Development Gender Network (DGN)
$10,000 to provide psychosocial and legal assistance to survivors of rape and women living positively in Sisonke and Amathole municipalities.
$10,000 to provide psychosocial and legal assistance to survivors of rape and women living positively in Sisonke and Amathole municipalities.
$1,000 to train a number of prisoners as peer educators on HIV&AIDS within the prison in collaboration with the prison authorities.
$2,700 to enable its Executive Director (Prudence Mabele) to attend and present a paper at the International AIDS Conference.
$15,000 to promote and support women’s effective participation in traditional councils through intensive training for women councillors and some traditional leaders.
$30,000 to support women in the arts through the organization of one intensive rehearsal and workshop for a feature film called ‘Tell me sweet something’.
$15,000 to organize a 3 day national workshop to educate the minority women on leadership issues and the need to actively participate in the forthcoming Municipal and Parliamentary elections in Somaliland in 2012.
$10,000 to train members of relevant governmental and nongovernmental organizations on detection of signs of sexual violence and provision of specific assistance;
$10,000 to organize two training workshops and one follow up workshop each for selected women conflict management practitioners and passive victims engaging with conflict in Somalia.
$25,000 to implement a project titled “Creating a conducive and safe environment for women’s participation in the November 2012 local government elections”.
$12,000 to organize series of training and educational activities for selected women interested in politics and leadership; undertake advocacy activities to lobby district governing structures and political parties to involve women in leadership positions and all activities during the November 2012 elections.