In essence the team do not view the base problem as cultural, but rather as due to a lack of skills and understanding. The participant strongly felt that the conceptual guiding framework developed by the organisation as a guideline for possible funding to grantees is artificial. Grantees might include gender issues in their proposals because it is a prerequisite for funding. It would also be important to distinguish between women's programme and gender content and societal gender issues. Funding has been made available to deal with the crisis.
School education is seen as the key intervention area.
The aim is to give schools what is termed as a full treatment. The aim of the project is to shift and improve the quality of teaching and learning. The DoE also sees itself developing and working in partnership with other stakeholders to achieve this aim. Specifically the request from the DoE to the consortium is to provide the necessary support to the DoE to facilitate this project. The linking up of communities can lead to the creation of new job interest.