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Herald Reporter
Public-private partnerships and ensuring access to information communication technology by women is crucial in dealing with gender-based violence, a government official has said. Reacting to the Gender Links research whose findings released last week suggested that more men were aware of the Domestic Violence Act than women, director for policy in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community
Development Mr Stephen Nyaruwata urged Government to embrace a multi-sectoral approach in dealing with domestic violence. Multi-sectoral approach in the reduction of gender-based violence is important because Government alone cannot reach many people.
We need to scale up awareness programmes, work with private organisations, work with men through institutions like Padare/Ekundleni and deliberate effort must be taken to expose women to the media and ICT because more men have access to the media than women,” he said.
The Gender Links research revealed that 57 percent of men were aware of domestic violence policies against 50 percent by women. Msasa Project Director Ms Netty Musanhi said the research helped highlight where effort needed to be put in addressing issues of domestic violence.
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