As part of the continuation of its activities, the regional project for women’s empowerment and the demographic dividend in the Sahel (SWEED Guinea) has been organizing for several weeks a series of regional workshops in its areas of intervention. The administrative region of Kankan constituted the first step in this series of capacity building of the actors concerned. Thus, from August 22 to 24, the management of complaints based on gender was at the center of debates in the conference room of the Kankan girls and women empowerment center..

Coming from the five prefectures of the Kankan region, the thirty participants are now equipped to better manage complaints in their respective departments. They will also serve as a transmission belt for awareness messages to avoid gender-based violence practices in their cities. Yalikhan Camara, social safeguard manager, explains:  “We are here to set up complaints management committees for the SWEDD project. We will also carry out their capacity building so that they are able to integrate the SWEDD management vision of gender-based violence into their activities. For us, they will be bearers of messages to their respective communities so that these practices are banned.”

Continuing, our interlocutor said she was satisfied with the observations made on site: “  What I saw during these three days of training is already reassuring. Participants gave a lot of importance to this session and this was particularly evident during the work. We can already rub our hands  ,” says Yalikhan Camara. 

As for the participants, they say they are satisfied with the concepts learned. Already, they promise to increase these among citizens. Mafila Cissé is Kouroussa’s interim child affairs officer:  “There is a strong synergy between the different actors who fight against violence. Women and girls are also informed of the harm. We are therefore going to integrate the notion of complaints management that the SWEDD project has just made available to us. This will have a positive impact on our activities”. Lancei Bérété from the urban commune of Siguiri added: “ When we received complaints about GBV, we did not know where to direct them. This is why we gave great priority to negotiations. Generally, these did not work and the consequences were great. From now on, we will integrate these notions into our work”.

Note the same training started yesterday August 28 in the Faranah region before the Labé stage

Michel Yaradouno, Kankan