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Strengthening the Voices of Migrant women in Ireland- AkiDwA ANNUAL REPORT

Zero Torelance day on FGM Feb 2010

Launch of publication “Am ONLY SAYING IT NOW”

Community Dialogue on FGM-Galway

Seminar on Elimination of all Forms of VAW

Brain Gain annual event

Sexual reproductive health- Graduation Monaghan

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Introduction:

In 2010 AkiDwA led and was part of national efforts to improve government policy and practice and

living conditions of migrant women living in Ireland. Our activities were many and varied, coming under

the three key objectives areas of work in AkiDwA’s strategic plan 2008- 2011: gender based violence,

employment and gender discrimination.

The year saw advancement in all the three key objective areas of work despite funding cutbacks

affecting projects, staff and capacity. The AkiDwA Resource Centre held regular courses, including

those on sewing, basic English and computer. we provided the venue for one-to-one consultations,

supported at-risk migrant women and was open for access on a daily basis for women, over 426

women used the resource centre during the year. 23 outreach and networking meetings were held by

AkiDwA this year and the staff and board members participated and represented the organisation at

over 30 Regional, National, European and international meetings.

During the year the organisation engaged with a wide range of policy makers and state government

bodies and worked on both the national and international stages. AkiDwA work on gender based

violence saw results in 2010. Policy work, lobbying of Government and politicians for FGM legislation

and the introduction of a private members’ bill in the Senate in April resulted in productive meetings

with and consultative work for, the Minister for Health and Children, which has helped the progression

of a Government bill on FGM. The lobbying of Irish MEPs resulted in ten of twelve MEPs signing up to

a declaration calling for a European Year to Combat Violence against Women.

Representation at national levels and in mainstream organisations increased in 2010, including the

election of the CEO to vice chair of the National Women’s Council of Ireland. Subsequent to the

publication Am Only Saying It Now”, Experiences of Women Seeking Asylum in Ireland AkiDwA was

invited by the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights to present on safety

and security issues for women living in direct provision and the need for gender guidelines in asylum

processes in July, after the presentation, AkiDwA was asked to provide a submission to the Committee

for the introduction of gender guidelines in asylum processes, the draft included a suggested

amendment for the introduction developed by AkiDwA for consideration for the Immigration, Residence

and Protection Bill 2010.

During the year AkiDwA collaborated and worked with various alliances and sectoral networks,

including the Steering Committee for Ireland’s National Action Plan to address Female Genital

Mutilation, the NGO Alliance Against Racism, Women’s Human Rights Alliance, Immigrant Information

Network (working with INIS and GNIB), the ethnic minority and migrant-led Immigrant Network, ENAR

Ireland and absovertory committee and National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women,

Equality Authority, NWCI, Rape crisis centre, Migrant Right Centre, ICI, Irish Refugee Council,

FORMACs and NASC.

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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) health and legislative work

AkiDwA’s health and legislative work on FGM saw significant gains during the year. The introduction of an Opposition Bill on FGM into Seanad Eireann in April 2010 provided the timing and opportunity to rapidly progress the legal objective. Intensive lobbying on FGM legislation took place with all members of Seanad Eireann prior to this Bill being debated in the Senate. During this debate, a commitment was made from the Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney to introduce FGM legislation into the Dáil Eireann on or before 21st October 2010. Correspondence and consultation with Government followed this announcement, from AkiDwA and through the Steering Committee for Ireland’s National Action Plan to Address Female Genital Mutilation, which met with the Minister for Health and Children two times during the year. AkiDwA continued to have ongoing communication with officials from the Ministers office for update on the FGM legislation.

Two submissions one from the organisation and the other one on behalf of the national steering committee on FGM were submitted by AkiDwA in August 2010 in response to the Department of Health and Children FGM Bill consultation request.

AkiDwA and the FGM Steering Committee also contacted the Minister for Children and Youth on the legislation as it relates to child protection.

Meetings and correspondence took place with An Garda Síochána Chief Superintendant Jack Nolan, Head of Garda College Templemore and Superintendent Mary Gormley, Head of Continuous Professional Development, Templemore regarding FGM and Garda training. All relevant AkiDwA publications on GBV and FGM will be stocked in the Garda College Library in Templemore.

