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REPORT

LOCAL GOVERNMENT GENDER BASED VIOLENCE ACTION PLANS WORKSHOP

Province: Northern Cape District: Namakwa District

Date: 5 – 6 October 2009

Venue: Lecturer Room, Namakwa District Municipality

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary 3 Background 4

Process and activities 5

Outcomes 5 Way Forward 6

Challenges 6

Annexes A - Programme 7

B - List of participants 9 C - GAP and GBV Status Report 11

D – Group work and discussions 14 E - GBV Action Plan: Namakwa District Municipality 17

F - Messaging / slogans / posters /calendar 24 G - SADC Village level report 28

H - Workshop Evaluation 30

I – Newspaper Article 33

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Executive Summary This is a report on the proceedings of the Local Government Gender Based Violence action plan workshop held from 05 to 06 October 2009 for the Namakwa District Municipality. The District has six local municipalities namely Hantam, Kamiesberg, Karoo

Hoogland, Khai-Ma, Nama-Khoi and Richtersveld. The purpose of the programme was to;

Establish the status of the Gender Action Plans developed in 2008.

Popularise the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. Develop 365 Day Local Action Plans to end Gender Based Violence or strengthen

existing GBV action plans. Develop messages for backstopping the local 365 Day Action Plans to end GBV. Establish communication strategies for the GBV action plans.

Inform councils about the collection of good practices for addressing GBV at the local

level and in the Gender Justice and Local Government Summit. See the full workshop programme attached at Annex A.

The workshop was attended by participants 18 (5 men and 13 women); see Annex B for the full workshop participants list.

Current status report on GAP (gender action plan) and GBVP (gender based violence action plans) can be found in a table depicting the current status in terms of challenges and support required, attached at Annex C.

All for the group work and discussions are attached at Annex D.

The Draft Implementation Guidelines which were drawn up by SALGA was taken by the participants, to feedback to their Municipalities are attached at Annex E.

The GBV messages/slogans/posters and calendar are attached at Annex F. The SADC Protocol village level report is attached at Annex G.

The participants evaluated the workshop as having learnt a lot. A summarised version of the evaluation forms is attached at the end of this report at Annex H.

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Background

The 365 days of Action is a concept, first adopted in South Africa, to extend the 16 days of Activism on Gender violence Campaign to a coordinated and comprehensive year-long response to end gender violence through the development of a National

Action Plan. The plan serves as an important tool to strengthen efforts to end gender violence by holding governments, civil society and other stakeholders responsible for commitments they make.

The United Nations Secretary General‟s 2006 report on gender violence highlights the significance of:

Comprehensive and coordinated National Action Plans driven by governments States should build and sustain strong multi-sectoral strategies, coordinated

nationally and locally

Work to end violence against women requires not only a clear demonstration of political commitment but also systematic and sustained action, backed by strong, dedicated and permanent institutional mechanisms.

States should build on the work done by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), scale up and institutionalize it and share experiences with other countries

The SADC Gender and Development Protocol signed in August 2008 sets a target for governments to halve current levels of gender based violence by 2015 and emphasises that States should adopt an integrated approach to address gender violence.

South Africa adopted a 365 Day National Action Plan in May 2006 which was launched by the Deputy President in March 2007. However, national action plans are only as

good as they are implemented at local level if they are to make a difference in the lives of ordinary women, men, girls and boys.

The project to develop gender action plans for local government was the outcome of a number of processes. Following the launch of the research, At the Coalface: Gender and Local Government in Southern Africa, Gender Links in partnership with

SALGA Gauteng convened a roundtable meeting to review the Gender Policy Framework for Local Government and plan for effective gender mainstreaming in governance processes in the sphere of local government. The final Gender Policy Framework for

Local Government was launched in August 2007. In November 2007 provincial representatives from SALGA joined a Training of Trainers workshop in Johannesburg to develop the Gender Action Plan Manual for South Africa that was to be used to roll out

the gender action plans in all provinces from April to July 2008. In 2008 the Northern Cape, along with other provinces, developed a gender action plan

in which gender based violence included. In this plan gender based violence features as one of the key areas of service delivery. It should be noted that as this was a provincial plan and as such required further fine tuning to suit the specific needs and

circumstances of each municipality in the province. Some municipalities have gone ahead and developed their local action plans while others are still in the process of doing this.

