Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Country summary:
| Board Member(s) | Visit the Zimbabwe board page |
| Staff Members |
Priscilla Maposa, Director GL Zimbabwe and Regional Programmes Tapiwa Zvaraya, Programme Coordinator, GL Zimbabwe Rudo Saruchera, Senior Finance Officer GL Zimbabwe Juliet Rusawu, Finance and Administration Officer, GL Zimbabwe Loverage Nhamoyebonde, Programme Officer, GL Zimbabwe |
| When registered | 2012 |
| Address | Nicoz Diamond Building, 30 Samora Machel Avenue, 6th Floor, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Email and phone | zimmanager@genderlinks.org.za +263 242 798 600 |
| Alliance Focal Network | Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe |
| Government COEs | 92 View the Centres of Excellence |
| Media COEs | 2 |
| Key partners | Ministry of Local Government and Public Works; Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development; The Embassy of Sweden; Diakonia UNWOMEN; Zimbabwe Local Government Association – Association of Rural District Councils of Zimbabwe (ARDCZ) and Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ); International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD); National Junior Councils Association of Zimbabwe |
View the Zimbabwe Facebook page. You can learn more about the Zimbabwe programmatic area on this page. 2022 marked 10 years since Gender Links Zimbabwe (GLZ) became operational. The office has since grown to be a model hub country, managing and supporting operations in other GL offices in the region namely Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, and South Africa. In 2022 the office conducted the following activities:
- Managed to fundraise SEK47 million (approximately USD 5 million) for the Promoting Gender Inclusive Local Economic Development (LED) programme being implemented in 12 local authorities in Zimbabwe from 2022-2025. The programme was launched in December 2022.
- Upscaled work on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) initiated in 2021. The GLZ office in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works developed a GRB tool to monitor the extent to which local authorities are mainstreaming gender in their budgets. The tool was launched at the Zimbabwe 2022 SADCProtocol@Work Summit.
- Held the first ever Gender Responsive Budgeting SADC Protocol@Work Summit, where 51 local authorities participated. 25 local authorities participated in the Gender Responsive Budgeting category. A total of 140 case studies were documented.
You can read the Hub and Spoke handbook for gender mainstreaming here.
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Themes:
Gender based violence
| Gender equality
Programs:
16 Days of Activism Campaigns
| Advocacy
| Gender Justice
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December 4, 2024
Themes:
Gender equality
| Young Women
Programs:
16 Days of Activism Campaigns
| Advocacy
| Gender Justice
Zimbabwe: Summit celebrates gender champions
Harare, 14 November 2024 – The Zimbabwe SADC Protocol@Work summit, ended on a high note this week with 23 awards in various categories affirming good practices on gender in local […]
November 13, 2024
Themes:
Local Government
Programs:
Gender & Governance
| Gender justice and local government summit
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Zimbabwe: Parents and their children converse on “taboo” topics
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