Changing the River’s Flow Series: Zimbabwean Stories of “Best Practice” in Mitigating the HIV Crisis Through a Cultural & Gender Perspective

This casebook is a collection of best practice stories from six community-based organisations in Zimbabwe that in the ilast three years have implemented innovative strategies and approaches in gender programming through a culture lens. The stories show how the organisations have been successful in promoting gender equality in the face of traditional practices, which relegate women in Africa to subordinate status and roles. They are about their struggles of trying to change the deep-seated traditional and cultural ideologies in a respectful and participatory way. They bring to the fore the efforts of brave men and women from the communities who have taken the lead to bring about changes even when confronted with resistance from peers and elders. The casebook shares what has worked, challenges faced along the way and important lessons about how to do things better.

Publisher: Oxfam
Year of Publication: 2009