Dudziro NhenguUN Women Zimbabwe
Dudziro Nhengu
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) was established in 2010 with the United Nations Secretary General’ special mandate to accelerate progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) and support efforts of UN member states to set global standards for achieving GEWE
The UN Women Gender, Peace and Security Project supports Government of Zimbabwe and NGOs’ efforts to strengthen capacities of security sector actors to respond to gender, peace and security concerns in Zimbabwe through gender mainstreaming and gender sensitive policy promotion in key security sector training and academic institutions; gender mainstreaming in community peacebuilding mechanisms and promoting women’s participation in peace and governance issues
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The project aims at:
Institutionalizing gender responsive security sectors in rural communities
Strengthening accountability mechanisms and tools used by local authorities to enable gender responsive service delivery in women’s peace and security issues.
Increasing participation, voice and power of women to influence gender sensitive service delivery decisions and priorities.
Fostering a women-led grassroots early warning system to support effective reporting of cases of violence prior to, during and after elections
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Women’s peace
committees
Men and boys
Community
policewomen
Women’s
situation room
feeding into the
MWAGCD office
SMS
communications
platform
Community
Tabloid ‘We
Connect’
Community
peace journalists
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NPRC, Gender Commission, members of the Presidential Chief’s Council
Traditional leaders, Faith Leaders, academics, humanitarian leaders,
NGOs
Community women, women-led CBOs, community police, refugees if any, community men and boys
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Community tabloid
6 peace committees established in rural communities
180 women leaders trained in leadership and peacebuilding
6 community peace journalists trained 4 community tabloids published 2 SMS communication platforms launched 40 community leaders trained (traditional
leaders, police, faith leaders)
1 community police women trained 1 village secondary school established by community women 5 community income generating projects
launched, including 2 village rotational scheme
informal banks 2 peace netball teams launched 2 community drama groups launched 4 women now part of the 7 member
traditional chief’s court
2 community healing gardens established
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Setting up of a national women-led situation room in partnership with the NGOs and the MWAGCD
Placement of development workers in the field with the NGO and CBOs and in the situation room with the MWAGCD
Feeding information from the communities through to the Sitroom, to the CEWARN and to the AU Sitroom
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Curriculum development – gender gap analysis
Development and adoption of14 gender sensitive curricula in 5 security sector institutions, including the military
Training of mediators – replicating the AU Gender directorate best practice
Mainstreaming a WPSI in the military centre of excellence
Gender audit of the military
Launching of 5 degrees on gender and transformative leadership in partnership with ACTIL
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Nyasha
Virginia
Temper
Sihle
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