Stand Against Gender-Based Violence: WNFN Summit 2021 and Empowering Women

WVL-SA LEARNING AND SHARING SUMMIT 2021 Generation Equality Stand Against Gender Based Violence (South Africa, Johannesburg, 3 March 2021 and Ms.Thembisile MaMsibi Simanga) Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

SYNOPSIS It is no lie that violence against women continue to be an obstacle to achieve equality, peace,& fulfilment of women and girl s human Rights. WNFN has themed it project Generation Equality against gender based violence, as we believe that gender inequality is the main contributor to gender based violence. The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to increase in numbers of women and children who become victims of Gender based violence. This is not a country problem but a global problem which we can only win if we work together. Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

OBJECTIVES WNFN has committed itself to contribute to Development Sustainable Goals(DSG s) and making sure it leave no one behind especial women and girls. It is of this course that it has led WNFN to start this projects where it work with different NGO/NPOs in different provinces being KZN, Gauteng and Mpumalanga. In South Africa Every 3 Hours a women is killed and gender based violence is deeply rooted in institutions, culture and traditions. This is the reason we work with communities to engage in cultural and traditional issues that can lead and contribute to GBV Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

Activities Activities Aim Province Date No attend ance 1. GBV Awareness Walk and Workshop To engage with community of Danhauseer on GBV issues Educating Community members about reporting cases structure One on one Supports Assisting Victims with safety shelters while their cases are still pending MP MBALENHLE 26/07/2019 +100 2. GBV Awareness Walk and Workshop To engage with community of Danhauseer on GBV issues Educating Community members about reporting cases structure One on one Supports Assisting Victims with safety shelters while their cases are still pending Disability and GBV awareness KZN 30/09/2019 +100 3.Radio & TV Platforms Invites to engage and Educate on GBV To reach a broader audience to educate them about channels and empower women to be independent and not be afraid to leave bad situations because of dependency Gauteng August 2020 +25000 4. WNFN Annual Conference 2020 Annual conference s focused was gender equality and GBV, it allowed men and women to engage on issues of GBV and how Gender inequality has contributed to increase in GBV cases. Solutions like developing women, treating boy child and girl child the same, educate our elders about equality between women and men in rural areas where such stigma of men being over a women is still praised Virtual Conference +1000 including Cameron Guest Speaker and viwers 5. She Matters Educate and Support girl child and connect them to opportunities that will make them independent and promote their communities by being contributors to growth. Support them with food parcels and sanitary towels so they don t find themselves in abusive relationships just to have food and other basic needs like sanitary towels Mpumalanga+GP +200 Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

PARTNERS Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much We have partnered with Lonwabo LwesiZwe which is male founded organization that support victims of GBVs. Okuhle Care Centre in KZN which is a Centre for children with disabilities and a resource center for a village We have partnered with Embalenhle Old Age Home and SAPS of embalanhle for annual GBV awareness walks and workshops For Our She Matters projects we are working with Nomkhubulwano Childrens & Youth Group, Tokollo Foundations, New Generation Foundation, e 42 Girls in KZN ,Leading Her Foundations and many others Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

BUDGET Amount in R Project total R60,000.00 Amount allocated to female beneficiaries R60,000.00 Amount contributed in cash or in kind by partner organisations Genderlinks, Women s Voice Canada Rapid Response Grant WNFN MEMBERS 50,000.00 10,000.00 TOTAL 60,0000 Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

BENEFICIARIES Category Women Men Total % Women Direct beneficiaries +200 +90 +290 69% Indirect beneficiaries (e.g. through other networks) +300 +100 +400 75% Online beneficiaries (e.g. website access, mailing lists, scholarly articles) +1000 +500 +1500 66% Total + 1500 + 690 +2190 68% Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION As we work with NGO s which are well established and trusted by communities, we transfer skills of monitoring projects to them by hosting a progress status/ functionality status meeting of the projects. In order to see the effectiveness of our projects we make sure we host workshops allow feedback and analysis of need met. Each year the Directors meet for strategic session and the discuss projects as per community need analysis An annual Performance Plan is developed where Key Performance Indicators to achieve our targets are identified We keep a project plan on a spreadsheet where we list and monitor progress status against timelines of our projects Monitoring this projects assist us to identify risk and challenges and act according to mitigate any issues. Comparison between actual outcomes and targets is done every after each projects supported by Portfolio of Evidence Feedback by thank you letters, acknowledgements and verbal are taken very serious as they measure our impact in communities Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

RESULTS Women s empowerment Women starting their own businesses/NGO and going back to schools Public participation- Genderbased Violence Victims speaking up and share their stories Media coverage Imbokodo fest 2020 sponsored National Art Council Guest Speaker our Social Services Director Ms. Mamsibi Simanga- https://www.facebook.com/104077131225364/ videos/937463066722922 Capacity building- She Matters, Vision Board Session Changes in gender attitudes at individual and community level- Annual Conference Our Male Guest Speaker- Mr Ignatius France From The Justice Desk https://drive.google.com/file/d/19AW2mqdarZ_ PKTyQbjtwim4H5NBcRo3E/view?usp=sharing Any other changes- Increase in Number of men who attend our conferences and GBV workshops and sponsor our projects Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNT We have received lots of request from women who has seen our work but financial and human capacity has always been a challenge. Working and collaborating with other NGO has assisted us a lot in that we are able to reach broader audience and other tools to be able meet their need or support/ refer them to institution that can be of assistance. It has also assisted that within a WNFN network we have women who are expert in different field who assist by offering their services at no costs As we take on more projects the administrations task has also grown and we currently can not afford to hire an administrators to ensure all administrations is well taken care off, but the Directors try by all means that our administration matters are up to date and we are compliance and transparency to our stakeholders Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION Working with communities has assisted us to sustain this projects as they no longer our project but their also, we have buy in from King councils, institutions like SAPS, schools, churches and municipalities. WNFN membership is open to every women who want to serve and be empowered, we bring together women from different spheres of lives in our annual conference where women meet and exchange, inspire and empower each other. We assist women to scale up their business and come and give back to the organisation for the organisation to do more Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.

NEXT STEPS We have committed ourselves to end violence against women and empower them, we continue to work with NPO and have grown our network by working with organisation like Allan Gray who offer free Financial Education to empower our women. To continue with Our Girl child programs and assist them to get funding to further their studies To continue to host annual awareness walks at twice a year instead of one. To have monthly online GBV workshops Sharing informative information to communities and our members received from Institutions that are supporting GBV e.g. Genderlinks, The Justice Desk In all our Annual Conference we will speak about Gender Equality and GBV this is our commitment. Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.