Webinar: Covid-19 and SGBV among refugees and migrants
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Tuesday 23 June 2020 10.00 am – 12.30pm CAT
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Hello! Please join us – MenEngage Africa Alliance and Sonke Gender Justice – in a webinar on: The impact of COVID 19 and the prevalence of SGBV among refugees and migrants.
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The webinar will be moderated in French. It follows one which we held in May and was hosted in English. Find our concept note in English and French here.
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Micheline Minani Muzaneza and Saint Expedit Ondzongo will moderate this webinar.
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Micheline Minani Muzaneza holds a Masters in Gender Peace and Security. She joined Sonke Gender Justice in 2010 where she held the position of Refugee Health and Rights Project Co-ordinator. She is now the Regional Programmes Senior Trainer. Micheline is also an HIV counsellor, an expert in Gender, Conflict and Migration, and a sworn translator with the High Court of South Africa.
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Saint Expedit lhamann Ondzongo is a Senior Trainer for the Regional Programmes Unit at Sonke Gender Justice. He started working for Sonke as a volunteer in 2009 with refugee and migrant communities in Cape Town. He also volunteered for Health for Men where he was responsible for French and Lingala translations to HIV positive clients.
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Guest speakers are individuals with knowledge and expertise on the topic. They have been drawn from institutions such as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Vison Santé, partner organisations in the region, refugees and migrant community leaders.
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Leader Kanyiki Ngooyi is a community and refugee leader living in Cape Town, South Africa, since 2007. Originally from the DRC, he holds qualifications in Nursing Sciences as well as Counseling and Communications. He has received awards, including the 2011 AVAC HIV Prevention Fellowship and the 2007 DRC Award for Peace and Development.
He will speak on: The experiences of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban settings.
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Managa Alain is the current Executive Director of Vision Santé, Republic of Congo. He is a graduate from Marien Ngouabi University Congo-Brazzaville, where he got a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology. In his capacity as ED and Co- Founder of Vision Santé, he has worked closely with many UN agencies.
He will speak on: How COVID-19 and SGBV affect refugees psychologically, those in camps and urban areas.
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Laura Buffoni is with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) where she has worked in community-based protection, livelihoods and economic inclusion in Ethiopia, Yemen, Senegal and West Africa, Sudan, Jordan and Kenya/East Africa and currently in Southern Africa. Her areas of focus are protection of refugees and community-based actions, protection from gender-based violence, gender mainstreaming and child protection, social and gender norms that affect participation and create inequalities.
She will speak on: The prevention and response, UNHCR activities so to address the challenges of COVID-19 and SGBV in the SADEC region in camps and urban areas.”
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Linda Kavira is the Co-ordinator of MenEngage DRC, a network of MenEngage Africa Alliance, which works with men and boys to promote gender justice and transformation in 22 countries in the Africa region.
She will speak on: The impact of Covid-19 on economic and social assistance for refugees during lockdown.
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National responses to the pandemic have exposed the vulnerabilities of many refugees and migrants, as they find themselves excluded from national programmes for health promotion, disease prevention, treatment and care, as well as from financial protection schemes for health and social services. This exclusion makes early detection, testing, diagnosis, contact tracing and seeking care for COVID-19 difficult for refugees and migrants, thus increasing the risk of outbreaks amongst this population.
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Also, limited access to justice and protection of the law tends to create conditions where migrants and refugees’ communities are vulnerable to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV).
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For more details about the webinar, please contact:
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- Micheline Minani Muzaneza on [email protected] or +27781887867.
- Saint Expedit Ondzongo on [email protected] or +27843708175.
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