Projects & Training
Overview
The overall goal of the Projects and Training component of POWA’s work is to build capacity – internally and externally. The aim is to strengthen Violence against Women and Girls sector interventions that are women-centred and rights-based, ensuring our planned interventions respond to the intersections between Violence against Women, HIV and Poverty.
Working closely with all programmes and services of POWA, the department’s strategy centres on building individual, organisational and community capacity to respond to and prevent Violence against Women and Girls. Activities focus on improving services for women and girl survivors of violence as well as activities which aim at women’s leadership and transformation. POWA’s training and learning programmes range from one and five-day workshops through to year-long multi-model strengthening capacity programmes.
The overall goal of the Projects and Training component of POWA’s work is to build capacity – internally and externally. The aim is to strengthen Violence against Women and Girls sector interventions that are women-centred and rights-based, ensuring our planned interventions respond to the intersections between Violence against Women, HIV and Poverty.
Working closely with all programmes and services of POWA, the department’s strategy centres on building individual, organisational and community capacity to respond to and prevent Violence against Women and Girls. Activities focus on improving services for women and girl survivors of violence as well as activities which aim at women’s leadership and transformation. POWA’s training and learning programmes range from one and five-day workshops through to year-long multi-model strengthening capacity programmes.
Objectives of the Department are as follows:
To create visibility in the sector in collaboration and partnership with other agencies.
To create visibility in the sector in collaboration and partnership with other agencies.
Community Dialogues
Community dialogue is used to create a safe space for women and men to speak out about various factors, including harmful cultural practices, that contribute towards violence against women.
Community dialogue is used to create a safe space for women and men to speak out about various factors, including harmful cultural practices, that contribute towards violence against women.
Workshops
The workshops are mainly conducted in provinces where POWA does not have a physical structure (presence) and participants are community care givers, activists, community mobilises, trainers and women representatives from the communities.
Women are trained on gender and socialisation, abuse and all its forms, sexual violence, reporting processes, roles of different stakeholders in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) including procedure to follow when applying for a protection order and other court processes.
The workshops are mainly conducted in provinces where POWA does not have a physical structure (presence) and participants are community care givers, activists, community mobilises, trainers and women representatives from the communities.
Women are trained on gender and socialisation, abuse and all its forms, sexual violence, reporting processes, roles of different stakeholders in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) including procedure to follow when applying for a protection order and other court processes.