[{"bbox": [286, 153, 474, 210], "category": "Page-header", "text": "therefore reducing\nits impact"}, {"bbox": [93, 252, 253, 277], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [93, 305, 1163, 467], "category": "Text", "text": "To effectively implement laws and policies, there is a need to create awareness and gain buy-in from the community members, leaders and lawmakers. Hence, it is important to build trust with partners through sensitive advocacy, before moving forward with concrete interventions of implementation. Targeting key Government Partners such as Parliamentarians, the DJAG, and women's rights organisations, CSOs as well community leaders is important for political buy in and commitment in the implementation and monitoring of these legislation against the International human rights laws."}, {"bbox": [93, 490, 1163, 704], "category": "Text", "text": "Based on the findings and recommendations of the Spotlight Mid-Term Assessment, a key lesson is to strengthen the coordination between the provincial governments and CSOs at sub-national level. Despite early Spotlight engagements with the Provincial and Local-level Service Monitoring Assembly (PLLSMA) paving the way for greater ownership and leadership of the Initiative at provincial level, whole system coordination at national and sub-national level remains weak. There is minimal engagement, by national policy makers, of key influential stakeholders such as the church and community leaders in driving change at the community level. The new GBV Action therefore would need to close this gap in the target Provinces between the State, the church, civil society and private sector through strengthening partnerships amongst government, CSOs, faith-based organisations and private sector."}, {"bbox": [93, 727, 1163, 941], "category": "Text", "text": "Sustaining efforts of GBV programming requires national budgetary allocations and capacity enhancement of key stakeholders in planning and budgeting for key interventions at both national and provincial levels. Despite considerable investment by the Government on GBV (PGK 7,9 M in 2022 and 9M in 2023) the gap remains. Moreover, many government and non-government partners still do not have a strong understanding of gender responsive planning and budgeting, thus undermining efforts in lobbying, planning, monitoring and evaluating GBV interventions. It is a lesson for all partners that institutional capacity building efforts should include basic guidance on how budgets are developed in PNG, to ensure that CSO and key stakeholder work plans are properly connected back to government budget cycles, which will increase the chance to be funded and become sustainable."}, {"bbox": [93, 964, 1163, 1178], "category": "Text", "text": "Institutional capacity is not static and is defined through an interplay of systems, structure and individual skills. While the CSO Capacity Hub was a novice concept, it was based on assumptions which all changed during execution, revealing the challenges of building and maintaining institutional capacities within any organisation, more so civil society organisations which are usually thinly funded and have capacities built in a few staff. The GBV Programming will need to capitalise on the efforts made on CSO capacity strengthening through conducting a thorough mapping of CSOs and CSO networks working on GBV. The absence of such a database in PNG creates a hindrance in targeting the right of CSOs to work with and creating stronger CSOs that can adequately advocate for policies plans and programmes on addressing GBV/ SARV in PNG."}, {"bbox": [93, 1202, 1163, 1388], "category": "Text", "text": "Community centred approach and participatory interventions are vital for any project success. When communities are given a chance to get involved in implementing a project, they feel part of it and obligated to ensure success. Based on their involvement, they will go to any length to ensure that the projects succeed. The buying from community leaders as key community gatekeepers is key for sustainable GBV programming. Moreover, leveraging the social ecological framework of GBV prevention, the GBV action will target to change community attitudes and behaviours by engaging individuals, families, communities and institutions to ensure effective GBV Programming that tackles the issues right from the local levels."}, {"bbox": [93, 1412, 1163, 1547], "category": "Text", "text": "A programme that aims to empower women as advocates for policy reform and implementation to end violence such as the Women Human Rights Defenders. Most members of the CSO movement are primarily women and girls who are former victims or survivors of gender-based violence. Those women share solidarity and empathy based on their shared dreadful experiences. Women have scars of GBV due to the patriarchal system; coming to learn their rights and laws that protect their rights give them the vigour to claim their rights."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 23"}]