Alex Anti-GBV organisation implement strategies to combat GBV under Masiphephe
ALEXANDRA – The organisations main focus is on changing the social values and service options that perpetuate violence against women.
Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training (Adapt) hosted a Masiphephe Network quarterly meeting at Alexandra Heritage Centre to discuss what progress the network had made within the Alexandra community.
Masiphephe which means ‘let’s be safe’, is a network of more than 200 community-based gender-based violence prevention and response partners across Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.
The network believes that gender-based violence is the grave consequence of complex social and structural problems at the individual, relationship and community levels in our country and the world.
On September 28, Alex’s anti-gender-based violence organisations gathered at the centre to discuss if the strategies they have implemented were benefitting the local community.
Nomalanga Ngwenya, the network’s project manager, said they have implemented two strategic groups working under the organisation. They were the Social Behavioural Change Community Technical Working Group, and the Pathways to Justice Technical Working Group.
“Social Behavioural Change Community contributes towards local gender-based violence prevention and response through the designing and implementing communication and community engagement activities that educate and raise community awareness on the risks and signs of gender-based violence abuse and perpetration,” Ngwenya said.
Dedicated to improving access to justice for survivors of gender-based violence, the Pathway to Justice Technical Working Group worked to improve the mitigation of harm caused by gender-based violence.
Adapt is one of the non-profits which had partnered with the network, along with other Alex organisations such as Alex Men’s Forum, Gunfree SA, and Alexandra Clinic to name a few.
The organisations’ main focus is on changing the social values and service options that perpetuate violence against women by promoting a spirit of interdependence, mutual respect, and co-existence between women and men.
