Swaziland

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Developing Strategies to Eliminate Gender Based Violence. On 24th-27th April 2007, Skillshare International held a Gender Based Violence (GBV) workshop in South Africa to promote best practice and share experiences.  Twenty nine participants from Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana and Canada attended the workshop, which was funded by CIDA through Canadian Crossroads International.
The overall purpose of the workshop was to promote learning in the area of gender based violence and to document lessons learned by the participating NGOs from eight countries.  It was also an opportunity for them to work together to develop strategies to advocate for the elimination of gender violence and to explore the links between HIV and GBV.  Participants also discussed the evolving faces of GBV, focusing on the issues of human trafficking, child-headed households and migrant labour.
Participants agreed to establish a regional coordination body to respond to GBV issues at a regional level.  Further research will be conducted in to trafficking and child labour and the participating organisations agreed to develop their advocacy work.
Skillshare International committed to play a coordination role for NGOs working to eliminate gender based violence.  We will also work with organisations in Southern Africa to build their capacity through our leadership development programme and development worker placements. For more information about the workshop, please contact Senelisiwe Ntshangase.

Our partner organisations in Swaziland   

Disadvantaged Groups

Swaziland Women's Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA)
Contact: Nonhlanhla Dlamini

Skillshare International has placed a development worker at SWAGAA and provided leadership training. We have also supported SWAGAA to mobilise financial resources.

Email: swagaa@realnet.co.sz

IMBITA Women's Finance Trust
Contact: Sbongile Mthembu
Mission statement: To uplift the economic status of the poor by increasing access to credit.
Organisation strategic objectives:
1) To enhance the economic self sufficiency of the poor with a focus on women by providing financial and technical services
2) To increase the income generating capacity of the poor and their ability to enter the economic stream and
3) To strengthen the ability to participate in financial decision making in the homestead.

Skillshare International has placed a development worker at IMBITA and provided leadership training.

Email: Imbita@realnet.co.sz

Save the Children – Swaziland
Contact: Mr Dumsane Mnisi
Organisation vision: Save the Children believes in a world where discrimination against children has no place, where children are valued as equal members of society with an important contribution to make and where childhood is recognised and respected as a crucial period in everyone’s life.
Programme areas: child protection, HIV/AIDS, education support, rural development, emergency and relief, advocacy

Skillshare International has provided leadership training to Save the Children Swaziland.

Email: childsav@realnet.co.sz
Website: www.savethechildren.net

Federation Organisation of the Disabled in Swaziland (FODSWA)
Contact: Bheki Jele
Mission statement: To promote and advocate for equal rights and equal opportunities for all people with disabilities in Swaziland. This should be achieved by lobbying for the formulation of a comprehensive disability policy and legislation to facilitate equal opportunities to enjoyment of basic human rights, education, employment, accessibility to public infrastructure transport etc, inclusion in social activities and national development programmes and protection against all forms of discrimination.
Programme areas: coordination, advocacy, awareness raising on disability issues, HIV/AIDS, capacity building, fundraising

Skillshare International has placed a development worker with FODSWA.

Email: bhekijele2@hotmail.com

HIV and AIDS

Swaziland Positive Living (SWAPOL)
Contact: Mrs Siphiwe Hlophe
Mission statement: To provide a holistic approach to improving the quality of life for the infected and affected people in rural communities, in an effective and efficient manner.
Organisation strategic objectives:
1) To provide training and education in HIV/AIDS to rural communities
2) To improve the quality of life through promoting positive living and good nutrition to rural communities
3) To provide counselling services to grieving families of people who have died of AIDS (affected)
4) To improve the socio-economic status of HIV positive people through the establishment of income generating projects for HIV positive people at community level
5) To take care of terminally ill patients.

Skillshare International's inputs: Financial mobilisation, development worker and leadership training

Email: swapol@swazi.net

Swaziland AIDS Support Organisation SASO
Contact: Mr Honey Dlamini
Programme areas: prevention, advocacy, counselling and support, information sharing, income generating projects, behaviour change

Skillshare International's inputs: Development worker

Email: saso@realnet.co.sz

Environment and rural development

Yonge Nawe Environmental Action Group
Contact: Thuli B. Makama
Mission statement:
To build capacity of multiple groups to enable them to act in the interest of a healthier environment; to educate and advocate for sustainable development; to network and form working relationships with strategic partners nationally and internationally.

Organisation strategic objectives:
1) To raise environmental awareness and activism in society for achieving sustainable development
2) To act and protect the environment and natural resources
3)To advocate for environmental and socio economic justice
4) To advocate for development that safeguards natural resources for present and future generations
5) To conduct research on sustainable development issues to inform policy and decision making
6) To advocate for policy and laws that guarantee good governance and equitable distribution of resources
7) To represent and act on behalf of the socio- economically disadvantaged in accessing environmental and socio economic justice.

Skillshare International's inputs: Development worker, financial resource mobilisation and leadership training

Email: yonawe@realnet.co.sz
Website: www.yongenawe.com

Renewable Energy Association Swaziland (REASWA)
Contact: Dr Mduduzi Mathuntjwa & Sithembiso Nhlengetwa

Mission statement:
To promote the cost-effective use of renewable energy in Swaziland in an environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable manner

Organisation strategic objectives:
1) Raising public awareness on the correct and appropriate uses of renewable energy 2) Facilitating the gathering, compiling and timely dissemination of information relating to all aspects of renewable energy
3) Empowering communities to make their own decisions regarding their energy requirements
4) Encouraging and facilitating renewable energy research and development
5) Acting as a lobby group on renewable energy issues
6) Providing valid contributions to National Energy Policy and other relevant institutional forums
7) Promoting high standards of practice in the design, manufacture, installation, usage and marketing of renewable energy equipment
8) Providing a forum for people interested in the application of renewable energy technologies to meet
9) Establishing and managing professional relationships with regional and international organisations with similar interests.

Skillshare International's inputs: Development worker and finance mobilisation

Email: reaswa@swazi.net
Website: www.ecs.co.sz/reaswa

African Co-operative Action Trust – Lilima (ACAT)
Contact: Mr Enock Dlamini

Mission statement:
ACAT seeks to empower, enable and equip disadvantaged rural people to improve and sustain their own quality of life, spiritually physically, materially, socially and environmentally. This is achieved through three core programmes - institutional capacity building, sustainable agriculture, infrastructure development and enterprise development.

Programme areas:
sustainable agriculture, food security, water and sanitation, income generating projects, capacity building

Skillshare International's inputs: Development worker

Email: acat-swz@realnet.co.sz

Education

Sebenta National Training Institute
Contact: Thuli Dladla
Organisation strategic objectives:
1) To conduct basic and functional literacy programmes
2) Provide life skills for out of schools and disadvantaged persons
3) Develop effective and partnerships with all stakeholders
4) Institutional capacity building, corporate image, team development
5) Develop effective management capabilities to effectively manage its affairs
6) Develop Sebenta product services and technological base

Skillshare International's inputs: Development worker, financial mobilisation and Leadership Development Programme.

Email: Sebenta@africaonline.co.sz

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