NETWORKS FOR CHANGE AND WELL-BEING
Girl-led ‘From the Ground Up’ Policy Making to Address Sexual Violence in Canada and South Africa
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Issue 5: September 2017
Dear Partners Networks for change and well-being has just passed its mid-term. How quickly 3 years have gone by. In this time we now have participatory work with girls and young women at 13 field sites across Canada and South Africa under way (11 in full implementation and 2 under development). As the numerous reports in this issue of the newsletter highlight, these are exciting times and amongst other events we have just seen the first girl- and young women-led Networks for Change march to raise awareness about sexual violence which took place as part of Women’s Day events on August 9, 2017 in Khethani, Winterton, South Africa. In the next three years, the various sites and partners will be focusing more on this kind of youth activism in relation to community and policy engagement. We have also seen a wonderful example of inter-site and international learnings with a member of the National Indigenous Young Women’s Council from Saskatchewan in Canada co-facilitating a girl-led workshop in Nunavut with a former intern who was trained on participatory visual methodologies at the field site in rural South Africa. Alongside this type of knowledge sharing, Networks also just sponsored an International Participatory Visual Methodologies Summer Institute with masters and doctoral students from Canada, Sweden and South Africa. Networks has expanded virtually and if you check out networks4change.ca you will find the new girl-led curated online gallery, Delisa Illiso! (isiZulu: “feast your eyes on girls’ art work”). We say good-bye to Mearon O’Brien who has been so capably coordinating the activities of the Canadian-based project office at McGill, and we welcome Leann Brown who brings a rich background of working in gender-focused work in Canada and the UK. Warm regards, Claudia and Lebo
Girls’ March on Women’s Day
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International Participatory Visual Methodologies Summer Institute
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Online Gallery: Delisa Iliso!
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Fieldsite Reports
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Network Briefings Series
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New Book Series
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International Cellphilm Festival Call
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New Publication
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Forthcoming Publication
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Girlhood Studies Call for Papers
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Partners & Stakeholders
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