An FGM Cost Benefits article was drafted by AkiDwA in March 2010 and presented to the HSE. The article outlines a cost benefits rationale for earlier intervention and care within in the Irish maternity services for women who have undergone FGM. It strongly supports FGM prevention initiatives and measures. The article was updated and submitted to the Department of Health and Children in August.

FGM Community Forum was established in Galway at the beginning of the year to identify and train community champions regionally who can work with FGM practising communities. Sixty-two men and women attended the first seminar and sixteen members continued to meet a total of four forum meetings were held. A service provider seminar was held on 10 December.

Over 995 copies of Female Genital Mutilation: Information for Health-Care Professionals Working in Ireland, and 480 CD ROMs based on the handbook were distributed. Online versions of this resource are available on AkiDwA, ICGP and IPNA websites.

In September 2010 AkiDwA updated the statistic on FGM, current estimate indicates there are a total of 3,170 women who have undergone FGM that are resident in Ireland.

AkiDwA is the Irish partner with for the European campaign and in 2010 the organisation was the lead partner of the Steering Committee for Ireland’s National Action Plan to Address Female Genital Mutilation. In February 2010 a national seminar was held by the National Steering Committee to mark the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation and to launch the END FGM European Campaign report "Ending Female Genital Mutilation, “A Strategy for the European Union Institutions". AkiDwA CEO launched the strategy.

Training and practitioner presentations on FGM and patient care were delivered in 2010 to clinical teams in the National Maternity Hospital Holles Street and the Rotunda Hospital and to midwifery students in the departments of midwifery and nursing in Trinity College Dublin and

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the Dundalk Institute of Technology; in total training was delivered to over 650 healthcare professionals. In July a meeting was held with Cork University Maternity Hospital on developing FGM and patient care policies. FGM will be listed in the 2010 National Standardised Maternity Hospital Booking form under risk factors which will assist in data collection and early identification of women who have undergone FGM, prior to labour and birth. Patient information Leaflets (PIL) for women and girls who have undergone FGM were drafted. Subsequent to FGM legislation being enacted, the PILwill be focus tested and NALA-proofed, and it is hoped it will be translated into relevant languages such as Arabic, Somali, Swahili and French.

An Bord Altranais Practice Standards for Midwives, which is sent to all registered midwives in Ireland, came into force in July and now includes a section on FGM, with a reference to AkiDwA’s website for further information.

The Medical Council, at its Professional Development Committee meeting in June 2010, considered and will progress AkiDwA’s recommendation for a code of conduct and statement prohibiting the practice of FGM for all registered medical practitioners in Ireland under the remit of the recently launched Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Medical Practitioners.

Coru, the Health and Social Care Professionals Council was contacted about Social Workers and Social Care Workers’ roles regarding FGM, in particular in safeguarding children at risk of FGM and working with families from FGM-practicing communities. Subsequent to FGM legislation being passed, Coru in considering the addition of information on FGM to their continuing professional development curriculum.

The HSE’s Counselling, National Counselling Service have been contacted regarding psychological, counselling and emotional supports for women and girls who are living with FGM in Ireland.

As part of the End FGM European Campaign, AkiDwA lobbied Irish MEPs to sign a declaration

calling for a European Year to Combat Violence Against Women, 10 of 12 MEPs signed up.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Overseas Development were contacted by

AkiDwA regarding FGM’s interrelation with Millennium Development Goals and a MDG/FGM

document developed were distributed to all Irish Aid staff, at a GBV Consortium conference

and in other relevant events

Domestic Violence:

In 2010 AkiDwA work on this area has been limited due to a lack of dedicated funding. Plans for

progressing recommendations contained in AkiDwA research findings and recommendations were

delivered at a very low level due to lack of specific funding.

Dissemination of the report and toolkit published by AkiDwA in 2009 continued throughout the year with key service providers, statutory agencies and government departments.

Individual support and referral was given to trafficked and women experiencing violence, in total 28 women, referrals were made to Women’s Aid and Immigrant Council of Ireland.

