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By negotiating power dynamics at the local level, LDAs strengthen the hand of survivors in their encounters with perpetrators; accessing services and support; and holding authorities to account. Organisations negotiate more equitable power dynamics in favour of the less powerful, including between survivors and their assailants; people of diverse genders and sexualities; between their clients and the criminal justice system; and across diverse systems of justice and authority. Using the rights, standards of service, and accountability mechanisms expressed in law, policy and protocols, organisations seek to hold a larger system more answerable to GBV survivors, and specifically those who are socially and economically marginalised.
Nomboniso Gaya coordinator of Port St Johns Advice Office, running training with
women in the community.
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