Mariental Municipality Centre of Excellence in Gender Mainstreaming

Gender Links country facilitator conducted meetings with councillors and management of municipality. Council accept and adopted the COE concept. The signing of memorandum of understanding takes place between council and Gender links Namibia. Councillors as politicians are supporting the staff for gender mainstreaming in local authority. Councillors, staff and community has go through all stages on training. After the rape of young women in the bushes of Informal Settlement council initiated and undertake cleaning campaign the river beds involving men and women. Key objective of Council is to keep Mariental clean and safe for all to walk around especially the vulnerable women and girls. A campaign was also run by council on all municipal bills, urging all residents to make use of the identified sides for refuse removal

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