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The Summit of the SADC Protocol
2014
Theme: Gender-Based Violence and Conflict Resolution
Mozambique, Maputo, May 26 - 29, 2014
Marcelina Chai-Chai
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Summary
• Implementation Good Neighbors Model (GNs) in Matola district
communities
• Implementation of psychosocial, multissectoral and holistic approach to
community problems.
• Promotion use basic public services (health, education, direct support
through social action and justice (police and court).
• Mediation between public services and communities in case of barriers;
• Promotion networks to protect women and children at community level;
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OBJECTIVES
• Apply psychosocial intervention based on community using
Good neighbors empowerment method to ensure security and
psychosocial support to women and children victims of
violence;
• Facilitate approach people with needs to basic public services
through the Good Neighbors to ensure their fundamental
rights;
• Reduce suffering and beliefs about health, violence and, use
traditional medicine such a primary resource for treatment of
ailments affecting people and families in the community
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CONTEXT
• The definition of violence as a social and public health issue, (WHO,
2002) ;
• The different international and African letters on the health promotion
that guide actions to training/empowerment of communities which they
themselves are responsible for better health and life;
• The physical violence and women raping outdoors in the presence of
many people occurred in 2004;
• Involvement of community strategically to health (Ministry of Health,
2005)
• The introduction of Community social and Psychology curricula in
Mozambican universities;
• Lack of psychosocial services that can help a woman get her treatment
and resilience;
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KEY ACTIVITIES
• Delivery services in the community;
• Psychological treatment for women and children in crisis ;
• Training Good Neighbors, community leaders, traditional authorities,
religious, traditional doctors and technicians from different public
services;
• Psychosocial, legal and psychological assistance of violence victims;
• Multissectoral meetings involving focal points from basic public
services and structures of neighborhoods;
• Monitoring and evaluation meetings and Good Neighbors mentoring;
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Example Capacitação dos Bons Vizinhos
Multissectorial Meetings
Example of monitoring and mentoring meetings with BVs in the Communities
Good Neighbors Model concept
CÁ-PAZ
RCT2
Basic Public Services
Psychologists,
lawyers,
sociologists, educators and
social and public health
workers
Reference zone
RT2
Health, Education, Social Action
and justice (Police and Courts).
Multissectoral zone
RCT1
Reference zone
RPP
RT1
Reference zone
RP
Good Neighbors, Local authority,
traditional Medicine and leaders and
religion
RCT1 – Reference taken by GNs to public services
RT1 – Reference taken by GNs to CA-PAZ
RCT2 – Reference taken by CA-PAZ to Public Service
RPP – Reference taken by Public Service to GNs/Community
RP – Reference taken by CA-PAZ to GNs/Community
RT2 - Reference taken by Public Service to CA-PAZ
Who are the Good Neighbors and Their Role in
Community
Definition:
• Good Neighbors are trained community members who work in a
network with basic public services and local structures search for
answers to the communities basic needs;
Role:
• Identify all problems of people living in violence situations and
makes referrals to public service, CA-PAZ , local service and others;
• Make home visits to care and protect for victims (management of
violence cycle, people and children abandoned and diseases);
• Inform and dialogue with citizens about laws and other useful
information to reduce suffering and violence;
• In case of violence, corruption, disease and maltreatment report
immediately to the responsible public services or CA-PAZ;
Example Polestar, dialogue about law among GNs and
communities
Mobile Brigade of Health and Good Neighbors
Home visits to care and protect for victims
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Specific allocations for gender
Gender specific allocation
Value in Local currency Amount
in
Amount local currency Amount in
(specify)
Rands
(specify)
Rand
1,455,000.00 Mts
519,642.85
Integration of gender in projects
Gender in mainstream projects (please
(specify)
specify)
Value contributed in cash or through
support from individually pocket
(Myself and my colleague)
Value contributed in cash or through
support from the partners and
supporters
of the in
model
(Women
Amount
contributed
cash or
in kind by
ambassadors
in Mozambique,
Linda
partner organisations
(please specify)
and friend Couple)
TOTAL
TOTAL
2,404,868.00 Mts
858,881.43
1,190,000.00 MTs
371,428.57
96,000.00 MTs
34,285.71
5,145,868.00
1,784,238.56
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BENEFICIARIOS
CATEGORIA
Direct
Beneficiaries
example: nr of trained
activists (GNs)
Indirect Beneficiaries (e.g.
through other partners)
Beneficiaries direct (e.g.
