Tebogo Letshabamang, Botswana, Local Economic Development - Summit 2012

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BOTSWANA

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND GENDER JUSTICE

SUMMIT AND AWARDS

DATE: 23-25 APRIL 2012

VENUE: KOPANO HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTRE

365 DAYS OF LOCAL ACTION TO END VIOLENCE ANDEMPOWER WOMEN

SHOROBE BASKETRY

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LOCAL

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HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING THISPROBLEM?

High Dependency on

Government hand-outs as 2151

women and 987 men registered

as destitute persons, 1504

needy students

Higher Gender Based Violence

of 70% prevalence among

women. Women have higher HIV/AIDS

prevalence rate of 20.4% &

men 14.2%

Initiated in 1993 by women to

utilize their basket weaving

skills and indigenousknowledgePR

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HIV/AIDS impact Survey


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HOW ARE YOU GOING ABOUT ADDRESSINGTHI S PROBLEM?

A joint workshop for

community mobilization &capacity building:

Cooperatives, Forestry &

range resources, University

of Botswana- BiOkavango

Cooperatives- Officially

registered as MultipurposeCooperative on 15/03/2010

North West District

Council- Oversee, mentor,

market & monitory

University of Botswana-

BiOkavango: financialsupport.

Southern African RegionalEnvironmental Programme

(SAREP)- capacity building

District Multi sectoral

HIV/AIDS Committee

Women Against Rape: 16 Days of

Activism on Violence against

women & children

Women Affairs Department:

Capacity building

Village Development Committee

& village Extension team-

technical advisors

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WHAT IS THE TIME-FRAME FOR THE PROJECT?

Life long project

Awarded yearly license

by the North West

District Council

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SHOROBE BASKETRY

One of our display


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WHO IS THE KEY TARGET? WHO IS INVOLVED?ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY INVOLVED?

All Shorobe and Matsaudi

women

Involves all community

members

Total of 45 members- 40

women and 5 men.

Tourists (Indirectly)PROJECTS:LO

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Woman at work


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PARTNERSHIPS FORMED THROUGH THEPROJECT

Cooperatives Department

North West District

Council

University of Botswana-

BiOkavango project

Women Affairs

Department

Forestry and range

resources department

Southern African Regional

Environmental Programme

(SAREP)

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Abundant resources


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RESOURCEFULNESS: WHAT FINANCIAL, HUMANAND OTHER RESOURCES WERE MOBILISED?

European Development

Funds with Republic ofBotswana and

Conservation International

NGO in 1996 funded

physical constrution and

capacity building

(P68132.00), Local

community contributionP23720.00.

Quarterly & Anuual

General Meetings with all

stakeholders

Department of Cooperative

& UB-BiOkavango projectfacilitated a joint workshopPR

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One of our partners during a workshop


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MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Annual audit by the

Cooperatives Department

Annual General Meeting

Quarterly reports

8 member executive

committee for dailymonitoring

Social welfare & community

development officer

oversees, supervises,

mentors project

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Our sales person


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WHAT RESULTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?

Income generation for basic

needs

Sustainable use of natural

resources

High quality products

Won awards-(9th & 12thnational womens

expositions)

Empowered women with

power & control over their

project

Empowered with business

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SHOROBE BASKETRY


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IMPACT (BASED ON THE SADC PROTOCOLTARGETS)

Inline withArticles 15-19SADC protocol on GenderBased Violnce: economicempowerment of bothwomen and men to ensuresocial justice, inclusion ,

equality & equity.

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LESSONS LEARNED

If women are empowered withself reliance skills they reducedependency syndrome

Importance for emphasis onbusiness management training

Need for first aid training

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THANK YOU

ANY QUESTIONS

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Tebogo Letshabamang, Botswana, Local Economic Development - Summit 2012