Social- Economical Reinsertion of Women Victims of War Atrocities and Armed Groups Conflicts project is Contribute to the promotion of socio-economic rights of women victims of armed conflict.
Description of the current situation
Since Rwandan Hutu refugees have been hosted on Congolese soil, particularly the eastern part of the DR. Congo in 1994, followed by the successive wars of 1996 and 2004, several places are insecure. This leads to the proliferation of armed gangs in the eastern part of the country as well as others.
With the process of pacification and reunification of the country, gradually end hostilities. However, it still persists especially in certain remote and enclave areas (forests, mountains …) Bands and armed bandits. The latter, in order to survive, attack neighboring populations. Abductions, murders, sexual violence followed by looting are still as much abuse as they impose on the population.
The situation has worsened when some corrupted villagers joined the armed gangs and bandits to maltreat their own mother community.
Today many raped women have been chased away by their husbands, some of whom have had children from these heinous intercourses. These remain the object of nightmares for their mothers and foster families.
By the time girls who are raped are less likely to be married, women and girls who are victims of sexual violence with their addicts live a difficult life, rarely have a balanced meal a day, their daily income not exceeding not a dollar they struggle to pay for primary health care. Other women who have been raped have seen their husbands murdered by these same rapists.
The abductions do not focus on women who naturally serve as sex slaves, but also on men. For their release redemption is often required. To raise this sum , friends and relatives of the victims must contribute, the victims not to be redeemed are executed. This fact further weakens the socio-economic situation of many families and women in particular.
Let’s also say that besides the misdeeds of these wars there is a multitude of prohibitions against women in the Bashi, Bahavu, Bufuliru and other tribes of South-Kivu province. Most of them remain unfounded in view of the proven performances of some of them on the physical intellectual and social moral plane.
Fortunately, in the same communities there are also proverbs and sayings that praise the physical, intellectual and moral qualities of women.
In Bashi and Bahavu for example
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- the woman is called “fire” because she animates the life of the home and the community
- it is the “hyphen” as it unites individuals, families and communities
- The women’s basket is omni-filled both on the way home and on the way back to show the vital importance of women in the family’s diet.
By analyzing these trades recognized to the woman one realizes that the recognized role is limited to the level of these benefits, but confers to him less the status of decision makers and effective partners
This is why in these communities we see the woman involved in all the stages of the production, but as for the management of the resulting income it is the man and the big boys who decide the distribution without more associating the wife.
In the aftermath of armed conflict, many households and people fleeing insecurity have been forced to travel to host families in the relatively quiet villages and towns they have benefited from during the shelter of the host populations and philanthropic organizations food and cooking utensils. Cooking for their survival.
Currently with the process of democratization many of them have returned to their villages of origin or they must start their peasant life despite them they keep their land after losing their agro-pastoral inputs (seeds, plants, … ..) during the multiples looting operations. Crops have been ravaged and the need for animal seeds and breeds adapted to their environment
On the other hand, in the city of Bukavu and other settlements of the territories live other people and households who have lost their activities have serious difficulties to get a meal a day some of their children were chased out of school to be not able to pay school fees and thus lead a life of resourcefulness.
For several years the state officials are unpaid among them also appear the staff of justice in this state of affairs each social category tries to exploit the other will be able to follow. Thus, customary courts, like those in the area of written law, are liable to several costs, often unjustified, in addition to corruption in most cases.
Many people live mainly in the countryside and livestock, where women take a significant share where possible crops (fruits, vegetable crops) produced by dozens of tons per year and gone by women are bought on credit and Cheap prices by intermediates to the fields before during and after ripening. They are then resold in the city of Bukavu to more or less 50 km and in the city of Uvira to 120 km in the natural state without any system of transformation conservation and transport.
So important qualities of these fruits rots while waiting to be passed. It is worth mentioning the scarcity of livestock products, especially livestock, meat and milk on the markets due to previous looting.
Project Rationale
This whole situation described above finds its justification in the bad governance starting from the independence until nowadays accentuated by the repeated wars in the East of the Congo and the negative consideration of the woman or the image that The question to be asked is why, despite the importance of the woman who is no longer to demonstrate, she remains not only marginalized but also victim of several physical, social and moral abuses in DR Congo and more particularly in KABARE. Several variables can explain it in particular:
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- The harmful consequences of repeated wars that are still beginning in the east of the country, particularly for women;
- Ignorance of national and international legal texts related to women’s rights by the majority of women themselves;
- The absence and / or insufficiency of local structures for defending interests and demands for the rights of the population in general and women in particular;
- The superiority complex displayed by the man with regard to the woman;
- The resignation of the woman;
- Mismanagement of natural resources;
- Uses, customs and customs that do not favor the emancipation of women;
- Poverty which affects the majority of women and which handicaps the defense of its interests and the claim of these rights.
If it is necessary to speak about the consequences of the wars the environments like Nindja, and Katana, in the territory of Kabare have undergone historical and indescribable pains.
The realized agricultural products do not actually benefit the producers and local households because the latter are not well organized in order to increase and to well distribute their productions they also lack the adequate infrastructures of transformation of conservation and the means of transport of their products for which the state is less involved in the regulation of their pricing.
