Overview of the Movement Building Initiative

Overview of the Movement Building Initiative

Get Moving!

In November 2008 members of the GBV prevention Network met to discuss GBV prevention efforts in the region; its meaning, strength and impact and agreed on the need to build and strengthen a GBV prevention movement for the region. In response through out 2009 the GBV Prevention Network is focusing on building a GBV prevention movement in the region with our Get Moving! initiative.

Get Moving!What is the Get Moving! Initiative?

Get Moving! utilizes reflection sessions, exercises and readings, designed to stimulate personal and / or organizational reflection about GBV prevention work.

Get Moving! Objectives

1. To encourage personal reflection and learning among members to understand and be committed to a rights-based, feminist approach to GBV prevention.

2. To foster reflection at an organizational level on values that include power sharing, shared authority and decision making

3. To create strategies with member organizations for reaching out to others with a rights-based analysis of GBV prevention.

Get Moving!How is the Get Moving! process organized?

Any group or organization interested in thinking more about the ideas and values that underpin GBV prevention work and what it would take to truly prevent GBV in the region can undertake the 3 phases.

Each phase of Get Moving! includes a series of sessions meant to be facilitated within a group as well as readings and suggestions for journal writing that participants can do independently.

Let’s Get Moving!

If your organization/ group is committed to going through this process, we warmly welcome you to be in touch with us at info@preventgbvafrica.org  The Network will closely support up to 10 member organizations who request partnership in this process. This support will include:

  • a face-to-face meeting among the 10 organizations to build peer support, solidarity and further strategize on strengthening the GBV prevention movement;
  • a separate, private space on the Network website for these 10 organizations to share and support each other; and,
  • additional tools and opportunities for movement building.

View detailed process

Seven organizations in the region are partnering with the Network from March 2010 in the Get Moving! Process. They will block out one day each quarter to conduct these sessions with their staff and keep connected with the Network Coordinating Office and with each other through the connection space provided on the website. More organizations in the region are expected to come on board next month. In Uganda, the Network Coordinating Office will partner with Kampala based member organizations to conduct Get Moving! sessions every quarter. Below is the list of regional partners and the contact persons --Welcome!  

We shall keep you posted as the process unfolds, let’s Get Moving!

  1. Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training (ADAPT) in South Africa – Sindiswa Ngcongco
  2. Centre for Rights Education & Awareness (CREAW) in Kenya - Wangechi Wachira & Nelly Njoroge
  3. Kivulini Women's Rights Organization in Tanzania – Maimuna Kanyamala
  4. Rwanda Men’s Resource Center (RWAMREC) - Ernest Nkurikiyinfura & Edouard Munyamaliza
  5. White Ribbon Campaign Namibia - Charles P. Simakumba
  6. Women's Legal Resources Centre in Malawi – Maggie Kathewera Banda
  7. YWCA of Zambia - Chilufya Siwale
  8. Musasa Project in Zimbabwe, Netty Musanhu
  9. IMAGE Project South Africa, Lufuno Muvhango
Get Moving - Reaching Out

Phase 5 Get Moving: Reaching Out. Download here.

Phase 4 Get Moving: Fostering Activism. Download here.

Phase 3 Get Moving: Living our Beliefs. Download here.
     

Get Moving! Document

GBV booklet

Phase 2 Get Moving: Supporting Each Other. Download here.

Read details of the Get moving process and the first phase of Get Moving! Here.

Reflect deeply on the process of building a politicized GBV prevention, through the Network’s movement building publication here.

Learn more about rights-based programming for GBV prevention and feminist language, identity and activism through the eleventh issue of the Network’s newsletter here.

Learn more about movement building through the 10th issue of Perspectives of Prevention newsletter here.

Read and learn more general information about feminist theory here.

Share Kivulini Women’s Rights Organization’s experience in movement building here.

Download fun exercises that are an addition to the exercises in phase one

  • Examine your own relationships, download exercise here
  • Create time for yourself as an activist, download exercise here

Let’s Get Moving! Connect with other activists that are involved in the process

Welcome to the Get Moving connection space! In this space we share with other activists across the Horn, East and Southern Africa how our get moving process is coming along, feel free to share progress, successes, major break through, challenges and to ask for help from other activists and practitioners. Your submissions will only be viewed by organizations and groups that are going through the same process.