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The intention of the GBV action plan workshops is to build on the preceding processes

as well as to provide support and backstopping. Participants are encouraged to take time to reflect on progress that has been made in addressing gender violence since these initiatives as well as address the challenges that have been encountered by the

different municipalities in developing local plans. The opportunity is also used to devise strategies for collecting good practices to

showcase at the first annual Southern Africa local government and Gender Justice Summit and Awards.

Process and activities The manual titled, „Localising gender justice initiatives‟ allows for maximum participation

of participants through various plenary and group work sessions. Gender action plan current status update With each of the nine provinces in South Africa having a developed gender action plan by July 2008 (processes referred to above), it is important to get an update on the status of these and to find out during the GBV action plan workshops if these plans have been filtered down to all district and local municipalities. This session is used to

establish whether they have been adopted, whether GBV action plans already exist, and what some of the challenges are that are hindering implementation as well as the kind of support SALGA and GL can offer to address these challenges. Highlights are also

shared and a way forward it mapped where necessary. SADC protocol quiz With the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development having been adopted in August 2008, a need was indentified to design a programme that domesticated the Protocol through village and community level workshops, with the aims of raising awareness

around the Gender Protocol at the grassroots level. The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development module of the GBV action training manual uses a short SADC knowledge quiz is to test the participants knowledge on the protocol, these quiz results are then

consolidated (as below) and the results are use as baseline data on Protocol knowledge. Participants go on to discuss and prioritise the various targets and how these can be implemented in the everyday work of councils.

NB: Please see the SADC protocol village level report attached at Annex G and the discussion that followed. Checklist for change and developing a GBV action plan Local government can address gender based violence as a key service delivery issue in a

number of ways and before participants start the process of developing the actual GBV action plan, the group goes through a checklist for change that can assist municipalities to get started on either developing a local action plan to end GBV or to see if their

action plan addresses key concerns. This checklist is put together across the levels that local government use for planning, i.e. prevention, support, response and coordination and it also includes the transversal issues of monitoring and evaluation and budgets.

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Communicating the action plan Once the participants have developed their GBV action plans, it is important for them to identify very practical tools that they can use to communicate their action plans that target the members of their relevant communities. Communicating gender based

violence issues to communities is difficult and therefore if participants have any questions around communication these GBV action plans, it should be addressed during this particular session and therefore it is important that local government officials and

councillors put across their messages on GBV to their community members more effectively.

Southern Africa Local Government and Gender Justice Summit Before officially concluding the workshop and after summarising everything that was presented during workshops, participants are taken through a PowerPoint presentation

on the first Southern Africa local government and gender justice summit and awards that will be taking place. The application process and adjudication process is explained and pamphlets are distributed to all participants.

Outcomes

• Roadmap for ending gender violence at the local level, specific to the needs of that particular municipality / community.

• Mechanisms for sharing good practice and strengthening practice on the ground.

Challenges • Not necessarily the correct target group in attendance to ensure the process moves

forward. • Technology when showing the DVD can be challenging where the equipment does

not work properly. We improvised and watched from the laptop. We were delayed

in showing DVD looking for speakers.

Way Forward • The group was informed by SALGA that the way forward would be for

representatives who were present at the workshop commit to attend the Working Group meeting to be held on 15 - 16 October in Upington.

• They will be launching the 16 days campaign but not only 16 days now but 365

days. • A technical team will be established and this team will then take it to local

communities.

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Annex A: Programme

PROGRAMME

Time Action Who

DAY ONE

8:00 – 8:50 Welcome and opening

8:50 – 9:10 Purpose of the workshop

9:10 – 9:30 Report on the gender action plans that were developed in 2007

SALGA

9:30 – 10:00 Discussion • How can challenges in implementing committed

actions be overcome?

• What support is required and from who?

