Proposals Women's Rights from February, 2013
Kenya: Citizen’s Voice & Digital Action Programme.
Under representation of local women, especially in areas of deep-rooted poverty like Nyatike must be recognized through blogs to promote participation in women decision-making power in society. Activities that will close the gaps are; Instituting dialogue through blogs around social sector priority, Improve and influence resource allocation and training women on the use of blogs to create awareness to wider community women issues spectrum.
Nigeria: Reporting Violence Against Women
Introducing the use of technology in engaging the victims and witnesses of violence such as: rape, domestic violence, abuse, sexual harassment and trafficking of women and young girls. this project involves the development and deployment of an Ushahidi-based user friendly ICT platform through which cases of violence against women can be reported by members of the public. On the streets, in the work place, market, schools, places of worship.
Malawi: Saving Lives in Ndamera
The project will aim to empower women and sensitize men on health rights of women. The prevalence rate of HIV among children in Ndamera is high. Mother-to-child transmission is the main mode of acquisition of HIV among children. The Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Program (PMTCT) is being implemented to control the spread. Research shows that most men in the area restrict women from getting HIV tested due to cultural reasons.
Pakistan: CES women vocational training Centre
We propose women empowerment project because we feel if there women would be empowered, society will get best reward of it. We have to empower women by giving them skilled expertise. So that they would become helping citizen of the society and they will become independent to look after their families.
Pakistan: Women Right Media Training.
The women and the youth groups of the marginalized communities need to be helped in saying their voices on the issues of their domestic slavery,education barriers,health issues,sanitation,safe water and gender inequity along with financial crisis. It needs to be supported by the human rights groups, the social media working talents to voice for their rights in and the globally by educating and training them to use all sort of communications,IEC.
South Sudan: ICT Enabled Life Skill and Sexuality Education for Adolescent Girls
About 1/5 of South Sudan's population is in the adolescent age group of 10-19 yrs. Unfortunately the special needs of adolescents are rarely addressed by the educational,health &family welfare programs. Reaching out to these girl particularly in rural areas is a big problem. We will be using Computer, Internet, and Digital Camera to educate, organize &empower these girls.The whole process will help the adolescent girls come together and form club
Indonesia: Promoting Women rights through citizen journalism
Women and girls in Aceh with fundamental inequalities were intended and unintended casualties of conflict. Most of them were involved and caught in armed conflicts and face sexual violence and exploitation, torture, forced recruitment, rape, mass rape and trafficking. In post conflict, they are often denied to access justice and a role in decision – making, including peace. They are voiceless. We want to rise the voices through this program.
India: Life saving skills of rural women community
Women Volunteers are to be trained to take digital photos of different life saving skills followed by them and the people are to be educated to upgrade their skills according to the new era. Women are to be empowered on showing different skills which promote their economical standard of life. The marketing tie up and managing the industry with in the limit of earning are to be explained and to save a little money for their life survival.
Uganda: Female Documentary Film Training on Women Advocacy and Women's Rights
The project is meant to enlighten and awaken this group to acquire skills on how to document women issues and support women rights activism in their society. The targeted group is one of the most marginalized in our society and often abused of their rights with little to fight back or nothing at all. This target group will be given skills on how to use the film medium to tell stories about them and also be able to produce audio-visual materials
Kenya: Masculinity Institute Interactive Men's Website
Masculinity Institute interactive website is an internet based platform targeting to recruit and mobilize men as advocates for gender equality. It will be designed to provide information on how men can establish mutually satisfying relationship free of domestic violence with women. The facility will offer psychosocial support to men perpetrators of domestic violence, men’s health including sexual and reproductive health to end domestic violence.
