Mobilising Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide for Organisations in East and Southern Africa

This publication, developed by Raising Voices in collaboration with UNIFEM and Action Aid-Uganda, explores how community-based organisations can design and implement a participatory project to prevent domestic violence. The Resource Guide describes a conceptual framework for preventing domestic violence and provides strategy and activity suggestions for organisations interested in working systematically to affect individual and social change within their communities. Special features in the Resource Guide include: rights-based programmme ideas and activities; full color examples of learning materials such as posters, games, murals and booklets; a comprehensive community activism course; and, simple, ready to use documentation and monitoring tools.

"The project described in the Resource Guide is organised into five phases of community mobilization. Descriptions of each phase begin with an introduction that highlights the important concepts and themes for facilitating change at that stage. Each phase then encourages organisations to develop an Action Plan for implementation of the activities to help keep the organisation focused, active and accountable. Following the Action Plan are descriptions of the suggested activities. All the activities are organised within five main strategies that remain constant for all phases. Each activity is described in detail with practical examples so even organisations without specific expertise in the strategy will still feel able to conduct the activities. Each phase ends with a review where staff members of the organisation are encouraged to come together to share accomplishments, concerns, monitor progress and assess whether or not the community and the organisation is ready to move on to the next phase." - Raising Voices