In order to addressing the root causes of violence against women, government is engaging traditional and religious leaders with the objective of challenging social, cultural and religious practices and norms that perpetuate gender inequalities and promote Gender Based violence. A total of 369 traditional and religious leaders have been reached through the sub national dialogues on GBV and Harmful Practices.

2. Following these engagements the traditional leaders have gone further to establish local policies and laws for addressing GBV and Harmful Practices. They have come up with Civil fines for perpetrators of child marriages and these fines are used to establish a community based fund which is used to provide support to girls that would have dropped out of school due to marriage or pregnancy. Such girls are supported to return to school or to engage in vocational skills training.