<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><transcript><text start="5.46" dur="4.94">The big issue is the trial of the 28 of September 2009.</text><text start="10.56" dur="4.94">There were a lot of victims,</text><text start="15.5" dur="2.28">and most of the victims were women.</text><text start="17.78" dur="3.68">So through our programmes such as the PARJU,</text><text start="21.46" dur="6.18">which is the support programme to the reform of justice in Guinea,</text><text start="27.9" dur="2.2">and through the European Instrument for Democracy &amp;amp; Human Rights (EIDHR),</text><text start="30.5" dur="4.22">we supported the women</text><text start="34.72" dur="6.02">accompanying them in the judicial trial</text><text start="40.74" dur="4.94">and also giving medical and psychological support.</text><text start="49.86" dur="5.82">We created working groups such as the gender one, the first one.</text><text start="56.8" dur="3.94">It&amp;#39;s quite successful because this working</text><text start="60.74" dur="3.94">group includes local NGOs,</text><text start="64.68" dur="2.09">international NGOs,</text><text start="66.77" dur="4.78">the EU Delegation and the Member States.</text><text start="71.55" dur="6.62">And through that working group, we prepared the NGOs</text><text start="78.17" dur="6.89">to become a real force, to present gender issues</text><text start="85.06" dur="1.873">to the ministries</text><text start="86.94" dur="2.82">such as the Ministry of Justice,</text><text start="90.46" dur="3.72">of Social Action and of Human Rights.</text><text start="94.18" dur="6.8">The several issues tackled in that working group include:</text><text start="100.98" dur="4.9">FGM, so Female Genital Mutilation,</text><text start="105.88" dur="3.68">gender-based violence, slavery, and early marriage.</text><text start="113.66" dur="5.82">Gender in the Delegation has been mainstreamed</text><text start="119.48" dur="2.36">in our several programmes,</text><text start="121.84" dur="4.86">and it&amp;#39;s starting with those working groups.</text><text start="126.72" dur="4.4">And we hope that as the NGOs are very weak</text><text start="131.12" dur="2.8">to tackle those kinds of issues,</text><text start="133.92" dur="1.77">they don&amp;#39;t have the resources,</text><text start="135.69" dur="2.89">they don&amp;#39;t have the knowledge or the competences.</text><text start="138.58" dur="1.82">We accompany them,</text><text start="140.4" dur="5.68">and we try to improve their coordination,</text><text start="146.08" dur="2.34">their synergies, so that they become a real</text><text start="148.43" dur="3.07">force to tackle the issue of gender.</text><text start="151.5" dur="5.14">Because tackling the issue ourselves</text><text start="156.64" dur="2.42">through programmes is really not enough.</text><text start="159.06" dur="3.913">NGOs can be a real force of advocacy</text><text start="162.973" dur="3.587">and action before the ministries.</text><text start="166.56" dur="3.72">And we try to make that work in line with</text><text start="170.28" dur="2.99">the action plan of ministries and also</text><text start="173.27" dur="2.99">the GAP, Gender Action Plan of the EU.</text></transcript>