Our Thematic Areas

What is the change we want to see?

What are the problems preventing these changes?

What initial strategies are worth trying? (to contribute to making these changes happen)

Why do we think these strategies will work?

(assumptions)

Activities

• Lack of political will and resources in governments at all levels of government
• Dominant social norms (values, beliefs attitudes, behaviors and practices) supports male dominance, condone VAWG and support impunity
• Inadequate services (education, health, justice, security social welfare) to prevent, protect and respond effectively
• Overburden and under resourced civil society undertake majority of prevention and response effort
• Lack of social, legal and economic autonomy for women and girls which increases vulnerability to violence and decreases agency to respond

• Empower women and girls
• Support evidenced based and citizen led advocacy
• Change social norms
• Build political will, legal and institutional capacity to prevent and respond to VAWG
• Reform security and justices’ sectors
• Support national networks, lobbying for change
• Provide /advocate for comprehensive services
• Strengthen social assets and safety nets
• Secure funding and work with WRO’s /WLOs delivering specialist services
• Support and work with specialist units in police
• Promote/Practice good Data management
• Partnership and collaborative work

• Empower women and girls e.g. build asset.
• Increase right to land.
• Promote leadership at all levels. Increase literacy, education and skills.
• Inform and educate women and girls about their right, support women and girls to organize and create change
• Change social norms e.g. build capacity of media to report on VAWG, support women right organizations (WROs) to deliver programs and run campaign, support women human right defender, work with men and boys, engage local leaders’ equality in school curricula, encourage politicians to speak out about VAWG
• Build political will, legal and institutional capacity to prevent and respond e.g. support design and implementation of VAWG policies and action plans & track spends across sectors build women’s ministries.
• Reform security and justices’ sectors, collect national level data on VAWG, support advocacy work but WROs, support national networks lobbying for change
• Provide comprehensive services, e.g. create and protect women’s and girl’s only spaces, strengthen social assets and safety nets provide core funding for WRO’s delivering specialist services, create specialist units in police

• • Government and service providers are accountable to women and girls for prevention, protection and response
  • Women and girls survivors safely access adequate and appropriate support service (economic, medical psychosocial, security, shelter)
  • Women and girls safely access justice at all level including within customary and religious law

• • Women and girls have increased ownership of access to and control over resources (political, legal, economic and social)
  • Women, women’s human rights defenders and WROs working on gender based VAWG have the capacity to organize collectively, facilitate social change and respond to backlash
  • Prevention and responding to VAWG is an explicit aim of effective policies and budgets in place to deliver and being monitored at all level
  • The legal system including customary and religious laws prevents, recognizes and responds to VAWG

Drivers of change

• Critical mass of influencers (including community and religious leaders, teachers, parents and youth) promote and model positive gender attitudes and behaviors
• Key influencers use new knowledge to take action in support of implementation
• Community youths and other groups mobilize as change agents to demonstrate and promote VAWG free communities
• Women, girls, and their organizations are empowered to take leadership to end VAWG in schools and their communities
• Community leaders and /key decision makers and authorities advocate for change in behavior, attitudes or practices and take action to address VAWG
• Women, girls, adolescents and young people know their rights and are empowered and supported to access quality VAWG services
• Service providers are better able to provide adequate and quality VAWG services

• • Women and girls have the Knowledge and power to claim their SRHR
  • Women and girls and other members of their communities demonstrate positive attitudes and behavior in support of SRHR
  • Improved access for Women and girls to essential, safe and adequate multi – sectorial SRHR services

• • Adolescent girls, women, persons with disability and youths have power to engage meaningfully to influence, demand and access increased SRH/FP services and products devoid of discrimination
  • Local leaders including faith leaders and local structures are aware of SRH issues and services, products and commodities at community level to break through some of the social and cultural norms that keep adolescents and young women away from accessing SRH services and commodities.
  • Adolescent girls and women are empowered with factual information on SRHRs and are independently making own-decisions to access and utilize services.

• Women, girls, adolescents and young people’s lack of access to existing SRH services
• Negative social norms and stigmatization of women, girls, and adolescents by communities
• Political and cultural sensitivity around SRHR issues
• Adolescent pregnancies
• Child, early and forced marriage
• Unsafe abortions
• High maternal mortality and morbidity
• Gender based violence
• Transmission of HIV and other STIs

• Engaging influencers (community and religious leaders, teachers, parents and youth) in behavior change communication strategies
• Capacity building – trainings
• Creating/strengthening linkages, connections and referral pathways
• Data collection and management
• Media engagement
• Networking, Partnership and collaborative work
• Advocacy/lobbying for action that will promote women and girls’ SRHR
• Feedback mechanism
• Strengthening the FMCs

• Training women, girls, men, and boys on SRHR issues through awareness sessions, workshops, community dialogues and peer education
• Strengthen women and adolescent girl leaders in communities to understand and claim their rights
• Engaging influencers (community and religious leaders, teachers, parents and youth) in behavior change communication strategies, including SRHR public awareness campaigns and advocacy
• Connecting women, adolescents and other marginalized groups to SRH services
• GESI, Gender analysis training
• Gender Model family Approach, VSLAs
• Conducting KAP surveys
• Data collection and analysis
• Inter-generational dialogue
• Peer to peer education
• PVCA
• Referral pathways –psychosocial support
• Feedback mechanism
• Strengthening the FMCs

•  Critical mass of influencers (including community and religious leaders, teachers, parents and youth) promote and model positive gender attitudes and behaviors
• Key influencers use new knowledge to take action in support of implementation
• Community youths and other groups mobilize as change agents
• Women, girls, and their organizations are empowered to take leadership on SRHR
• Community leaders and /key decision makers and authorities advocate for change in behavior, attitudes or practices and take action to address SRHR
• Women, girls, adolescents and young people know their rights and are empowered and supported to access quality SRH services
• Service providers are better able to provide adequate and quality SRHR services
• Institution responsible for addressing SRHR issues are effective in their response