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Motive is a partnership between two Sudanese women’s organizations, the gender centre for research and training, salmmah centre, and two international organizations, panos-sudan and Cordaid. The organization was set up with the objective of putting the resources , capacities and the spirit of the four founding organizations together so as to work more effectively , have a wider outreach and increase their impacts on violence against women and mainstreaming gender. Combining strength in combating violence against women is of critical importance anywhere in the world, but certainly in the present context in Sudan.
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The three Sudanese organizations combine a vast experience in research actions and documentation on women’s issues with commitment and professionalism. They will focus on two main areas:Combating violence against women.
Integrating a gender prospective in policies issues (mainstreaming gender).
The partnership project launched in July 2005 through a capacity-building workshop {the founding workshop} the first major activity. for one full week some of 25 participants representing the partners and Cordaid worked to discover how the most efficiently function as partners and to formulate clear objectives for a later workshop that would form the strategic plan, at this workshop a common perspective was created, the organizational development of each partner was assessed and improve recommendations were made in a dialogue of offering best experiences, both successes and challenges. And sharing advice on haw to increase the strengths and lessen the weaknesses of each partner, and activity framework developed.
In December 2005a second workshop was organized (the red sea workshop) the three organizations and Cordaid and some of their close partners met again for six full days , sixteen participants were represented to produce a three years strategic plan and detailed activity plan for 2006-2008 . The meeting used a variety of methods and styles to conduct its activities, clear values and shared vision and mission were developed, and three years strategic planning document was produced (2007-2009). Moreover the organization was given its future name-MOTIVE-, the founders were laid for motive future.
The strategic objectives:-
The three years objectives for motive developed during the strategic planning workshop(red sea workshop).the objectives can be summarized as follows :-
- The first objective of motive is: to reduce violence against women in all its forms and manifestations and will be through:
- Providing insights in VAW and clarifying the concept of VAW in the context of Sudan through conducting social action research on VAW based on gender sensitive methodology.
- Change of behavior through targeted activities.
- The second objective of motive is :mainstreaming gender, by transforming existing policies and providing alternative gender sensitive policies , with special emphasis on:
- Gender sensitive mass media.
- Engendering the legal system (gender sensitive personal status act).
- Gender mainstreaming in conflict areas.
- The third objective of motive is to build strong organization to reflect work on violence against women and mainstreaming gender, this involves:
- Establishing an appropriate management and organizational structure enabling motive to execute its objectives.
- Establishing an information centre on violence against women.
- Enhancing the capacities of the partner organizations on research and training, documenting and advocacy.
- Providing support to NGOs and other organizations and institutions working on violence against women and mainstreaming gender.
- Establishing relations with likeminded international organizations.
Key areas:-
Our key areas of work are:
Action research.
Documentation, publication and dispensation.
Training.
Advocacy, campaigning, building alliance.
Strengthening our organization, capacity building.
External relations:
Motive has tow partners since 2005:
- CordAid (based in the Netherlands).
- Inter pares based in Canada.
Motive is linked to a number of international and national networks, including the national network combating female genital mutilation, the Darfur network.
We seek and maintain active cooperation with women organizations, human rights organizations, other civil society organizations, and to some extent universities, government institutions and multinational organizations these are based in Sudan as well as outside Sudan. The purpose of our external relationship is to contribute to our aim combating violence against women and mainstreaming gender in Sudan.
Target groups:
Our target groups are:-
- Policy makers.
- Media.
- Lawyers, judiciary, police, law enforcement bodies.
- Women’s organizations, human rights organization, community based organization and other civil society organizations.
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Scope and purpose
Why this partnership?
The answer is in our definition, which was developed in the founding workshop in July 2005
”the partnership is: value based strategy , attitudes , process of collaboration and coordination of efforts between likeminded organizations or individuals with the purpose of complementing and enhancing capacities maximizing effectiveness and output , we regard partnership as a mutual learning process”.
This definition has many elements; one of them is the learning approach .we mean by that while actually shaping the partnership we will be reflecting on the process itself, so as to be optimally learning from it , making it more effective and being able to share our experiences with other likeminded partnerships and learn from them. The process itself will be documented not only through reports but also possibly with a variety of means and tools.
Partnership is more than just bringing together as many actors as possible. In partnership, two or more parties combine their knowledge, skills and resources to achieve common goals; this translates into a commitment extending beyond borders and across generations and interest. We must use the benefit that generates to work towards empowerment of women.
Essentially, partnership is an attitude, a working method and means. Yet no matter what from the partnership takes, it can never be non- committal. By searching together for added value, partners are centered into a joint commitment.
This complementary partnership is considered as a natural evolution to an already existed strategic partnership between the four partner institutions. Thus, the seeds for success have already been planted through previous experiences notable among them was a VAW reconnaissance research (2003) and VAW documentary film.
The purpose of this partnership project is to contribute to breaking the silence and throwing light on VAW in Sudan and to conceptualize and contextualize it in a way that contributes significantly to combating VAW and structural inequalities in Sudan.
The purpose is toMainstreaming gender.Combating violence against women.
Vision:
“We strive to eliminate violence against women to realize gender equality. We regard this as a major motive power towards society based on democracy, social justice diversity and peace".
Mission:
“We Motive are a partnership in Sudan between {GCRT, Salmmah, and Panos-Sudan}. By our collective efforts / activism, we aim to create transformed spaces (for) gender equality and free of VAW.
(Motive) seeks to achieve this aim through research, training, documentation, advocacy, influencing policies and changing behavior".
Principals and values:
Motive founded on the following values, which should be like a colored thread in every aspect of our organization and our activities (OD), it should reflect our distinctive “culture” and be consistent
-Respect for fundamental internationally recognized human rights.
- Gender equality and empowerment of women.
- Democratization (based on notion of diversity and inclusion – in terms of class, ethnicity, religion and gender).
- Well being and dignity for all (this requires compassion and caring and responsible citizenship).
- Valuing learning and personal growth.
- Peace and social justice.
-nspiration, creativity and beauty
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