SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

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

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Examples of men who made an
impact in the world?

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Some of the PADARE men that are working
as care facilitators

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 HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING
THIS PROBLEM?
 Padare discovered through research that most of
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the Care facilitators working in the communities are

women and girls and there is a gap in male
involvement.
 Through Padare’s implementation strategy it was
discovered that to achieve gender justice there has to
be a deliberate engagement of men in sharing the
burden of care work with women and girls.
 When MEN started participating in community
gender dialogues by challenging harmful cultural and
religious practices that further suppress women and
girls.
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 IS THIS ISSUE IMPORTANT?

 Yes it is important because the burden of care

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work is traditionally assigned to women and girls in

most households and communities. Men prioritize
income-paying jobs in contrast to care- work which
is viewed as women’s work’.
 It is important because it brings the need of equal
gender participation in Care work.
 Yes it is important to involve male care facilitators
as it is a direct way of challenging gender
stereotyping

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 HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUT ADDRESSING
THI S PROBLEM?
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 Identifying ordinary men in communities that are willing to be

transformational leaders.
 Training of male caregivers as a response to the community
need of male participation
 Helping men to understand gender equality and equity
principles through gender training that enables men to deal
with misconceptions that equality.
 By approaching men as facilitators of change in their
communities as compared to oppressors that always violate
women through involving men in community dialogues on
gender HIV & AIDS activities and women’s empowerment
issues.

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 WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THE
PROJECT?
 This pilot project was implemented in three years
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 First year was, research, membership mobilization and training

of 100 male care facilitators taking care of 1000 households
 Between first and second year 100 households were receiving
cash transfers & food supplements, 700 households receiving
community home based care,300 households on treatment
vouchers.
 Third year was more on economic drive with 200 household
with low input gardens for nutritional value and 5 groups doing
market gardening , 20 groups of Income savings and Lending
and 15 groups with functional Income generating
programmes,

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 WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO IS
INVOLVED? ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY
INVOLVED?
 The elderly,
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 people living with chronic infections

 Child headed households,
 Widows , Widower

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 PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THE
PROJECT
 Partnerships with the Local Clinics, hospitals, health centers as
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care facilitators received and referred clients to this centers,

 Other gender ,HIV and AIDS implementing Partners,
 Government ministries
 Local authorities
 Churches
 Business people

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 RESOURCEFULNESS: WHAT FINANCIAL,
HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES WERE
MOBILISED?
 There was money needed for cash transfers for 100
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households for the first two years of the project.

 Corn soy Blend was distributed to 100 families every
month for two years
 Garden tools, seeds, technical people to train
people on house holds gardens, Income generating
programmes, Income saving and lending activities,
Project proposals, and human resources as care
facilitations

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 MONITORING AND EVALUATION

 Padare use planning and review meetings, interviews,

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workshop pre and post-test evaluations, focus group

discussions and surveys to monitor and evaluate progress
made.
 Activities and programme reports are done Weekly, Monthly,
quarterly, half yearly and annually
 Registration forms, commitment forms and membership forms
are also be used to track growth in membership in comparison
to the numbers reached
 All the programmes activities are captured in a database that
also produces monthly performance reports.

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 WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?

Most clients that were bedridden in the

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beginning of the programme are now

working for themselves.
People who used to live under a US$ per day
are now affording at least two meals per day
Managed to mobilize and train more than
150 male care facilitators.
Now in the process of documenting
significant change stories
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 IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOL
TARGETS)

The programme produced impact in

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productive resources and

 Employment,
Education and training,
Health and HIV & AIDS
 legal issues and gender based violence

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 EFFECTIVENESS

 This is a very practical and effective

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programme that needed to be taken to all

districts of the nation.
All these activities can be introduced as the
programmes is starting so that a culture or
saving and making more income out of the
little people have can be created.

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 SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION

 This programme is self sustaining as it is a

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community programme
 Community group in Income generation
programmes
 People manage there own resources and businesses
 This programme can be replicated to the whole
nation as it also empower the less privileged by
providing income to the unemployed

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 LESSONS LEARNED
 Men respond well when space is provided where men are
free to explore their fears and anxieties about gender equality
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and HIV & AIDS. This is key in identifying misconceptions

among men on gender equality.
 Men brings transformation by challenging harmful cultural
practices that hinder men from embracing gender equality and
promoting cultural values and HIV & AIDS responses that
recognise all people as deserving equal dignity because they
are human.
 There is need to conduct consistent research on knowledge,
attitudes and beliefs that perpetuate harmful negative
masculinities among men.

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