GL facilitator SALGA

10:00 – 10:30 TEA

10:30 – 10:45 SADC Protocol Quiz GL facilitator

10:45 – 11:30 DVD: Roadmap to equality

To introduce the SADC Gender Protocol and its

relevance to local government

11:30 – 13:00 Strategies to popularise the protocol

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00 GBV as a key service delivery issue • Checklist for change for local government

GL facilitator

15:00 - 17:00 Developing a 16 Days calendar and action plan

• Prevention • Response • Support

• Budget, monitoring and evaluation

16:00 – 16:15 TEA

DAY TWO

8:30 – 9:00 Report back GL facilitator

9:00 – 10:00 Communicating the local GBV action plan

9:30 – 11:00 Group work: Developing messages and slogans Developing a calendar of dates

11:00 – 11:30 TEA

11:30 – 12:00 Designing a poster

12:00 – 13:00 Report back

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00 Gender Justice and Governance Summit:

Collecting, documenting and presenting good practices on prevention of GBV by local municipalities

15:00 – 15:30 TEA

15:30 – 16h30 Way forward and open discussion

• Support for implementing 365 Day action plans

GL facilitator

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Time Action Who

• Collecting local best practices on preventing

gender violence • Gender justice and local government summit • Monitoring and evaluation

• AOB

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Annex B: List of participants

Attendance List: Namakwa District Local Government GBV Action Plan Workshop

Name Sex M/F

Organisation/ Municipality

Tel Fax Email

1. Noel Viljoen M Hantam Municipality 0273418500 0273418501 idp@hantam.gov.za

2. Pasqueline Van Heerden F Khai Ma Muncipality 0549710062 0549710062

3. Elna Marais F Karoo Hoogland Municipality

0533913003 0533913294

4. Leoni Vyver F Hantam Municipality 0272188700

5. Elize De Wet F Hantam Municipality 0273418500 0273418501 secretary@hantam.gov.za

6. Judith Louw F Hantam Municipality 0273418500 0273418501 info@hantam.gov.za

7. Eileen Drage F Namakwa District 0835879570 0277128040

8. Johny Laban M Namakwa District Mun

0827640085 0277128040 johny@namakwa-dm.gov.za

9. Nandipha Julingalo F Kmbly – Prov Housing and Local Govt

0538309466 0538319204 njulingalo@nc.pg.gov.za

10. Joyce Majoro F Prov Housing and Local Govt

0538309503 0538319204 tmosed@nc.pg.gov.za

11. Mercia Abrahams F Richtersveld Local

Mun

0278511129 0278571101 mercia@richtersveld.gov.za

12. Stanley Makeza M Nama-Khoi

Municipality

0277188100 0277181230 nfielding@namakhoi.org.za

13. Zuki P. De Jongh F Nama Kho Municipality

0835653359 0277138037 nfielding@namakhoi.org.za

14. O.J. Maropo M SALGA 0538332505 8333828

15. Sarah Cloete F Kammiesberg Local Municipality

0276528000 0276528001 sarahc@kamiesberg.co.za

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Name Sex

M/F

Organisation/

Municipality

Tel Fax Email

16. Petrus Saal M Dept. Housing and

Local Govt

0277122891 psaal@ed.cape.gov.za

17. Katy Maarman F Kammiesberg Local Municipality

0276528019 0276528001 veronicac@kammiesberg.co.za

Attendance statistics by gender

Females 12 76%

Males 5 24%

TOTAL 17 100%

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Annex C: Current status report on GAP (gender action plan) and GBV (gender based violence action plans)

District municipality

Local municipality

Gender action plan in existence /adopted 365 Day GBV action plan existence / adopted

Person responsible for Gender

Highlights / achievements

Challenges faced Support required from SALGA and

GL

NAMAKWA DISTRICT

Namakwa District Municipality

Hantam - No - No

- We are in the process to appoint a Special Programme Focal Person

- Link with the Departments e.g. Women‟s Day (SAPS); Youth Day (Social Services) e.g. Christmas dinner for women and Children (SAPS)

