The Mifumi Project

What We Do

Project

Strengthening Africa’s response to Gender Based Violence

Start - End Date

2004-01-01 - 2008-12-31

Donor(s)

Background

Mifumi and Masisikumeni have demonstrated strong leadership in bringing difficult and sensitive issues such as bride price, domestic violence, rape and abuse of women and children to the forefront of public consciousness, in some of the remotest and poorest country sides of South Africa and Uganda. Although official date is hard to come by, it is widely recognized that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury and death to women worldwide (J. Seager, in DFID, 2000: Poverty Elimination and the Empowerment of Women)

Activities

» Survivor led mobilization:- To enact the message about the social/economic/legal and human rights costs and implications of violence and abuse against women and girls to the family, community and society at large.
» Enhanced Legal Empowerment of survivors:-To increase the quality of information and skills, advice and support available to at least 50 survivors in each country each year by securing para-legal assistants and survivor monitors to deepen the provision of qualitative information and strengthen maternal links of survivors, advice and life skills training and to support survivors to track their cases to a definite conclusion.
» Advocacy for improved policy and practice:- To work with survivors, duty bearers and the informal sector to enlist their involvement in breaking the vicious cycle of hopelessness and increasing survivors’ “choices” and opportunities of realizing justice within traditional and local authority setting, and the criminal justice system setting and to influence enactment of appropriate legislation.