GRASSROOTS LEVEL
- There is need to do mediation and arbitration at the grass root level.
- Through the elders and the family systems most people are willing to ensure families do not break Strategic action
- At the community level we need training for the elders, opinion leaders, women and religious leaders.
- Paralegals who have been trained on SBGV should be involved in training the community.
- Strengthen and support village health committees at the community
- Referrals to be established
- We need a participatory approach at the community level to dealing with the law
- Establish gender desk with officers at all the police stations. The gender officer has to be empowered to follow up the case through the judiciary system.
- Encourage both men and women to come out and seek help in the event of being violated
- Monitoring system that starts from the national to the community.
- Train the Kenya police to understand how to handle SGBV cases
- The training should be structured in the education curriculum.
- Constitute a databank on SGBV perpetrators
- Introduce gender mainstreaming at all police training collages in the syllabus.
- Resources are needed from the regional to community level to implement the program.
- Harmonizing Legal frame work that guides the process from the regional to the community level.
- Regional strategy for engaging men
- Mobilize resources at the governments level to implement the programmes proposed
- Establish forensic services to ensure we have a one stop shop where we get everything
- Member states in the great lakes region should support measures to enforce the law so that victims are not denied justice example is the Kenya judiciary.
- Establish time lines for clearance of SGBV cases in court to reduce the time of stigma of the survivors.
- Government in the great lakes should establish a legal trust fund to support all survives of SGBV.