A seminar on migrant women activism in addressing gender based violence was held on the 25th November and over sixty participants attended.

AkiDwA contributed to the Irish Government’s National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2010-2014, that was launched on 9 March by COSC.

The CEO is a member of the Observatory Committee and National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women and AkiDwA is part of COSC Public Awareness subcommittee.

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In September 2010 CEO and the policy officer held a meeting with Eimear Fisher, Executive Director of Cosc to discuss concerns and recommendations of AkiDwA publication especially the ones that relates to gender based and sexual harassment

AkiDwA met with the UNHCR to discuss progressing work for UN Resolution 1765 (2010) for gender related claims for asylum and on matters of at risk women in direct provision.

Key Objective Area Two

Gender Discrimination:

In March 2010 AkiDwA produced the report Am Only Saying It Now: Experiences of Women Seeking

Asylum in Ireland, based on AkiDwA CEO’s survey of one hundred and twenty four women living in

direct provision, from six regions and ten reception accommodation centres. The report was officially

launched in Dublin by Dr. Rosemary Byrne, Irish Human Rights Commissioner, on 25th March 2010. It

was also regionally launched in four counties, Limerick, Galway, Monoghan and Tralee, and has been

widely disseminated nationally. A reprint was commissioned to meet demand. Key report

recommendations included the need for, gender guidelines in asylum processes, an

independent complaint remedy procedure in direct provision and a separate women’s only

accommodation centre for women who have experienced gender based violence. AkiDwA has

been progressing report recommendations with key government departments and statutory agencies,

the CEO met with Noel Dowling, Principal Officer of the Reception and Integration Agency, Ciaran

O’Cuinn Special Advisor to the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, Eimear Fisher, Executive Director

of COSC (National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence), Emily

O’Reilly, Ireland Ombudsman and Information Commissioner, Minister Mary White, Minister of Equality,

Integration and Human Rights, members of the Irish Human Rights Commission, Niall McCutcheon

director of the Equality Tribunal and Sophie McGuinness Head of UNHCR Ireland, meeting were also

held with leaders from different parties and senate.

AkiDwA submitted to the NAAR shadow report, reporting on trends seen in work to date and

feedback from women from the two consultative sessions held , in Dublin and regionally

During the year AkiDwA developed 2 briefing papers and four position papers all focusing on

gender based violence and access.

AkiDwA partnered with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and delivered a consultative session

for the National Focal Point of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights’ European Information

Network on Racism and Xenophobia.

AkiDwA met with representatives of the European Programme on Migration and Integration to

discuss key issues of female migrants living in Ireland and women at risk in Ireland’s reception

and asylum system.

Key Objective Area Three

Employment:

Funding received from the Department of Justice and Law Reform’s, gender unit and under the Equality

for Women Measure programme saw AkiDwA work progress significantly in 2010.

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AkiDwA Employment Stakeholder Forum that comprises of statutory agency, trade union and key NGOs continued to support the work of the organisation in this area, the forum met three times in 2010.

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After consultation with migrant women, service providers, AkiDwA employment stakeholder’s forum, board and staff an information booklet on access to employment and education was produced. The booklet was launched jointly by AkiDwA and An Cosan in May, with 150 in attendance. It is anticipated that the booklet will be posted on the International Migration Organisation’s Irish website. 2500 copies were printed and due to demand another 1500 copies were reprinted bringing to a total print of 4000 copies. So far 3550 have been distributed

Government and non-governmental agencies were identified for dissemination. Distribution was therefore made to different organisations and agencies inform of hard copies and PDF, 300 organisations and agencies has linked or placed the booklet into their websites, these groups include, Citizen Information Centres, FAS, Libraries, community workers, community groups and NGOs. The booklet has been identified nationally and internationally as a useful resource.

A summary key parts of the employment booklet were condensed and produced inform of a leaflet which was translated into Arabic, Chinese and French leaflets were distributed to organisations and individuals.

Contacts and visits to relevant communities were made, these communities include the Chinese, Middle East and North Africa. The groups contacted and visited during the preparation and translation of the booklets largely promoted the dissemination of the leaflet.

AkiDwA held the second Brain Gain networking event on 4 December with minority ethnic and migrant entrepreneurs and professionals.

