By Ndimbe Usman
Public actors and policy makers in the days ahead shall be made to see the urgency of including Gender Based Violence GBV into school curriculum.
This move is intended to fight in a holistic way gender based violence which has gnawed so deep into the fabric of many communities in Cameroon.
This conclusion came up in a two days workshop organized in Bamenda by the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board within the framework of the Canadian Fund for Local Initiative CFLI.
Running from Thursday September 19, 2019 to Friday 20, 2019 participants at the workshop deemed that it was high time a law was voted in Parliament to fuse GBV into school program beginning from primary to the tertiary level. By so doing the advocacies that are carried out in little corners shall become a general knowledge to everyone, thereby reducing that cankerworm to its barest minimum level.
These Stakeholders brought from various religious bodies, civil society organizations and some media houses in the Northwest Region had as task to bring forth contributions that would help in improving and giving quality life to GBV survivors and people living with disabilities.
Note should be taken of the fact that this idea is coming at time when the conflict in the Northwest and Southwest regions has raised GBV to a higher position thereby bringing untold suffering to women, children and persons with disabilities.
For this reasons the workshop organizers drilled participants on practical modalities that would help in addressing and giving GBV services to survivors in various communities.
In this light booklets for referrals and counter referrals for gender based violence and child abuse were shared to enable participants handle GBV cases in a practical manner.
Public actors and policy makers in the days ahead shall be made to see the urgency of including Gender Based Violence GBV into school curriculum.
This move is intended to fight in a holistic way gender based violence which has gnawed so deep into the fabric of many communities in Cameroon.
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This conclusion came up in a two days workshop organized in Bamenda by the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board within the framework of the Canadian Fund for Local Initiative CFLI.
Running from Thursday September 19, 2019 to Friday 20, 2019 participants at the workshop deemed that it was high time a law was voted in Parliament to fuse GBV into school program beginning from primary to the tertiary level. By so doing the advocacies that are carried out in little corners shall become a general knowledge to everyone, thereby reducing that cankerworm to its barest minimum level.
These Stakeholders brought from various religious bodies, civil society organizations and some media houses in the Northwest Region had as task to bring forth contributions that would help in improving and giving quality life to GBV survivors and people living with disabilities.
Note should be taken of the fact that this idea is coming at time when the conflict in the Northwest and Southwest regions has raised GBV to a higher position thereby bringing untold suffering to women, children and persons with disabilities.
For this reasons the workshop organizers drilled participants on practical modalities that would help in addressing and giving GBV services to survivors in various communities.
In this light booklets for referrals and counter referrals for gender based violence and child abuse were shared to enable participants handle GBV cases in a practical manner.