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 5. CONCLUDING RECOMMENDATIONS
This section proposes broad recommendations for SCAT’s future grantmaking and programming, to support the continued efforts of LDA partners in eradicating gender inequality and GBV in rural areas.
5.1 Strategic and systemic approaches
In carefully navigating its role as both an intermediary funder and a development partner, SCAT needs to ensure that the strategic direction of local gender programming is driven by the LDAs themselves. In this respect, and as the SCAT/ CLS research previously identified, ‘for the LDAs, a rigid, one-size-fits-all approach, model or template cannot be successful in addressing the problems that they face. They therefore use their flexibility to adjust their strategies as problems arise in the communities, to tailor their approaches to the characteristics of their communities’ (Karimakwenda et al, 2020:49). With this in mind, SCAT’s support for strategies to address the systemic dimensions of GBV should:
• Provide sustained support for the strategic pathways and tactics that LDAs pursue, mindful that these may shift over time and in response to changing local conditions.
• Identify contextually-appropriate ways in which LDAs can be supported to deepen and further integrate gender perspectives into their development projects and processes.
• Assist LDA partners to strengthen their application of a gender lens in identifying and designing interventions that are within the scope of their work.
• Create opportunities for discussion and critical reflection on LDAs’ gender strategies and approaches, including through methodologies like gender power mapping.26
• Enable the documentation of emerging models of practice that capture the learnings and successes of working against GBV in rural contexts. Particular attention should be given to strategies for working with traditional leaders, structures and processes.
• Promote knowledge-sharing activities – both amongst LDAs and with their NGO partners – to facilitate ongoing interaction, peer exchange, and collaboration on strategising to address GBV.
• Assist in the development of knowledge resources for LDAs, to trace GBV cases and extrapolate trends and dynamics to inform their gender strategies.
• Consider how to leverage the NSP-GBVF – as a political opportunity and an organising instrument – to amplify and expand the role and involvement of rural CBOs in driving localised anti-GBV projects.
26. A gender power analysis is a way to identify differences in power, roles, resources, norms, needs and interests – based on gender – in a community or group, by analysing how gender shapes the distributions of power at all levels of that community or group. Power mapping is a framework for social problem-solving, that leverages relationships and networks to exert influence and advance specific objectives.
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