SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICA LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

SUMMIT AND AWARDS
28 – 30 MARCH 2011
KOPANONG HOTEL, JOHANNESBURG,
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SOUTH AFRICA
“365 DAYS OF LOCAL ACTION TO END GENDER
VIOLENCE: HALVE GENDER VIOLENCE BY 2015”

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 WHAT ROLE HAS THE LEADER PLAYED
IN CHAMPIONING GENDER AND GBV
ACTIVITIES?
• As a civic leader as well as being a
nurse, I am engaged in
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championing the fight against

Gender Based Violence because I
am in close contact with the
survivors.

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 HOW HAS THE LEADER INFLUENCED
THE LEVEL OF BUY IN AND
INVOLVEMENT OF MANAGEMENT?
• In most cases the survivors come
directly to me for help and
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treatment if need be and there is

proper follow up.

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 IS THE LEADER KNOWN WITHIN THE
INSTITUTION, COMMUNITY, ETC FOR
ADVOCATING FOR ISSUES OF GENDER
AND GBV?
• Yes, I am known. Because I am a
nurse by profession, Counselor as
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well as a Councilor.

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 WHAT TIMES DOES THE LEADER
DEVOTE TO THIS WORK? IS IT PAID OR
VOLUNTARY?
• It is 24 hours devotion sometimes I
am paid because I am working as a
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midwife at Roan Antelope general

hospital on contract basis and
sometimes I do it voluntarily.

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 HOW HAS THE LEADER HELPED TO
POPULARISE GENDER AND GBV
ACTIVITIES AND INITIATIVES IN THE
WORKPLACE?
• On the night of the Take Back the
Night walk (picture), we had a
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sensitization walk from Mpatamatu

Market area to Mpatamatu Sports
Complex in Luanshya, thereafter we
met the Community, talked to them
and advised them to report any
violence occurring in that area.

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 WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
HOW IS THIS LINKED TO PERSONAL
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LEADER?
• At least there is a reduction in GBV in homes,
the number of GBV cases have reduced from an
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average of 15 cases per month to 8 cases.

• People are now free to express themselves and

report to relevant authority. The place has
street lights now in the past people used to
vandalize the infrastructure. (Picture).

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 SHORT STORY OR ANECDOTE THAT
ILLUSTRATES THE PASSION OF THE
LEADER
• On the fateful day a pregnant woman with her two-
year-old daughter on her back, on her way to section
26 from section 25 in Mpatamatu in between there is
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a small bush with a stream, she was attacked by

unknown people, police are still investigating the
matter. The woman and her daughter were both
raped, and then later strangled to death. The bodies
were found by two women who were going to the
fields the next morning, but the culprits are still at
large.
• This is why we chose this place because the event
was still fresh in their minds.
• END OF PRESENTATION: THANK YOU

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 ANY QUESTIONS?
LEADERSHIP

CONTACT: LOUISA BWALYA

LUANSHYA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
P.O. BOX 90140
LUANSHYA.
MOBILE: +260 977 782 034 OR
+260 965 782 034

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