AkiDwA partnered with the Equality Authority, to deliver a multi-discrimination project. Focus groups highlighted some of the concerns migrant women had in regards to labour market that includes discrimination, lack of qualification recognition, lack of Irish work experience and racism at the workplace and in some training and education schemes.

AkiDwA is represented on the Equality Authority’s Subcommittee on Stereotyping, staff participated in several Equality Authority consultative conferences in the areas of racism and discrimination throughout the year.

Information, Training and Outreach

AkiDwA received small grant from the Department of Community Rural and Gaeltacht affairs under the European Year for Combating Social Exclusion and Poverty to deliver a multi-region social inclusion project for migrant women. Three interactive workshops were held with local community partners in Monaghan, Laois and Galway.

Funding was secured in 2010 from the HSE’s Crisis Pregnancy Agency to deliver sexual reproductive health information workshops to women seeking asylum living in Sligo, Mayo, Monaghan, Athlone and Waterford. The programme benefitted over one hundred and twenty women.

AkiDwA was an advisor for the Irish Family Planning Association’s (IFPA) publication Sexual Health and Asylum, based on the IFPA and AkiDwA 2009 Majira Programme

AkiDwA Resource Centre

AkiDwA resource centre remained open for access throughout the year, an average of 8 women dropped into the centre on a daily basis.

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Classes on Sewing, English and Computers were delivered on a weekly basis. Focus group discussions and awareness raising meetings were held in the centre. Over 426 migrant women used the resource centre.

Mary White Minister of Equality, Integration and Human Right visited the Office and met with migrant women in our resource centre in June 2010.

Representation and participation at Local, Regional, National and International levels:

During the year AkiDwA staff, board and volunteers have represented and participated at local, regional and national meetings, conferences and seminars. AkiDwA is a member of the European End FGM Campaign based in Brussels, the European Network of Migrant Women based in Brussels, the Black European Women’s Council based in Vienna and Fundamental Right Agency.

AkiDwA was heavily involved with Department of Foreign affairs in preparation and marking of Africa day, the CEO participated and contributed in a panel with Minister of State Peter Power with responsibility for Overseas Development.

The CEO was a rapporteur and presentar for the third meeting of the European Integration Forum in Brussels, held in June.

The CEO is on the Board of the Equality Authority (EA) and AkiDwA is part of their stereotyping sub-committee.

AkiDwA is a long standing member of the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) and its CEO was elected its Vice Chair in 2010. AkiDwA chaired the launch of their report on Making Our Voices Heard: The Stories of Muslim Women in Ireland in May.

AkiDwA is represented on the HSE’s Intercultural Health Strategy’s Implementation Advisory Committee, the Observatory Committee on Violence Against Women and the National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women. AkiDwA is part of the Cosc Public Awareness Sub-Committee.

AkiDwA is an advisory member on the Department of Foreign Affairs, overseas unit that’s developing the National Action plan on resolution 1325 on women in armed conflict.

The CEO sits on the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Agency Consultative Committee.

AkiDwA is a member of the NGO Direct Provision Forum, the Women’s Human Rights Alliance, the NGO Alliance Against Racism and the Immigrant Information Network, which meets regularly with INIS and GNIB on immigration issues arising from casework.

AkiDwA and its members have been involved in international treaty monitoring consultations, including those for the shadow reports for the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and previously mentioned International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

In May, AkiDwA, with support from Trinity Immigration Initiative, held the forum Building a Strong and Vibrant Society, which focused on an immigrant perspective on integration.

AkiDwA presented on issues of safety and security of female asylum seekers at FOMACS/British Council Learning Labs immigration roundtable in April 2010.

The Irish Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence and AkiDwA will hold an partnered event in December, screening the Senegalese 2004 feature film Moolaadé, which focuses on female genital mutilation. The consortium is ccomprised of Irish human rights, humanitarian and development organisations, Irish Aid and the Defence Forces.

