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BOTSWANA
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE
SUMMIT AND AWARDS
DATE: 23-25 APRIL 2012
VENUE: KOPANO HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTRE
365 DAYS OF LOCAL ACTION TO END VIOLENCE ANDEMPOWER WOMEN
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HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING THISPROBLEM?
High Dependency on
Government hand-outs as 2151
women and 987 men registered
as destitute persons, 1504
needy students
Higher Gender Based Violence
of 70% prevalence among
women. Women have higher HIV/AIDS
prevalence rate of 20.4% &
men 14.2%
Initiated in 1993 by women to
utilize their basket weaving
skills and indigenousknowledgePR
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HIV/AIDS impact Survey
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HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUT ADDRESSINGTHI S PROBLEM?
A joint workshop for
community mobilization &capacity building:
Cooperatives, Forestry &
range resources, University
of Botswana- BiOkavango
Cooperatives- Officially
registered as MultipurposeCooperative on 15/03/2010
North West District
Council- Oversee, mentor,
market & monitory
University of Botswana-
BiOkavango: financialsupport.
Southern African RegionalEnvironmental Programme
(SAREP)- capacity building
District Multi sectoral
HIV/AIDS Committee
Women Against Rape: 16 Days of
Activism on Violence against
women & children
Women Affairs Department:
Capacity building
Village Development Committee
& village Extension team-
technical advisors
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CALECONOM
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WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THE PROJECT?
Life long project
Awarded yearly license
by the North West
District Council
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One of our display
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WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO IS INVOLVED?ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY INVOLVED?
All Shorobe and Matsaudi
women
Involves all community
members
Total of 45 members- 40
women and 5 men.
Tourists (Indirectly)PROJECTS:LO
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Woman at work
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PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THEPROJECT
Cooperatives Department
North West District
Council
University of Botswana-
BiOkavango project
Women Affairs
Department
Forestry and range
resources department
Southern African Regional
Environmental Programme
(SAREP)
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Abundant resources
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RESOURCEFULNESS: WHAT FINANCIAL, HUMANAND OTHER RESOURCES WERE MOBILISED?
European Development
Funds with Republic ofBotswana and
Conservation International
NGO in 1996 funded
physical constrution and
capacity building
(P68132.00), Local
community contributionP23720.00.
Quarterly & Anuual
General Meetings with all
stakeholders
Department of Cooperative
& UB-BiOkavango projectfacilitated a joint workshopPR
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One of our partners during a workshop
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MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Annual audit by the
Cooperatives Department
Annual General Meeting
Quarterly reports
8 member executive
committee for dailymonitoring
Social welfare & community
development officer
oversees, supervises,
mentors project
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Our sales person
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WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
Income generation for basic
needs
Sustainable use of natural
resources
High quality products
Won awards-(9th & 12thnational womens
expositions)
Empowered women with
power & control over their
project
Empowered with business
management skillPR
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IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOLTARGETS)
Inline withArticles 15-19SADC protocol on GenderBased Violnce: economicempowerment of bothwomen and men to ensuresocial justice, inclusion ,
equality & equity.
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LESSONS LEARNED
If women are empowered withself reliance skills they reducedependency syndrome
Importance for emphasis onbusiness management training
Need for first aid training
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THANK YOU
ANY QUESTIONS
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