Natwampane

Natwampane means coming together in Bemba, a local language predominantly spoken in the Northern of Zambia. Natwampane is a Government of Zambia led Programme funded by the European Union, and implemented by BBC Media Action, Lifeline Childline, GIZ, Norwegian Church Aid and World Vision Zambia. The Natwampane Programme aims to reduce levels of gender-based violence in Luapula and Northern Provinc

es. Although the focus is on these two provinces, the programme also has a national focus, supporting the Ministry of Gender in policy and system building and strengthening coordination within the provinces as well as at the national level. Under the Natwampane programme, World Vision Zambia is implementing various activities in Northern province, including the running of One Stop Centers. In Luapula province, the Norwegian Church Aid, with its other partners is implementing various activities, including running the one stop centers. One Stop Centers are currently operating fully in the two provinces and are being managed by trained health officials from the Ministry of Health. All the twelve districts in each province now have fully operational One Stop Centers strategically located at district health institutions to offer free services. Lifeline ChildLine Zambia provides online counselling using the tollfree phone lines in both Luapula and Northern provinces. The tollfree lines are 116 dedicated for the children and 933 for GBV. The BBC Media Action has partnered with 15 partner stations in both Luapula and Northern provinces producing and broadcasting weekly radio programmes on Sexual and Gender Based Violence. The programme targets young men and women between the ages of 15-24 years. The radio shows are interactive in nature and consists of various segments recoded from members of the community. In Luapula, the following stations are involved in broadcasting the Natwampane progranme on a weekly basis:
1. KFM- Mansa- Tuesday at 18:45 on 95.5 FM
2. Yangeni Radio- Mansa- Wednesday at 18:15 on 98.7FM
3. Tuta Radio-Mansa- Wednesday at 18:45hrs on 90.7Fm
4. Bangwela Radio- Samfya- Monday at 20:00hrs on 89.5Fm
5. Luapula Radio- Nchelenge- Tuesday at 19:00hrs on 93.7FM
6. Kalungwishi Radio- Chiengi- Kalungwishi-Tuesday 18:00hrs on 93.9FM

In Northern province the stations are divided into two clusters. Radio Mano- Kasama-Sunday 15:00hrs on 89.3FM
2. Lwansase Radio-Luwingu- Wednesday 19:00 on 88.9FM
3. Liberty Radio- Mporokoso- Sunday at 19:00Hrs on 89.7FM
4. Lubuto Radio- Kaputa-Sunday at 17:00hrs on 89.3Fm
5. Lukwanga Radio- Kawambwa- Monday 20:00-21:0hrs on 90.3FM
The other stations in Northern province include

1. Kasama radio- Kasama-Monday at 18:00hrs on87.7FM
2. Lutanda Radio- Kasama- Friday at 17:00hrs on 90.1FM
3. Walamo Radio- Mpulungu- Thursday at 19:00hrs on 98.3
4. Luswepo Radio- Mbala- Thursday at 19:30Hrs on 89.5FM

In collaboration with other implementing partners (WVZ and NCA), the Natwampane programme utilizes the Outdoor Broadcasts events. These outdoor broadcast events consist of accountability debates and community dialogues. Accountability debates provide an opportunity for community members to hold service providers accountable for the SGBV services that they are mandated to provide while a community dialogue creates a space for the community members and service providers to talk about issues affecting them and how these issues can be addressed (signposting community members on where services are provided e.g.one stop centers and Lifeline ChildLine toll free lines etc.) We also utilize the Public Service Announcements (PSAs) which are played on all the 15 partner stations across the two provinces and with the aim of challenging social and cultural norms that perpetuate SGBV. Some of the PSAs produced and aired so far include: who has the right to make a decision for a woman to access family planning? Who has the right to eat the gizzard of a chicken commonly known as inondo in Bemba? Who decides what to wear (Dress Code)? etc

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