidence that the sustained, cross cutting linkages (the GMDC, media literacy, publications and resources, as well as the internship programme) is creating institutional change that cascades to the rest of society through the outreach programmes of such partners.
Challenges
• ICT is the glue of the GMDC, yet ICT culture is not yet fully embedded in Southern Africa. Resources gathered by the GMDC are online are not accessible to the majority of its target in SADC. For instance, the media alerts and highlights are an important resource in teaching but usage has been very low despite several trainings with students and trainers to popularise them.
• The ICT sector develops at a fast pace. The Centre has to keep abreast of the ICT developments and use them to the benefit of its target. This may not always be easy.
• Curriculum change in academic institutions in SADC is challenging. Some institutions have not reviewed their curriculum in the past five years because of a lack of financial resources. Men dominate in academic institutions and at times gender issues are met with resistance.
• Signing MOUs has been a challenge because of the bureaucratic nature of academic institutions.
Next steps
• Holding a GMDC advisory group meeting in July, in tandem with the next gender and media educators workshop with UNESCO. Inviting gender
• Signing MOUs with all members, and recruiting new members, such as Lovelife as well as gender and media networks.
• Updating the media literacy toolkit
• Planning for the upcoming media literacy training, linked to the Sixteen Days of Activism.
• Mobilising resources for the GMDC.
• Broadening the international contacts and networks of the GMDC.
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Gender and Governance
The gender and governance programme has grown out of several research and advocacy projects aiming to promote equal representation and effective participation of women in decision-making. The programme stems from a niche identified in local government- the sphere of governance closet to the people yet one under researched. The programme has grown into a regionally recognised programme that brings together GL’s core programme work in holistic ways through the Centres of Excellence for Gender Mainstreaming in Local Government process.
The COE approach includes a unique blend of research and evidence, applied to strategies and action planning, with on-the-job capacity building and applied learning, vigorous Monitoring and Evaluation, affirming of good practise, and sharing of learning at the annual summits. Emerging evidence suggests that this is an effective and sustainable model.
Action plans are being strengthened through additional content and practise on climate change and sustainable development; care work and local economic development. GL is also strengthening the IT skills of councillors as part of the communications component. For the first time
Learning from the first phase has been incorporated in the second phase that has expanded the original six phases to ten phases. GL is on the verge of an exciting new phase – cascading the GBV indicators research to the local level to strengthen 3565 day local action plans to end GBV.
Objectives
• Raise support for in-country Gender Justice and Local Government summits held in March each year, starting in 2012.
• Raise support for the roll out of the COE’s to at least half of the 977 councils in the region by 2015, being the deadline for the achievement of the 28 targets of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
• Popularise and enhance application of the SADC Gender Protocol through the village workshops that accompany the COEs and incorporating the Protocol targets into the local action plans.
• Test GBV indicators at the local level and use the findings to measure impact of gender and local government initiatives, as well as build up databases used to gauge the level of gender violence at national level.
Activities
Following the initial phase of this programme that involved research, national level strategies and district level action plans, GL is now working with 143 local councils directly. GL aims to expand this to 300 by 2014 to cover about one third of the councils in the ten countries.
The COE process
The COE process has expanded from six to the ten stages shown in the diagram. Key changes include:
• Content of the action plans broadened to include local economic development including care work (the unwaged work of women) and climate change.
• The strategic communications module now has a specific module on IT aimed at ensuring proficiency and capacity building in this area.
• The targets of the planning framework have been aligned to the SADC Protocol on Gender and development.
• Monitoring and evaluation is strengthened through administering scorecards at the beginning and end of the process. GL now proposes to strengthen this even further by monitoring the prevalence and attitudes towards GBV at the beginning an end of the process. The aim is to show that community by community the SADC Gender Protocol target of halving gender violence by 2015 can be achieved.
Key principles include:
? Political support: Getting buy-in at decision-making level.
? Evidence-based approach: Conducting situation analysis that is council-specific and helps to address the needs of that council.
? Context specific interventions: Conducting council-specific gender and action plan workshops that localise national and district gender policies and action plans.
? Community mobilisation: SADC Gender Protocol village level workshops that sensatise communities on the provisions of SADC Gender Protocol, empowering them to hold their councils accountable.
? Capacity building: through on-the-job training with council officials and political leaders.
? Application of skills: Assisting councils and communities to apply these new skills through running major campaigns, for example the 365 Days to End Gender Violence; the 50/50 campaign. .
? Monitoring and evaluation: Administration of scorecards and other monitoring and evaluation tools that can be used to measure change in the immediate, medium, and long terms.
? Knowledge creation and dissemination: Working to gather and disseminate best practises, and case studies that are presented at the annual Gender Justice and Local Government Summit and Awards that provide councils and communities with a platform to learn from each other on how to empower women and end violence at the local level.
? Cascading the COE’s: GL is working with local government associations across the region on innovative strategies for cascading the COEs, including working through gender focal points of the associations and peer support.
