The Effectiveness of the Gender Desks in Addressing Gender Based Violence Against Women and Girls in Kilosa, Tanzania.

Mwangoka, Abraham (2022) The Effectiveness of the Gender Desks in Addressing Gender Based Violence Against Women and Girls in Kilosa, Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study investigated the effectiveness of the Gender Desk Office in addressing gender-based violence against women and girls in Kilosa, Tanzania. Specifically, it determined the number of cases reported to gender desk in an effort to protect women from violence in Kilosa, the mechanism used by officers of the police gender office, and the challenges of the police gender office to address gender-based violence in Kilosa respectively. The mixed method study was designed to obtain mixed opinions. The population comprised of WEO, VEO, Police Gender Officers, Heads of Social Work Departments, Social Welfare Officers, Social Workers, Gender Balanced NGOs, Women and Girl Survivors which helped to draw a sample of 50 participants. Both purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select respondents. Questionnaires, interviews, and documentary reviews were main instruments used for data collection. Qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis and statistical package for social science 20 was deployed for quantitative data. The findings were most of the girls and women do not know where to report therefore few cases have been reported ranging from cultural background 23.1% to lack of respect for women and girls by men 23.1%, lack of awareness 38.5%. Poverty and patriarchy were the main causes of gender violence, which have a greater impact on women such as rape and beatings. The lack of awareness on where to report is a big problem, these calls for the media, newspapers and conference activities to bring more awareness about gender-based violence Keywords: Gender Desks, Violence, Women, Girls.

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