Local government leaders from across Mashonaland Central say centering women’s lived experiences is key to fixing long-standing gaps in the country’s social services as councils and traditional leaders reflect on their commitments to Gender-Responsive Social Service Delivery (GRSSD). Speaking during a commemorative convening of 16 Days
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263Chat · IYWD's Devolution Empowerment Program Pays Off The Institute of Young Women Development (IYWD) is on a quest to empower girls and young women with knowledge of local government structures, roles, functions as well as skills and tools to engage duty bearers and other stakeholders
263Chat · Stakeholders Amplify Calls For Gender Parity In Politics Political players and advocacy groups have amplified calls for the alignment of laws with the constitution to ensure gender parity in electoral processes. Speaking during an inter-party round table meeting held in Harare, Tuesday, Institute for Young
263Chat · Online Violence: A Silent Pandemic For Women In Politics Technology-facilitated Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWP) is harmful, widespread, and fast-growing. Like ‘real world’ violence, online violence occurs with different intensities and can be shared infinitely across social media platforms with little recourse for its
Formal peacebuilding and conflict resolution initiatives continue to ignore or marginalise issues of gender, and young women’s involvement in formal missions and talks remains low, studies have shown. A recent study by the Institute of Young Women Development revealed that most people in Mashonaland Central are
Grappling with hunger and food insecurity is one of the major challenges that global communities, and Zimbabwe in particular, have been experiencing since the 1990s. In 2016, Zimbabwe declared a state of emergency as drought caused crop failures across the country, rendering many communities vulnerable and
Traditional Chiefs from Mashonaland Province have urged women to take an active role in politics and support each other during elections while discouraging them against the over-reliance on their male counterparts. Speaking at a provincial devolution meeting organised by Institute for Young Women and Development in
Institute for Young Women Development (IYWD) has today launched two projects, the Zimbabwe Feminist Manifesto and the #RedCard Campaign to highlight all forms of violence against women that work against their enjoyment of their constitutional rights in letter and spirit. Addressing journalists in Harare, IYWD representative,
47 political parties fielded candidates for the National Assembly elections with 20 of them not fielding a single woman at all and two fielding only one woman each
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