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The Community Trumpet - Issue 2
Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (COTRAD)
August 08, 2012

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COTRAD aims to increase young female participation

Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development has stepped up efforts to address the prototypes associated with low female participation in national processes. Young females have continuously been disenfranchised in the national processes due to the violent nature associated with such processes. Trends in the past have revealed the increasingly shying away of young females in elections, budget consultancy and policy making issues. As part of an ongoing process the COTRAD has initiated the establishing of structures were confidence and capacity building will be imparted to the mostly marginalised females who are restricted to abuses like rape in the times of elections. This will be a new initiative in the province were young females will be organised in small groups of 15-20 were they will often meet and discuss issues affecting women in their local chapters under the tutelage of the COTRAD. The groups will therefore be named young female clubs and will also constitute the human rights defenders team that will increasingly work to mitigate political violence in their communities.

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