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uilding on global and regional promising approaches 69 > mass and alternative media initiatives that increase the visibility of women’s rights initiatives and offer a forum for women’s voices to be heard > multimedia edutainment activities that offer a safe and entertaining, community-wide forum for opening up discussion around violence against women and related issues > community mobilisation that focuses on prevention as a process of social change and sustained action on the part of the entire community. 2. Strengthen partnerships with a range of actors and sectors not traditionally involved in addressing violence against women. Initiatives that show the most promise engage all sectors of the community, especially key decision-makers and opinion leaders. Churches, faith-based organisations and traditional chiefs are important partners in galvanising community-based transformation of gender norms and related behaviours. Men and male youth generally have not been engaged in efforts to prevent violence against women, yet they are critical partners in effecting long-lasting change. 3. Identify strategic opportunities for integrating violence against women into different program areas and defining links between violence against women and related issues. Areas include: > micro-finance or micro-grant initiatives targeting women living in poverty and offering women a measure of economic empowerment > workplace initiatives and policies addressing sexual harassment and promoting gender parity and equity > education-sector programs aimed at: (a) challenging stereotypes and gender norms in materials and curricula and promoting gender equality; (b) achieving gender parity in classroom representation of girls and boys at all educational levels; and (c) implementing policies to prevent violence against girls in schools and punish violent offenders. > health-sector programs addressing the links between violence against women, HIV infection, safe motherhood, sexual rights and factors that increase women’s vulnerability > peace-building activities, especially where women are mobilising to end conflict and foster peace and reconciliation in their communities > disaster preparedness and response programs.
70 v i o l e n c e a g a i n s t w o m e n i n m e l a n e s i a a n d e a s t t i m o r Chapter 8: Conclusions There is no doubt that much progress has been made in the last 15 years in addressing violence against women. Thanks largely to the tireless efforts of women’s rights activists, the issue is now recognised by all governments in the region as a serious social and human-rights problem that must be addressed in the context of national development. All governments involved have ratified the CEDAW and made a public commitment to ending violence against women. However, there remains an enormous gap between public discourse and reality. Although national policies and laws addressing violence against women have been put in place in most countries in the region, implementation has lagged for various reasons, including: > inadequate resources, both by national governments and international donors > government commitments that change with political tides > gains that are often fragile and short-lived > organisational capacity that is weak in most countries—in governments as well as civil society. International donors have made important contributions to ongoing efforts, but support is poorly coordinated—between donors, and even among programs within the same agencies. To maximise the impact of international cooperation, it is crucial to develop broad strategies involving a greatly increased and sustained contribution of financial resources, but also a commitment to include gender equality and violence in the policy dialogue with partner governments. This should be carried out at sectorprogram level, and be a central theme in overall cooperation strategies. Monitoring progress with clear indicators is also key to ensuring that international cooperation results in a meaningful contribution to ending violence against women. 8.1 Recommendations The recommendations of this report emerged from the participatory approach used in this evaluation and represent a proposed action plan for all actors. They have been included throughout the report in relevant sections. They are also presented together here as a proposed action plan for increasing women’s access to justice, improving treatment services and preventing violence against women. It is important that these recommendations are seen as a starting point, rather than the end point. Ownership of this action plan is vitally important to its ongoing success. The authors also recognise that each country in the study is at a different point in its efforts to address violence against women, and that each country will have different priorities and different levels of capacity to implement the recommendations. The authors have therefore refrained from assigning recommendations to particular actors, or strictly
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