A total of about 16,835 were directly sensitized or educated by CHRAPA through its community mobilization, education and sensitization programs. This comprised a total of 4,708 Youths, 5207 Women, 6,044 Men, 547 Mbororos and 349 People Living With Disabilities (PLWD). On the overall, CHRAPA and its media partners estimates that at least 76,500 persons were sensitized or exposed to messages containing GBV/Women Empowerment messages in the course of the implementation of this project, that is through mass media campaigns (radio, newspaper publications, online news articles), social media campaigns etc.
Pic 02: Paralegal for Mbengwi carries out community mobilization, education and sensitization with youths in Mbengwi, Momo Division, NW Region, Cameroon.
This estimate was arrived at on the Saturday 07 December, 2019 where CHRAPA invited all its media partners and bloggers for an end of project evaluation meeting based on the various media house outreach scope/regular consumers. This meeting was also to enable CHRAPA to collect all publications that have been published by its media partners during the implementation of the project period that will eventually be handed over the project funders that is UN Women and the Italian government. In attendance, we had 13 Media organs, CRTV, CBS Radio, Abakwa Radio, Afrique Nouvelle Radio, the Mbengwi Community Radio Station, The Guardian Post News Paper, Le Messager, Equinox TV, The Horizon Newspaper, The Eden Newspaper, The Watchdog Newspaper, the Voice Newspaper, and the Sun Newspaper.
In relation to the identification of GBV cases the following cases were identified:
- 16 SGBV ( 01 pregnancy as a result of rape, 1 teen who was pregnant as a result of SGBV had miscarriage at 06 months but 03 had infants as a result of rape),
- 831 women/ children who suffered other forms of GBV abuses were also identified,
- 163 very desperate cases from host communities that is members/households hosting more than 10 to 18 IDP in their houses with very meagre resources to afford for them and
- 149 Persons Living with Disabilities and
- 1,505 IDPs were identified all together.
- 441 Mbororos identified
Giving a total of 3014 persons identified during this period.
During the identification process, 500 dignity kits were distributed to various GBV cases(very desperate cases), the physically challenged women and those women traumatized by the crisis that needed counselling to raise their hope/give dignity (as we identified cases of many women with kids whose husbands were murdered in front of them and have undergone lots of torture leading to trauma) and above distributed to abandoned old persons especially women, whose families have completely abandoned them, some with complicated health challenges.
CHRAPA employed the strategy of remote programming method, where they recruited and trained 14 community paralegal officers, who are members of the project communities listed above, to reach out to the various communities. They conducted community outreach activities including door-to-door, educational talks, group /church trainings and identified the most desperate /vulnerable cases and recommended them for the livelihood support package.
And lastly, CHRAPA then proceeded to support identified beneficiaries economically using RIGA as detailed below.
