SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

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

Empowering women at grass root level to combat GBV

 HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING
THIS PROBLEM?
PROJECTS: WOMEN

• Continuous work at grass root level

EMPOWERMENT

• unequal power relationships the source of all GBV cases

• mission statement : excel at service delivery

• Ensure that the services and facilities provided by the Council are
equitably distributed

• Need for provision of Gender sensitive services to Promote

overall quality of life

Empowering women at grass root level

to combat GBV
 IS THIS ISSUE IMPORTANT?

• Gender inequality inhibit social development

PROJECTS: WOMEN

• To be empowered -access to financial, human and social resources

EMPOWERMENT

equal standpoint

• Women stereotyped as the primary care givers -increased need for

basic services like:

• education,

• sanitation
• ,
• transportation facilities.
•

Empowering women at local level to

combat GBV
 HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUT ADDRESSING THIS
PROBLEM?

• organisation of various targetted activities

PROJECTS: WOMEN

• Maximising service delivery

EMPOWERMENT

• Investing in capacity building through maximum use of infrastructues

•Women
following literary
courses
organized at
Stanley
municipal social
hall

Empowering women at local level to

combat GBV
 Investing in capacity building programmes

• Easy access to IT facilities to

gain knowledge for
life long
employability in
cyber age

• 5 minicyber centres

• Appropriate opening time

Using internet facilities at newly
inaugurated mini-cyber centre
Successful micro-projects:-permanent and decent work a
way to decent lives

Operation of tuck shop Small scale

floral shop
Supporting women programs-sales
exhibitions
 WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THE
PROJECT?
• Ongoing:
PROJECTS: WOMEN

• Yearly calender of activities to monitor programs for women

EMPOWERMENT

Associations

• Operation of a nursery on a six days basis

- Cleaning of barelands through a daily programme of work

- Provision and maintenance of street lighting and lighting of all public

places

Empowering women at grass root

level to combat GBV
 Maximising service delivery

• Striving for a safer environment through cleaning of bare lands and

maintenance of street lighting
 WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO IS INVOLVED? ARE WOMEN AND MEN
EQUALLY INVOLVED?

• Women organisations of the township, and through these

PROJECTS: WOMEN

organisations ultimately housewives, school-going girls.

EMPOWERMENT

• Unfortunately involvement of men is lesser than that of women,

awareness campaigns are meant to sensitise men equally of
their important responsibility in promoting gender equality.

Empowering women at grass root

level to combat GBV
 PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THE
PROJECT
• Partnership with
PROJECTS: WOMEN

• Ministries, police and other NGOs of the region have been

EMPOWERMENT

developed:
- Federation of women associations

Empowering women at grass root

level to combat GBV
 RESOURCEFULNESS: WHAT FINANCIAL,
HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES WERE
MOBILISED?
PROJECTS: WOMEN

• Funding from central government

EMPOWERMENT

• Minor revenues generated from issue of licences and permits

• Committed man power at the level of council

Empowering women at grass root

level to combat GBV
 MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• Budget Monitoring all activities of federation of women

PROJECTS: WOMEN

• Statistics on number of complaints received at the information service centre

EMPOWERMENT

Regular maintenance of street lighting network

• Daily program of work cleaning of barelands and streetlighting

Empowering women at grass root

level to combat GBV
 WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?

• An increased number of women are applying for trade licences to trade within the
PROJECTS: WOMEN

township
EMPOWERMENT

• Awareness of their rights is also increasing

• Seek more and more information of legislations impacting their lives
• Enhanced quality of life
• Safer environment

Empowering women at local level to

combat GBV
 IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOL
TARGETS)
• Projects are helping to attain objectives of articles 14-19 self-dependency
PROJECTS: WOMEN

• ,
EMPOWERMENT

• economic empowerment of women,

•
• easy mobility from one place to another as the roads are in good condition well
lit, offer security during transportation.

Empowering women at local level to

combat GBV
 EFFECTIVENESS

• Increased participation in local politics

PROJECTS: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

• Increased awareness of their right to Gender sensitive service delivery

• Enhanced quality of life
• Creating job opportunities for women of our township
• Economic independence- THE WAY FORWARD TO SELF DEPENDENCY

Working in
municipal
market

Empowering women at local level to

combat GBV
 SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION

• Job creation /promoting local women entrepreneurship

PROJECTS: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

highly sustainable

• Concept of empowering women can be replicated

across other local Authorities other private organisation

Empowering women at local level to

combat GBV
 LESSONS LEARNED

• Need for a Gender Focal person

• However budget constraints- no gender specific code item in our budget
PROJECTS: WOMEN

• Sex disaggregated data to effectively monitor gender related issues

EMPOWERMENT

To empower a woman is to
empower a whole family and strive
towards a better society.

Women empowerment is the

responsibility of one and all, the
decision makers, the legislators as
well as the civil society, NGO's etc.

Empowering women at local level to

combat GBV
 Thank you
PROJECTS: WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

Empowering women at local level to combat

GBV