Document GBV cases,Mangochi CSOs urged
Malawi Economic Justice Network (Mejn) has emphasised the need for partners fighting gender-based violence (GBV) in Mangochi to document the cases and factors fuelling the practice in the district.
Mejn programmes manager Cecilia Phiri said this on Monday in Mangochi during the training of the district’s civil society organisations (CSOs) on GBV case documentation and monitoring.
She said: “We observed that we cannot root out GBV if we do not document the issues happening on the ground.
“We need to record them as evidence so that we can effectively handle them.”
Mangochi District CSOs Network vice-secretary Edenzio Sangwa thanked Mejn for the training, saying they acquired skills on how they can effectively fight the vice.
“GBV is a cross-cutting issue in various sectors such as agriculture, health, education and water, sanitation and hygiene. The training has helped us understand GBV issues better and how best to document particular cases for reporting,” he said.
In her presentation, Mangochi district gender officer Pilirani Malonda, tackled gender issues and how Mangochi and the country at large, can implement interventions to fight the vice.
“I would like to inform the participants that the GBV situation in the district is bad. We do not hear the cases because they are not reported,” she said.
Malonda hailed Mejn for the training on case documentation and monitoring.
Mejn conducted the training with funding from the Norwegian Church Aid and DanChurchAid
