PROJECTS Presentation Prevention Senelile Khumalo

SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL
GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

PROJECTS: Prevention
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”
CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

CAREGIVERS
HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING THIS
PROBLEM?
• Through a funding received from National Emergency
Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA) Baphalali Swaziland
Red Cross Society (BSRCS) constructed 25

Neighbourhoods Care Points (NCPs) in rural and
urban areas.
• The NCPs are places where OVCs would come for their
daily meal and basic education
• BSRCS caregivers have a duty to take care of the
children and for them to promptly respond to the
needs of the child has to have knowledge of the
different types of abuses, how to handle an abused
child, and children’s rights.
•

CAREGIVERS
IS THIS ISSUE IMPORTANT?
• Yes.
• NCPs are one best way to gather young children
and they are long time built structures at
community level.
• Initiative to capacitate the caregivers on issues of
Gender Based Violence, sexual abuse (symptoms
and signs of an abused child), HIV/AIDS,
Psychosocial Support (PSS), Human Rights,
caring for the abused child and the different
mechanisms of reporting abuse.
•

CAREGIVERS
HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUT ADDRESSING
THIS PROBLEM?
• Through trainings (capacity building)
• A total number of 36 Caregivers from the

NCPs (Shiselweni Region) and 33 from
the clinics (Manzini and Hhohho regions)
who are caring for Orphaned and
Vulnerable Children (OVC) have been
capacitated on GBV, HIV and AIDS,
Children and women’s rights
•
•
CAREGIVERS
WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THE
PROJECT?
• 4 months
• In two phases: first phase undertaken in
2010, and the second phase will be
done mid 2011 aiming at training all the
caregivers in the Red Cross Divisions
and Clinics.
•

CAREGIVERS
WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO IS
INVOLVED? ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY
INVOLVED?
• Women who work as caregivers in Red

Cross NCPs and three clinics
• Since the work of being a caregiver
dominates much within the women
fewer men volunteer to be caregivers.
This makes the ration to be uneven
(more women than men).

CAREGIVERS
PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THE
PROJECT
• The trainings were conducted in

collaboration with Women and Law in
Southern Africa-Swaziland, and the
Royal Swaziland Police.
•

CAREGIVERS
RESOURCEFULNESS: WHAT FINANCIAL,
HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES WERE
MOBILISED?
• Funding was received from the

International Red Cross Crescent
Societies (IFRC) and the Swiss Red
Cross funded training for clinic
caregivers.
• Human resources were also mobilized
(Home Based Care nurses who are focal
people in the programme also attended
as facilitators)
•
CAREGIVERS
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• The Field Coordinators and Head Nurses

work in conjunction with the team
leaders from the caregivers and they
have to submit monthly and quarterly
report to track progress of project to
the Programs Manager.
•
CAPACITY BUILDING
FOR CAREGIVERS
WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
• Capacitated Caregivers who have
knowledge of gender based violence,
HIV/AIDS, sexual abuse and human rights.

•
• Maximum participation from the caregivers

which showed they have full interest in
the course and have full ownership of the
project.
•
•
CAREGIVERS
IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOL
TARGETS)
• Part Six, Article 24 Training of Service

Providers: training for all service
providers to enable them to offer
services to people with special needs.
• Capacitating Caregivers to be able to
respond to the needs of OVC
•

CAREGIVERS
EFFECTIVENESS
• The project is effective and relevant at

the same time because the number of

children enrolling at the NCPs is likely
to increase and it is wise to train the
people who are in their care so that
they can be able to assist the children.
•

CAREGIVERS
SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION
• Yes
• More of the trained caregivers are elderly women

who do not migrate easily; this makes it a good
opportunity to invest on them in terms of capacity
building.
• This type of practice can be replicated since the
number of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS
are increasing and there is a need to create
informal sectors like the NCPs where these
children will also be taught on different topics
which include sexual abuse, human rights, human
trafficking, gender based violence and any other
forms of violence.
• CAPACITY BUILDING FOR
CAREGIVERS
LESSONS LEARNED
• It has been difficult for the caregivers to

address violence issues to children since
they had no knowledge of how to address

them, and taking into consideration that
these NCPs have been newly built.
• The training has equipped them.
•

CAREGIVERS
THANK YOU
ANY QUESTIONS?

CAREGIVERS

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SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

SUMMIT AND AWARDS

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

Red Cross Society (BSRCS) constructed 25

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

• A total number of 36 Caregivers from the

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

• Women who work as caregivers in Red

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

• The trainings were conducted in

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

• Funding was received from the

• The Field Coordinators and Head Nurses

HIV/AIDS, sexual abuse and human rights.

• Maximum participation from the caregivers

• Part Six, Article 24 Training of Service

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

• The project is effective and relevant at

the same time because the number of

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

• More of the trained caregivers are elderly women

• It has been difficult for the caregivers to

they had no knowledge of how to address

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR

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