Last updating July, 2007

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Organization name

Sudan National Committee on Traditional Practices (SNCTP) affecting the health of women and children

Vision

Empowerment of womens' to enable them to eliminate FGM/violence against women/girls/HIV/AIDS and protect their rights.

 Mission

Reduction of FGM/HTPs/VAW and promotion of women and girls' child health and rights.

Goal

To reduce FGM/HTPs practices and improve health and social wellbeing of womens' and children in sub-urban and rural areas by 2015.

Objectives:

·        To address womens' and childrens' vulnerability and marginal status through IEC programmes focusing on womens' health and education (elimination of HTPs especially Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Child and Forced Marriages (CFMs), GBV, VAW and HIV/AIDS.

·        To empower womens' with economic skills through training in income generating activities.

·        To raise the awareness of women and children on their rights.

·        Disseminate information and knowledge on Human Rights, social peace FGM/CFM message through Board Cast, Television as well organize seminars and symposium on FGM.

Priority Issues:

1. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

2. Early & forced marriage (EFM).

3. HIV/AIDS/STDs.

4. Culture of Peace oriented to grass-roots

5. Violence against women.

6. Convention of the Child Rights (CRC) (Focus on girl child).

7. Nutritional taboos.

8. Reproductive health (RH).

Methodologies & Approaches:

To achieve its objective SNCTP has adopted three main strategies: Community Conversation Approach (CCA), Advocacy and Information, Education and Communication (IEC).

 In CCA SNCTP has:

• SNCTP adopted this modern approach to work with grassroots where the issues discussed is categorized into burning and non-burning issues.

• The burning issues will be formulated to draw the strategies and way forward.

Through advocacy: SNCTP has:

• Introduced its objectives regarding HTPs  in the Government of Sudan’s comprehensive Strategic Plan;

• Secured the integration of HTPs issues into the curricula of Basic and Secondary schools’ education;

• Created pressure groups in urban, sub-urban and rural areas for community “self-policing” of midwives and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) to discourage FGM.

Through IEC: initiated programmes of Training of Trainers (TOT), Training and Information Campaign (TIC), Mass Media and Public Sensitization.

For outreach, integration of HTPs concepts into on-going programmes of CBOs and its own Volunteers is followed.  It is of low cost as Networking and Volunteers will continue to provide the basis for programme implementation and outreach as the HQ & branches conduct the monitoring and evaluation processes.

With particular regard to FGM, SNCTP adopts the following approaches to bring about attitude change:

• Community Conversation Approach.

• TOT.

• TIC.

• Public health education sessions.

• Mass-media: BC, TV & Newsletters.

• Development & production of educational & organization’s publication such as annual magazine & newsletters, etc..

• Distribution of educational materials (Posters, pamphlets, booklets, fliers)

• Exhibitions display

• TOT module on FGM; community leaders, health personnel, youth, women.

• HIV/AIDS package integrated with FGM/HTPs

• Alternative Employment Opportunity (AEO): AEO is a pilot project directed at TBAs and other practitioners who for monetary reward or status were performing HTP.

• Training Traditional Birth Attendants: TBAs training is mainly concerned with re-orienting TBAs on the issue of HTPs so that they actively pursue measures to eradicate practices such as FGM which traditionally they perform.

• Conducting researches, base-line surveys & impacts assessments.

• Development & production of training packages on the concerned subjects.