The Gender Justice and Local Government Summits
GL broke new ground in 2012 with the hosting of summits in six countries – Botswana, Mauritius, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe before the regional summit. This approach greatly expanded the reach and visibility of the work, enabling five times more participants to participate, expanding partnerships and raising the visibility, ownership and impact of the work in-country.
Cascading the COE’s within each country
There are 977 councils in the ten countries that GL is working in. GL has set a target of reaching half these councils by 2015. GL has canvassed several avenues that for cascading the COEs. These involve working with and through the existing structures of local governments and councils through Training Trainers who would consist of:
• Gender focal points, where these exist, in provincial or district offices of local government associations;
• Gender champions, who have emerged from the first phase of COE work. By having gender champions that function within these councils it becomes possible and also easier to sustain the COE activities and hold partners accountable for ensuring the cascading and ownership of the COE process.
From mid 2012, the strategy for cascading the COE’s will be reviewed to include:
• Peer learning amongst councils, both vertically and horizontally, as it is important for councils to be able to learn from each, use each other as resources as well as transferring skills from one council to another in light of the fact that each of the 10 countries are made up of so many councils. Although GL will not be able to reach all of these councils, each council can reach another through peer learning and should be advocating for peer educators to reach the other councils within the countries.
• Twinning arrangements between larger and smaller COE’s. These details are being worked out within each country.
GBV indicators at the local level contributing to national surveys
GL is seeking funding in-country to run the GBV indicators research in each of the COE localities to strengthen the M and E component. The theory of change being tested here is that by instituting a holistic approach to gender equality at the local level that includes the empowerment of women and changing the attitudes of men, gender violence will deescalate. This is perhaps the most important measure of the success of the COE process.
The added advantage is that if the full attitude/prevalence survey is administered in enough communities, this will add up to an overall national GBV prevalence survey. The research thus serves a dual purpose: understanding the specific dynamics at a local level as well as building up a national picture.
For a national survey, there are other components of the research methodology that can be added: including media monitoring and political discourse analysis. The flagship tool of the research is, however, the prevalence/attitude survey. In Botswana (see GBV section) the research is being cascaded from national to local by WAD and UN agencies. The table shows that Zimbabwe will be the first country to pilot the GBV indicators from the ground up. Several other countries and UN agencies have shown a keen interest – for example Namibia, Lesotho, Zambia and Swaziland. Seychelles which does not have elected local government at the present time is another keen contender.
Outputs
• Completed and launched good quality research reports for Madagascar, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
• Completed gender strategies for local government in Madagascar, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
• 90 participants (3 countries x 30 participants each) were trained as trainers at the launches and strategy workshops in Madagascar, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. These women and men are part of gender mainstreaming movement that have identified the need to have gender built into policy, practise at local level, and have committed themselves to ensure that this happens in the councils they work and the communities they service.
• At the time of this report, GL had signed up 143 COE’s; 103 had expressed an interest.
• GL developed a new generic COE Training Manual that is being customised to each country.
• New content on conflict resolution, Local Economic Development (LED), climate change and sustainable development, including HIV/AIDS and Care Work was added to the COE model and training materials
• GL hosted two regional gender justice and local government summits and awards in 2010 and 2011. 2010: 103 award entries; 2011: 124 entries, 86 by women, 38 by men in 8
• In 2011, winners came from nine countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Outreach
Direct
With 4605 participants ( 60% women and 40% men) the governance programme has the widest direct reach of all the GL programmes. This is to be expected given the size of the programme, whose indirect reach (population for each of the 143 councils) is 22 milion.
Media
From March 2011 – February 2012 the Governance programme appeared in the media 89 times.
New Media
• Through stage eight of the COE model we empower councils to use the Internet during 16 Days cyber Participants also get an E Mail address, sign up on Facebook and Skype, Twitter and online petitions.
• Our new IT module on the use of mobile technology helps councils understand how they can use a tool that they use daily as an effective campaign tool to push their causes in a cost effective and practical way.
Website
The Governance website stays current through routine website audits and through by keeping the current COE pages that are innovative and interactive. From March 2011 to February 2012 the programme received 7624 website hits. This is expected to increase since the use of google map to locate all the COE’s on the GL website and put up a report card on each.
Publications
• Our new generic COE Training Manual has a CD Rom with country specific examples so that case studies and profiles are contextual and relevant to countries.
• The Mozambique research report Género e Governo Local em Mocambique is the most updated gender and local government research in Mozambique.
Outcomes
Gender and governance is a GL niche. Through working at the local government level, the Governance programme has singularly put gender on the agenda of local government in Southern Africa, and is localising the targets of the Southern African Gender Protocol through the local-level gender action plans. Although most of the countries that GL works in are signatories to the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, none have put any processes or activities in place to localise the Protocol. Through the citizen scorecard and SADC Protocol Village Level meetings, GL goes to the average citizen and measures their awareness of the Protocol as well as build their capacity around the Protocol.
