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CONTENTS
Glossary ..............................................................................................................................5 Background .....................................................................................................................6
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Context ...................................................................................................................... 8 Gender-based violence: Concepts, rights and realities ........................................... 8 Rural dynamics and the role of local development agencies ...............................11
Strategic pathways ......................................................................................13 Grounded in community and survivor agency: “People find the solutions to
their problems where they are” ................................................................................13 Leading with women’s voices and choices: “Women to come out and lead” ....15 Enabling access to justice through advice and accompaniment: “To see that they get justice” ...........................................................................................................17 Rallying the role-players for rights and recourse: “Not just to leave it there,
but to go all out” .........................................................................................................19 Facilitating support and solidarity: “Other people keeping an eye” ...................21 Engaging communities for change: “We cannot rely only on the law” ...............23 Advancing economies of independence: “Destroy that syndrome of dependence” ...............................................................................................................24
Critical intersections ...................................................................................26 Straddling tradition: “Sustain the good things and do away with the bad” .......26 System failures: “The justice system is not with women” ......................................29 Disrupting heteronormativity and LGBTIQ exclusion: “To be a man, you need
to be like this” ..............................................................................................................31 Inadequate and insecure resourcing: “You want to make a change, but you
don’t have the resources” ..........................................................................................34 Lack of recognition and regulation: “Accountability to those that you serve” ...35
A word on tactics ...........................................................................................37
Concluding recommendations ..........................................................39 Strategic and systemic approaches ..........................................................................39 Visibility and influence ................................................................................................40 Capacities and practices ............................................................................................40 Connecting and collectivity .......................................................................................41 Sustainable resourcing ...............................................................................................42 Institutionalising a gender focus ...............................................................................42
References ......................................................................................................................44 Appendix .........................................................................................................................48