In 2017, efiug leadership commissioned a system of transparency, community participation, and collaboration to domesticate implementation. This resulted into the Everyday Equality Strategy and the creation of community hubs at several efiug meeting points and offices. In fact it helped efiug acquire more community spaces for dialogue and emergency response to violence against women. Today Community hubs run desks that support community women with information, emergency support and an extension of projects and programmes to grassroot, providing communities with an opportunity to directly participate in planning, budgeting and implementing efiug activities at grassroot.
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Welcome, KDF Group
December 7, 2020
Naome M. Kabuule, Regional Manager Eastern, welcomes the KDF group from Bukoova Parish in Luuka District as the newest group to Join the efiug community Desk for Eastern Region.
How Community Desks Work.
Both research and implementation of GBV activities of efiug rotates around the efforts of the community desks. These work with our community groups/cells to extend faster and appropriate support to victims of violence by documenting and assigning specific personnel to cases and or determining the required support at any particular given time. The desks also help victims to re-integrate whether back to their homes or in new, safer environments. Each desk is supervised by the efiug regional manager and manned by the Women Protection and Empowerment officers who are also supported by trained community social workers and or group members.
Emergency Support.
Community Desks reduced the response time to less than 3 hours for community cases of violence against women directly impacting our prevention-protection response system. The Desks also support such case filing and investigations where need be.
Follow Up.
Whether an incident, a legal case or social procedure, community desks aid follow up by providing updates, supporting victims during that time, providing tailored security and aiding local or cultural systems in pursuing Justice and end the violence.
Psycho-social support.
The Women Protection and Empowerment officers at the different hubs provided tailored psycho-social support services to women and girls facing violence. In critical cases of violence, women are supported by WPE to make decisions on way forward to reduce on Risks associated with their cases.
Skills Development.
EFIUG trains women's groups recommended by hubs and women in our shelters are not excluded. The Vetting processes done by community hubs makes it easier to provide tailored trained fit to specific individuals who need and have an opportunity to benefit from the knowledge and skills from such trainings.
Information & Education.
Having the best start in life requires information and knowledge to aid decision making and personal awareness. Community hubs provide information on personal growth, violence against women and girls, Women and work, maternal health among other topics.
Re-integration.
It is community hubs recommendations that efiug follows to determine re-integration of people and or services in communities. Community hubs are used by women to tell efiug what works for them, and how to implement such measures that foster growth, safety and development.
