On the 8th of December 2022, CCFU will convene cultural institutions, cultural leaders, civil society organisations, and government ministries, departments, and agencies to launch and disseminate findings on exemplar cultural resources that are address violence against women and girls in the communities of Acholi, Alur, Buganda, Busoga, Karamoja and Tooro. It is also to trigger discussions on the revival of the traditional learning spaces for addressing Violence against women and girls.
The event will be live on Twitter via #CultureForHer.
Background of the research study
Violence against women remains a concern all over the globe given that despite various interventions in place to address it, it is still persistent. Oftentimes, culture has been blamed by development actors and human rights activists as a perpetrator of this violence probably due to the patriarchal nature of our societies.
It is upon this background that the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) under its Culture for Her Project on harnessing cultural resources to address violence against women and girls, promote sexual and reproductive health rights and access to justice in the cultural communities of Alur, Acholi, Buganda, Busoga, Karamoja and Tooro conducted research to interrogate the contribution of cultural resources to the efforts to end VAWG. This research highlighted a number of positive cultural resources existing in the communities which if utilised can address the issue of VAWG.
The research also made recommendations which among others included the need to revive the existing cultural resources which were found to be waning in the communities. In a bid to ignite this revival, CCFU profiled 3 cases of exemplar cultural resources that address VAWG and promote the rights of women and girls within the six cultural communities. This was through a research study that among others highlights the different cultural resources of humanness as a cultural principle, traditional learning spaces utilised in the cultural communities to impart/ disseminate information on the cultural values which protect women and girls from violence. The research also points out how these traditional learning spaces have evolved over time and the associated challenges with their utilisation.
This work is implemented in partnership with UN Women and the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development.
https://crossculturalfoundation.or.ug/ccfu/2022/11/17/coming-up-launch-of-research-reports-on-exemplar-cultural-resources-for-addressing-violence-against-women-and-girls/