The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development urges governments to halve gender violence and to ensure gender equivalence in all areas of decision-making by 2015. In order to tackle the epidemic of gender-based violence in the region, women’s representation in local and national politics must increase.

This book presents information on nine organisations working in five countries in the region. It highlights the work of these organisations in the hope that the information on processes, strategies and counter-strategies provided will encourage and support other organisations as they implement similar initiatives in other communities, with the ultimate aim of turning the tide of the HIV epidemic, achieving reductions in incidences of gender based violence, and consequently reductions in new HIV infections.

Best Practices on Challenging Gender Dynamics in Cultural Contexts SWANNEPHA and NATICC Implementing the ‘Changing the River’s Flow’ Programme’ in Swaziland, SAfAIDS 2011

Best Practices on Challenging Gender Dynamics in Cultural Contexts Padare and Women’s Action Group Implementing the ‘Changing the River’s Flow’ Programme’ in Zimbabwe, SAfAIDS 2011

Women across the world are easily standing up and telling the truth aobut their lives to help others. Their experiences have been caprtured in a number of bestselling books which provide extraordinary insights into the secretive, grim and unknown inner worlds of survivors of abuse around the globe. Personal first hand accounts of the authors provide rgeater understanding and unique into their personal experiences that we can only gain from hearing these first hand accounts and which mere statistics can never illustrate.