Zambia Kapiri Mposhi District Council COE

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ZAMBIA NATIONAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND GENDER

JUSTICE

SUMMIT AND AWARDS

7 – 8 MARCH 2012

CRESTA GOLFVIEW LUSAKA

“365 DAYS OF LOCAL ACTION TO END GENDER VIOLENCE: HALVE GENDER VIOLENCE BY 2015”

Kapiri Mposhi District Council

C E N T R E O F

E X C E L L E N

C E



WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF BUY IN AND INVOLVEMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND POLITICIANS IN THE COE PROCESS?

• Level of buy in is excellent.

• Attendance of activities under the COE process by management and

Councilors has been almost 100%.• Participation in deliberations by

Councilors and management staff has been very good. C

E N T R E O F E X C E L L E N C E

NAME OF GOOD PRACTISE



HAS THE COUNCIL COMPLETED STAGES 1 – 10? INDICATE TIME - FRAMES

• Kapiri Mposhi District has completed stages 1 to 6.

• Stage 1: Meeting with Management Team: 24 th June 2010

• Stage 2: Situation Analysis: 24 th June 2010

• Stage 3: Council Level Policy and implementation Workshop: 15 th -17 th September 2010

• Stage 4: Community Mobilization: 15-17 th September 2010

• Stage 6: Cyber dialogue: 7 th December 2010

• Support to implementation 7 th September 2011 C E N T R E O F E X C E L L E N C E




IS THERE A HIGH LEVEL GENDER CHAMPION?

• Yes there is;

• Name : Councillor Benadette Chabakale

• Phone: 0977709891

• Email: [email protected]

C E N T R E O F E X C E L L E N C E




DOES THE COE HAVE A GENDER AND GBV ACTION PLAN THAT HAS BEEN ALIGNED TO THE NEW COE PLANNING FRAMEWORK? IS THIS ACTION PLAN

ADOPTED AND SIGNED?

• Kapiri Mposhi District Council has a Gender and GBV Action Plan.

• The Action Plan has been aligned to the

COE Planning Framework • The Action Plan has been adopted and

signed. C E N T R E O F E X C E L L E N C E




ARE MEN AND WOMEN EQUALLY CONCERNED AND RESPONSIBLE FOR GENDER AND GBV?

HOW ARE THEY INVOLVED ? • Men and women are equally concerned

and responsible for Gender and GBV

• This is evidenced by high levels of

participation from both men and women in the implementation the Action Plan and other important activities like women’s day and 16 days

of Gender activism. C E N T R E O F E X C E L L E N C E




Officers Participating in Women’s Day

Activities



DOES THE COE HAVE DEDICATED RESOURCES, INCLUDING HUMAN AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES

FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING and GBV INITIATIVES?

• Kapiri Council has dedicated financial resources through the inclusion of activities from the Gender and GBV

Action Plan in its annual Budget • Human resources has been dedicated

through the formation of committee whose responsibility is to ensure that

the G & GBV action plan is implemented.





RESOURCEFULNESS? HAS THE COE SUCCESSFULLY MOBILISED OTHER FINANCIAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES? HOW ARE THESE

BEING EFFICIENTLY USED? • Local Authority involved stakeholders from other

Government Departments, the police and NGOsduring the Policy and Implementation W/shop.This ensured that other players at district level

benefitted from the workshop and were able toshare the knowledge acquired to other peoplethat they interact in their course of work.

• In addition, these same stakeholders are part

of the G&GBV action. This means that the CEO is making use of the human financial resources that they bring to the table.





MONITORING AND EVALUATION – HOW DOES THE COE TRACK AND EVALUATE PROGRESS?

HOW DOES THE COE TAKE CORRECTIVE ACTION WHERE NECESSARY?

• The COE has developed a set of targets and indicators to measure progress.This is used as a tool for monitoring

and Evaluation.• Corrective action is taken immediately

it is noticed that implementation is not going as per plan. C





WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED IN YOUR COE COUNCIL?

• Awareness of Gender and GBV has greatly improved among COE staff

• The COE has managed to implement a

number of activities that are in the Action Plan e.g erection of parks, Lighting of strategic places with a view to make them more safe, C





WHAT IMPACT CAN THE COE SHOW WITH REFERENCE TO THE 28 TARGETS OF THE

SADC PROTOCOL ON GENDER AND

DEVELOPMENT? • Under Representation, sex disegreted

data is being updated.

• On Gender based violence. Street

lighting budgeted for. This will help to make the streets safer for women.

• Gender in existing services. Street naming exercise is in progress to help emergency services locate who call for emergency services.





SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION – ARE THE ACTIONS DESCRIBED SUSTAINABLE? CAN THEY

BE REPLICATED BY OTHER COUNCILS?

• Practice is sustainable especially that it is being mainstreamed.

• Similarly replication to lower Local

Government structures is possible especially that Zambia is in the process of implementing the decentralization policy. C





WHAT ARE SOME OF THE LESSONS LEARNED?

• Mainstreaming of Gender makes resource mobilization easier and ensures sustainability.

• Sensitization of Key personnel makes it easy to implement the process.

• Council intends to employ the same strategies when replicating the COE process to lower organs of LG and other Key stakeholders in the near future.





ANY QUESTIONS?



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