2015 SADC GENDER PROTOCOL SUMMIT AND AWARDS

CENTRES OF EXCELLENCELOCAL GOVERNMENT

INSTITUTIONAL APPLICATIONThis award recognises progress in mainstreaming gender the local government, and Media Centres of Excellence. Use this form to do your institutional profile as part of your application process. The application must be accompanied by evidence to support all application form.

ALL FIELDS ARE COMPULSORY.

THIS PART OF THE APPLICATION WILL BE UPLOADED ONLINE SADC Gender Summit online Form

The SADC Gender Summit System allows for online applications. The reports that are generated from these reports are of crucial importance when it comes to visualising the data gathered. This guide walks you through the process of navigating the system, submitting your application form and uploading your institutional profiles. To access this online system to upload your form, go to: http://197.189.205.250/sgs/sgsApplicationHome.php

Name of good practice

Berseba a Champion of service delivery and Sewerage Infrastructure Development

SCORE CARD AND EVIDENCE TABLE

Please fill in progress on your score card from last year, and update the evidence. Judges will assess the progress you have made. Their score will be final.

Please upload your completed score card on the online application in the section called supporting documentation. Please name your score card as follows Berseba Village Council_Namibia_5_Cllr. C. Isaaks_15 – 17 April 2015.

Please use this section to list the evidence that goes with your score card. Upload evidence on the online application in the section called supporting documentation.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT EVIDENCE UPLOADED – PLEASE RECORD FILE NAMES

Policy framework Gender policyGovernance Sex disaggregated data on the councilMainstreaming gender into existing programmes

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Procurement Procurement notices giving preferences to women or

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT EVIDENCE UPLOADED – PLEASE RECORD FILE NAMESinviting them to apply/ training etc

Climate change and sustainable development

Copy of the application form as evidencePhotos

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Land and housingWater and sanitationEnvironmental healthHIV and AIDS and care workSocial developmentGender specific projectsGender based violenceOthersEmployment PracticesSelection and recruitment photoCapacity building photosWorking conditions and environment

Council appointed a female Acting CEO as from January this 2015 Ms. N. Hangala

Gender Management SystemGender structures We have minutes and attendance list.Budgets Proof of budget and payments made to CCE

volunteersMonitoring and evaluation Your score card and or any other evidence of how you

are going about gender mainstreaming.

Resource mobilisation for work on gender equality Amount local currency (specify)

Amount in Rand

Gender specific allocation – please state the names of the projects

Twenty Thousand Namibian Dollars

N$ 20’000-00

CCE Facilitators & HIV Aids

Gender in mainstream projects (please specify)

Five Thousand Namibian Dollars

N$ 5000-00

Sixteen Days of Activism campaignBelated World Aids Day

In kind contributions to the COE process – eg venues (please specify)

Twelve Thousand Five Hundred and Fourty Namibian Dollars

N$ 12’540-00

Payment made to CCE facilitators

Funds raised from donors or the private sector for gender work – (please specify)

Two Thousand Five Hundred Namibian Dollars

N$ 2500-00

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TOTAL N$20’040-00

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THIS WORD DOCUMENT WILL BE UPLOADED TO THE WEBSITE 1. INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE

COUNTRY NamibiaCOUNCIL BersebaGENDER CHAMPION Cllr. Sabina.M. EsterhuizenGENDER FOCAL PERSON

Mrs. Sara.M. Kooper

Baseline score (year) 41Progress Score (year) 62Latest score (year)Attitude score –baseline 83.5%Attitude score – follow up

Women Men Total % WomenCouncil 3 2 5 60%ManagementCouncil staff overall 4 7 11 39%Population served 4004Key characteristics Livestock Farming

Synopsis

The council moved into the new office building on 6 th of June 2014 and now each worker are operating in their own offices. Through the TIPEEG program we received again 6million Namibian Dollars, which we are using to service land and put up infrastructures in extension 2 and 3. Road Fund Administration funded N$259’000-00 for the upgrading of the road infrastructure and the council put interlocks in front of the clinic where we recruit 11 workers 3 women and 8 man and the work is successfully completed.

