UN Women CFPs to Implement Spotlight Initiative Program (Malawi)

• Pillar 1)
  • Laws and Policies- Legislative and policy frameworks, based on evidence and in line with international human rights standards, on all forms of violence against women and girls and harmful practices are in place and translated into plans and implemented.
  • Specific activities:
    • Capacity building of community leaders, ministries, and informal and formal legislators to produce policy and laws to address SGBV, SRHR, and early marriage.
• Pillar 2)
  • Institutions– National and subnational systems and institutions plan, fund, and deliver evidence-based programmes that prevent and respond to VAWG and HP, including in other sectors.
  • Specific activities:
    • Support national and local structures and targeted institutions (CSOs, Local Government Finance Committees, Parliamentary Committees, the Malawi Human Rights Commission, the Office of the Ombudsman, the National Audit Office) to improve their capabilities in using gender-responsive budgeting and to ensure quality results, reporting, and adequate financing on VAWG, SGBV/HP, and SRHR.
    • Strengthen chiefs’ forums to monitor the implementation of SGBV/HP and SRHR laws, policies, programmes, and services, including for those most marginalized and excluded.
• Pillar 3)
  • Prevention– Gender equitable social norms, attitudes, and behavioural change at the community and individual levels to prevent VAWG and SGBV/HP and promote women’s and girls’ SRHR.
  • Specific activities:
    • Scale up the promotion of positive masculinities for male engagement on EVAWG, HIV, HP, SGBV, and SRHR, including through the implementation of the male engagement strategy and operational guide.
• Pillar 4)
  • Services -Women and girls who experience violence, including SGBV/HP, use available, accessible, acceptable, and quality essential services, including those for long-term recovery from violence.
  • Specific activities:
    • Scale-up life skills development, including entrepreneurship skills and livelihood initiatives for adolescent girls and women, particularly those most marginalized and excluded, integrated with existing platforms such as functional literacy programmes, mothers’ groups, and out-of-school girls’ clubs, with linkages to health services, including SRHR (involving technical support in procuring and installing solar power for vulnerable women, and training of women survivors of SGBV, women with disabilities and Women Living with HIV and Aids in the solar installation.
    • Enhance basic entrepreneurship skills among vulnerable and marginalized women and adolescent girls, including the poorest, in rural, peri-urban, and urban settings.
    • Facilitate access to financial resources, including input and technical support, for small business start-ups, targeting vulnerable and marginalized women and adolescent girls in rural, peri-urban, and urban communities.
    • Ensure the viability of the participating women’s small businesses by facilitating access to markets and links with value chains and private-sector corporations.
• Pillar 6)
  • Women’s movement Women’s and girls’ rights groups, autonomous social movements, and relevant CSOs, including those representing youth and groups facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination/marginalization, more effectively influence and advance progress on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) and VAWG, including SGBV/HP, and SRHR.
  • Specific activities:
    • Support the fostering of a national women’s and girls’ movement that will provide oversight to interventions on ending VAWG, promoting SRHR, and eliminating HP.
    • Strengthen technical capacities for CSOs and women’s and youth organizations related to gender-responsive budgeting, monitoring, and developing tools to consolidate their role as watchdogs on women’s and girls’ rights.
    • Support the development of community scorecards, opinion polls, grievance and redress structures, and other social accountability mechanisms for SGBV/HP- and SRHR-related reporting and monitoring.

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