When GL began research on gender and local government, the region had no figures or database on women’s representation and participation in this critical sphere of governance. Now these figures are known, canvassed, and used for advocacy. Often we receive requests from individuals, organisations, and governments across the region requesting to use or quote our research. GL’s work in Lesotho contributed to the modification and retention of the quota for women in local government in 2011.
In Mauritius, GL is credited with the advocacy that led to a quota for women in local government in the 2012 elections, necessitating a constitutional amendment that also makes way for Mauritius to sign the Protocol. Emerging evidence from the COEs shows how these councils are becoming more gender responsive in service delivery.
Next steps
• Raise in-county support for the roll out of the COE’s to at least half of the 977 councils in the region by 2015.
• Popularise and enhance application of the SADC Gender Protocol through the village workshops that accompany the COEs and incorporating its targets in the local action plans.
• Test GBV indicators at the local level and use these to measure the impact of gender and local government initiatives, as well as build up data bases that can be used to gauge the level of gender violence at national level. This information is vital for measuring the extent to which countries and communities reach the SADC target of halving gender violence by 2015.
• Identify ten gender champions in each of the ten initial councils and train them as trainers to cascade the COE model.
• Secure in country funding in fully registered countries to cascade the COE model to other councils.
• Strengthen partnerships with local associations, ministries and other key local government stakeholders that will ensure ownership of the COE processes in each of the countries that GL works.
• Cascading the COE process down to at least 100 councils. Ensuring ownership of the process through local associations and key partners.
• Ensure that gender is mainstreamed in local councils, with flagship programmes on gender violence, HIV and AIDS, care work, economic justice, and climate change.
• Develop and maintain local level Monitoring and Evaluation tools used to measure change.
• Gather good practises for the in country and annual regional Gender Justice Summit to be combined wit the media next year.
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Gender Justice
Synopsis
The GL Gender Justice programme comprises of two programmes, the GBV Indicators Research Programme and coordinating a regional Sixteen Days of Activism campaign. Both programme use the 365 National Action Plans (NAP) to End Gender Based Violence as reference point.
Inspired by the SADC Protocol’s target of halving levels of GBV by 2015 and the lack of baseline measures of GBV, GL in partnership with local stakeholders has conducted baseline studies using the GBV indicators in the South African Provinces of Gauteng, Western Cape and Kwazulu Natal, Botswana and Mauritius. GL conducted the Gauteng and Mauritius studies from 2010 to 2011 and the Western Cape, Kwazulu Natal and Botswana studies in 2011.
The results of the baseline studies are used to strengthen the NAPs.
The Sixteen Days of Activism campaign provides an important checkpoint every year to measure the country’s progress in implementing their NAPs and identifying key priorities for the next year. The campaign is also a time to advocate and lobby for increased activity, budgets and political to address the high levels of GBV.
This section of the report will present key activities from the GBV Indicators and Sixteen Days of Activism campaign.
Objectives
• To provide baseline information on the extent, effect, response, support and prevention of GBV.
• To lobby Government’s and civil society to strengthen NAPs based on the findings of the GBV Indicators studies where available.
• To embark on advocacy campaigns such as the Sixteen Days of Activism to create awareness and hold key stakeholders accountable for strategies and action to end GBV.
Background
GL with support from UN Trust Fund convened a meeting to assess the progress made in implementing the National Action Plans to End Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the SADC region from the 16-17 February 2011. The meeting brought together representatives from relevant gender ministries and NGOs from the gender violence sectors from 14 SADC countries including Angola, Botswana, the DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The meeting began with a discussion of the global context.
At the global level, the UN has taken and called for all countries to develop National Action Plans to End Gender Based Violence. In 2006, the UN Secretary General called on all member states to adopt and implement multi- sector action plans to address violence against women. In 2008 the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign which reiterates the need for a multi-sector approach to ending gender based violence. The campaign is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls in all parts of the world.
The May 2010 Southern Africa and Indian Oceans Islands regional launch of the UNiTE campaign and the Gender Based Violence chapter of the SADC Gender Protocol 2010 Progress Barometer show that all fifteen SADC countries have developed some form of action plan to end gender based violence. Gender Links has provided technical assistance in at least ten of these.
There is only four years to go before the 2015 deadline to meet extensive GBV targets in the SADC Gender Protocol including the target to reduce current levels of GBV by 50%. There is however no baseline data to measure whether this will be achieved in most Southern countries.
Many SADC countries have some form of plan to end GBV. There is a need to critically review the implementation of these Action Plans, with a particular emphasis on the role of the governments’ gender machinery in implementation and gain an understanding of support required from different stakeholders to meet the targets set out. SADC states are currently at different levels of implementing National Action Plans to address GBV. Countries may be divided into five categories:
• No plan: no evidence of a coordinated multi-sectoral NAP to end GBV
• Draft plan: a NAP exists but has not been adopted by a relevant government or government department.
