SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
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”

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 WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF BUY IN AND
INVOLVEMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND
POLITICIANS IN THE COE PROCESS?
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 HAS THE COMPLETED STAGES 1 – 6?
INDICATE TIME - FRAMES
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• Yes
• Stage 1 - May 2010
• Stage 2 - May 2010
• Stage 3 - August 2010
• Stage 4 - March 2011
• Stage 5 - October 2010
• Stage 6 - March 2011

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 IS THERE A HIGH LEVEL GENDER
CHAMPION?
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• Yes the CEO Julieth Makombe.

• Supported by a gender committee which
includes a female director of finance a
female chairperson of finance and
enlightened male members of management
and councilors.

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 DOES THE COE HAVE A GENDER AND
GBV ACTION PLAN? IS IT BEING
IMPLEMENTED?
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• Yes the action plan was formulated in 2010

– through involvement of policy makers and
entire management and various facets of the
action plan are being progressively
implemented, ongoing with set targets and
time frame.

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 ARE GENDER AND GBV CONCERNS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR BOTH WOMEN
AND MEN? HOW ARE THEY INVOLVED?
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• Awareness workshops targeting local community on GBV held.

• Poverty eradication programmes targeting the marginalized groups.
• Equal access to land and housing opportunities.
• Increasing awareness in the community around gender issues e.g.
empower men on gender issues. Both men and women participate.
• Improved access to - 1. water supply – boreholes
2. Health care services – clinic with basic primary health
care including maternity.
3. Schools – to reduce traveling distances for school
going children.

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 ARE THERE DEDICATED RESOURCES,
INCLUDING HUMAN AND FINANCIAL
RESOURCES FOR GENDER
MAINSTREAMING?
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• Yes, Gender focal person, Gender committee.

• Budget targeting promotion of service delivery and
infrastructure development.
• Gender issues given high profile by council,
councilors and managers allowed to attend
workshops on gender.
• Gender training for both women and men in
council, at all levels.

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 RESOURCEFULNESS? OTHER FINANCIAL,
HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES
MOBILISED?
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• Establishment of community based initiatives including Child

Protection, HIV/Aids, Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Women and
Youth training and GBV Committees.
• Budget provision for gender mainstreaming at the local level, gender
awareness in the community.
• Implementation of Local environment action plan – clean up
campaigns, recycling projects- men and women at grassroots level
being involved.

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 MONITORING AND EVALUATION
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• Questionnaires are used at the onset, midstream and after

say a year or so to gauge the level of understanding and
acceptance of the gender issues.
• Statistics – disaggregated by sex and gender indicators for
planning and human resource management systems.
• Use of checklist to assess change.
• Developed a set of targets and indicators to measure
progress, ensuring there are mainstreamed into the
Integrated Development plans.
• Score cards to measure change in the immediate medium
and long term.

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 WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
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• Improved understanding of gender issues at the local level.

• Institutional transformation of leaders and Managers
• There is more sensitivity to Community issues such as gender based
violence, sexual harassment, increased participation by both men and
women.
• Improved Service delivery and societal transformation.
• Good Governance – participation by citizens in budgeting process
(Gender budgeting), increased involvement by citizens on governance
issues.

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 IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC
PROTOCOL TARGETS)
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• 50% women in decision-making positions

• Gender stereotypes addressed by 2015.
• Equal participation in policy formulation.
To increase the number of women managers
from current 40% to 50% by 2012.
• To increase number of women Councilors
from current one (1) to four (4) by 2012.

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 SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION
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• Gender equality is integral to good governance due to

proximity of women, children etc to community issues and
concerns.
• Capacity building provides a platform for council to take
ownership of these processes & in turn creating room for
replication in and among other councils and institutions
(multiplier effect).
• The learning by doing approach involves everybody on this
topical issue which for years has been suffering from
resistance to change and man-made barriers.

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 LESSONS LEARNED
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• An increased knowledge and awareness on gender mainstreaming

through training on key gender topics like gender analysis, gender
budgeting, gender equality etc.
• Gender built into policy and practice at local level.
• The situational analysis exposed shortcomings and gaps which the
local authority is now targeting to address.
• Community and council now informed and empowered around the
SADC protocol through workshops.
• Community involvement in the planning of activities for the 16 days of
activism – Cyber dialogues.

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 THANK YOU , SIYABONGA, TATENDA
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ANY QUESTIONS?

Presentation by :
Julieth Makombe
CEO Ruwa Town Council

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