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WC Brief 1 (landscape)

Asivikelane Western Cape, Brief 1: Knysna communities pave the way for female-friendly sanitation

Asivikelane Western Cape is laying the foundation for female-friendly sanitation in Knysna’s informal settlements. Asivikelane Community Facilitators carried out an initiative for separate toilets for males and females across 3 informal settlements and their efforts are helping to make sanitation safer for women and children.

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The procurement of basic services should respond to the needs of women

The procurement of basic services should respond to the needs of women

This research paper argues that gender-responsive procurement should be inclusive of the voices and needs of women. This will have far-reaching benefits by ensuring safer and healthier access to basic services for women, children and other vulnerable groups living in informal settlements in South Africa.

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Asivikelane Health #17: Women feel unsafe waiting for clinics too open

Asivikelane Health #17 Two-thirds of women arrive at clinics before the doors open. They feel unsafe waiting outside, especially in areas with high crime rates. Asivikelane Health #17 advises clinics on actions they can take to help protect women.

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Promoting female-friendly water and sanitation in informal settlements

This is a helpful guide on how to make communal services safer, more hygienic, and female-friendly.

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Female Friendly Procurement of basic services

Prioritising needs of women in the procurement of basic services

This guide outlines how municipalities can be more inclusive and specifically prioritise the needs of women when procuring basic services for informal settlements.

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Asivikelane Western Cape #5: Knysna and Stellenbosch – Let’s make women safe in Knysna’s informal settlements

Women’s rights are human rights. Municipalities can protect these rights by putting the safety of women in informal settlements first. It can start by increasing the number of communal taps and toilets provided, fixing broken ones and improving lighting. Asivikelane Western Cape #5 shows that poor service delivery and maintenance exposes women to numerous risks and vulnerabilities.

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Asivikelane Western Cape #5: Women are caregivers, but does government care for them?

Asivikelane Western Cape #5 calls on Knysna and Stellenbosch to keep women safe by providing taps and toilets that are well-lit and closer to where they live.

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Asivikelane #20: Basic services can protect and empower women

Asivikelane #20 shows that for women access to basic services in informal settlements is closely tied to safety. We report on the experience of women where poor basic service delivery exposes them to many vulnerabilities and risks.

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Brief 5: Improving the lives of women in informal settlements starts with fixing basic services

Exposure to social, economic and health risks is common when living in informal settlements, but gender inequalities result in a lack of basic services disproportionately affecting the lives of women and girls.

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Asivikelane #8: METRO

Two-thirds of Asivikelane participants are women and most of them say that there is not enough public lighting in their informal settlements. On the bright side, most metros now have green traffic lights for water however sanitation is still at critical levels. We hope that metros will use their share of the R11 billion of additional equitable share funding announced by Minister Mboweni, as well as reprioritised conditional grant funding, to address this problem.

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Asivikelane is an initiative of International
Budget Partnership South Africa (IBPSA NPC).

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