Summit 2018 – Chiredzi Rural District Council COE

Chiredzi Rural District Council is located in Masvingo province in the south-east of Zimbabwe sharing the same boundaries with Chiredzi Town Council. The council offers a variety of services which you can access on their website.

Chiredzi Rural District Council adopted the Zimbabwe Local Government Association gender policy. The council is currently working towards having their own policy which is still in draft form. The council has 32 councillors (30 male and 2 female). Both the chairperson ad deputy chairperson of council are male.

Chiredzi RDC has a total workforce of 38 employees, of whom only 10 are women. Women constitute only 20% of management (3 out of 15 managers). Chiredzi RDC has 2 women working in non-traditional areas of decision making, 1 in the finance department and another in the engineering department.

Zimbabwe by law prescribes a paid maternity leave of three months thus Chiredzi provisions for it. However, there is no paternity leave. The council does not have a sexual harassment policy but cases are heard as and when reported. Chiredzi has no disability-friendly structures that allow for access to people with disability.

Chiredzi Rural District Council allocates a budget to gender-related projects, between 2016 and 2017 as below:

Chiredzi Rural District Council keeps sex disaggregated data on land distributed by the council. To date 700 people have been allocated land (500 men and 200 women).

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