Botswana: Kesegofetse Keitumetse

Date: June 10, 2019

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Name	Kesegofetse
Surname	Keitumetse
Country	Botswana
Give a short history of the leader	Iam a gender focal person, crime prevention coordinator, a counsellor, motivational speaker and mentor. i am in several district committees like child protection committee, wellness committee, Technical Advisory Committee of the district. Iam doing school address, empowerment and capacity building workshops, seminars, house to house campaigns, questionnaires, debates, step films and in her shoes sessions. By doing so any event which needs facilitation about gender issue i was invited to facilitate working together with my stake holders. I make monthly, quarterly and annual report on cases of G.B.V happening in my district. I give a lot of gender sensitization in my work. I reach out to the community raising awareness with the hope that knowledge will bring change. I also tabulate findings of level of awareness through research and house to house campaigns. I also conduct basic counselling to couples and individuals that are affected by violence.
Objectives	G.B.V prevention Response and protection- provision of a safe, caring environment that respects confidentiality and wishes of the survivor, learn the immediate needs, give information about services available, to ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted and also awareness to service providers on how to handle a girl child and interviews to survivors to be in a private place.
Key activities	I give a lot of gender sensitization in my work. I reach out to the community, raising awareness with the hope that knowledge will bring change. I also tabulate findings of level of awareness through research and house to house campaigns. I also con duct basic counselling to couples and individuals that are affected by violence. But because the organisation had not given me much courses of counselling it limits my access to in depth.
Key challenges	Gender stereo types are still deeply rooted in women and the girl child making it difficult for us to help women break out of the mental prison and become self empowered. Women still believe that they are to be ruled by men.( Male dominance). This is drawn from the attitude survey conducted in Kazungula.
Results
Change at the individual level	I have become more aware of the impact inequality has on me as an individual so i am making deliberate effort to be respectful to the men and women in my life. iam raising my sons to respect and acknowledge women’s opinion.
Evidence of change at the individual level	I believe someone looking at me from an objective view would be better placed to answer this question,looking at what i was doing before i realize my potential as a champion. But i have so far received a runner up award from this category in 2016 and my project was one the chosen sent for sourcing funds by the Gender links. I give a lot of gender sensitization in my work. I reach out to the community raising awareness with the hope that knowledge will bring change. I also tabulate findings of level of awareness through research.
Change at the household level	The way i raise my son, my daughters is more conscious and gender aware. They know that they don’t hit a woman and that a woman is a human being with feelings and dreams and aspirations, communication with my family on issues of violence to see the essence of empowerment in their lives, sensitization to the community having hope that one day one time it is going to be a change as they know what violence is what it does.
Evidence of change at the household level	one couple which came for counselling at my office gave feedback to me that since they were given awareness of the consequences of domestic violence, they are now living in peace, they share ideas and make decisions together. people are coming to the office to report violence.
Change at institutional level	The stake holders who are bring their clients to my office. Tebelopele, Gender affairs and Kasane primary hospital.
Evidence of change at institutional level	The stake holders who are bring their clients to my office. Tebelopele, Gender affairs and Kasane primary hospital.
Change at a policy level	The community is now coming to report violence, they can volunteer in house to house campaigns to spread the message about abuse. even though the cases are high but it signifies that awareness has reached the community as we are teaching them.
Evidence of change at a policy level	stake holders asked my office for facilitation at their campaigns, seminars and workshops.
Capacity building	We conduct training and sensitization workshops to our stakeholder, we work in unison with magistrate, red cross , hospital, gender Affairs to reach out to the community we all serve. We also do the same sensitization at individual level and we target the girl child at the schools, we inspire them to have empowered women as their role models which helps them become better future gender champions.
Lessons learned and shared	Light about G.B.V to the community is there as long as we put much effort to continue equipping them with information, we will have a community free of violence. We will continue doing it even to the best. we will also bench mark from our neighboring countries during network activities, NAMBOT meetings. Survivors are given private rooms during interviews as a result of my capacity encouragement and building to my colleagues. The community now whether male or female does not feel embarrassed to speak out against G.B.V.
Next Steps	To develop and run my own Non governmental Organisation that its agenda will be to assist the community to accept and accommodate the structural changes in our country both at individual and community level. The organisation will be responsible for counselling, retreats, campaigns and so forth. And also continue to sensitize the community as well as relevant stakeholders on gender issues.