- Budget - Political

commitment - Special

Programme Focal Person

- Lack of capacity and commitment

- Senior positions for women

- Continuity (to send the right people to workshops

- How to set up measuring system

- Right persons must attend workshop

Karoo Hoogland

- No - No

- Social Developer: Elna Marais

- Women‟s day function

- “Make Over”

function which included breakfast for 50 women

- Xmas function - Drop in

Centre

- Political will - We need the IDP

managers support

- Budget constraints - Partnerships with

other role-players e.g. SAPS

- Recommendations from SALGA for programmes

- Training - Monitoring and

Evaluation of programmes

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District municipality

Local municipality

Gender action plan in existence /adopted 365 Day GBV action plan existence / adopted

Person responsible for Gender

Highlights / achievements

Challenges faced Support required from SALGA and

GL

- Mans evening where women s needs were addressed

- Mothers day function

Khai-Ma - No - No

- Nobody at this stage but possibly they will make a post

- The Mayor is a woman 3 female councillors

- To let someone work with finances on gender when budgeting

- To get more women in management positions

- Help in how to develop such a plan

- Gender Training

Nama Khoi - No - No - No such a

decision has been taken but we

foresee no problem in taking such a resolution for implementation

- Newly created Special Programme Department

- Through the EE Policy our council has empowered and employed

a significant number of female employees as well as capacitating men in “Female”

- To launch our own gender committee and draft a programme

We will need technical assistance in the drafting of the Gender Programme

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District municipality

Local municipality

Gender action plan in existence /adopted 365 Day GBV action plan existence / adopted

Person responsible for Gender

Highlights / achievements

Challenges faced Support required from SALGA and

GL

perceived workshops and training

Richtersveld - None - We do understand

it now but Council still need to adopt it

- At the moment the Office of the Mayor and SDC handle all activities, with guidance from Social Service and the SAPD

- Women in strategic positions (officials)

- More women in Council finance

Guidelines – not sufficient training for Councillors on Gender Equality

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Annex D: Group work and discussions

Discussions: Comments and questions that followed after the SADC protocol quiz

• This is very good information. • This information should be given to the senior

officials and people in senior positions.

• We did not have access to this type of information.

Exercise: What is the SADC protocol on gender and development?

Group 1: What work is already happening to achieve the targets in the Protocol? • We have established the following forums or councils e.g. HIV and Aids Council;

Women against crime; community police forums; local economic development forums; youth against crime; Moral Regeneration Movement; a Thusong Centre;

Love Life; and a Victim empowerment programme.

Group 2: Have a look at the pamphlet with all of the targets, which of these would you prioritise? • Article 26: Health

• Article 27: Hiv/Aids • Article 14: Education and Training • Article 29: and

• Article 20-25: GBV Group 3: How can the targets in the Protocol be included in the work of your councils? • Gender Needs Analysis.

• Draft of the Policy. • Involvement of stakeholders for input. • IDP Process (budgetary purposes).

• Council. • Make use of existing council committees e.g. Social

Committee which will address issues like HIV and Aids in line

with the Protocol. E.g. Infrastructure committee will deal with productive resources and employment.

Group 4: How can you begin to popularize the SADC protocol?

Distribute to all the state institutions.

Figure 1: Noel Viljoen from Hantam Municipality during a group discussion

Figure 2: Participants watching the Protocol DVD

Figure 3: Officials from the Namakwa Local Municipality

working on the Action Plan

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Community awareness campaigns. Can also be sent through intranet. Local newspaper and radio.

Discussions: Questions and comments that took place during the Checklist for change for local government section

Group 1:

It is a mind shift that needs to be made. Yes it is a critical issue because it is a very much service delivery issue.

Local communities are aware of present programmes. We have no action plans in place so we can‟t identify gaps.

Re budget – no answer. We need to do all on page 10 and 11 in manual.

Group 2:

We need to respect gender equality to restore respect, dignity and confidence. Not seen as an issue in Kammiesberg and Nama-Khoi.

Communities are not aware no programmes. Gaps – in the absence of programmes there are

no gaps. No budget.

Will make recommendations to Council re Action Plan developed at this workshop.

