Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and other interested groups in Busia County have agreed to develop action points that will see the county’s Sexual Gender-Based Violence Policy linked to Generation Equality Forum (GEF) Commitments as part of the Busia County GEF blueprint. The CSOs will review the SGBV policy to link it to the GEF commitments. They will also develop Busia County Blueprint commitments on the implementation of GEF.
CSO representatives were speaking during a two-day meeting held between 14th and 15th June 2022 that also focused on highlighting the critical challenges to preventing and responding to GBV and advocating for the realization of the ICPD+25 and SDGs. The CSOs also called for capacity building of the health care workers responding to SGBV especially those at the Gender-Based Violence Recovery Centre (GBVRC) in Busia County Referral Hospital. The GBVRC was established by the County Government with support from Collaborative Centre and Gender Development (CCGD) to provide clinical and psycho-social services to GBV survivors as well as boost the SGBV referral chain by supporting the collection and preservation of forensic evidence for the prosecution of cases.