access the website, emails,
articles)
Total
WOMEN
MEN
TOTAL
%WOMEN
545
72
617
88,3%
347 737
323 819
671 556
51.8%
348 282
323 891
672 173
51.8%
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CHALLENGES
• Dissemination community empowerment
model as comprehensive approach and
cost-effective;
• Increase Good Neighbors number in
communities 2 to 10;
• Empower local structures, mainly the
heads of blocks for the change in attitude
and behavior in victims assistance;
• Train more traditional doctors and religious
to awareness on traditional practices that
consider the whole problem in women is
caused by spirits;
• Working with men to change violence
attitude;
• More monitoring and evaluation;
• Find ways to get own office;
Moving the Office
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MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Qualitative and Quantitative
Methods:
• Initial surveys on mutual help values;
• Monitoring sheets;
• Community and psychological
Empowerment, personal responsibility
and involvement questionnaire;
• Computerized Data base;
• Photos;
• Monitoring and Evaluation Reports;
Monitoring the Good Neighbors
Magude
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RESULTS - 2013
Delivery services:
• 151 orphans children benefit of registration and enrollment in
schools;
• 178 Poorer people benefit decent funeral;
• 17 Babies, children and patients with HIV / AIDS benefit to get
milk and food basket;
• 4017 women and children receive psychosocial support in their
communities Through the Good Neighbors,;
• 213 Women, men and children receive psychosocial treatment and
therapies in CA-PAZ;
• 58 networks on protection against violence in communities;
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RESULTS - 2013
Training and Women Empowerment
• 35 GNs voice and networks of formal and informal services to complain
about injustices and qualities of services
• 17 GNs using multissectoral approach to solving community problems;
• 109 women resilient and improve your self-esteem
Public Participation:
• 6 Marches and 12 palestras about gender violence in communities;
• 03 Good Neighbors promoted as secretaries of the districts, 02 Head of
blocks, 09 sanitary units and auxiliary, 01 Community court and 01
Judge Elected.
RESULTS - 2013
Example;
This family lost the mother. The baby
was suckling the breast of the dead
mother for 3 days. All the children were
out of school due to parents' suffering.
Scope / coverage through the
media
• Participation in discussions “A
Tarde é Sua” program and others
TVM, STV; ITV; Mira-Mar, TIM
channel.
• Severe cases identified in the
community by GNs and reported
through WTS, TVM and Mira
Mar; (Example of the four
members of the same family
perished in Boquisso; lynching of
Regulus; child breastfeeding dead
mother for 3 days in Trevo etc.)
RESULTS - 4
Changing attitudes:
Cognitive Component – Good Neighbors, local structures, and
traditional chiefs Doctors already know that a case of violence should
be conducted at police station, hospital in case of injury, Prosecutor,
Social Action and Education;
Example: In 2012- 89% to 75.6% of cases of violence were
treated in local structures (e.g. comparative table )
Comparative table
Public services
Cases Referred Cases Referred
in 2012
in 2013
Health
162
842
Police
141
618
Social Services
124
363
Education
44
140
Court
21
74
RESULTS – 4.1
Afective Component:
• Mutual
assistance
(referrals,
collecting food for the ceremony,
the elderly care for orphans in the
community);
• Women in crisis situation or abandoned
children hosted by the Good Neighbors
for 3 days;
• Accompanying victims to hospitals
an event of injuries or rape;
• Home visits and care patients and
violence victims.
The husband did not let this lady
to go out and she was suffered
from hemorrhage
This man lived isolated from
the whole family, ate poorly
and ended up having diabetes
what did lose two legs
LESSONS LEARNED AND INNOVATION
• One must be careful with the language and the approach not to create
expectations on people;
• Social support to GNs is an important element in the empowerment
process;
• GNs with network services become dominant in relation to others;
How have been applied?
• Be frank, open and honest in approach, objectives and purpose of the
project;
• Invite some GNs to seminars and workshops with partners;
• Understand the concerns presented, integrating them into the approach
or model for that because the answer does not create discrepancies;
• Making visits to GNs in their communities;
• Creating small fund for the care and treatment of victims to help GNs;
• Let GNs to be autonomous in relation with public services;
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LEARNING AND SHARING WITH OTHER PARTNERS
• Participation in 2nd National Congress of
Public Health on 31 October to 2
November;
• Regular participation in seminars and
Workshops with partners
• Multissectoral participation in meetings
• Presentation Model in International
Conferences and training
(example:
Malaysia (2010), Netherland (2006); and
Recent Research and Innovation
Seminar UNISA -2014);
• Participate in Health Fairs in Maputo
Province;
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SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICA
• With network services and GNS recognition as a community health
worker can continue working without CA-PAZ;
• Interested organizations may be, CA-PAZ we can train in this model
(Example: Partners like CAFOD – Catholic Agency For Oversise
Development)
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KEYS PRIORITIES FOR 2014
• Psychosocial and Legal Assistance, Care and Treatment of victims;
• Creating Groups Discussion (men and women) in the communities
talking about violence and Laws;
• Assessment, tutoring and mentoring to enable the Good Neighbors;
• Training at least 5 more Good Neighbors to each neighborhood to
strengthen others;
• Research on masculinity and build especially men program ;
• More Good Neighbors "empowered“ make assessment of selfefficacy and resilience;
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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Not only think of Good
Neighbors Model and working,
also we exchange gifts, eat cake
and dance