Gender Equality: Culture and the people

Experience from reviews on Attitude and Practices as a result of exposure to Gender Equality interventions

Gender Equality to empower women and girls towards improving economic situation and achieving the goal of poverty eradication has stemmed up a number of innovative interventions to drive this aim.

Unlike many development projects and targets, this looks at behavioral change, addressing social norms that lead to certain attitudes and practices.

Interventions to create awareness and impact knowledge have been leveraged on to address gender issues in society; radio and television programs and jingles, seminars and workshops, capacity building in different institution and policy reviews.

Community participation in health care. Community eye care research in South West Cameroon.

While conducting a research in community eye care in South West Cameroon, in June, 2012, it was interesting to find increasing willingness of community members to engage in health.

Although there is a huge debate on effectiveness of decentralisation in Primary Health Care especially on the issue of capacity for management at the grass root (rural or village levels), discussions with community members revealed willingness to take responsibility of their health with increased awareness.
For instance people who used eye care facilities were people who had knowledge of the care for the eyes. Indeed, they were mostly of higher economic status than most in the remote areas.