Organisational Development

AkiDwA had a total of eleven staff, nine employed by the company mostly to deliver key specific projects. There were changes with staffing, the employment officer left in July due to

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family commitments, time bound for CE scheme Office administrator ended in May and a new CE scheme Office Administrator was recruited in September there were other staff changes due to funding constraints that included full time positions made part time in April and the departure of the Migrant Women’s Health Project Coordinator in September. An Accountant/Funding Officer was recruited in May. The Networking and Outreach Coordinator became the Advocacy and Networking Coordinator. Both positions became part time in 2010. Regular staff meetings and staff supervisions took place in 2010.

In 2010, seven funding proposals were developed and submitted to various private and Government funders. AkiDwA received a total of Euro 380,000, Major funders included the Atlantic Philanthropies (ROI), Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, HSE, Crisis Pregnancy Agency, Department of Justice and Law Reform’s, the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin City Council, the Health Service Executive, AI, European End FGM Campaign and various private donations

There ten Board members. The Board met six times during the year, the subcommittee on Finance and Fundraising met four times, Human Resources met five times during the year

In 2010 volunteers were recruited, trained and worked with AkiDwA on various projects, including outreach. Students interned with AkiDwA during the year, working on several AkiDwA programmes.

A review and planning day was held with the Board, staff and volunteers on 27 November.

The CEO was selected as a fellow, representing Ireland, for the Eisenhower 2010 Women’s Leadership Programme, which included site visits in October and November in the United States. Earlier in the year, the CEO participated in the conference Building Community Across Difference: Developing Leadership for the Next Generation, held with the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance for Dublin and Belfast.

Binta Obola, AkiDwA board member, was selected to participate on Women Leaders of Diaspora programme in Haifa, Israel in November 2010.

The organisation increased its public profile by developing and maintaining a Face book page, employing twitter-feed and through the publication of an organisation brochure and newsletter.

AkiDwA staff participated in a wide range of broadcast media and print media coverage in 2010 that include Irish times, Near FM Radio, Metro newspaper, Irish Independent, Galway Connemara Radio, Africa voice, Dublin 15 Community radio.

Challenges and Lesson Learned

1. Networking, advocacy and outreach has allowed AkiDwA to create a positive multiplier effect to our work, to achieve better results AkiDwA worked and trained migrant women who in turn were able to voice concerns in meetings, conferences with service providers and public representatives.

2. AkiDwA faced resistant and negative attitude while raising concerns on the issues raised in “Am Only Saying it Now report”, however the organisation benefited from collaboration and networking with other organizations and groups, most of the concerns raised in the report were also supported by anecdotal evidence from women’s support services such as the Domestic Violence Advocacy Service (Sligo, Leitrim & West Cavan), Mayo Rape Crisis Centre and Galway Refugee Support group, the organisation has a good working relationship with these groups.

3. Building relationships with human right agencies and targeting policy makers and all people that influence change can support organisation efforts to achieve its ultimate goals, during the year AkiDwA sought for and held many meeting with statutory and non statutory groups that include the Irish Human Rights Commission, Government Ministers, Senators, MEPs and Opposition parties, the UNHCR, Ireland Ombudsman, trade union and the Reception and

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Integration Agency. It was the 1st time this year that the organisation held meetings with most of these groups and individuals.

4. AkiDwA, similar to other women’s support services and gender based violence groups, suffers from staffing capacity, lack of capacity to service all regions on all key work areas and a lack of a dedicated ring-fenced research funding line. This has meant that work that AkiDwA has done thus far has been in fewer regions than desired and the documentation work because of cost and time restraints, qualitative.

5. While AkiDwA does not have a dedicated budget for communications, we have accomplished work on raising AkiDwA’s profile and highlighting priority migrant women’s issues through social media such as BlogSpot, Face book and Twitter. A communications budget is necessary to develop a full communications strategy for AkiDwA. In this way AkiDwA can better challenge Government policy and practice that places some migrant women at risk and can work more often in alliance with key stakeholders. A communications consultant in advocacy could train AkiDwA to better target our media efforts in a way that could be proactive and reactive.

