Fact sheet Mauritius: Prevention

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Key facts

• GBV prevention strategies can be primary, secondary or tertiary. Arena for action of prevention strategies includes the individual, relationships, community or broader society.
• Over half of politicians (52%) who referred to GBV in their speeches said they were committed to ending
• the scourge.
• Women and men are relatively unaware of events or prevention campaigns to end GBV.
• Only about two fifths of women (37%) and men (38%) were aware of events or prevention campaigns to end GBV
• Only 10% of women and 21% of men had heard about the Sixteen days campaign in the 12months before the survey.
• A lesser proportion of women (5%) and 21% of men had heard about the 365days campaign in the 12 months before the survey.
• Almost half of the women (48%) of women and less than a tenth (8%) of men who were aware of GBV campaigns found them empowering.
• Gender Links conducts annual commemorations of the Sixteen Days Campaign and works with local councils to develop and implement local action plans to end GBV
• The Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation runs several programmes aimed at GBV prevention.
• MGECDFW holds capacity-building workshops with stakeholders aimed at secondary prevention. Since 2008 till 2011 the Ministry of gender Equality trained 126 officers.

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