• Adopted: NAP has been adopted and launched but a relevant line department within government has not put in place a coordinated implementation strategy with a budget.
• Substantial progress on implementation: the NAP is housed and coordinated by a line Department that has implemented most of the activities in the plan.
• Fully costed and budgeted plans: governments have costed the plan, attached a budget and will be implementing the plan.
Activities and inputs
GBV Indicators research
GL uses a combination of research methodologies to test a comprehensive set of indicators and establish a baseline of GBV in each of the studied areas. The project components are:
• Prevalence and attitudes household survey;
• Analysis of administrative data gathered from the criminal justice system (police, courts), health services, and government-run shelter;
• Qualitative research of men’s experiences of intimate partner violence as well as first-hand accounts of women’s and men’s experiences, or ‘I” Stories.
• Media monitoring.
• Political discourse analysis.
The research uses the different tools to inter-relate and triangulate findings to answer the key questions relating to extent, effect, response, support, and prevention. The flagship tool is the prevalence/ attitude study, justified on the basis that statistics obtained from administrative data do not cover many forms of gender violence, and even those that are covered are under-reported. However, the “I” stories, or lived experiences, give a human face to all aspects of the research. The administrative data, media monitoring and political content analysis provide key insights in relevant areas.
2011 Sixteen days of Activism
Local government COEs
The primary focus of the 2011 Sixteen Days of Activism Campaign was to ensure that campaigns were extended beyond urban centres to reach communities in the often more remote areas of the region. This was carried out through supporting local councils that have been a part of GL’s centres of excellence (COE) process to undertake Sixteen Days Campaigns. The aim was to include communities within various localities to participate in campaigns. The approach relied upon local councils and communities to plan and facilitate the Sixteen Days campaigns whereas the normal approach is to undertake campaigns on behalf of the localities.
Activities included:
• Two day planning meetings to develop comprehensive and specific Sixteen Days action plans and calendars in 23 councils.
• Identifying ten local sources (including survivors) on GBV willing to be interviewed in 7 countries.
• Collating GBV sources into directory of sources - for use by journalists across the region.
• 16 IT for advocacy training workshops to enable 317 members of localities to set up email accounts and enable them to participate in cyber dialogues.
• Documenting personal accounts of GBV survivors in 23 councils. 109 stories documented were on a range of subjects related to GBV.
• 23 Face-to-face discussions on a variety of topics including gender and climate justice.
• Setting up 27 cyber hubs to link in to regional cyber dialogues linking to other councils in the region discussing a range of topics.
• Six citizen action initiatives (marches) for awareness raising and safer spaces in communities – Take back the night march.
Training journalists from the media COEs on covering GBV
A complimentary focus was to enable journalists and media students to firstly, effectively and creatively cover GBV stories and secondly, to partner with communities and local councils to publicise 16 Days campaigns. Actions to promote local actions to end gender based violence were carried out in 23 councils in 9 countries that were part of the COE process in Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Media training was also undertaken in Tanzania.
The purpose of work with the media was to expand and improve the coverage of GBV. In the 2010 Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS) GL found that only 4% of media coverage in a month of monitoring was on GBV out of a sample of over 30,000 news items from 14 countries. Only 27% of the sources in these stories were women. Men spoke more on all aspects of GBV including rape (75%) and domestic violence (76%).
Activities included:
• Three day training workshops with journalists on gender sensitive coverage of GBV in 7 countries. 156 journalists trained.
• Gathering GBV stories in 7 countries and 14 localities.
• Visits to local councils during Sixteen Days to collect stories. 50 Stories collected.
Gender and Climate Justice campaign
During the 2011 Sixteen days period Southern Africa was host to the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This event held in Durban, South Africa raised issues of justice and human security to the fore at a time when the globe and moreover Africa continues to grapple with critical developmental challenges such as environmental security, sustainable development and climate change. The effects of climate change on vulnerable people such as women and children demonstrate that this phenomenon is clearly a gender justice concern.
The two major global campaigns on key justice and development issues came together in late November/ early December 2011. The Sixteen Days of Activism from 25 November to 10 December coincided with the UN Conference on Climate Change in Durban. This gave rise to a dual focus on gender and climate justice in 2011. In addition to localising GBV campaigns, the momentum of the two campaigns was used to launch a concerted campaign for an addendum to the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development on gender and climate change. Though COP17 has come and gone, issues of climate change continue to be addressed through their inclusion in both the local government and media COE process.
Activities included:
• Daily Links - a daily E Newsletter disseminated each morning through GL’s and the African Women and Child’s Feature Service (AWC) list serves from 28 November to 9 December on Gender and Climate Justice.
• Main stories housed in the GL Opinion and Commentary Service and the AWC news service and disseminated to:
• GL’s list serve of 11,000 people and the AWC list serve of media outlets in East Africa.
• GL and AWC websites.
• Stories accessible through Facebook and Twitter.
• Distributed to mainstream media – about 100 outlets - in Southern and East Africa for use in newspapers and radio stations.