Based on the foregoing, the AAPE / DRC organization has undertaken to initiate actions likely to rehabilitate women victims of armed conflicts on the socio-economic level respectively in the territories of Walungu, Kalehe, and Kabare very precisely in localities of grouping of Bideka; Izege Burhale, Mudaka, kavumu territory of Kabare.
Certainly important efforts have been made by various stakeholders in the context of medical care for the victims of sexual violence in psychological care. Once the victims of rape are unloaded, they face major difficulties of survival on the one hand that know their executioners feel annoyed to see them circulate without worry.
The challenges to be met today are those related to social reintegration and those related to legal and judicial care, but the victims themselves must be made aware of their rights and all the population about the mechanisms to combat flagrant violations
Human rights remain victims. The victims of armed conflict are specifically women.
Duration of the project
The activities of our project will be extended over a period of one year, i.e. 12 months renewable.
Project Fields of Action
The project covers the communities of Nindja and Katana in the territory of Kabare.
Objectives of the projects
Overall objective
Contribute to the promotion of socio-economic rights of women victims of armed conflict
Specific objectives
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- Support 600 women victims of armed conflict identified in households of Kabare territory communities of Nindja and Katana.
- Build the capacity of the 600 women victims of armed conflict to promote human rights and defend their interests during a year of activity.
- Facilitate the legal support of more or less 100 women victims of armed conflict by the end of the project.
Expected Results
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- 600 women are supported in income-generating activities “AGR” (conservation, processing and marketing of agricultural products) recover their socio-economic rights and integrate into their communities for their self-care by the end of the project .
- 600 women victims of armed conflict are trained in human rights (mainly in socio-economic law);
- More or less 100 women victims of armed conflicts identified in the project area and in need of legal support are legally accompanied by the end of the project.
Project Activities
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- Awareness raising, structuring and training of beneficiaries
- Hold explanatory meetings of the project’s philosophy for beneficiaries and other local leaders;
- Support beneficiaries in setting up local structures for promoting human rights and defending women’s interests;
- Train beneficiaries on human rights and socio-economic rights;
- Raise awareness of the dangers of human rights violations against women;
- Train beneficiaries on micro-credit management and cultural and livestock techniques;
- Raise awareness of sexual violence with spouses to voluntary and / or involuntary STI / HIV / AIDS testing centers;
- Train the beneficiaries of the project on the entrepreneurial spirit;
- Produce radio broadcasts on socio-economic rights;
- Exchange experiences within and outside local structures for the promotion of human rights and the defense of women’s interests.
- Accompaniment of women victims of armed conflict in the conduct of A.G.R. (Income Generating Activities):
- Structuring by geographical and thematic focus the beneficiaries of support for income-generating activities;
- Provide psychosocial support (counseling, family mediation) for women and girls who are victims of sexual violence;
- Develop management tools (credit agreement, socioeconomic study sheets, follow-up sheets, summary records of monitoring, etc.).
- Provide beneficiaries with the necessary funds and / or inputs and brooders for the start of income-generating activities;
- Monitor income generating activities;
- Accompany farmers in the sale of agricultural products development of sales outlets management training, support management consulting;
- ensure the recovery of the credits granted;
- Legal and Judicial Support for Women Victims of Armed Conflicts:
- Identify cases requiring legal and judicial assistance;
- Provide judicial support for cases near courts and tribunals
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Project Activities
- Organize follow-up visits evaluation of activities in all areas of the project;
- Organize internal and external evaluation.
- Project Management
- Organize regular follow-up meetings;
- Pay staff involved in the project;
- Purchase the necessary equipment for the project;
- Produce activity reports;
- Organize the financial audit.
- Awareness raising, structuring and training of beneficiaries
Methodology and intervention strategies
The project will be executed by Mission of Grace to the World / DRC in addition to the joint activities related to the sensitization, the structuring and the training of the beneficiaries of the project and the accompaniment of the beneficiaries in AGR and the supervision of the activities and the management of the project will bring its expertise in credit management as well as the great experience in supporting women victims of sexual violence will be a major asset in carrying out activities.
Start-up funds for income-generating activities will be granted as repayable loans to beneficiaries with a negligible percentage of interest but capable of building up flexible capital that will be redistributed to other beneficiaries who will not have been selected in the first round. good criteria for the selection of beneficiaries are essential for the beneficiaries, even though they are victims of the horrors of war.
The project will each time call on the lawyer to accompany juridical and judicially the follow-up of the cases with the courts and tribunals.
Monthly reports of the facilitators will be submitted to the respective hierarchies who will write quarterly and that the focal point will consolidate for the lessor.
Needed Resources
Human resources
By project group members, the project will have a qualified and experienced staff composed of 1 manager (coordinator), 1 project manager and two technician animators in rural development or agro veterinary.
Material resources
The Liaison Office located in Bukavu and having some equipment in computer and other equipment will also serve as administrative offices for this project
Risks and assumptions
Insecurity, not held elections accompanied by unrest is the main assumption of this project
A.A.P.E will ensure that the reimbursement is assured and regular which imposes a rigorous monitoring system and relevant for lack of this.