Group 3:

Most GBV affects women but men do experience it too.

Yes it affects communities. Community hears about this but there is no

programmes. GAPS – response legal aid for victims; Co-ord –

CGTA absent. Budget must be linked. Develop a plan in line with SADC Protocol and National Action Plan.

Figure 4: Stanley Makeza of Nama-Khoi Municipality engaging in a group Action Plan

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Annex E: DRAFT GBV action plan

DRAFT DISTRICT GENDER ACTION PLAN FOR LOCAL MUNICIPALITY IN THE NAMAKWA DISTRICT

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE

ACTION WHO TIMEFRAME BASELINE TARGETS / INDICATORS

BUDGET

VII. Gender - Based Violence (Framework P 34 - 36)

Prevention

365 day action plans

Turn 16 days of Activism into 365 days of Activism

Put programmes in place to promote – 16 days into 365

days

All spheres of Gov, NGOs, Gov Depts., Dept of SAPS

- What is the current status within Municipality?

What can be done to reduce it

- To reach as many people as possible

Public education Women‟s safety Begin with

women safety programmes to promote awareness activities on women‟s safety

Govt Depts.; All spheres; business and CBOs and FBOs

- Statistics from SAPS made available and an action plan

- To reach all vulnerable target groups

R300 000 annually

To make community safer to highlight GBV

Make sure that the restraining order to be more effective to highlight GBV

SAPS; Dept of Justice and social services

- A monitoring system must be put in place to make sure that progress is made

- Community aware

Municipality must make funds available to drive programmes

Run awareness

campaigns to advertise – 365 days of Activism

Intensive

campaign

All walks of

communities

ongoing - No intensive

programme in place

- Concentrate on

SAPS; Social Services and CBOs

-

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE

ACTION WHO TIMEFRAME BASELINE TARGETS / INDICATORS

BUDGET

To ensure that streetlights work effectively

Check list of all the street lights – negotiable with Eskom and Mun and technical service dept.

Local Municipality - No proper and regular checklist on streetlights

- Women children and youth

Municipal budget (infrastructure)

Response

To implement actions that are in effective in responding to GBV in your council

- Flashlights - Community

Police Forums to be

established

Municipality/Eskom - Public space not safe presently

- 25% flashlights - Community

input at meetings

- Surveys

- Questionnaires

Depend on budget

- Strengthen and support shelters and places of safety for survivors of GBV in liaison with NGOs

- Women‟s organisations

- Social Development

- ACW - SAPS

- There is none - Survey must be conducted by the Municipality

Depending on the budget

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE

ACTION WHO TIMEFRAME BASELINE TARGETS / INDICATORS

BUDGET

- Develop and maintain an updated database of services and facilities available to survivors and victims of gender based violence. Capacitate survivors of gender violence with life skills and provide ongoing support in collaboration with various community

structures

- SAPS - Municipality - Social

Development - Social workers

- - Quarterly reports and meetings

Depending on budget

- Encourage role modelling of survivors and victims

- Municipality - Social Services - Badisa

- ongoing - Quarterly reports and meetings

- Ongoing Depending on budget

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE

ACTION WHO TIMEFRAME BASELINE TARGETS / INDICATORS

BUDGET

- Establish gender units and family counselling services at people centres with appropriate resources

- Health - Social Services - Municipality

- On going - We are aware we do have

- Database Depends on Municipal budget

Ensure that clinics and health facilities operated by local government strengthen the capacity of communities to understand the link between gender based violence and HIV and Aids

- Badisa - Health - Municipality

- We need three more clinics

- Three more up and working with one in each town

Depend on budget

Work with the

police and communities in ensuring that cases of gender violence are reported and addressed

- Social

Development - Health - Badisa - Aids Council - Smaller group

in the community

- Not known - Survey

- meetings

Support

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE

ACTION WHO TIMEFRAME BASELINE TARGETS / INDICATORS

BUDGET

To develop a policy which will guide on the norms and standards of councils which will be applicable to all supporting tools e.g. Conduct of councillors; debriefing of police officers etc.

