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uilding on global and regional promising approaches 71 sequencing them, believing that implementation should form part of the ongoing negotiations between Australia, partner governments, other donors and civil-society actors. This in itself is a recommendation to both Australia and other actors—use these recommendations to lobby for, negotiate and act on a concrete plan of action. Having said that, there are recommendations that, while not exclusive to Australia, can be implemented by AusAID, within its own programming in the immediate term. These are presented first. 22 8.2 Recommendations for Australia There are no recommendations for Australia that cannot be implemented by other actors and there are no regional recommendations that Australia cannot incorporate into its day-to-day programming and activity identification and design processes. There are, however, recommendations Australia can act on now, either as part of its program management or in existing activities, without having to wait for others to come on board. These represent an integrated approach and are intended to be implemented in entirety. They are not a menu from which options for addressing violence against women should be selected in isolation. In other words, these recommendations will not make much of an impact on treating and preventing violence against women if they are not implemented in an integrated way. Indeed, if they are implemented in isolation, they may cause more harm than good. 1. Ensure all interventions are grounded in a human rights and gendertransformative approach. While this is a recommendation for all actors, it provides Australia, in the immediate term, with a touchstone for helping to determine whether an activity or form of support is likely to be gender transformative and therefore effective in dealing with the root causes of violence against women. This means all programs at national, provincial and local levels should explicitly acknowledge that violence against women is based on unequal power relations between women and men and women and that gender inequality is reflected in community norms, institutional policies and practices and laws. Wherever possible, programs should adopt an integrated approach and aim to address the causes of violence and transform gender relations, rather than simply providing palliative care. 2. Step up its high-level policy dialogue on violence against women with partner governments. Significant and sustained progress in reducing violence against women is contingent on a demonstration of greater leadership on this issue from partner governments in each country. Australia can encourage partner governments to assume greater leadership. It should prioritise frank discussions about the problem of and solutions to violence against women in its policy dialogue with each partner government. (This needs to be handled with sensitivity, much like Australia’s approach to corruption.) 22 Note that when these recommendations appear in the main report, they are directed at all actors, and the wording has been changed slightly to provide an AusAID focus here.
72 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 3. Support efforts to strengthen the evidence base on violence against women in Melanesia and East Timor. Australia is in a position to take the lead in the need for more research on violence against women, first with its own programs and then as a regional actor. Priority should be on: > Research that documents the prevalence, characteristics and risk factors of all types of violence against women and girls—based on methodologies already in use internationally (to enhance the ability to compare findings across countries). > Efforts to strengthen national statistics offices and incorporate indicators of violence against women into national information systems, such as HIV & AIDS surveillance. > Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of promising practices, with a particular focus on identifying and reacting to any potential backlash that may arise. > Support for broadly disseminating research findings and building regional capacity to carry out research in women’s rights organisations and formal research institutions. 4. Ensure that programs are coordinated. Multisectoral coordination is key, particularly for partner governments; however, Australia can ‘start at home’ by > Ensuring large programs are coordinated with each other as well as internally: AusAID should work across sectors within program areas to ensuring own sectoral programs are coordinated and working together to increase women’s access to justice, improve support services and prevent violence against women. > Encourage coordination of aid among donors to maximise impact: As much as possible, support should be provided to organisation working on violence against women as core funding with multiple year grants, rather than just project-focused or earmarked funding. AusAID should particularly seek to reduce the multi-donor reporting burden on CSOs working to address violence against women. 5. Build capacity in project management, communication and gender analysis. Australia has an opportunity to greatly improve its own capacity in gender analysis and gender sensitive programming. In supporting capacity building of local organisations more broadly, priority should be on building build a common body of knowledge and experience in the region, through: > supporting regional initiatives for building the capacity of local groups in key areas such as monitoring and evaluation, program management, counselling skills, communication and advocacy
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