Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Legal Clinics

OtG has held several 4-day Congolese created and led GBV workshops for female coffee farmers from rural villages. Men from the Muungano Coffee Cooperative have also participated in the trainings. In these trainings, our team covers GBV prevention and the legal rights and protection women are entitled to after an attack.

The photos below were collected by On the Ground’s DRC Programme Director Herman Chirihambali Lwango during our inaugural GBV legal clinic.

Though we received positive initial feedback from participants following the workshop, to further monitor impacts our Program Director will conduct quarterly follow up interviews with all participants. We’ll also host small quarterly public forums for community members to discus cultural changes around GBV and other women’s rights issues.