Combating Gender-based Violence : Defence Officers Improve Intervention Skills

In the face of security challenges in the country, social workers are being trained on minimising gender based violence and the management of survivors. This is to better guarantee the protection and promotion of human rights of citizens. To this effect, a training workshop that brought together social workers of the Ministry of Defence was organised in Yaounde on September 27, 2023. The Ministries of Defence, Justice, and Women’s Empowerment and the Promotion of the Family are the three principal government partners, with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as an international and technical collaborator. The training workshop was presided at, on behalf of the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, by the Technical Adviser, Prof. Alain Didier Olinga, who noted that the initiative is an indication of government’s determination to address gender-based violence. 
According to him, gender-based violence has enormous consequences on the human, social and economic growth plan of a country, reason the Ministry of Defence is effectively involved in the fight against the phenomenon and taking care of survivors. The Technical Adviser added that they are involved in every phase of eradicating the ill, beginning from prevention to repression. 
To the social workers being trained, Prof. Olinga noted that the knowledge gained will help them give strategic input to programmes on violence prevention, as well as improve their capacity and invention especially in the psychological care of survivors. 
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