White Orange Yoiuth to Implement the GBV Project Funded under Innovative projects from civil societies and coalitions of actors(PISCCA)- French Embassy

As from January 2017, WOY will collaborate with Stakeholders, development partners ,  community members and oth stakeholders to implement the project titled: Community Empowerment for Addressing GBV for Women, Children and Young People.

The main objectives of this project is to provide a framework to reduce violence against women&children of marginalised communities&ensure that their needs for safety&support are met through human rights led-approach, and the project main beneficiries will be Women ,children, young people and perpetraitors. The Main strategies of this project is to build capacity through participatory workshops on identifying root causes of the problem , motivations, priorities setting startegies for reducing and elimination of GBV at their commmunities themselves and action plan for sustaining the interventions by using locally available resources to attain the sustainability of the project and replication to other communities.

 Goal:The capacity of the community members on mitigating gender –Based violence through participatory approach by using locally available resources attained and achieved.

Specific objectives.

1. Participatory Action program to identify gender- based violence at two communities conducted and framework to reduce violence against women&children of marginalised communities set.
2. Empowered women&children are participating , initiate and promote change within their environmment and address issues of GBV.
3. Young people are aware of gender-based violence and combat harmful and violent behaviours in the use of social networks.

The direct intended beneficiaries of this project are, Children, Young people, Women, perpetrators and the indirect beneficiaries are men and community leaders. 4000 Women and 6000 Young people sentized on GBV through community events , caravans and community dialogue.