Soul City Series 4 components
Summary
- Prime time television drama
- Prime time radio drama
- Booklets
- Partnership with National Network for Violence Against Women (NNVAW)
- Advocacy campaign
- Helpline
Topics
- Violence Against Women (VAW)
- Youth sexuality / AIDS
- High blood pressure
- Personal finance / SMME (Small & Medium Business Enterprises)
Overall goals of Series 4 on VAW
- Reach over 2/3 adult population
- Stimulate constructive dialogue
- Shift social norms
- Shift knowledge, attitudes, practice
- Inform on rights / new Domestic Violence Act (DVA)
- Connect people to help
- Mobilise communities
- Advocate for speedy implementation of DVA
Advocacy Goal
To ensure the speedy and effective implementation of the Domestic Violence Act by 1 November 1999
NNVAW Partnership
- Advocacy for policy
- Social mobilisation
- Helpline
- Enhance audiences
- Distribute booklets
- Training health, judiciary and police
Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion
- Supportive environments
- Healthy public policy
- Strengthen community action
- Develop skills
- Reorientate health services
Advocacy for healthy public policy
New Domestic Violence Act
- ground breaking legislation
- passed in Nov 1998
- delayed implementation
Advocacy actions
- Media advocacy
- Social mobilisation
- Lobbying
Media advocacy
- Training and manual
- Media directory
- Journalist resource booklet - newsrooms + training
- Journalist workshops
- Framing for access and content
- Pitching
- Press releases
- social mobilisation (mutually reinforcing)
Social mobilisation
- Community meetings
- Launches
- Marches
- Open air buses
Lobbying
- Face to face meetings with government officials and DVA
- Implementation Task Team
- Parliamentary meetings
- Faxes, phone calls to Chair of Justice Standing
- Committee in Parliament
- Speakers at community meetings [Q+As]
Contact
Executive, South Africa Programmes
Soul City: Institute for Health and Development Communication
South Africa
Fax: 086 661 3145 or 011 341 0370
Related Summaries
Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site September 30 2000
Last Updated November 14 2008
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