MOSHUPA SUB DISTRICT COUNCIL, CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN GENDER MAINSTREAMING

Moshupa Sub District Council The gender and gender based violence action plan workshop for Moshupa Sub-Council took place from 20-22 September 2010 and the purpose of the workshop was to popularise the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development in all the local districts in Botswana and develop local gender and gender based violence action plans that will be rolled out in the respective local councils.

The workshop was undertaken in partnership with Gender Links and the Botswana Association of Local Authorities (BALA), which played a key role in mobilising the participants of the workshop. The workshop was the 16th of the gender action plan workshops for councillors scheduled to take place in Botswana in all 16 districts and these workshops are a follow up of the research by Gender Links and other partners titled ‘At the Coalface, Gender and Local Government in Southern Africa ’ which found that local councils in Botswana have not begun to address gender issues very effectively. The study was launched in February 2009 and a draft gender strategy for local government was developed.

It was then that the Moshupa Gender Action Plan was developed. In implementation, the Council took into consideration issues of gender balancing when planning for activities, programs and projects. This is evidenced by projects like street lighting, election of child protection committees and training, poverty eradication programme enrolment and others.
Moshupa Sub District Participated at the District Gender Summit for the first time in 2014, and form the summit, it identified weak areas in which to put more effort. Following the election of the new Councillors in 2014 and the transfer out of some trained management, anothe workshop training was conducted in collaboration with BALA and Gender Links.

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