Part of the exchange and learning component of the Network are the Speakers Events. These are brief events, where resource persons engage Network members in a particular country to create awareness or enhance skills on various GBV prevention issues.
 
The Network has in 2009 held 2 Speaker Events in Kampala and Nairobi.
 
On the 18th of August 2009 Ms. Collet Ngwane of Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation – Gender-based Violence Program (CSVR), South Africa shared with Network members based in Kampala, CSVR’s experience and lessons from tracking the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act in South Africa.
 
On the 28th of August Sarah Harrison, a Consultant in Psychosocial Protection and Support in Emergencies for Amina Development Consultancy facilitated a discussion with Nairobi based members around community-based, psychosocial protection and support in preventing and responding to GBV. View Pictorial here.
 
The Network’s 2010 Speaker Events
On the 23rd of Jan 2010 Tina Musuya, Executive Director of Center for Domestic Violence Prevention a member organization, met with over twenty colleagues from several national and international NGOs based in Zambia and shared experiences of mobilizing communities to prevent violence against women and HIV. The event was coordinated in Lusaka by Zambia National Women’s Lobby – Men’s Network Project, spear headed by Nelson Banda, the coordinator of the Men’s Network. Discussions from the event were vibrant and participants were discussed SASA!, an approach that creates every day activists in communities inspiring men and women to prevent violence against women in their own communities. The event was also covered by the local press in Lusaka and articles were written in the Zambia Daily Mail.
 
View list of participants here.
View presentation here.
View pictures from the event here.
View press clippings of the event here.
 
You too can be a resource person for the Speaker days, please write to us at info@preventgbvafrica.org and let us know when you are traveling within the region.