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Involving Rural Women in Security Matters

The Ngao Letu project team composed of Genderforce and COMEN staff celebrated  in Rugari village, Rutshuru territory, North Kivu province the international day of rural women. The topic for the celebration was: environment, nutrition and agriculture are in transition. The team took the opportunity to address participating local authorities, local security sector actors and women, on theRead More

Summary of the Ngao Letu Programme

In spring of 2014, Genderforce initiated discussions with the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to fund a fact-finding mission to DR Congo to explore and plan for the deployment of a longer-term programme in the region for addressing the occurrences of SGBV. The fact-finding mission had one main deliverable: a quality assured Operational Plan (OPLAN)Read More

Sir Richard Shirreff talks about Genderforce before UK Market Researchers

At a recent conference in London our advisory board member Sir Richard Shirreff talked about Genderforce and our work in the DRC stressing the need to use a range of research techniques – from recruiting reliable local sources of information to interviewing and even satellite tracking – to understand the true scale of the problem andRead More