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Fri, 04/24/2020 - 10:24
This is a great initiative. How do you assess effect of the project?
This current Project is aimed at reducing Gender Based Violence (GBV) and child marriage among young women and girls in the Northern Malawi District of NkhataBay through trainings in GBV awareness and entrepreneurship awareness. This Project goals will be attained by continuing to ; create a safe and empowering environment for girls and young women through GBV awareness trainings targeting women and girls and engaging community structures which include school mother groups. In Malawi with 38 % percent of women and girls in Malawi having encountered some form of violence. UNICEF indicates that child marriage is still extremely high in Malawi with 42% percent of girls getting married before 18 years. According to the 2016 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey, one-third of women have ever experienced physical violence by the age of 15. In 2015, 16% of women in Malawi experienced physical violence which was mostly perpetrated by a current husband or partner.
Nkhatabay where the Project is being implemented is a District located along the shores of Lake Malawi in Northern Malawi is a tourist paradise but a haven of harmful cultural practices that promote increasing child marriage following tourists in the Area. Forced marriages where a boy who impregnates a girl is forced to marry the girl predispose girls to giving birth early, violence and HIV and AIDS as they are forced to marry. Out of NkhataBay’s population of 277, 000, this Project targets benefitting 2000 women and girls with the aim to and to stomp out early marriages and following up on teenage mothers to return to school so as to ensure girls complete their education reduce vulnerability of girls Gender-Based Violence and to delay child bearing age.