Raymond Havwala - Young Men's Christian Association, Zambia

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ZAMBIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICESUMMIT AND AWARDS7 - 8 MARCH 2012CRESTA GOLF VIEW HOTEL,LUSAKA, ZAMBIA36 5 DAY S OF L OC AL AC T I ON T O EN D GEN D ER

V IOLENCE : HALVE GENDE R V IOLENCE BY 2015

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W H AT I S T H E P R O B L E M Y O U A R ER E S P O N D IN G T O a n d H O W D I D Y O U G O

A B O U T I D E N T IF Y IN G I T ? The Good Husband Campaign is the newest activity YWCA

launched in Linda Compound. The campaign analysis criticalaspect of preventing gender based violence at nuclear familylevel through male involvement. This was further realized afteranalyzing YWCA 2008, 2009 and 2010 annual reports of which

placed child neglect and spouse battery on top of list of casesreceived in YWCA drop-in-Centres. Most cases were comingfrom Linda community hence YWCAs prevention interventionsthrough involvement of identified problematic Husbands. Bothtype cases involves close family members but due to variousreasons differ to point of killing each otherand our questionusually is why should such happen to two partners whoshould love each other said Raymond Havwala YWCAMens Network National Coordinator.

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The Good Husband Campaign initiative was realized outof such thoughts and target problematic husbandsidentified by community. We carried out a baseline surveyand revealed that husbands: Alcohol abuse fuelled

violence against women, lack of effective communicationamong couples resulted into violence and women beenmost victims and power imbalance among partners. Thehusbands are then engaged in behavioral changecommunication through male focused discussions and

trainings.


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The Linda community Husbands carried out a campaign femalecandidates started on 13th September 2011 to 19th September2011. The campaign involves community activists in Lindamobilizing voters to vote for adopted female candidates in Lindacommunity. The Husbands promote 50/50 representation at all

levels (Family level, community level, local government andparliamentary level. The Husbands travel street by streetencouraging men to balance power between men and women. TheON THE ROAD SHOW CAMPAIGN FOR FEMALE CANDIDATESinitiative targeted at female adopted candidates in 2011 tripartiteelection to maximize number of elected females in decision makingpositions. This activity was driven after realizing the fact that only105 female candidates were adopted as Members of Parliament outof 1500 representing 10 political parties and 150 constituencies.


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W HY I S TH I S I SSUE IMPORTANT? The period (16 days of Activism) between 25th November 2011 and

10th December 2011, 16 women within alone Lusaka were killed in bytheirHUSBANDS. The period between 10th December 2011 and 21stJanuary 2012, 7 women within Lusaka died in hands of Husbandsmaking total of 22 women killed in three (3) months. These figures arecoming from only one (1) district (Lusaka Town) out of 74 Zambiandistricts and were reported. Out of 22 women killed by Husbands, 4were from Linda community. The major perpetrators of violence havebeen men particularly Husbands under influence of alcohol, sightingpower imbalance and negative male cultural beliefs. Violence againstwomen has increased, Zambian government is spending billions ofmoney to treat victims of gender based violence, and resources could

go to developmental projects if violence is prevented, family arebreaking up as a result of gender based violence.

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Husbands are not giving equal opportunities to their wives due topower in balance and the trend in transferred from generation togenerations in name of cultural. This project deals with the rootcause of violence and seek redress by involving major perpetratorsof violence which are men particularly husbands. If men (Husbands)

are educated about consequences of gender based violence casesof gender based violence were reduce. The men will educatepotential husbands (Boys) to believe in non-violent action asopposed to violent actions. Equal opportunities in homes will begiven to girls and girls at all levels and we shall create violence freehomes were peace and love will be the order of the day. The GOOD

HUSBAND Project/Campaign is involving problematic husbands toprevent gender based violence against wives and redesign aviolence free generation through dialogue.


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Mostly decision making positions in Zambia are maledominated hence increasing violence against women.Promoting women in high decision on family level, localgovernment and parliamentary level balances powers

hence reducing gender based violence through passing ofant-gender based violence legislations. Femaleparliamentarian will allocate more resources towardspreventing gender based violence activities. Goodhusband campaign promotes women in leadership

position as strategy to prevent gender based violence inLinda community.


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H O W A R E Y O U G O I N G A B O U T A D D R E S S IN GT H I S P R O B L E M ?

Since most perpetrators of gender based violenceare men particularly husbands and most case arecoming from Linda compounds. YWCA MensNetwork carried out following steps to address the

problem: (1)The gate keepers in Linda compoundwere approached involving Area DevelopmentCommittee, market committee and local churchesthat nominated 30 community activists. Thecommunity then voted for only 10 credible men as

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The Good Husband training package included topics suchas: Good Husband should be: faithful to wife, peaceful,understanding, and loving to his wife. Good husband shouldwrite a will, legalize his marriage and mentor his children.

