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AWACN_GIRLS
Due to lack of awareness, girls at schools and institutions of higher learning remain vulnerable to sexual corruption. AWACN Girls “Girls Against Corruption” is one of AWACN’s initiatives that takes place once every year bringing together 150 girls between the ages of 16 – 24 representing various universities in South Africa with the aim to raise awareness, educate and amplify the perspectives of girls against corruption. Using age-palatable tools including skits, monologues and dialogues, the girls communicate their vulnerabilities to corruption, their experiences of corruption and the impact of corruption on their futures. The initiative also brings a spotlight on sexual favours as currencies for corruption. The initiative ends with girls participating in drafting “AWACN Girl’s Vision of a Corrupt-Free Africa” which serves as a register the girl’s vision against corruption in Africa.
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AWACN_CONVERSATIONS
creates space for professionals from all fields to explore the nexus of all genders and corruption. This initiative is in collaboration with the private sector creates a platform for conversation among diverse groups of professionals in South Africa’s society to interrogate social norms and behaviours that contribute to gendered corruption (such as sexual corruption) and empowers professionals to be agents of change against corruption and its gendered specific manifestations. The initiative contributes towards a community of practice in South Africa that is sharing knowledge and expertise of the manifestations and impacts of gendered corruption by encouraging professionals in various fields to get involved, informed and empowered in this area of anticorruption work.
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AWACN_Communities
works in collaboration with women in communities to learn about the impact of corruption from first-hand experiences of women at grassroots levels. This initiative helps us to learn how corrupt actions impacting women manifest in communities, what causes the vulnerabilities and creates networks of support among women in local communities. The initiative is enriched with learning and knowledge exchange between anticorruption practitioners and local women in communities who share valuable insights on the experiences of the nexus of women and corruption in their communities and anticorruption practitioners using scenarios-based approaches to educate women on their rights against corruption and role women can play against corruption. Acknowledging women as the bedrock of our communities the initiative also highlights the role women can play in building ethical communities, supporting other women who “blow the whistle” and organising community-based forums against corruption.
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RISING VOICES: Unmasking Sexual Corruption in South Africa
16 DAYS 16 STORIES
is an African Women Against Corruption Network initiative that uses the power of storytelling by documenting “survivor of sextortion” stories to create space for society to understand the impact of gendered forms of corruption on survivors, their families and communities.
Corruption currencies are typically understood to be an exchange of money, power or goods. Yet at the intersection of corruption and gender based violence lies a story with a power to change how we view and understand corruption. The initiative aims to use the power of storytelling to reshape the way corruption is understood by focusing the lens on the uncovered portions of corruption, that silently target women and girls behind the shadows of a crime we all neglect.
