Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency Launches KASA project in Tamale

Story: Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria | Producer, Breakfast Live Show

On Saturday 22nd January 2022, Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-GH) held the Northern tertiary women commissioners convening and ending SGBV (KASA) project entry with key stakeholders at the auditorium of Tamale Technical University.

The KASA project which is being funded by the Ford Foundation West Africa Office, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is to address and reduce sexual violence, and its deep-rooted drivers, across West Africa. The initiative, KASA! (Meaning ‘speak’ in the Twi language) Ending Sexual Violence in West Africa is leveraging the growing focus on sexual violence in the region and boosting feminist action and advocacy to reduce it. The project focuses primarily on Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.

KASA! Project is targeting 200 women leaders at the various tertiary institutions and senior high schools in the northern region to empower them on critical issues surrounding sexual and gender-based violence in the region and how they can amplify their voices in the fight against this canker. 

As part of the project activities, SWIDA-GH and the students will organise radio and social media campaigns against sexual violence and sensitise healthcare professionals and law enforcement agents to improve services for survivors of sexual violence and hold perpetrators of such crimes accountable.

Other people that the organisation will seek to partner in amplifying and ending SGBV in our schools and community will include, DOVVSU, CHRAJ, legal aid, youth groups and the media.

The executive director for SWIDA-GH, Hajia Halima Saeed Sagito, speaking at the convening, tasked the female leaders to look for their school sexual harassment policy document to educate females’ students. This she pledges to support them in the dissemination of the information through planned activities in the school.

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