ZAMBIA NATIONAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND GENDERJUSTICE SUMMIT AND AWARDS 7 – 8 MARCH 2012 CRESTA GOLFVIEW LUSAKA “365 DAYS OF LOCAL ACTION TO END GENDERVIOLENCE: HALVE GENDER VIOLENCE BY 2015”CENTRE OF EXCELLENCEC H I N G O L A M U N I C I P A L C O U N C I L
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DOES THE COE HAVE DEDICATED RESOURCES, INCLUDING HUMAN AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES
FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING and GBV INITIATIVES?
• Chingola Municipal Council has dedicated both human and financial resources . We have a gender responsive budget and most of the activities are funded.
• We also have human resource (staffs) that are helping in the implementation of the action plan.
• We have also plans of holding a sports day
and braii in order to fundraise and supplement the efforts of council
WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED IN YOUR COE COUNCIL?
• Council has mainstreamed gender activities in its action
plan
• Council has come up with a gender responsive budget in its main budget and is yet to be approved by the ministry of local government housing.
• Have managed to implement our planned activities for the year 2011 such as holding sensitization talks with employees on GBV, interacted with marketeers during the 16 days activism, managed to visit a school to talk about
abuse of drugs and violence.
• Managed to hold a meeting on women in leadership and shared basic information on entrepreneurship. this targetd on women.
• Managed to visit an orphanage and prison to donate various items and share a few ideas.
• There are more women sitting on council management
• Managed to partner with victim support unit in order to coordinate and truck the progress on GBV.
• Participated in the last year’s 16 days of GBV activism by
carrying out a number of sensitization in schools, market places and other.
• We have improved in terms of awarding contracts for provision of services in the council. women are also being considered so that we can empower them.
• The council management managed to send two (2) female employees to go and attend the summit of women in leadership so as to encourage females to be assertive leaders
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Council has allocated land to department of social welfare for construction of a place of safety for the vulnerable children and women.
• Attended the local government association of zambia to share
WHAT IMPACT CAN THE COE SHOW WITH REFERENCE TO THE 28 TARGETS OF THE
SADC PROTOCOL ON GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT? • Governance – representation and participation in decision making is both at management level and civic leaders is done by both males and females.
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Peace Building and Conflict Resolution was done by both males and females especially during the tripartite elections we had last year. A good number of women sat on that committee.
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Empowerment of widows is being addressed by the council especially by ensuring that terminal benefits are paid and also in terms of award of contracts