6. Coordinating advocacy and outreach to migrant women on a national scale requires active involvement from participants. This participation needs to be realistic about the cost and time barriers that exist for many migrant women. Many women who are migrant workers are in low paid, lower status work. Their immigration status might be precarious and personal advocacy can be viewed as a risk. Women seeking asylum are in a system that much of the time services to institutionalize and impoverish them and their children. Most project funding does not include childcare or adequate costs for transportation. Some sectoral and Government events do not take into consideration the limitations placed on women travelling to and from direct provision centre’s, or the flexibility in scheduling required for migrant women with children or migrant women in non-traditional jobs performed at unsocial-able hours (such as domestic work).

7. Timing of advocacy efforts can be critical to successful outcomes. AkiDwA has advocated for legislation to prohibit female genital mutilation in Ireland for many years but it took AkiDwA’s leadership and expertise to realise major progress.

8. AkiDwA has petitioned to present to the women and Justice Joint Committee on migrant women issues for more than two years however it took increased media reporting and pressure from senators and opposition parties in the Dail mainly on issues raised on our report “Am Only Saying it Now” for them to give the organisation the opportunity to present to the Committee.

9. Staffing capacity issues (only one AkiDwA staff is full time), demanding workloads can serve to hamper efforts in advocacy and lobbying, representation and participation and dissemination of information.

AkiDwA Background

Akina Dada wa Africa (AkiDwA) is an authoritative, ethnic minority-led national network of migrant and

immigrant women living in Ireland, unique domestically and one of only a few such networks in Europe.

A group of African women founded AkiDwA in 2001 to address issues of discrimination, racism and

domestic violence they were experiencing in Ireland. The non-governmental organisation is a

representative body for migrant and immigrant women, irrespective of their national or ethnic

background, tradition, religious beliefs, socio-economic or legal status. AkiDwA’s feminist advocacy

approach uses a cultural perspective to support the strengthening of migrant and immigrant women’s

voices and applies a gendered and cultural perspective to policies and practices. AkiDwA promotes the

equality of migrant women living in Ireland, free of gender and racial stereotyping.

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AkiDwA 2010 membership includes 2777 individual members from 35 countries of origin and 36

migrant organisations.

AkiDwA’s mission is to promote equality and justice for migrant women living in Ireland.

AkiDwA’s vision is a just society where there is equal opportunity and equal access to resources in all

aspects of society: social, cultural, economic, civic and political.

AkiDwA 2010 Board

1. Monica Anne Brennan: Chairperson 2. Tendai Madondo: Vice Chairperson 3. Tina Akinola Jinad: Treasurer 4. Thabi Madide: Secretary 5. Catherine Lynch: Policy Liaison 6. Binta Obola: Board Member 7. Dil Wickremasinghe: Board Member (stepped down in September) 8. Hilkka Becker: Board Member 9. Vanya Theodorova: Board Member 10. Melatu Uche Okorie: Board Member

AkiDwA 2010 staff

1. Salome Mbugua: CEO 2. Monica McMahon/Annemarie O’Brien: Office Administrator (p/t) 3. Catherine Mahoro: Accountant & Funding Officer (p/t) 4. Nobuhle Ncube: Advocacy & Networking Coordinator (p/t) 5. Kerry O’Leary: Research & Policy Development Coordinator (f/t & p/t) 6. Sioban O’Brien Green: Migrant Women’s Health Coordinator 7. Alwiye Xuseyn Migrant Women’s Health Officer (p/t) 8. Ruth O’Dea Employment Officer 9. Kelly Wattleworth Employment Officer (p/t) 10. Amaka Okonkwo Employment Officer (p/t)

2010 Volunteers: Beatrice Mbogo, Lucy Hubbard, Emma Mathias, Kelly Wattleworth, Amaka

Okonkwo, Monica McMahon, Miriam Craven, Faridat Okunnu, Julianne Cox

Project Workers: Sudha Patel, Susan Kuria

2010 Student Interns: Frini Makadia, Leslie Koerner

Financial Report

Financial Review of the Year

In 2010 AkiDwA continued to work on the implementation of its strategic plan 2008- 2011. The

organisation carried out arrange of activities, maintaining high standard of delivery of services.

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The financial statements were approved by the directors on the 15th day of October 2011 and are signed on their

behalf by: Tina Akinola Jinad(chairperson) and Jules Buckley (finance subgroup member)

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