Advocacy Guide For Grassroots Activists
Gender-Based
Violence:
An advocacy guide for grassroots activists in Uganda
Acknowledgments
This guide was produced as part of CARE’s Great Lakes Advocacy Initiative (GLAI), which seeks to address gender-based violence in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. GLAI is funded by CARE Norway.
Thanks to CARE staff, community-based facilitators, sub-county coordinators and partner organizations in northern Uganda who shared their experiences, ideas and passion for preventing gender-based violence in their communities.
This advocacy guide was inspired by and adapted from two other advocacy resources: Advocacy Tools and
Guidelines: Promoting Policy Change (CARE, 2001) and Psychosocial Support Advocacy Toolkit (REPSSI, 2010)
The section on community mobilization for social change is largely inspired by two projects: Raising Voices in Uganda (www.raisingvoices.org), which works to prevent violence against women by addressing root causes such as traditional gender roles and the imbalance of power between women and men; and CARE’s
Inner Spaces Outer Faces Initiative (ISOFI) (http://www.careacademy.org/health/isofi/welcome.html), which addresses inequities of power in gender and sexuality in order to improve health and development.
Certain tools were also adapted from Participatory Approaches: A facilitator's guide (VSO) and the Life Skills
Manual (United States Peace Corps).
Written by: Rebecca Arnold
Illustrated by: Illustrated by: Adam Lutta, Babatau Inc.
For more information, please contact
CARE Uganda
Box 7280
Kampala
Uganda phone: +(256) 312 258 100 email: cuhq@careuganda.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Purpose of this guide
2
What is gender-based violence?
4
Who is an activist?
6
Why should we prevent GBV?
8
GBV in Uganda
9
Laws & policies in Uganda
10
International declarations
11
Advocacy
As activists, we help our communities create a happier, healthier, more peaceful future for everyone in
Uganda.
What is advocacy?
12
Process
16
Data collection &
Violence:
An advocacy guide for grassroots activists in Uganda
Acknowledgments
This guide was produced as part of CARE’s Great Lakes Advocacy Initiative (GLAI), which seeks to address gender-based violence in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. GLAI is funded by CARE Norway.
Thanks to CARE staff, community-based facilitators, sub-county coordinators and partner organizations in northern Uganda who shared their experiences, ideas and passion for preventing gender-based violence in their communities.
This advocacy guide was inspired by and adapted from two other advocacy resources: Advocacy Tools and
Guidelines: Promoting Policy Change (CARE, 2001) and Psychosocial Support Advocacy Toolkit (REPSSI, 2010)
The section on community mobilization for social change is largely inspired by two projects: Raising Voices in Uganda (www.raisingvoices.org), which works to prevent violence against women by addressing root causes such as traditional gender roles and the imbalance of power between women and men; and CARE’s
Inner Spaces Outer Faces Initiative (ISOFI) (http://www.careacademy.org/health/isofi/welcome.html), which addresses inequities of power in gender and sexuality in order to improve health and development.
Certain tools were also adapted from Participatory Approaches: A facilitator's guide (VSO) and the Life Skills
Manual (United States Peace Corps).
Written by: Rebecca Arnold
Illustrated by: Illustrated by: Adam Lutta, Babatau Inc.
For more information, please contact
CARE Uganda
Box 7280
Kampala
Uganda phone: +(256) 312 258 100 email: cuhq@careuganda.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Purpose of this guide
2
What is gender-based violence?
4
Who is an activist?
6
Why should we prevent GBV?
8
GBV in Uganda
9
Laws & policies in Uganda
10
International declarations
11
Advocacy
As activists, we help our communities create a happier, healthier, more peaceful future for everyone in
Uganda.
What is advocacy?
12
Process
16
Data collection &