The Good Husband should never believe in polygamy,harmful effects of alcohol abuse (, should always comehome early, take part in reproductive health care and alwaysshare home chores with wife. Power in relation to Genderbased violence, power in relation HIV, power in relation to

human right and content of Ant-GBV act.


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The community activists with help of community membersidentified 20 problematic Husband in Linda communitycurrently undergoing behavioural change messages

The selected problematic husbands pledged to learn more

and then translate new acquired skills in lives to positivelybenefit their wives and children. The most transformedhusband will became Linda community icon and rest ofhusbands will themselves become community activiststhat will promote positive cultural practices amonghusbands. The transformed husbands will be livingexamples to other husbands in Linda community and willengage another group of problematic husbands forintervention


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Our goal is to transform all Linda community problematichusbands into Good Husbands by 2017. This goal willmake YWCA prevent gender based violence at familylevel in Linda Community I am a good husband for life

are you? End of question. We have designed GoodHusband campaign to solve most of domestic relatedviolence. The Good Husband Television series iscomponent one other component of our campaign.

Phase (1) involves 20 problematic husbands Phase (2) will involve 60 problematic husbands Phase (3) will involve 180 problematic husbands


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ON ROAD SHOW CAMPAIGNFOR FEMALE CANDIDATES

The Linda Community activist identified 4 adopted femalecandidates within Linda community. All the 4 candidateswere adopted as councillors (local government) byMovement for Multy-party Democracy, United Party for

National Development, United National Independenceparty and Patriotic Front. The Husbands carried acampaign called on The Road Show Campaign forFemale Candidates to mobilize voters to vote for adoptedfemale candidates. A campaign van coloured with banners

and mega phone went round street by street carrying allfemale candidates selling manifestos. Campaign rallieswere held by husbands encouraging other husbands tovoter for female candidates.


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W H AT I S T H E T I M E -F R A M E F O R T H EP R O J E C T ?

Phase (1) 2 years Phase (2) 2 years Phase (3) 2 years

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W H O I S T H E K E Y TA R G E T ? W H O I SI N V O LV E D ? A R E W O M E N A N D M E N E Q U A L LY

I N V O LV ED ? Problematic Husbands Female aspiring candidates Who is involved?

YWCA Mens Network Linda Community Activists Identified Problematic Husbands

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W HAT PARTNERSH IPS HAVE BEEN FORMEDT H R O U G H T H E P R O J E C T ?

Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) provide behavioural changecommunication interventions to problematic Husbands and InternationalJustice Mission provides sensitization on Zambian Laws and benefits writing awill, non-violent actions to problematic husbands. Planned ParenthoodAssociation of Zambia (PPAZ) provides husbands with sexuality education.

Area development committee to anchor project as they directly in contact with

community. The area developed committee has work with Young ChristianAssociation community activists who directly identify community gender basedviolence problems and find solutions. The community activists receivedtrainings from above organizations and are currently working with problematichusbands to prevent gender based violence at family level. They also directlyinfluence various community committees within Linda community to adopt50/50 male female representation at community and National level. The

community activists are working with political parties and encourage theadoption of female candidates.ROJEC

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RESO URC EFULNESS : W HAT FINANC IAL ,H U M A N A N D O T H E R R E SO U R C E S W E R E

M O B I LI S E D ? H O W A R E T H E Y B E I N G U S E D ? The Good Husband campaign has been financially supported by

Young Women Christian Association and United Nations Trust Fund.The Campaign for female candidates is financially supported byAction Aid Zambia. The Good Husband Campaign has engaged malecommunity activists who work as volunteers and mobilizedproblematic Husbands (Convert problematic husbands into Good

Husbands)

The Good Husband Campaign last stage will reward the mostconverted husband and will become a community icon that will startworking with other problematic husbands with view to turn them intoGood Husbands. The once problematic husbands but now GoodHusbands are living testimony and through multiplication method willreach out to other problematic husbands. Both financial and humanresources are been utilized as above.

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Young Women Christian Association provides logistical support interms of transport, communication and refreshments during malefocus group discussion (Insaka). The community activists organizesmeeting with Husbands and work as community gender basedviolence watch dogs. The engaged problematic Husbands translate

all acquired education in their homes. They are encouraged to holdfamily Ant-gender based violence discussion with wives andchildren.

This education stop gender based violence in homes as theproblematic husbands turns into Good Husband and lead inteaching his children (Potential Husbands and Wives) on effects ofgender based violence. This will make potential husbands andwives never to resort to violence when they grow and becomehusbands or wives.


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CREAT IV ITY H OW ARE ARTS , CULTURE ,M E D I A & S O C I A L M E D I A B E IN G U S E D T O

MO BI L ISE & POP ULAR ISE THE ISSUE? The Good Husband Campaign community activists formed drama

group that performs during community sensitizations on gender basedviolence prevention and 50/50 female and male representation. Themale focus group discussions explore negative cultural practices suchas loboola (bridal price) and how contribute to GBV, polygamousmarriages and power imbalance. Young Women Christian

Association Mens Network works both with print and electronic mediaunder friends of media initiative. The Good Husband Campaign holdsradio discussion programs husbands on harmful effects of alcohol,effects of late coming, and how husbands should live in order toprevent violence at home (Attributes of Good Husbands). We havecreated a Good Husband Campaign Facebook page were gender

based violence issues are raised and addressed. We are running aBring 2 problematic Husband competition on Facebook to reach out

to many husbands with a view to prevent GBV.

