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EXPERIENCE SHARING ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV)

EXPERIENCE SHARING ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV). Presentation by GHANA. OUTLINE. Nature and extent of gender based violence Existing interventions for GBV prevention Mechanisms and structures established for implementation of existing laws Best practices Challenges

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EXPERIENCE SHARING ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV)

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  1. EXPERIENCE SHARING ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) Presentation by GHANA

  2. OUTLINE • Nature and extent of gender based violence • Existing interventions for GBV prevention • Mechanisms and structures established for implementation of existing laws • Best practices • Challenges • Women on peace keeping mission • Way forward

  3. NATURE AND EXTENT OF GBV • Violence against women and children continue to be a problem globally in each country. In Ghana, previous studies estimate that three(3) out of five(5) women suffer some form of abuse and one (1)out of every three (3)women have experienced some form of assault at one time or the other.

  4. GBV is both a public health problem and a violation of human rights. It has a profound short term and long term emotional, psychological, social, physical and maternal health consequences both immediately and many years after the abuse.

  5. Effects of GBV • These include among others, Injury, disability, death, maternal mortality, infant mortality, post-traumatic stress disorders, high blood pressure with its attendant illnesses such as stroke, infertility, depression, negative mental well-being and mental illness • Low productively, loss of workdays and working hours, burden on the healthcare system.

  6. SEXUAL ABUSE RELATED CASES REPORTED ON SELECTED OFFENCES FROM 2009 - 2010

  7. FACES OF ABUSED SURVIVORSCAUTION!!!!SOME OF THE PICTURES ARE DISTURBING

  8. FACES OF ABUSED VICTIMS

  9. EXISTING INTERVENTIONS FOR GBV • International and regional instruments • National laws and policies related to GBV prevention and response

  10. International and Regional instruments • Convention on the elimination of discrimination against women (CEDAW) • Convention On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) • The Beijing platform of action • The millennium development goals • Economic community of West African State (ECOWAS) Gender policy • African Charter on Human and People’s Rights

  11. National laws • The 1992 Constitution of Ghana • Domestic Violence Act, 2007 (Act 732) • The Criminal Offences Act, 1960(Act 29), • Criminal Code (Amended) Act, 1998 (Act 554) • The Children’s Act, 1998 (Act 560) • The Juvenile Justice Act, 2003 (Act 653) • The Human Trafficking Act,2005 (Act 694)

  12. MECHANISMS AND STRUCTURES • Ministry of Women and Children Affairs : MOWAC formulates and coordinates gender policies and programmes within the domain of Ghana’s National Development Policy Framework (GPRS II) and in line with the MDGs to achieve specific time–bound outputs and outcomes. MOWAC’s gender implementation strategy is predicated on effective collaboration and coordination of efforts between key sector ministries, the UN System, other Development Partners, NGOs, and Civil Society Organisations

  13. Social Welfare Department: conduct and prepare social enquiry reports on cases before courts in family cases and for the juvenile courts. Provide shelter • National Commission on Civic Education: NCCE assists in the education, protection and prevention of human rights abuse and GBV.

  14. National Council on Women and Development: NCWD prevents human rights abuses by influencing changes in existing laws that negatively impacts on the welfare of women. • Ghana National Commission on Children: GNCC is mandated to protect the rights of the Child

  15. Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit: DOVVSU was created to complement the effort of other institutions in the prosecution of the common objective of protecting and improving the lives of women, children and the vulnerable. However, the difference between the Unit and other institutions is in its nature, scope and mandate.

  16. DOVVSU is a police agency with the same law enforcement powers of arrest, detention and prosecution of offenders as stipulated by the Police Service Act (Act 350), It provides protection for the vulnerable by preventing crime committed against them especially women and children

  17. UNITS OPERATIONS DOVVSU has offices in all the eleven Police Regions It has Eighty-seven (87) offices and desks Nationwide The target is to get DOVVSU opened in all Police Divisions and Districts in the country Activities of all the offices and desks are coordinated from the National Secretariat at the National Police Headquarters, Accra.

  18. BEST PRACTICES • Training of officers posted to the unit • Incorporation of GBV in the police training curricula • Sensitization programmes on GBV (opinion leaders, Faith based organizations, schools, market places etc) • Effective collaboration with other service providers (shelter, legal assistants, counselling ,etc)

  19. Counselling • Strategic plan • Media education programmes (Daily news papers, TV and Radio) • Medical attention • Child Abuse Network (CAN) • GBV clubs in some schools

  20. CHALLENGES • Delays in reporting abuse • Difficulty penetrating through the walls of the family system as issues of DV/GBV & child abuse is often seen as private matters* • Difficulty getting funds for medical treatment and reports.

  21. cont • Lack of shelters for survivors • Inadequate funding • lack of transport -minimized the effects of interventions eg. Response time, ff-ups

  22. WOMEN ON PEACE KEEPING MISSION • The total number of police officers currently on missions is 308 (Police only) out of which 94 are women which forms about 31%. • Measures put in place to increase women participation in Peace support operations (7 yrs to qualify for first mission and 3yrs to qualify for next mission) • Kosovo, Liberia, COTE D'IVOIRE, Sudan, Sierra Leone and Somalia

  23. WAY FORWARD • Development of training manual for police training schools and police college • Training of service providers and police officers • More collaboration with partners • Sensitization/Education on GBV should increase • Completion of a one stop complex for co-location to response rapidly to GBV

  24. Provision of Logistics and Infrastructure such as shelters for survivors • Educate the court system to under the problem • Creation of more GBV clubs in schools • Strengthen collaboration between DOVVSU and CPU in sensitization programs to improve the understanding of the community on issues of GBV

  25. CONCLUSION • A lot has been done to protect the rights of children and women in Ghana but there is still work to do and it would take a collaborative effort of all stakeholders. • It is the hope of the Ghana Police Service (DOVVSU) that all concerned organizations would come together and offer support in this direction to provide protection for our women and children.

  26. As law enforcement agencies who have the capacity to maintain law and order in our counties, let us stand up a collective manner against Gender Based Violence/Domestic Violence in our homes, communities, countries and abroad.

  27. MURAKOZE

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