- Victim friendly rooms

- GBV sensitive facilitators

- Information and material

Communities, councillors, SAPS; Dept of Justice; Special programmes officer;CDWs and Council communication forums

- ongoing - Not gender sensitive enough

- Trauma rooms at SAPS exist but not well equipped

- NGOs do trauma counselling but no privacy or facilities

- Reduce GBV by 8% in 1st year, by 16% in 2nd year and by 50% in 3rd year

- Involve various role-players to reduce GBV

- SAPS stats - Health Stats

Rehabilitation Centres / Homes

GBV Sensitive Facilitators should be trained

- Council - During

detainment and after release

- Only facility in the district focused on youth

- Shelter for abused woman and children

- Little integration programme for ex-convicts

- Crime stats - Re-integration

of ex convicts into community stats from Correctional services

Economic Empowerment

- Training in writing business plans

- Establish economic development forum

- Join existing development forums

- LED officers - SEDA - Gender Focal

Persons

- Economic Affairs

- Dept of labour

- Immediately after a council resolution

- Small % of women active in business

- Slow pace to

empowering women

- To empower previously disadvantaged people

Coordination

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE

ACTION WHO TIMEFRAME BASELINE TARGETS / INDICATORS

BUDGET

To provide information to Council and Senior officials

- Information sessions

- Officials and Council

- 30/10/09 - Departmental meetings and council meetings

- Establish a Gender Unit

Use existing officials

- To work with all departments

- Gender Unit - 10/11/09 - IDF and NGOs - Stakeholders meeting

No budget

- Mobilise CDWs; community and committees to participate in Action Plans

- Gender Unit and Departments

- 17/11/09 - To train CDWs community

- and committees

- To establish a community based gender forum

No budget

- Mechanism in place to ensure sustainable momentum

- IDF (Interdepartmental Forum)

- Monthly - Action plan and minutes

- Regular meetings

No

Budget allocation

This was not even attempted by the group

- -

Best practices

Best practices to showcase best practice to end GBV

To develop a master plan to make sure that GBV is reduced

- SAPS - Municipal

government dept linked

with legislation - NGO‟s CBOs

business

- The current status is not monitored

- Nice effective programmes

No budget

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE

ACTION WHO TIMEFRAME BASELINE TARGETS / INDICATORS

BUDGET

people and mining houses

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Annex F: Messages / slogans / posters

This group did not complete the table but instead divided into groups and developed posters.

Group 1:

This group chose 09 August to focus on women

and children with the slogan reading “Stop Women and Child Abuse”.

Group 2:

This group chose 25 November, the International Day of

No Violence against women as their day. Much discussion is

held while looking at the poster and many of the participants felt that their poster was not attractive enough and the HIV logo did not make sense in the

poster. The group liked the exercise very much as it gave them time to think through the message and how it should be communicated. They also felt that

if the message is not clear enough you do not achieve the desired effect.

Group 3:

Everyone liked this group poster as it felt that they liked the scale that they tried to depict to achieve

gender equality. The message was well received. The picture was not altogether clear at the top with the boy on the scale.

Group 4:

This group chose June 16 which is the day of the

African child. They felt that drawing the map

was a nice way of including all and this was

very well received. The poster was clear and their slogan read:

Africa Weeps, Africa cry, Africa Awakes – Stop abuse of our children.

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Annex G: SADC Protocol village level evaluations

Records of village level meetings conducted and evaluation forms after each of these

To be completed by facilitator

Name of country: South Africa,

Date 05 October 2009

Theme of Protocol village meeting

GBV Action Plan Workshop

Participants’ list Attached as annexure.

Number of women

participants

13 (73%)

Number of men

participants

5 (27%)

Civil society representatives present

0

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Knowledge Q u i z

administered?

1. Where and when was the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development signed?

3 (25%) people answered correctly and 9 (75%) had incorrect answers.

2. Has your country signed the protocol? 12(100%) people answered correctly and 0 (0%)

answered incorrectly.

3. Which two countries have not yet signed the Protocol?

7(58%) person answered correctly and 5 (42%)

answered incorrectly.

