Monthly progress Report On Visual Education Program for The 8 Rurals Villages Of Garowe District of Puntland State Of Somalia Region ,
(February8-26 february 2013)
Prepared by
Katra M. Haji
FGM Project Coordinator
| Project title: |
FGM/C Reduction through capacity Building , Awareness Raising and Advocacy in 15 villages in Garowe District of puntland state of somalia
Country:
Punt land, SomaliaReport period:
1st August 2012 – 2014Status for performance for expected objectives up to the end of this report period (please tick off)
Delayed:
Partially delayed:
ü As expected:
Partially ahead:
Ahead:
Does the progress report contain which requires a rapid response from DPA?
Yes:
ü No:
See section:
1. Developments in the country of relevance to the implementation of the project
Introduction
Kaalo Aid And Development (KAALO) is engaged in increasing knowledge and changing the attitudes and behaviors of target audiences in the area of reproductive health and other related social issues. It employs a number of strategies to make this happen. One of the major strategies is awareness raising and advocacy . The awareness raising and advocacy is largely concerned with the reinforcement and changes in community norms. It also seeks to empower womens vis-à-vis their health actions and to seek social and political support for those actions.
In the past three months a number of awareness raising and advocacy workshop have been organized by KAALO for different sectors of villages identified to augment the attitude and behavioral change
objectives of KAALO activities. These workshop have been able to win to a remarkable extent the support of many influentials in different regions of Nugaal. The last awareness raising and advocacy is organized as a continuous process of fostering positive health practices individually and institutionally and contributes to sustainable social change.
It is often difficult to decide ending FGM on an individual basis as social pressure and sanctions are too heavy for an individual to bear. Decisions need to be reached collectively and the support of religious leaders among others has to be sought in order to allow sustained change to happen. This visual education program was showing at night when everybody in village are free where by we organized for 40 but even more came in vedio show several islamic leaders and elders ware there we show them avery hatic film which make many of them carry with Evidence where islamic scholar are preaching about the bad practic.
Objectives of the visual education program
The general objective of the visual education program is to help the target audiences to support actions that are geared towards abandoning harmful traditional practices including female genital mutilation which is practiced in its severest form in the region. As the target audiences are respected by the communities in the region, the use of such credible sources, it is believed, would lead to greater results. The specific objectives of the visual education program are the following.
- To create a broad understanding of harmful traditional practices including FGM
- To raise awareness of religious leaders of the problems associated with FGM
- To have constructive ideas on how to bring about change in abandoning harmful traditional practices including FGM in Nugal region
- To show goverment degree towards FGM/C for anyone not to practice any more
The Process of Organizing visual education program
The process of organizing visual education program has benefited from the support of community members through wactching films abaut the bad practice fgm/c . On the month of february community members had the opportunity to be updated on what Goverment and islamic leaders towards fgm so that everybody is awear of what fgm is and it has no relationship in islamic religious . activities that will implemented in the village the ideentified contact person in villages have been instrumental in organized visual education in collaboration with project cordinator .
The general objective of the visual education program is to help the target audiences to support actions that are geared towards abandoning harmful traditional practices female genital mutilation which is practiced in its severest form in the Nugal region. As the target audiences are respected by the communities in the region, the use of such credible sources, it is believed, would lead to greater results. The specific objectives of the visual education are the following
- To create a broad understanding of harmful traditional practices FGM/C
- To raise awareness of religious leaders of the problems associated with FGM/C
- To have constructive ideas on how to bring about change in abandoning harmful traditional practices FGM/C in Nugaal region.
Course Organization and Conduct
The visual education program in the rural area was a twent two days {22 days} starting from 6.30 in the evening and ending at 9.30 mp. And us usual it ends when everybody is interested as shown below
Outcomes of visual education program
During our field we also observe the percentage of the communities practicing fgm/c is almost 70% in the most village we went, while garowe is 30% there is big change in between the villages and and capital city .
Challages
The challage we come a cross during our field in the rural areas is about the practictioners women we meet in different area they all saying we need some money for us to leave cutting girls because we earn through cutting .
3. Status for objectives and indicators
Comparison of planned and actual accomplishment
| Activities Planned for this Month | Timeline | Status |
| Community Mobilization | October | Complete |
| Conduct Awareness Workshop | December | Complete |
| Submit Progress Report | December | Complete |
UPCOMING PROJECT ACTIVITIES
- FGM/C Drama Competitions
- Capacity building for community leaders to advocate against FGM
- Forum for religious leaders, traditional leaders, youth, Women, and a community members
- Evaluation on the basis of KAP
No changes and adjustment of whatsoever was made.
6. Status for expenditure
| Total budget in (use project currency): |
998.857Budgeted expenditure at the end of this report period:
55,036.80Actual expenditure at the end of this report period:55,036.80
7. Future budget adjustments
No need for additional budget adjustments
8. Coordination with others, External Relations (attach records in Appendix)
9. Security update
The security situation of the project target location is conducive and there are no foreseen threats in the project implementation process.
11. Staffing requirements (attach actual list of staff with positions and local ID and contact numbers in Appendix)
5. Changes and adjustments
No changes and adjustment of whatsoever was made.
6. Status for expenditure
| Total budget in (use project currency): |
998.857Budgeted expenditure at the end of this report period:
55,036.80Actual expenditure at the end of this report period:55,036.80
7. Future budget adjustments
No need for additional budget adjustments
8. Coordination with others, External Relations (attach records in Appendix)
9. Security update
The security situation of the project target location is conducive and there are no foreseen threats in the project implementation process.
11. Staffing requirements (attach actual list of staff with positions and local ID and contact numbers in Appendix)