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M O N I TO R I N G A N D E VA L U AT I O N H O W D OY O U T R A C K P R O G R E S S O F T H E P R O J E C T ?H O W D O Y O U TA K E C O R R E C T I V E A C T I O N

W H E R E N E C E S S A R Y? The Young Women Christian Association Good Husbands Campaignhas in place a work plan with clear deliverables. We have in place animplementation plan which clearly gives direction on what should bedone at every particular point. Monitoring is done on monthly basiswere issues that need redress are addressed. We receive monthlyreports from community activist and evaluation is done quarterly.

Evaluation involves physical interviews with problematic husbands tomeasure knowledge levels, behavioural and attitude change. The laststage of evaluation involves personal interviews with wives andchildren at home to trace husbands concerning gender basedviolence issues after receiving Good husband interventions. Theevaluation report helps to improve our gender based violence

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W HAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN A CH IEVED? Good Husband Campaign has been launched and 20 problematic husbands

has been identified and since receiving behavioural change communicationand wives and Children has testified that their Husband/father has positivelychanged since he started attending Good Husband meetings.

On the Road Show campaign for female candidates prior to 20th September2011 tripartite election which Linda Husbands campaigned for female

candidates, three (3) female aspiring candidates out of four (4) adopted femalecandidates won the election.

The community activists hold community dialogues within Linda community tofind solutions to gender based violence and January YWCA 2012 reportsshows a reduction of GBV cases from Linda Community.

The area member of parliament has signed a social contract facilitated byGood Husbands Community Activists to support community efforts to endviolence against women and girls.

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I M PA C T ( B A S E D O N T H E S A D C P R O T O C O LTARGETS )

Young Women Christian Association implement with reference toPART THREE (Governance) article 12 which addresses attaining50/50 female and male representation in decision making by 2015.Hence implementing ON THE ROAD SHOW CAMPAIGN FORFEMALE CANDIDATES to endeavour 50% women representation indecision making

With reference to PART SIX article 20 (Gender Based Violence)

Young Christian association promotes enhancement of legislation to endviolence against women. The Young Women Christian Association drafted theAnt-Gender Based Violence Bill which is now law in Zambia, right now YWCAis advocating for full implementation of Ant-GBV law. YWCA works in three

thematic areas:

.1. Women Rights program YWCA has strategies aimed at

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PREVENTION STRATEGY

Young Women Christian Association has male driven program (MensNetwork). The YWCA Mens Network is in response to evidence that men, inthe vast majority of cases, act as the perpetrators in incidents of sexual andgender-based violence. As such, the Mens Network activities have beenmostly focused on general sensitization of men about their role in suchforms of violence with the goal of preventing future incidents from occurring.

The second major activity of the Mens Network has been to expand acooperative group of men who meet monthly to discuss issues of sexuality,gender, violence, Good Husband Campaign, and health in their own livesand communities. These both generally fall under the title prevention.

Young Women Christian Association advocate for laws aimed at genderbased violence. YWCA drafted the Ant-Gender Based Violence Bill which is

now law to reduce violence against women. Right now YWCA is advocatingfor full implementation of Ant-GBV law and has since petitioned Minister ofJustice to start implementing the law


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MITIGATION

Under mitigation YWCA has main drop-incenters were victim of gender basedviolence seek help, women shelters were

women experiencing life threatening homeenvironment are kept awaiting casedisposal at courts.


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I S T H I S A CT I O N S U S TA I N A B LE ? CA N I T B ER EP L I CAT ED B Y O T H E R I N D I V I D UA LS ,

G R O U P S A N D O R G A N I S AT I O N S I N Y O U R A R E AA N D B E Y O N D ?

Yes, the practice is sustainable and easy toreplicate to others since it is very costeffective and directly solving the root causeof Gender based violence through theinvolvement of problematic husbandslabelled as perpetrators

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W H AT L E S S O N S H A V E B E E N L E A R N E D ? Male involvement in gender based violence prevention is very

important as it addresses the root cause of gender basedviolence. Our experience shows that worst violence comesfrom partner more especially Husbands hence need topromote such campaign as GOOD HUSBAND CAMPAIGN

which targets to engage problematic husband to preventgender based violence. Our lesson has been that behaviouralchange is a process and need gradual intervention and notdrastic measures.

The Good Husband Campaign should be embraced by allGBV like-minded organizations since it promotes love, peaceand violence free homes. Everyone would love to have aGOOD HUSBAND to prevent violence at family level

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AUTHOR OF GOOD HUSBANDCAMPAIGN

RAYMOND HAVWALA YWCA Mens Network Coordinator +260976764297 [email protected] [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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