• 17 cyber dialogues that began with half hour link each day to the Durban conference, followed by the main theme for the day.
• Lobbying and advocating for Addendum to the SADC Gender Protocol on climate change.
Targets
The envisaged primary beneficiaries of the project are all women and girls. Engaging men in campaigns to end GBV is an important component of the prevention campaign s for GBV.
Cross cutting issues
Contracting HIV and AIDS is a known effect GBV. This study explores the link between GBV and HIV and AIDS in the studied areas. The findings from South Africa and Botswana show that GBV is a significant precursor to HIV/AIDS. These correlations were difficult to assess in Mauritius where the majority of participants did not know their HIV status because they had never tested for HIV.
This project does not directly address climate and environmental issues. However climate change poses potential challenges to women residing in rural communities. These challenges include compromises in food security and in income generation. The limit to women’s ability to conduct income generating, small and medium enterprise or co-operatives makes them liable to more economic dependence on their partners who may have alternative forms of income. This economic dependence may further expose them to intimate partner violence and limit the options of leaving abusive relationships by the women. However climate change may also be providing opportunities for women to be venturing into new areas of income generation. Projects have been set up ranging from recycling to propagation of drought resistant seed. These offer opportunities previously unknown to women with the promise of reducing their liability to economic dependency and subsequent abuse.
Challenges
A key challenge of this project is that it is a partnership project with a heavy reliance on political buy in for implementation. The scale and nature of the project requires GL to work with credible partners in each country. This is crucial to ensure that the findings are representative of the context. Political buy-in from inception is also critical for ownership of results advocacy and taking forward the recommendations.
The GL partnerships have proven strategic in that they enhance local ownership of the project and pave way for the use of the research findings to inform local policy frameworks and interventions. For example in Botswana, the study is primarily identified as a government study as illustrated in the following excerpt from the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs’ speech at the launch of the research report;
“With support from the UN System, my Ministry, in collaboration with Statistics Botswana and Gender Links, a regional NGO, has taken the initiative to conduct this much needed research to establish the prevalence of and attitudes on violence against women and girls.”
GL has also used the partnerships to leverage on financial and human resources for the project’s implementation. For example the Women’s Affairs Department allocated funds to the tune of about 1.1million Pula for the survey logistical and human resources costs as well as the public launch of the research report. In Gauteng, SALGA Gauteng hosted and covered the full costs of the event.
Outputs
-Quality data on women’s experience and men’s perpetration of GBV through survey.
Data on use of services by survivors
First-hand accounts of GBV experience.
Media case studies of GBV coverage.
Political speeches
-Research reports, pamphlets and commentary pieces
-Launch events, presentations of findings in study sites
-23 planning workshops with 317 people participating
-317 people trained on IT for advocacy
-109 first hand accounts
-27 cyber hubs set up
Reasons for failing to achieve anticipated outputs in this programme area
1. Project inception is dependent on stakeholder consultation processes to obtain political buy in. This has often delayed implementation.
2. Access to administrative data requires GL to request and then wait until mostly more senior officers give clearance. This has been a challenge and has delayed the implementation of the administrative data component and affected the project as a whole.
3. The collection of first-hand accounts of violence requires GL to partner with support organisations. The turnover time for signing of MOUs by the partners has posed delays. Another challenge is the access to a critical mass of survivors who are willing to tell their stories.
4. Human resources capacity has posed an impediment to progress. Project manager is contributing most of the content work in addition to the managerial tasks. The Mauritius report is still outstanding because the process of findings validation is now dependant on the availability of the Prime Minister.
Adjusting milestones
The target to complete KZN and Western Cape Reports will have to be moved into the 2012-2013 work plan because GL still awaits the administrative data from the two provinces and an organisation to partner with in the collection of I stories in Kwazulu Natal. The remaining time in this year will be dedicated to finalising and validating the Mauritius report.
Outreach
How do you ensure a cascading effect in your work through; please give examples
GL uses different platforms to ensure a cascading effect in this work including the media, social networks, the GL website and strategic distribution of publications.
For each new publication, the editor sends press releases and opinion pieces based on the results through the GL list-serve. The media pick and use the commentaries. For example the SABC news, Daily News, News 24, Rutgers and ICTJ News republished the commentary piece entitled “police statistics still fall short” which recommends the use of survey methods for collecting GBV data as opposed to relying on police data.
Women 24, SABC News, Iq4 News and Cape Times republished the commentary piece entitled “Police statistics still do not include domestic violence” which called for the South African police to honour their commitment to include domestic violence statistics in the annual crime reports following the recommendations of the Gauteng study.
All Africa, Mopane Tree, Silo Breaker, Africa Focus, I4u & African news wire republished the commentary titled “State of Emergency call to end violence against women” which calls for action to address the high prevalence of GBV shown by the Botswana study.
