From 24 to 25 June 2024, the coordination team of the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (PRSA)/Niger organised a training workshop on gender-based violence for members of the complaints management committees of the 5 intervention communes in the Tillabéry region. The training was run jointly by a specialist in gender-based violence (GBV) and a specialist in social development from PRSA/Niger. It targeted 23 people, including 8 women, and included 10 EAS/HS focal points identified to receive complaints about EAS/HS. At the end of the training, a register was shared with all the EAS/HS focal points for recording sensitive complaints.
As part of the implementation of PRSA activities across the four (4) intervention regions (Diffa, Tahoua, Tillaberi, Zinder), an action plan for the mitigation of EAS/HS risks has been drawn up. The plan includes the training of complaints management committee members and the identification of EAS/HS focal points within the Global Complaints Management Mechanism. The role of PRSA Niger's GPM members is to receive EAS/HS-sensitive complaints, register EAS/HS complaints, provide initial psychosocial support, refer victims to holistic care services (health, psychosocial, legal) and conduct investigations into complaints received.
In accordance with the World Bank's Good Practice Note on Preventing and Responding to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and Sexual Harassment (SH). In investment operations involving civil engineering works, such as the PRSA-NE, activities can have repercussions that can have harmful impacts on the environment and populations. To deal with these impacts, especially social ones, the programme offers communities in its intervention zone a framework for lodging any complaints they may have about the implementation of activities. PRSA has therefore set up a Complaints Management Mechanism (MGP) that includes the dimension of gender-based violence, sexual abuse and exploitation and sexual harassment (GBV/EAS/HS).
