North-Western Province Permanent Secretary, Willies Mangimela has encouraged traditional leaders to establish one-stop centers for Gender Based Violence (GBV) in their respective chiefdoms so as to enhance a coordinated multi-disciplinary management of cases.Mr Mangimela said the establishment of the centers will enable services such as continued psychosocial support for the survivors which he said is paramount in reducing vulnerability of men, women, boys and girls to be provided at community level.He said this in Solwezi today in a speech read on his behalf by the Deputy Permanent Secretary, Emmanuel Chihili during the official opening of the Start Awareness Support Action GBV multi-disciplinary training for traditional Leaders and service providers.“It is also important that communities have some safeguards for prevention of child abuse through establishment of some committees such as Anti-GBV and child protection,” he saidMr Mangimela said a community that tolerates GBV will affect the development of the nation as survivors my not realize their […]
STOP GBV ‘MAKE CENTERS FOR GBV CASES’
