DOCKDA partners with women-led community-based organisations (CBOs) in the John Taolo Gaetsewe district of the Northern Cape and Western Cape greater Cape Peninsula to identify and meet the needs of their respective communities.
Through these collaborative partnerships, four distinct programmes were developed:
Women’s Leadership Programme
This programme aims to assist and support women-led community based organisations in identifying their assets and building their capacity in order to bring about sustained change in their communities.
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This programme aims to improve girls’ access to health and education and awareness of their rights to healthy living and an equal education.
Food Security and Wellness
This programme aims to enable community based organisations (CBO’s) to provide a sustainable source of vegetables to the vulnerable patients that they serve.
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Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Programme
This programme aims to strengthen the fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV) and to provide awareness and education to learners, educators, parents, community based organisations and community members of both genders on what GBV is and how to stop it.
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DOCKDA’s programmes work towards the Sustainable Development Goals
- End poverty in all forms everywhere
- End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all