I am Karabo Initiative
Description
* create awareness on through advocacy using arts such as drama, music and dance
* conduct extensive research on factors that enable it to thrive in communities
* design and develop life skills programmes for schools and tertiary institutions
* lobby government to change curriculum of public servants involved in supporting victims, for example, the nurses and police
* offer training and support at a preventive, detective and corrective levels
This initiative has four pillars of implementation:<br />
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1. There is an Advocacy and Community Mobilisation Team. They are responsible for developing music, drama, dance routines and poems and performing these to school children to create awareness on gender-based violence. For example, there is a drama that is performed in school on the effects of fatherlessness on children. The drama is debriefed as learners deal with their emotional issues with support from Social Workers. The initiative has developed a poem and a song that deal with gender-based violence. Talks are given to groups of people and there is a Facebook Page and a Website. The initiative has plans to develop TV programmes.<br />
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2. There is a Research and Innovation Team that is responsible for conducting research on the subject and partnering with universities. It is important for us as a country to have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of gender-based violence in order to advise government and to respond appropriately.<br />
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3. There is a Curriculum Design and Development Team that designs new programmes but also advises government on which programmes need to be revised to avoid secondary trauma for victims of gender-based violence. <br />
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4. There is a Training and Support Team that is responsible for delivering training where necessary and to support victims in accordance with their needs. This is sometimes done in partnership with other organisations.
Capacity building forms and integral part of the initiative. At its infancy this initiative still relies on face-to-face training and support. However, the plan is to move to the use of a blended learning approach technology will be used to delivery programmes through the development of an e-learning platform. This will increase the reach of the programmes delivered under this initiative. <br />
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It is also our plan to use hand held devices such the cell phones to deliver messages and training programmes. Currently, as a country data is very expensive and limits the use of technology in training and support. <br />
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The initiative plans to train Teachers, Parents and Volunteers in delivering life skills programmes that are meant to assist in preventing gender-based violence. the focus of the initiative is PREVENTION. <br />
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Technology such as TV is ideal to reach as many people s possible but developing such programmes have proved to be a challenge due to lack of adequate financial resources. There is a lot of content and the need can never be over estimated.
This initiative is governed by a Board of Directors who are responsible for providing direction to the initiative. There are five board members who consist of: <br />
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* a representative from the religious sector<br />
* a human resource expert <br />
* a businesswoman<br />
* a government representative and <br />
* a representative from the private sector <br />
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This cross section of people is responsible for policy development and provide oversight to the initiative. They also have to assist with fundraising and ensuring that the funds are properly managed and used in accordance with the goals and objectives of the initiative. This is done in line with the King IV Code of Good Governance.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.1.1
Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex
5.2
5.2.1
Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
5.2.2
Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
5.3
5.3.1
Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
5.4
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.4.1
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.5.1
Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
5.5.2
Proportion of women in managerial positions
5.6
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
5.6.1
Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
5.6.2
Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
5.a
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.a.1
(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.a.2
Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
5.b
5.b.1
Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
5.c
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
5.c.1
Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment
SDG 14 targets covered
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Thabi Molete, Dr