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Soul City Series 4 components

Resumen

  • 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
      -NNVAW training


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]

Contacto

Sue Goldstein
Executive, South Africa Programmes
Soul City: Institute for Health and Development Communication
South Africa
Fax: 086 661 3145 or 011 341 0370

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