GL is using social networks for example the Enough is Enough Facebook page which was created following the outcomes of the Gauteng research. The page is a campaign initiative aimed to promote activism against GBV. To date more than 11,000 people ‘like’ this pa ge.
For each new publication, the web administrator puts up an e-announcement on the website. The Botswana and Gauteng reports are available on the GL website.
Project staff compiles the results from each study site into reader friendly research reports. GL launches the event at well publicised events attended by relevant stakeholders. GL also strategically distributes the publications to national and regional stakeholders.
Outcomes – results
• Buy in by the Botswana, South African and Mauritius government.
• Indicators built into national action plans in Botswana, Mauritius and SA
-Indicators project cascaded to other SADC countries. ;
Gender Links
The Netherlands Government Ministry of Foreign Affairs' MDG3 Fund
UK AID
Norwegian Council for Africa
Southern Africa
Media
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The GL Opinion and Commentary Service
This year the focus will be on climate change as GL and the SGPA push for an Addendum on Gender and Climate to the SGP. GL will ensure close synergies with the Opinion and Commentary Service (OCS). The Lusophone service has demonstrated how the media COE’s and OCS can work together through taking journalists on a field visit to cover the effects of mounting floods as result of climate change. These 15 stories, read 591 times on the website, generated debates on the effect of climate change on traditional medicine and subsistence agriculture.
The OCS exceeded its numerical targets in the English, French and Portuguese services, in part because of a special Portuguese series during the SADC HOS held in Mozambique last year and a three-language daily newsletter during the February Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting on GBV. ;
Gender Links
Activity ended on time
Gender Links
Caroline Takawira
+27 11 622 2877
finance@genderlinks.org.za
9 Derrick Avenue, Cyrildene, 2198
Southern Africa
202092
ZA-NPO-036-515-FCDO
GENDER LINKS
Women of the South Speak Out
Women of the South Speak Out (WOSSO), is a consortium formed by two prominent Southern Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) – Gender Links and ARROW and a renowned UK-based development firm, Mannion Daniels.
We share feminist values and a deep concern regarding the narrowing civic space, particularly for women and girls. Together, for five years from 2023 to 2027 , the consortium will work to ensure the voices of women and girls from the global south, in all their diversity, inform the decisions and policies that affect our lives. WOSSO will support and facilitate women’s rights organisations and women leaders, to ensure their meaningful engagement in key advocacy meetings.
MannionDaniels
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
Gender Links
Grant Making Unit
Tabetha R. Kanengoni-Malinga
Programme Manager, Women of the South Speak Out (WOSSO) Consortium
+27110290006
WossoProg@genderlinks.org.za
https://wosso.org/
9 Derrick Avenue
Cyrildene, Johannesburg
South Africa 2198
To support women from developing countries in the global south
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1455000
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ZA-NPO-036-515-Alliance2013
GENDER LINKS
The Southern African Gender Protocol Aliance
Eleven of the 13 governments that signed the SGP (more than two thirds) have ratified the sub-regional instrument, making the SGP one of the few SADC Protocols to go into force in record time, as a result of lobbying and advocacy by the SGPA coordinated by GL. In a video address to the SADC Protocol@Work Regional Summit , Malawi President Joyce Banda, committed to ensuring that Malawi ratifies the SGP before the August Heads of State Summit to be hosted by Malawi. During the SADC Protocol@Work summit, high level delegations from Botswana and Mauritius, the only two countries that have not signed the Protocol, pledged to make a concerted effort to do so. The Alliance has lobbying strategies for both countries.
The SGDI, a measure of progress by the 15 countries against 23 indicators in six sectors (education, political participation, the economy, health, HIV and AIDS, and the media) for which empirical data is available moved from 66% to 67% (1% lower than target). Major achievements include the adoption of a quota for women in local government in Mauritius (see Outcome 3); the new Constitution in Zimbabwe that incorporates 75% of women’s demands ; reductions in maternal mortality and access to PMTCT. There is progress towards giving women greater voice in the media (see Outcome 2) but the region is still far from achieving its goals of gender parity in politics, the media and the economy; and of halving GBV by 2015.
However, one of the most significant contributions of the SGP has been to provide a tool for citizens to demand accountability. Through the SGPA, all three GL programmes working together, the energy and muscle of the 300 media and local government COE’s coming together in 12 national and a regional summit in the first quarter of 2013, GL has managed to gather substantially more case studies of the SADC Protocol@Work than target.
An analysis of the 672 case studies gathered in 2012/2013 shows that the provisions of the Protocol most referred to correlate closely to GL’s programmes – media, GBV, productive resources and governance. This affirms GL’s efforts to move from paper provisions to changing lives in its own work. The constitutional and legal rights provisions also feature strongly, thanks to strong SGPA networks in this area. However, the SGPA needs to work harder in the education, HIV and AIDS, health and peace building sectors, as well as building advocacy networks in countries like Angola and Seychelles, that did not host summits or submit entries.