4. How many targets does the Protocol have? 4 (33%) people answered correctly and 8 (67%)

answered incorrectly. 5. What is the target for women in decision-making and

when should it be achieved by? 5 (42%) people answered correctly and 7 48(%)

answered incorrectly.

6. What is the target for ending or reducing GBV? 7 (58%) people answered correctly and 5 (42%)

answered incorrectly.

The overall awareness of the SADC Protocol was very low at the beginning of the workshop given the total number of

correct answers, 48%, as compared to the total number of incorrect answers, 52 %. However, after the workshop and DVD presentation, the knowledge had increased as

evidenced by the 100% result.

Answer sheets to the

quiz as baseline data

This has been filed.

Issues raised • This is very good information

• This information should be given to the senior officials and people in senior positions

• We did not have access to this type of information

Responses Well received

Follow up meeting/Next

steps

To be decided after Portfolio Committee meeting

Evaluation forms Consolidated and attached as annexure.

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Annex H: Workshop Evaluation

WORKSHOP EVALUATION

Total no. of returned forms: 16

EXCELLENT GOOD FAIR POOR VERY

POOR

1. PROGRAMME DESIGN 8 8

2. PROGRAMME CONTENT 10 6

3. DOCUMENTATION 11 5

4. FACILITATION 12 4

5. GROUP WORK 9 7

6. OUTPUTS 7 9

7. OUTCOMES AND FOLLOW

UP PLANS

4 12

8. LEARNING OPPORTUNITY 11 5

9.NETWORKING

OPPORTUNITY

9 7

10.ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS

10 5 1

COMMENTS

1. Which session did you find most useful? Why? Developing an action plan.

Protocol on gender and development, gender justice initiatives (2).

Doing posters. Found all sessions useful, learned a lot.

Because this can bring a more workable plan forward the Action Plan was the best.

The group work session. We learn from

each other and network. GBV Action plan – to put a realistic plan in

place (3). All the sessions were useful and

understandable I have learned a lot. All sessions were useful because I learn

very much. DVD and group sessions were very

enlightening.

Working out the action plan. Can use it to be implemented in the municipality.

I know more about gender issues in other countries and local government.

2. Which session did you find least useful?

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Why?

Nothing at all, everything was super. Quiz.

Action Plans. None (4)

Because I don‟t understand it that much and need more information on how to do action plans.

All very good I am going to implement them. All was useful (3).

All the sessions was so provocative that I found it unbelievable not having prior access to it.

Communicating the GBV Action Plan – it must look at not only Municipalities.

3. How will you apply what you have gained from this engagement?

To empower my community.

By conducting workshops by arranging meetings and compiling a report. To implement it to our workplace.

Try to combat all violence. Make people aware of GBV in the municipality.

I did learn a lot but think that more political representatives must be included.

Compile reports and distribute them starting at Municipality.

Give a full report on this session to the Mayor. Share information with my colleagues and other role-

players. Consult with HOD‟s and Council.

Consult with council and other departments. Some officials must apply.

I will be able to draft a local Gender Plan for council to implement.

Report to council and make recommendation for targets to be implemented in Municipal area – official to be implemented in Municipality.

Report to the council meeting so that they can establish a GBV Plan of Action and also a special

programme officer. Give report back to Council and ensure that a gender

based policy is implemented at all possible levels.

4. Any other comments?

The facilitator was good, flexible, easily initiative, understandable, and energetic, explained thoroughly and communicates more and makes examples better. Keep

it up. It was very good and fruitful. To have more of these workshops.

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Did not reach the relevant groups like senior management in the Municipalities

and Councillors. I‟ve learned a lot. The workshop was excellent. It was very meaningful and good to attend such a session.

Ensure that everybody takes part and get senior officials to attend.

It would be nice to have a follow up workshop. I would love a follow up and in depth discussion focusing on the protocol targets

Must follow up on Municipalities if they have implemented any part of programme.

Thanks to GL and SALGA for this opportunity to enrich ourselves with this very

informative knowledge about Gender and GBV issues. This onus is on us to put

in practice what we have received in theory. Working together we can do more.