... CANGO raises concerns about funding

THE Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental Organisations (CANGO) Executive Director, Thembinkosi Dlamini, said he understood this to be the cost with no allocated funding.

He said if anything is to go by the figures in the strategy, it is too low.

“If the interventions are to go as far as addressing the underlying causes of GBV, it calls for livelihoods strengthening, growing the social wage, social support for families in distress, strengthening psychosocial support services, raising awareness, and law enforcement,” he said.

He also said that subject to the annual budget speech to be delivered by the minister of Finance, three could be the political will to fund the activities of the ending violence strategy, and he said he was hopeful. Dlamini added that development partners should also be encouraged to contribute their support to the implementation of the strategy.

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“Development partners bring more than just money. They bring capacity and best practice experiences from elsewhere, in the world. Sometime you need partners who look at a problem from the outside in to arrive at an optimal resolution,” he said.

Prosecution screws are tightening.

Screws are being tightened for the prosecution of perpetrators of gender-based violence (GBV).

This is according to the national strategy to end GBV from 2023 to 2027.

The strategy states that the Royal Eswatini Police Services (REPS) has developed a case-conferencing system whose purpose is to track the progress of reported cases.