GL has strengthened the SGPA network through identifying country focal networks in all countries, including the five countries where GL does not have offices . The fact that three of these – DRC, Tanzania and Malawi- hosted successful summits in March 2013 is an indicator of country network’s taking greater ownership. VSO Regional Aids Initiative Southern Africa (VSO RAISA) has not formally signed an MOU due to internal processes to lead on care work but has been an active member of the network. GL has made headway on MOU’s with the men’s sector and FBOs (see additional information).
The campaign for an Addendum on Gender and Climate Change gained momentum with an online petition signed by 1027 citizens (55% men; 45% women) , and gender ministers formally backing this proposal. The SGPA is now preparing to take advantage of the HOS in Malawi, hosted by the region’s only woman leader to make the case for reopening the SGP. The campaign is an example of gender activists pushing the envelope through their insistence that the SGP be a responsive, “living” instrument. ;
Gender Links
On going
Gender Links
Caroline Takawira
+27 11 622 2877
finance@genderlinks.org.za
9 Derrick Avenue, Cyrildene, 2198
Southern Africa
2286941
ZA-NPO-036-515-DiakoniaZimbabwe
GENDER LINKS
Promoting Gender Responsive Budgeting in Zimbabwe- Enhancing Citizen Participation in Local Government in Zimbabwe
This intervention draws on the successes and lessons drawn from the Centres of Excellence (COE) and hub and spoke programmes on gender in local government rolled out across all the 92 local authorities in Zimbabwe over the last 12 years. Declared the “programme of choice” for gender mainstreaming by the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works, the COE programme has grown organically with a high level of buy-in across political parties. Core to the programme is the development of gender action plans that cover all aspects of local government service delivery. The “hub” and “spoke” programme for gender mainstreaming is an innovative approach that fosters learning and sharing among local authorities at the provincial level. 18 local authorities across the 10 provinces of Zimbabwe became hub councils and provided mentorship to other “spoke” councils in their provinces.
GENDER LINKS
Diakonia (Sweden)
Through the hub and spoke programme, GL in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works (MLGPW) developed a Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) toolkit for local authorities. The GRB toolkit presents an opportunity for GL, the MLGPW, and local authorities to measure the extent to which financial resources are gender-responsive. The MLGPW has since adopted the GRB approach for council budgeting starting in 2023. The proposed programme will strengthen the work on GRB with councils as there are capacity gaps in this area.
Gender Links
Zimbabwe Office
Priscilla Maposa
Local Action for Gender Justice Regional Networking Manager
00263242798600
zimmanager@genderlinks.org.za
30 Samora Machel Avenue, 6th Floor
Harare
Diakonia Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Diakonia Zimbabwe
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ZA-NPO-036-515-EUZIM
GENDER LINKS
Promoting Women and Youth Voices and Participation in Zimbabwe
Programme delivery to women and girls implementing programmes in gender justice, policy and movement building and communications for social change which includes traditional, mainstream, and new media platforms.
Gender Links
European Commission - International Partnerships
Promoting Women and Youth Voices and Participation in Zimbabwe
Promoting Women and Youth Voices and Participation in Zimbabwe
Gender Link Zimbabwe
Priscilla Maposa
Project Manager
Promoting Women and Youth Voices and Participation in Zimbabwe)
Promoting Women and Youth Voices and Participation in Zimbabwe
EU Zimbabwe
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ZA-NPO-036-515-SIDAZimbabwe
GENDER LINKS
Promoting Gender Inclusive Local Economic Development in Zimbabwe
The “Promoting Gender Inclusive Local Economic Development Programme in Zimbabwe” seeks to reduce poverty and enhance livelihoods through gender-responsive and inclusive local economic development in 12 Centres of Excellence for Gender in Local Government. This will be realised through the establishment of viable local economic development flagship enterprises in 12 local authorities which are Centres of Excellence for gender in local government. The local authorities include Beitbridge Municipality, Bulawayo City Council, Kadoma City Council, Kariba Municipality, Makoni Rural District Council, Manyame Rural District Council, Masvingo City Council, Mutare City Council, Murewa Rural District Council, Norton Town Council, Umguza Rural District Council, and Zibagwe Rural District Council. Infrastructure projects were set up in each local authority. The programme will create jobs for 1800 women, youths and men in the 12 local authorities. Additionally, the programme will enhance access to finance, markets, and joint ventures. Through this programme local authorities will strengthen gender responsive procurement practices. The programme will focus on five value chains including Arts and Crafts, Clean Energy, Health and Sanitation, Horticulture, and Waste management.
