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Learning and Sharing Circles: To strengthen coordination, specialisation and
standardisation of services, community paralegals, adolescent leaders, JCT, ZWLA
and WLSA lawyers and the role players in the Protocol for each district,
symposiums were held to share best practices and challenges in service delivery
while providing a platform to improve synergies and quality of services.
Community- Based Legal Centres, Information Centres and Mobile Legal Aid Clinics:
The trained community paralegals and the adolescent leaders through mentoring and
coaching of a district lawyer provided services at the community level. Mobile legal
aid clinics were conducted with a view to reaching out to the remotest areas.
Use of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT): To disseminate
information on the services that are available to fight gender-based violence through,
for example, bulk SMS, and whatssup.
Traditional leaders’ dialogues: In view of the fact that sexual violence is happening at
community level by people who are known to the survivor, community dialogue
sessions on the issue helped with agreed community-based strategies of eliminating
sexual violence.
Empowerment circles: This is a sustainable approach which has proved effective and
is a replication of a best practice from a similar UN Women funded project.
Community buy in: The project was strengthened through the use of stakeholders
meetings and dialogue with the players in the Protocol.
UN Women Deputy Country Representative, Revai Makanje Aalbaek said the project was
implemented in conjunction with UNICEF which also has a focus on ending violence among
children. Besides the consortium of JCT, ZWLA and WLSA, Makanje-Aalbaek said the
project worked with World Vision, Women Trust, Say What, Family Support Trust, among
others.
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