Tenkodogo/VBG: Around a hundred vulnerable people are immersed in the referral mechanisms

Ouagadougou: The Pugsada Support and Awareness Association (ADEP) is organizing, from August 5 to 8, 2024, training for the benefit of around a hundred vulnerable people on mitigating the risks of gender-based violence and mechanisms for accessing channels for reporting Gender-Based Violence (GBV).The Pugsada Support and Awareness Association (ADEP) is organizing, from August 5 to 8, 2024, in Tenkodogo, four training sessions of one day each for the benefit of vulnerable people on mitigating the risks of violence linked to sex and access mechanisms to reporting channels for Gender-Based Violence (GBV).Each session will bring together 25 participants. During these sessions, participants will also be informed about support services for survivors. These sessions will concern 100 vulnerable people in the commune of Tenkodogo, including girls, women, boys, men and people with disabilities.Funded by Austrian Development Cooperation and Light for the World, this capacity building is part of the project 'Inclus ive measures for people affected by the crisis in targeted areas in Burkina Faso (Impact-BF)'.For the project manager at the NGO Pugsada, Yvette Tiendrébéogo, this training will allow participants to know how to deal with GBV and to be relays in terms of raising awareness in their localities.'If everyone manages to raise awareness among at least 10 people, this will reduce, just a little, the cases of GBV in the town,' she estimated.According to Ms. Tiendrébéogo, several modules will be developed during these sessions. This will involve showing participants the concept and types of GBV, its causes and consequences, and the legal texts on GBV at the national and international level.'They will also be informed about the competent services to contact in the event of GBV,' she added. The project manager of the NGO Pugsada recalled that 'Impact-BF', developed and implemented by the Light for the World consortium, the NGO Pugsada and the Burkinabè Red Cross, aims to provide a humanitarian response to people vulnerable and those affected by the security crisis.'The Center-East has hosted more than 66,000 IDPs, according to the 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan, and we have found that there are very few humanitarian organizations operating in the area. The consortium therefore supports these people,' underlined Yvette Tiendrébéogo.The 2nd vice-president of the special municipal delegation of Tenkodogo, Issa Kéré, expressed his joy at seeing his municipality welcome this training.For him, the issue of GBV is a thorn in every society. Considering the content of the training which will take place throughout this session, he said he hopes that the session will contribute to mitigating the risks of gender-based violence in his commune and, therefore, throughout the region. Central-East.This capacity building concerns the four project intervention zones, notably Tenkodogo, Bittou, Koupéla and Pouytenga.Source : Burkina Information Agency