SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

LUANSHYA MUNICIPAL

SUMMIT AND AWARDS

28 – 30 MARCH 2011
KOPANONG HOTEL, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH
AFRICA
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“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?
• They have been involved in the preparation of the
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action plan and in allocating resources for the

activities in the action plan.
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• For the politicians they play a critical role first of all

in policy formulation and also in sensitizing the
community on the need for both genders to co exist .

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 HAS THE COMPLETED STAGES 1 – 6?
INDICATE TIME - FRAMES
• Stage 1 (Meeting with management) 3rd July 2010
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• Stage 2 (situation analysis) August 2010

• Stage 3 (workshop)-8th – 12th September 2010
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• Stage 4- community mobilization on SADC Protocol

• Stage 5– not done
• Stage 6-Took part in the sixteen days of gender
activism and 3rd December which is the world day
for the disabled we had an awareness match.

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 IS THERE A HIGH LEVEL GENDER
CHAMPION?
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• The high gender champion is councillor

Jullie Peggy Shambulo,
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• Cell: 0976219424 and email is Email:

Shambuloj@yahoo. com

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 DOES THE COE HAVE A GENDER AND GBV
ACTION PLAN? IS IT BEING IMPLEMENTED?
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• Gender and GBV plan exist

• It is implemented in a coordinated manner through
the district development committee gender sub –
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committee which comprises of all government

departments, church organisation representatives,
key non governmental organisation and private
companies

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 ARE GENDER AND GBV CONCERNS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR BOTH WOMEN AND
MEN? HOW ARE THEY INVOLVED?
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• GBV is a concern to both men and women

as can be seen from the participation of both
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sexes in the preparation of the action plan.

• It is also important to mention that as a
district we participated for the first time in the
sixteen days of gender activism and the
activities we carried out included educating
both men and women on family law

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 ARE THEIR DEDICATED RESOURCES,
INCLUDING HUMAN AND FINANCIAL
RESOURCES FOR GENDER
MAINSTREAMING?
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• Both human resource and financial resource

are avaliable . For human resource, each
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department has appointed a gender focal

person responsible implementing the
gender policies.
• For the financial resource the local authority
did allocate some finances in the budget for
the first time.

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 RESOURCEFULNESS? OTHER FINANCIAL,
HUMAN AND OTHER RESOURCES
MOBILISED?
• Mobilization of reliable permanent
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employees from line departments of the

municipality and government departments.
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• Donations from the business houses in the

district in order to carry out some activities
during the sixteen days of gender activism
• Fundraising activities which will go along
side with Sensitization have also been lined
up.
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 MONITORING AND EVALUATION
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• The district committee meet quarterly and

gets reports from the gender focal persons
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on what is happening in the various

departments .
• The officer from the police victim support unit
has also been providing the committee with
latest information on reported cases hence
making it easier to monitor the programme.

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 WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
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• political support from the policy makers who

are the councillors
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• community mobilization has been easier as

the NGOS came on board. A specific result
is the construction of a ramp at the civic
centre by Rotary club

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 IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOL
TARGETS)
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• We have seen policies to accommodate the

disabled being entertained such as the
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construction of the ramp.

• we have also seen street lights being
itemised as one of the priorities .

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 SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION
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• Active participation of the municipality because the

municipality will always be there and the people
trained are permanent employees.
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• Net working therefore is achieved through formation

of committee
• The baseline and the indicators in the action plan
are also very important in making the activities
sustainable.

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 LESSONS LEARNED
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• Importance of getting to influence

management and politicians to get
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involved.
• Appreciation of the concept of gender by
key stake holders.
• Net working by involving other
stakeholders.
• Setting targets in the action plan to
facilitate evaluation
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ANY QUESTIONS?
GERTRUDE CHILUFYA CHIBILITI
COUNCIL

gertrudechibiliti@yahoo.Co.uk
luanshya municipal council
box 90140 luanshya

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