Gender Links
Sweden, through Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
Sida Zimbabwe
Gender Links
Gender Links Zimbabwe
Priscilla Maposa
Local Action for Gender Justice Regional Networking Manager
00263242798600
zimmanager@genderlinks.org.za
30 Samora Machel Avenue, 6th Floor
Harare
Sida Zimbabwe
Sida Zimbabwe
Sida Zimbabwe
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GENDER LINKS
Trainings and CSR funds given to GL
Trainings and csr funds given to GL
Gender Links
Private sector work
Private sector work
Safe Haven Mauritius
GL Mauritius
Anushka Virahsawmy
Manager
0023059345787
maumanager@genderlinks.org.za
https://genderlinks.org.za/
L’Agrement St Pierre, Moka, Mauritius
Private sector work
Private sector work(Trainings and CSR funds given to GL )
Private sector work
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ZA-NPO-036-515-KT
GENDER LINKS
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
Gender Links
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
GL Mauritius
Anushka Virahsawmy
manager
0023059345787
maumanager@genderlinks.org.za
L’Agrement St Pierre, Moka, Mauritius
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
Research on the Economic Cost of Gender Based Violence in Mauritius
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ZA-NPO-036-515-NSIF
GENDER LINKS
Running of the shelter - Safe Haven
running of the shelter
Gender Links
running of the shelter
running of the shelter
running of the shelter
running of the shelter
Anushka Virahsawmy
Manager
0023059345787
maumanager@genderlinks.org.za
L’Agrement St Pierre, Moka, Mauritius
Safe Haven Halfway Home
Safe Haven Halfway Home
Safe Haven Halfway Home
3500000
ZA-NPO-036-515-EU
GENDER LINKS
Advancing gender equality
Empowerment, politics programme
Gender Links
European Commission - International Partnerships
Implementation-The activity is currently being implemented
Implementation-The activity is currently being implemented
Implementation-The activity is currently being implemented
running of the shelter
running of the shelter
Anushka Virahsawmy
Manager
0023059345787
maumanager@genderlinks.org.za
L’Agrement St Pierre, Moka, Mauritius
Safe Haven Halfway Home
Safe Haven Halfway Home
empowerment, politics programme
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87500
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ZA-NPO-036-515-MOL
GENDER LINKS
Strengthening the capacity of women fishers
strengthening the capacity of women fishers empowerment programme
Gender Links
European Commission - International Partnerships
Strengthening the capacity of women fishers empowerment programme
Strengthening the capacity of women fishers empowerment programme
Strengthening the capacity of women fishers empowerment programme
running of the shelter
running of the shelter
Anushka Virahsawmy
Manager
0023059345787
maumanager@genderlinks.org.za
L’Agrement St Pierre, Moka, Mauritius
Safe Haven Halfway Home
Safe Haven Halfway Home
strengthening the capacity of women fishers empowerment programme
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7822
ZA-NPO-036-515-WVLCanada
GENDER LINKS
Women's Voice and Leadership South Africa
The goal of the Women's Voice and Leadership South Africa Project is to support the capacity and activities of local and regional women's organisations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women's and girls rights and achieve gender equality. This includes increasing funding to local and regional women's rights organisations and movements, recognizing the global funding gap that they face.
Gender Links
Canada - Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Gender Links
The goal of the Women's Voice and Leadership South Africa Project is to support the capacity and activities of local and regional women's organisations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women's and girls rights and achieve gender equality. This includes increasing funding to local and regional women's rights organisations and movements, recognizing the global funding gap that they face.
The goal of the Women's Voice and Leadership South Africa Project is to support the capacity and activities of local and regional women's organisations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women's and girls rights and achieve gender equality. This includes increasing funding to local and regional women's rights organisations and movements, recognizing the global funding gap that they face.
Gender Links
Grant Making Unit
Tinashe Chipwanya
Grants Manager
0027110290006
grants.finance@genderlinks.org.za
9 Derrick Avenue
Cyrildene, Johannesburg
South Africa 2198
WVL South Africa
WVL Southern Africa
The goal of the Women's Voice and Leadership South Africa Project is to support the capacity and activities of local and regional women's organisations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women's and girls rights and achieve gender equality. This includes increasing funding to local and regional women's rights organisations and movements, recognizing the global funding gap that they face.
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GENDER LINKS
Voice and Choice Southern Africa
The VCSA Fund was established under the Amplify Change Partnership Grant. This fund is managed by Gender Links through the GL Sustainability hub. The fund was created to break the silence on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.
Gender Links
Amplify change
Gender Links
The VCSA Fund was established under the Amplify Change Partnership Grant. This fund is managed by Gender Links through the GL Sustainability hub. The fund was created to break the silence on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.
The VCSA Fund was established under the Amplify Change Partnership Grant. This fund is managed by Gender Links through the GL Sustainability hub. The fund was created to break the silence on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights.
Gender Links
Grant Making Unit
Colleen Lowe Morna
Special Advisor
0027110290006
specialadvisor@genderlinks.org.za
9 Derrick Avenue
Cyrildene, Johannesburg
South Africa 2198
Voice and Choice Southern Africa
Voice and Choice Southern Africa
The goal of the Women's Voice and Leadership South Africa Project is to support the capacity and activities of local and regional women's organisations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women's and girls rights and achieve gender equality. This includes increasing funding to local and regional women's rights organisations and movements, recognizing the global funding gap that they face.
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