Key objectives

Capacity building: To train the staff members for better skills and knowledge.Strengthen Working Relationship: Working together and disseminate best practises, case studies,etc that can be presented at the annual gender justiceand local government summit and awards that provide councils and communities with a platform to learnt from each other on empowering women and ending violence at the local level.Monitoring and evaluation: Administration scorecards and other monitoring and evaluation tools that can be used to measure change in the immediate, medium and long termsPolitical support: garner political support through engaging councillors in concrete developmental issues that will put councils agenda high.

Background Council was not aware about the importance of the policies until the inception of gender links in 2009. In the past the people was not aware of

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their rights, but through gender links they are now well equipped. Non involvement of activities concerning gender. The community was also not aware of their contribution in terms of demand for resource allocation such as gender budgeting and service provision. Female residents were not aware of the tender process, and their right to tender or provide services to the council.

Key activitiesBelated World Aids Day & 16 days of activism: We commemorated the day on the 22nd of December 2014.Male conference: Awareness campaign of circumcising 11 April 2014Gender Based & Domestic Violence: Awareness campaign 12 April 2014

Resource allocations Please put a summary here from the information uploaded

Local currency RandsGender specific allocationCouncil allocations to gender in mainstream projectsIn –kind support to the COE process

Challenges• The council is under-staff and it hinders the smooth running of the

activities e.g. Cashier, HR practitioner, LED officer.• Poor revenue collection• Poor revenue base/source• Absence of police station

How have these been overcome? • Educate community to pay the dues on time • Educate community about how tariff increments happen• Raise awareness on water and electricity usage.• Active community participation in the budget planning.• Advertise the vacancies and appoint staff.• Established Awareness Educative Programmes in local authority upset.

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• Contact regional commander and find out about the status of police station.

• Approach ministry of youth and sports for assistance.

Results (Please fill in what is relevant to your COE)

Women’s empowerment

• Women are been trained as entrepreneurs to

• Start with their own small businesses and are well organized. Income generating Changing of living standards Creating of jobs/ buying wood from community

Men for change • Broader understanding about Gender related issues amongst women and

men. Men gained independence since being part of the group as they better understand their rights.

• Council elect Cllr. Jesaja Hamman as the Chairperson of Berseba Village

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Changes at household level

• My heart felt exited since becoming part of the centre of excellence group

• I felt like a huge burden was offloaded from my shoulders when I joined the group

• I started to felt very accepted in society and is satisfied .• I gained independence and do know my rights now. I am also able to

generate an income, and now my husband felt threatened by that.• I also gained that courage to make decisions at household level for

example: by gaining admission for my children at the local school hostel.

Changes in attitudes

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Community involvement has improved in community activities e.g community meetings attendance list available

Community started to pay water bills as a result of the debtors policy being implemented.

Youth against crime was established, where female are more than male. Name list available. Beneficiaries: 20-female and 18-male

Changes at the work place

• Wellness sensitizing meeting at workplace IEC corner in place Staff testing on T.B done annually

Service delivery

• The cash flow has improved as the community’s mindset has change to pay their water bills and put the council in a better position to adhere to the needs of the community timeously

• Expanding sanitation infrastructure• Relocation of residents as a result of Village development plan• Beneficiaries 4 women and 4 male

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Public participation• Held community meetings, minutes and attendant list available• Commemorate against alcohol and drugs abused and illicit trafficking day• Held national prayer day to stop Gender Based Violence• Commemoration of world Aids day• To encourage community for testing to know their status• Held meetings with different stakeholders to cascading COE work

Outreach through the media We had the cyber dialogue with various SADC countries during our 16

days campaign, where we had discussions via the internet on issues relating to Gender based violence

Changes at a policy level that have come about as a result of the COE work

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Debtors policy improved the cash flow of the council, as people now understand the reason of paying their debts/bills

Policies are available

Lesson learned and innovation

The community were well organised during the 16 days campaign. Cyber dialog in linking with us locally and abroad. Liaising with other councils. Networking with different stakeholders locally

Learning and sharing with other councils Although it’s not consecutively we are in liaison with Tses Village

Council and they also assist us also with HR department. Information sharing Tses Village also assists us by renting their Hydro Blash Machine

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Sustainability and replication Community garden, where council provides sufficient

resources, eg. Land, water, transport and equipment Capacity building by training community to obtain skills How can the COE work be cascaded to other Councils and how

can you council contribute to the cascading process? Information sharing, Exchange site visits, Workshops Facilitate workshops,

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