This activity focuses on eliminating ‘harmful traditional practices’ on women.

It consists of:

• undertaking ‘activities to avoid harmful traditional practices inflicted on women with the participation of customary institutions that have legitimacy in the community and religious institutions’;
• preventing ‘harmful traditional practices that are inflicted on women’ — ‘with the participation of relevant government institutions’, and ‘programs shall be created to protect victims and provide them with essential services’;
• conducting ‘awareness creation; and capacity building of communities and institutions and strengthening of protective measures, to bring about attitudinal change and social transformation in communities’;
• providing ‘easily accessible, all around [sic], quality service for women victims of harmful traditional practices’, including ‘activities to rehabilitate victims and reinstate them in their previous social, economic and psychological standing’.

b. Increasing all-round participation and benefit of pastoral women and youths (p.79) »